I think it is a good idea to have timetables stuck up on your desk or notice board. Scuth1 has made a really good school timetable, with spaces to fill in for the W,X,Y,Z groups. Click here to view it. I have also made a homework timetable. Click here to view this.
October 8, 2006
In French at the moment we are learning all about clothing, how to say whether it suits us or not, colours, and the three different words for this and that depending on whether the word was feminine, masculine and plural. It was quite good on Friday 6th October, because we had Jeans for Genes day, so we could all say we were wearing different things, not just everyone wearing school uniform.
First of all, here are the words which we learnt for clothes and shoes. The un, une and des in front of the words are really important, because you wouldn’t say ’some tie’. You’d say ‘a tie’.
Un Pull - Jumper
Un Pantalon - Trousers
Une Jupe - Skirt
Un Sweat - Sweatshirt
Des Chaussettes - Socks
Des Chaussures - Shoes
Un Short - Shorts
Un Tee-shirt – T-Shirt
Des Sandales - Sandals
Un Jean - Jeans
Une Robe - Dress
Une Cravate - Tie
Une Chemise - Shirt
Un Veste - Jacket (formal)
Un Blouson - Jacket (informal)
Des Baskets - Trainers
Des Bottes - Boots
I find it quite helpful to have a revision sheet for every topic. So click here to see one I made for clothes.
October 8, 2006
In Spanish at the moment, we are doing verbs, some of which are really hard, they all follow a pattern (well, regular ones anyway). Below are the verbs ‘hablar’ and ‘vivir’ These are regular verbs, but hablar is an ‘ar’ verb, and vivir is an ‘ir’ verb, and you can see how this affects their endings.
HABLAR VIVIR hablo vivo
hablas vives
habla vive
hablamos vivimos
hablais vivis
hablan viven
Also, there are verbs like ‘levantarse’ and ‘llamarse’ which are ’se’ verbs. This means that you add a word onto the beginning every time, but the words always remain the same, and therefore are quite easy to remember.
LEVANTARSE LLAMARSE
me levanto me llamo
te levantas te llamas
se levanta se llama
nos levantamos nos llamamos
os levantais os llamais
se levantan se llaman
Next, we moved on to radical changing and reflexive verbs. To work out these verbs, you firstly need to remove the ’se’ from the verb, and then the ‘r’. So, for example, the verb, ‘acostarse’. You remove the ’se’ and then the ‘r’, leaving ‘acosta’. Then, you take the ‘o’ and change it to ‘ue’, however, the vowels change in all of them, so you really need to learn them! The words at the beginning are also their, because the verb is still reflexive. The ‘ue’ is all the way down the verb, apart from the ‘nos’ and ‘os’, where it is the original vowel. These are two reflexive and radical changing verbs, ‘acostarse’ and ‘despertarse’
ACOSTARSE DESPERTARSE
me acuesta me despierto
te acuestas te despiertas
se acuesta se despierta
nos acostamos nos despertamos
os acostais os despertais
se acostan se despiertan
A really good way to remember this, is the boot, or van! For every word inside the boot, the vowel changes, for the words outside the boot, it returns to the original vowel. Below is an example of a boot verb, using the verb ‘acostarse’.
The other type of verb is an ‘irregular’ verb. We did quite a lot on these last year, but haven’t done much this year yet. I will put them on, because we have covered them at one point or another! Irregular verbs are verbs which follow now particular patter, you just have to learn them! I have listed two below, ’ser’ and ‘tengo’, although tengo does have a link to regular verbs, so is quite easy to work out.
SER TENGO
soy tengo
eres tienes
es tiene
somos tenemos
sois teneis
son tienen
September 18, 2006
La page fantastique de Lucy – Lucy’s fantastic page – thanks c-j for the idea! also thanks to anyone who leaves a comment! i really appreciate it! :) this wicked blog is for work and stuff like that, and i hope to put stuff on it to help me and others with learning and revision. it will be helpful to have a look at if you want ideas for work and stuff! 
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