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.

I have uploaded vocabulary for this week’s Listening in the usual place – French – Higher – Vocabulary.

Here it is for anyone who struggled to find it.

Free time

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Don’t forget that you can look at the Listening vocabulary in advance of Friday’s Listening task.

Go to French – Higher French – Vocabulary

This week’s is called Home Area