The German class has been studying pets and how to describe them.  So we made play-do pets and wrote about them!  Some weird and wonderful animals out there…

Congratulations to our new Language Ambassadors – they will be helping out in classes, judging competitions and helping run the Languages Lunchtime Club, among other things.  If you have a languages-based question, please ask them!

They are:

Darren Hendry

Sara Weir

Abbie Murray

Katie McGuire

Sophie Lamont

Bethany Conaghan

Emma Adamson

Eve McConville.

We look forward to working with them!

Every month the Modern Languages teachers pick a pupil who has done exceptionally well in some regard in the classroom – settling in, homework, most improved classwork and other things.  For the month of September, the following pupils were chosen and have been given a merit, plus they received a pencil, rubber or ruler as a little prize:

1T1 – Max Lewicki
2T2 – Heather Dalziel
3C5 – Amy Coulter
3LS – Hanna Liddle
3HS – Jessica Smith
4DS – Molly Spear

1T2 – Jaimee-Lee Carenduff
1T5 – Sian Downie
2F3 – Olivia Dale
3F2 – Emily Spear
3G – Holly Cameron
4G – Rachael Alexander

1T4 – Jack Ganner
1T7 – Chloe McAspurren
2T1 – Rebecca Byrne
2T4 – Harvey Inglis
3C1 – James Lamont
3C4 – Aiden Coleman

1T3- Naima Wang
1T6- Luiza Duda
2T5- Ben Drummond
2T6- Ryan Masterson
3F3- Tom Shirreff
3F6- Jake Bell
4C1- Molly Spear

Additionally, we have a Learner of the Month for someone who has worked particularly well, or done something especially good, and this month it is Mia Rodger from 3A1 who, we’ve noticed, has been working very hard indeed in her Modern Languages classes.  Very well done to everyone!  Keep up the good work!

On Tuesday 1st October and Wednesday 2nd October we had a visit from 11 pupils and 3 adults from Kunohe Village in Japan, north of Tokyo. The pupils took part in some lessons and met some of our pupils. They were in Scotland for a week, during which they also saw Edinburgh Castle, Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery and the Transport Museum in Glasgow, but they said their favourite thing was the visit to Cumbernauld Academy, because of the warm welcome and friendly people. Well done to everyone who was involved!

Go onto Quizlet for extra revision before your Reading  & Listening tests next week.

https://quizlet.com/_4wk2u5 phrases

https://quizlet.com/_4wk1kc vocabulary

Don’t forget you can also practise with linguascope.

Dates : Reading test – Tuesday 28th May

                 Listening test – Wednesday 29th May

Just a reminder that the Higher French revision afternoon is on Thursday 9th May starting at 1.15.

Please come along for some last minute revision and practice! There will be cakes!

If you haven’t already returned some of the books (keep hold of the Directed Writing book until the exam) please bring these along, or alternatively, on the day of the exam.

Merci et bonne chance!

The Higher German class went for lunch to the Bavarian Brauhaus in Glasgow for a taste of authentic German food. They had to order their lunch in German, and tried (among other things) Sauerkraut, Bratwurst and Schweinehaxe. This was a farewell to Eva, our German assistant this year, whose last day is next Wednesday, as well as being a reward for a year of hard work. Well done!

On Tuesday 5th March, S5 pupils took part in the annual maths/modern languages competition ‘Mathématiques sans Frontières’, run this year by the University of the West of Scotland. They spent an hour and a half solving mathematical puzzles, one of which had to be answered in a foreign language. There was, of course, a variety of international food on hand to help the brains work!

The questions can be found here, for anyone who would like to see how tricky they were: MSF_2019_UK

With National 5 and Higher Talking performances coming up, try these websites to help you with your pronunciation.

You can copy a text and it reads it out loud on this website

https://ttsreader.com/fr/

This one is also really useful to check the pronunciation of a word. Just search a word and listen to native speakers say the word.

https://fr.forvo.com/

Good luck!

Members of class 2F2 researched an aspect of Paris each, and produced a poster of it.  The groups then judged which were best, and here are the winners!  Well done all of you.