THS Languages

S1 are continuing their brilliant work on Rabbie Burns. This week they will be using their metalinguistics strategies to work out the meanings of Scottish words, thinking about Scottish foods that are deserving of their own address and turning their hands to writing some poetry themselves.

This week pupils should be starting work on the Week 3 Desert island project task- island fashion.

This week pupils are completing the topic of Learning with a Reading and Listening exercise. There will also be a vocabulary quiz posted later in the week to revise the topic as a whole. Pupils have also been advised that they must start to learn their questions for their talking exam, if they haven’t already been doing so.

This week pupils are practising their writing skills by writing a letter applying for a job in a cafe in Spain. Pupils will also be completing Listening Exercises.

This week pupils will continue to work on Jobs and Future plans. Today’s work consists of looking at a Powerpoint and doing a series of exercises. More work will be posted on Wednesday for everyone, for 3C classes on Thursday and 3D classes on Friday.

This week pupils should complete a translation task on slide 71 of the PowerPoint “En el pueblo”. Their second task is a bit of problem solving work. Pupils should complete task 1 of the Places in town, map task worksheet, where they need to use their knowledge of prepositions to locate different places on a map.

This week pupils are learning how to describe themselves.

Ms MacDonald’s class will finish Chapter 8 of Jekyll and Hyde and will begin Chapter 9.

Miss MacPhail’s class are looking at how Robert Louis Stevenson creates tension in Chapter 8 before going on to look at how to structure the 10 mark question. They will be starting work on a summary of Chapter 9 at the end of the week.

Miss Nelson’s class are continuing to work through the tasks on the Jekyll and Hyde PowerPoint.