Montrose Academy. Mr Curran (Modern Languages)

Auf Wiedersehen!

Well the time has come to say goodbye. I hope that my pupils and others have enjoyed the work done with this class blog over the past year. My probationary year ends in Montrose in a couple of weeks, and I am moving on to a new job in Essex (look out for a new blog from there). In the meantime, please check out the links to the new blog(s) for the MFL Dept here in Montrose, which I have been involved in setting up. Hopefully we will see exciting things happening with them next year!

4th Year Standard Grade Vocabulary

4th years,

Following on from the vocab sheets which you made up yourselves before the study leave, I am attaching a list of general useful vocab from the Logo 4 textbook. This is the list that you looked at the last couple of lessons before your study leave.

Logo 4 Standard Grade vocab

I wish you all the best for next week! You'll be fine.

4Q1 Vocabulary

Class 4Q1, Here are the vocabulary sheets that you made in class before the study leave. Best of luck next week!

4Q1 Vocabulary

IMPORTANT: One error I noticed on the time vocab sheet. "Halb drei" is half past 2 not half past 4

4P2 Vocabulary

Class 4P2, Here are the vocabulary sheets that you made in class before the study leave. Best of luck next week!

4P2 Vocabulary sheets

At the doctor's

Class 2E1 recorded some role plays on Friday about a visit to the doctor's surgery.

Good work folks! We do need just a little bit of work on the pronunciation though!

Craig and Darren

Daniel and Kieran

Kirstin and Michaela

Shannon and Jade

Stuart and Calum

Was machst du in deiner Freizeit?

Class 3Q,

Please write to me telling me the answer to this question. Try to include a sentence or 2 in the past tense (you could say what you did yesterday, last week, etc)

Treffpunkt: Arranging a date with a friend

Class 1L2 made some recordings of conversations they made in pairs, arranging to go out somewhere with a friend. They were written and recorded in about 25 minutes, so they aren't perfect but we had fun making them!

Andrew and Jamie G

Stacey and Fiona

Connor and Craig

Fiona and Emily

Sean and Andrew

Damien, Sean, Andrew and Jamie G

3Q: IT Suite, 28th March

Here are some revision activities. All the vocab comes from the first 2 pages of the vocabulary sheets for the holidays/town unit, which you can look at by clicking on the "vocab sheets" category on the right hand side of this page.

Hangman

Letter Drop

Noughts and Crosses

Matching Pairs

Tetris

Wordsearch

Well done to 2E1!

Well done to everyone in 2E1! Our comic relief song raised a total of £54 from a mixture of online donations sales of the CD in school. A special thanks to Craig (Y), Kirstin, Shannon, Kieran (M), and Andrew (K) for giving up your free time to sell the CD in school!

2E1 Comic Relief Song (Beyans Geschichte)

2E1 have recorded a song called "Beyans Geschichte" (Beyan's Story) for Comic Relief. Beyan is a 10 year old Ethiopian girl who is featured on the official Comic Relief website. You can read her story here:

http://www.rednoseday.com/at-school/stories/docs/storycard-beyan.pdf

Please download our song here:

Beyans Geschichte (mp3)

and also we would be grateful if you would donate some money to comic relief through our fundraising site, as we did record the song for this cause! The link is here:

http://www.myrednoseday.com/montrose

Here is the lyrics to our song:

Beyans Geschichte

Chorus:

Wir wohnen in Montrose in Nordostschottland

Wir haben heute ein großes Frühstück gegessen

Sie heißt Beyan, ist zehn Jahre alt

Sie hat leider heute kein Frühstück gehabt

Verse 1

Letztes Jahr bin ich nach Spanien geflogen

Jeden Tag bin ich im Meer geschwommen

Ich habe auch eine Radtour gemacht

Es war klasse, es war toll!

Spanien macht echt Spaß

Verse 2

Beyans Vater ist leider gestorben

Vorher ist sie in der Schule gegangen

Aber seine Mutter hat nicht genug Geld

Sie ist traurig, sie hat hunger

Aber wir können ihr helfen!

and the english translation:

Beyan's Story

Chorus

We live in Montrose in North-East Scotland

We ate a big breakfast today

She is called Beyan and is 10 years old

Unfortunately she didn't have any breakfast today

verse 1

Last year I flew to Spain

I swam in the sea every day

I also went on a bike tour

It was fantastic! It was great!

Spain is a lot of fun!

verse 2

Unfortunately Beyan's father died

Previously she went to school

But her Mother doesn't have enough money

She is sad, she is hungry

But we can help her!