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title: "Year 8 Modern Foreign Languages"
url: "https://blackpoolaspireacademy.co.uk/students/home-learning-year-8/year-8-modern-foreign-languages"
school: "Blackpool Aspire Academy"
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# Year 8 Modern Foreign Languages
KS3 French
[www.languagesonline.org.uk](http://www.languagesonline.org.uk)
Year 7 - units 1 to 4
Year 8 - units 1-8
[www.linguascope.com](http://www.linguascope.com)
Year 7 and 8 - Use the username and password you have been sent home and given at school. Focus on the elementary and beginners’ sections.
For help with this work please email
**For members of *Aspire Chinese Club* and anyone else interested in learning about Chinese language, food and culture…**
The Chinese teachers from Anchorsholme Academy have updated their series of video classes with a variety of new videos of various activities that cater for different interests for children and their parents.
Besides the regular cooking class videos uploaded every Monday, there will be a video about interesting paper craft work or traditional stories behind famous Chinese dishes every Wednesday. There are already videos about paper-cutting butterflies and paper-folding of ancient Chinese official hats that you can watch by clicking this link: .
Why not get involved?
Here is a link to the first video class: . Don't forget that there are updates on Monday and Wednesday every week.
Click the following link for continuous updates.
## MFL activities you can do from home!
| Look around your bedroom. Look up and learn five new Items of vocabulary. **10 POINTS** | Make a list of five items to buy from the supermarket. **10 POINTS** | Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Comment t’appelles-tu? **10 POINTS** | Look at the items in your home that you already know In French - are they masculine or feminine nouns? **10 POINTS** | Look around you. Say the colour of everything in the room that you can see. **10 POINTS** |
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| Think of five words to describe someone in your home, and then find out the opposite word (antonym). **10 POINTS** | Write a description of yourself using words you already know. **10 POINTS** | Name five things you can find in the kitchen In French. **10 POINTS** | Think of five French words for animals and put them into alphabetical order. **10 POINTS** | Choose a character from a TV programme and make a list of five physical adjectives to describe the character. **10 POINTS** |
| With a different character, make a list of five character adjectives. **10 POINTS** | Describe your daily routine in French. **10 POINTS** | Can you think of ten things you find in a classroom in French? **10 POINTS** | Make a list of five items to buy from the bakery section of the supermarket. **10 POINTS** | How many French verbs do you know? Make a list and check the meanings. **10 POINTS** |
| Odd one out and why? la voiture le camion la mobylette le train le vélo **10 POINTS** | What are these delicacies? les escargots les cuisses de grenouilles les huîtres **10 POINTS** | Write a diary of today’s food and drink in French. **10 POINTS** | Translate these verb forms: Je fais, Je vois, Je suis, Je regarde, Je mange, Je lis, Je joue, J’écris **10 POINTS** | Make at least two sentences for each of the verbs in the previous box. **10 POINTS** |
| What do these verbs mean? avoir, être, aller, manger, écouter, écrire **10 POINTS** | Describe your teacher. ‘Mon prof s’appelle … Il / Elle a … Il/ Elle est … **10 POINTS** | Plan a holiday in Paris for a sports fan. **10 POINTS** | Learn these question words: Que? Où? Quand? Pourquoi? **10 POINTS** | Form at least one question with the question words in the previous box. **10 POINTS** |
| Count to one hundred in French in tens. Then count backwards. **10 POINTS** | In French, say which sports you play. (Je joue …) **10 POINTS** | Watch a French fairy tale. **10 POINTS** | Write out your timetable in French. **10 POINTS** | Can you name 5-10 possible birthday presents for a five year- old in French? **10 POINTS** |
| Make a list of school subjects and then give an opinion on each one. **10 POINTS** | Send a message to one of your classmates in French. **10 POINTS** | Can you name five tourist attractions in France? **10 POINTS** | Find out at least five other countries where French is spoken (apart from France). **10 POINTS** | Can you name 5-10 possible birthday presents for a grandparent? **10 POINTS** |
| Plan a trip to Lyon for a history enthusiast. **10 POINTS** | Make a menu for a vegetarian restaurant. **10 POINTS** | Odd one out and why? le chat le chameau le chien le crocodile **10 POINTS** | Find a French recipe and translate it into English (and cook it if you can!). **10 POINTS** | Count to thirty in French but only say the even numbers. **10 POINTS** |
| Can you name ten musical instruments in French? Look them up and learn them if you can’t. **10 POINTS** | Describe what you are wearing today. **10 POINTS** | In French, write out the birthdays of everyone in your family in order. **10 POINTS** | Learn these question words: Comment? A quelle heure? Combien de? Qui? **10 POINTS** | Can you think of 5-10 French words which are used in English? **10 POINTS** |
