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Bonjour tout le monde! C'est Niki! Here is a Year 8 project I came up with where students have to research a French city/town of their choice. I've had some amazing projects come back so far and students seem to become really excited about visiting the place they researched one day. I hope it ends up being helpful for someone.

Bonjour encore une fois, Here are a couple of Grammar tests for a Year 10 level. I hope they help someone! A bientot, Niki :)



[|Discover PARIS yr 8.doc] Hola tous This yr 8 assignment worked relatively well as a task for while I was away - discovering Paris for myself (: We've had fun sharing with each other since I got back- it all seems a bit more real to them since they've done some research on some of the places I went to. Ten sites is too much for a brochure though - you might want to pare that down, or suggest a different presentation format so that it will all fit in - all up the students had about five IT lessons and two weeks worth of homework to complete the task - which most of them managed. To make sure they had all learned something we had a 'fact off' in class- in English!!. If more than one person wanted to talk about the same monument/ site, they took turns telling us something and the last one standing was named the expert. If only one person was talking about a significant site, s/he had full rein and could talk to their hearts content - they were automatically the expert ( but only if they could come up with five interesting facts.) [|Discover PARIS.doc] And here's the task I set for my year nines - the presentation of this one is as a travel booklet (with only five sites or monuments to cover), but some of them decided to branch out and be a bit imaginative - if I can convince the brilliant students to let me have digital copies of their assignments I'll upload them so you can see what they produced. The task needs refining - more emphasis on the history and relevance of the monuments and sites and less emphasis on entry fees etc. ( Although ....some of them are actually planning trips to France and the info is being incorporated into their families' plans.) I found the basic assignment on the web and have adapted it for my students. Re the post card bit - there are websites that allow students to create electronic cards and send them - it's better to get an electronic draft first though so that they can refine their work at least once before a final mark is given. ( I use the review tab in word to edit their work and then email it back to them - saves trees and they respond well to the immediate ( semi) answer - also good not to have to retype everything. Have fun - most of the kids actually seemed to get into this task!! ( We did the fact off too - didn't think of it at the start, but it seems like a good way to get them talking and sharing without the pressure of an in the front of the class solitary stint.)