1. jeudi 9 mars Preparing for Reading/ Translation Assessment
Où j’habite

2. Pour Commencer: Can you say in French: 3 connectives?
2 positive adjectives?
2 negative adjectives?
5 places in town?
3 things you can do in town? (on peut …)
4 points of the compass?
Wow? (however, in my opinion etc)
Extra: Can you do more than this?

3. Walt: Preparing for Reading/ Translation Assessment
All: be aware of the content of the assessment, when it is, how it will be conducted
Most: begin your preparation and recognise your strengths and weaknesses
Some: be able to support others with their learning
B.O.:
Set yourself manageable targets and review your achievements.
Recognise when you have made progress and value your achievement.

4. Contrôle: Traduction/Lecture
To complete a reading/translation assessment:
Using wall display and cognates to aid understanding
Using prior knowledge to work out new language
Using strategies for dealing with unfamiliar language

5. In your planner: Monday 20th March:
French Reading/Translation Assessment

6. Où j’habite A: Complete the sentences with un/une or des
il y a _____ piscine
il y a _____ stade
il y a _____ marché
il y a _____ magasins
il y a _____ gare
il y a _____ parcs
il y a _____ cathédrale
il y a _____ centre sportif
il y a _____ gare routière
il y a _____ centre commercial
il y a _____ supermarchés
il y a _____ cinema
Now check you understand them.

7. B: Re-write all the sentences above in the negative.
Use il n’y a pas de/d’.
il n’y a pas _____ piscine
il n’y a pas _____ stade
il n’y a pas _____ marché
il n’y a pas _____ magasins
______________ gare
______________ parcs
______________ cathédrale
______________ centre sportif
______________ gare routière
______________ centre commercial
______________ supermarchés
______________ cinema
Do know how to form negative sentences? (ne … pas, de/d’)

8. manger aller voyager faire jouer acheter regarder visiter
C: Complete the sentences with the correct verb. You can use each verb more than once.
on peut = you can/ on ne peut pas = you can’t
on peut ____________ un film
on peut ____________ bien aux restaurants
on ne peut pas ____________ au théâtre
on peut ____________ du sport
on ne peut pas ____________ au foot
on peut ____________ la cathédrale
on peut ____________ du shopping
on ne peut pas ____________ en France
on peut ____________ à la patinoire
on ne peut pas ____________ à la piscine
on ne peut pas ____________ des souvenirs
on peut ____________ un match de foot
Now check you understand them.
manger
aller
voyager
faire
jouer
acheter
regarder
visiter

9. Pour Finir: Vocabulaire
j’aime bien
je préfère
à mon avis
depuis douze ans
où j’habite
affreux
bruyant
l’église
le château
il y a
on peut
joli
la gare
il n’y a pas de
on ne peut pas

10. Pour Finir: Vocabulaire
j’aime bien
je préfère
à mon avis
depuis douze ans
où j’habite
affreux
bruyant
l’église
le château
il y a
on peut
joli
la gare
il n’y a pas de
on ne peut pas
I really like
I prefer
in my opinion
for twelve years
where I live
terrible
noisy
church
castle
there is
you can
pretty
railway station
there isn’t
you can’t

11. Là où j’habite: Rank them in order: most confident - least
describe where Peterborough is?
say what is in your town?
say what isn’t in your town?
say what you can do in your town?
say what you can’t do in your town?
give an opinion about your town?
compare your town with another?
Rank them in order: most confident - least

12. Contrôle: Traduction/Lecture
To complete a reading/translation assessment:
Using wall display and cognates to aid understanding
Using prior knowledge to work out new language
Using strategies for dealing with unfamiliar language

13. Translation English-French
Step
Reading
Translation English-French
Translation
French-English 4
Understand gist and core structures
il y a-there is, on peut-you can
connectives: et-and, aussi-also, mais-but, ou-or,
opinions: j’adore, j’aime, je préfère, je n’aime pas, je déteste, adjectives
reasons: parce que
Understanding of core vocab and structures: il y a –there is, on peut-you can
Accurate spellings of individual words 5
Understand more detail
qualifiers: très-very, vraiment-really, trop-too, un peu-a little, assez-quite,
more complex vocab: depuis-since, le centre commercial
genders and
Understand negative sentences: de/ne … pas
Understand qualifiers and connectives
Correct genders
Accurate use of core structures:
il y a +un/une/des
Il n’y a pas + de
Connectives 6
Understand extended sentences and some Wow
Wow: je pense que-I think that, à mon avis/selon moi-in my opinion, je trouve-I find, pourtant-however, en plus-in addition, par contre-on the other hand, près de-near, loin de-far from, plusiers-several, beaucoup- lots
Understand complex sentences and Wow
Produce longer sentences with a range of connectives and qualifiers 7+
Identify and understand tenses
Past: je suis allé(e)-I went, j’ai regardé-I watched, j’ai joué-I played,
j’ai mangé-I ate, c’était-it was
Near Future: je vais aller-Iam going to go, je vais regarder-I am going to watch, je vais jouer-I am going to play, je vais manger –I am going to eat, *ce sera-it will be
Understand tenses and work out meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary from context and cognates
Use tenses accurately
Use Wow

14. How much have you learned
How much have you learned? Walt: Preparing for Reading/ Translation Assessment
All: be aware of the content of the assessment, when it is, how it will be conducted
Most: begin your preparation and recognise your strengths and weaknesses
Some: be able to support others with their learning

15. PLC/ Vocab sheets Revise the content of the topic.
RAG rate your PLC sheet.
Use your vocab sheet to revise and improve at least one area on the PLC.
Test your partner and WWW/EBI.