| Form at least one question with the question words in the previous box. **10 POINTS** | Say out loud the rooms in the house in French. Make sure that you can spell them. Then put them in alphabetical order. **10 POINTS** | Count to thirty in French but only say the odd numbers. Now count backwards. **10 POINTS** | Make a list of school subjects and then give an opinion on each one. **10 POINTS** | Now give the opposite opinion for each subject from the previous box. **10 POINTS** |
| Spell your name in French – first and surname. **10 POINTS** | Practise saying your phone number in French. **10 POINTS** | Get to know Paris! Learn about these ten famous attractions. **10 POINTS** | Can you explain how to form the perfect tense in French? Look it up if you are not sure. **10 POINTS** | Can you give five positive adjectives in French? Then give the opposites. **10 POINTS** |
| Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Où habites-tu? **10 POINTS** | Take a virtual tour of the Louvre museum in Paris **10 POINTS** | Learn the first verse of the French National Anthem, ‘La Marseillaise’. **10 POINTS** | Think of as many French verbs as you can in two minutes. Add a new one every day. **10 POINTS** | Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Quelle est ton émission de télé préférée ? **10 POINTS** |
| Talk about your favourite things in French: Ma couleur préférée … Ma matière préférée … **10 POINTS** | Say five things you used to so when you were little. Then write them out in French. **10 POINTS** | Talk about what you did last weekend in French? **10 POINTS** | Learn or revise prepositions with this game. **10 POINTS** | Every time you look at the time today, say it in French! Quelle heure est-il? Il est … **10 POINTS** |
| Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans ta ville ? **10 POINTS** | Learn and say the ‘big’ numbers in French. 100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000, 1 000 000. **10 POINTS** | Plan a trip to Lyon for a history enthusiast. **10 POINTS** | Look around your bedroom. Can you name up to ten items in French? **10 POINTS** | Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Que penses-tu de la musique classique? **10 POINTS** |
| Look up and learn five new Items of things in your room. Write each one out five times and test yourself tomorrow. **10 POINTS** | Say where each item is using these prepositions: sur - on, sous - under, à côté de - next to, dans – in **10 POINTS** | Make a list of your hobbies in French and put them in preference order. **10 POINTS** | With each hobby from the previous box and give a simple opinion. **10 POINTS** | Odd one out and why? vert, bleu, marron, blanc, noir, gris **10 POINTS** |
| Find out about these festivals in France: La chandeleur La fête des rois La fête nationale **10 POINTS** | Draw and label a family tree using the words for family members in French. You can use your family, or a fictitious family. **10 POINTS** | Teach someone in your house the basic greetings in French. bonjour, salut, ça va?, ça va, au revoir **10 POINTS** | Greet everyone in your home in French for one whole day. **10 POINTS** | Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Quelle sorte de musique aimes-tu ? **10 POINTS** |
| Explain to someone what we mean by gender in French grammar. **10 POINTS** | Watch a part of one of your favourite cartoons in French. **10 POINTS** | Make a list of ten French verbs and then write the past participles next to them. **10 POINTS** | Finish this phrase with as many infinitives as you can: Je vais … **10 POINTS** | Write an estate agent’s advert in French for your home. **10 POINTS** |
| Add a future time marker to the phrases from the last box: Le week-end prochain / la semaine prochaine / demain.c **10 POINTS** | Write a list of what you are going to do tomorrow using aller + infinitive Demain je vais aller … **10 POINTS** | Choose three opinion phrases / expressions and teach them to someone in your home. **10 POINTS** | Name at least five things you can find in the countryside in French. **10 POINTS** | How many words in French can you name which begin with the letter ‘b’? (At least five to gain 10 points!) **10 POINTS** |
| What do you know about Québec? Spend around 30 minutes researching some facts about this Canadian province. **10 POINTS** | Look up and read a fairy tale in French. **10 POINTS** | Can you name up to 10 different countries in French? **10 POINTS** | Explain the rules about adjectives in French. Write out your explanations. **10 POINTS** | Prepare and record yourself saying what you like doing at the weekend. Practise with a friend on the phone. **10 POINTS** |
| Put these time phrases in order of frequency: le week-end / souvent / de temps en temps / rarement / tous les jours **10 POINTS** | Answer this question in as many ways as you can: Que penses-tu du collège? **10 POINTS** | Say the weather in French every day. **10 POINTS** | Make a list of fruits in French and say whether you like them or not. **10 POINTS** | Listen to a French radio station for at least 10 minutes. Nrj.fr is a pop radio station. **10 POINTS** |
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