European Day of Languages

This year’s European Day of Languages took place on Tuesday 26^th September, the Modern Languages department organised various fun, educational activities for pupils to take part in.

S1 pupils enjoyed filling in European passports and defining foreign phrases.

S2 pupils got competitive in the European quiz with questions relating to sports, music, and culture among many other things.

Winners : Charles Simpson, Evan MacLanachan, Chloe Moss, Caitlin Richards, Emma Porterfield

Pupils in S3 were given the task of choosing a word or phrase and translating it into any European languages as possible.

Winner : Susie Macguire

Teachers around the school also celebrated the day with many saying a few phrases in a European language in their class including, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Czech, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.

At lunch there was an amazing food tasting in the department that both pupils and staff were more than happy to attend with a variety of cheeses, meats, breads and pizza. Many were also entertained by Mr. McDonald’s dancing to European music. During the food tasting some brave pupils attempted our Bushtucker trial where they sampled different foods whilst blindfolded and had to try to identify what the food was and where it came from.

Watch the following video and answer the questions below in your homework jotters

1. How many years do pupils spend in le collège?
2. How many foreign languages do pupils have to study?
3. What is the exam called at the end of le collège?
4. What is the name of the school they go to after le collège?
5. What are the 3 options they can pick?
6. What is the final exam called?
7. Find the following words in french – foreign languages
   Pupils/students
   Studies
   Last year of high school

Bonne chance!

Copy and paste the following link into google to test yourself on classroom language that we have been looking at in class.

Bonne chance

https://quizlet.com/_3mqn9q

Miss McNally

Welcome back to the new term!                                                                               

I hope to start using the website a lot more in classes, and that you make use of the resources available at home. Here are a few things you may find useful.

Vocabulary – all the vocab you need is on the website so if you are ever absent or miss notes, get caught up by clicking on the subject and your year group.

Websites – there are links to many different websites on the right hand side so use some of these, and others such as linguascope etc, to help you to practise your French/ German / Spanish.

European Day of Languages was celebrated throughout the Modern Languages department. S1 and S2 did a quiz the S1 Skye team – Hybrid and the Islay team – Team Team were the winners for this. There was also a S3 poster competition where classes designed posters on European languages, the winner of this was Jenni Bowie (Skye).

At lunch there were foods from all over Europe for pupils to try. From France we had things such as crepes, croissants, blue cheese.  From Germany things such as rhy bread and Haribos. From Italy things such as pizza and unique dips from Greece. There was also a ‘Bush Tucker’ style trial at lunch where pupils were blind folded and tried exotic European foods, the winner of this was Skye House – Ivana McCulloch who managed to try the most.  Well done to everyone who took part in the day.