French and German Skills

Year 7
Home Learning Booklet
French and German Skills
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Given out:
Monday 27 June
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Target:
Hand in: Monday 4 July
This homework booklet practises some of the language skills you have covered this
year. It includes work in GERMAN and FRENCH – but the focus is on your skills.
It will help you review the key grammar and language learnt throughout your first
year of foreign language at Whitstone in preparation for year 8.
Each exercise is labelled as:
Bronze: All students to complete. Tasks include recognition, listing and
simple grammar or vocabulary.
Silver: All students to try to complete. Tasks include developing ideas,
more detailed recognition and development of grammar and
vocabulary.
Gold: Some students to complete. Tasks include higher level skill
development, more detailed language structures and vocabulary
recognition.
Some tasks are labelled with more than 1 level of challenge. You need to select the
level of challenge appropriate to you. This could mean that for some tasks you
complete the bronze section only, but for others you work on the silver or gold.
Try as much as you can.
Pupils must complete the self-evaluation boxes at the end of the booklet.
Exercise 1 – Basic Grammar - Pronouns
The job of a pronoun is to replace the noun in a sentence. You need to know what
they are in order to help you understand the texts you read or to help you adapt
language to talk about others.
Bronze: Fill in the following tables with the correct French and German pronouns.
Use the boxes underneath to help.
English
I
You (singular)
He
She
We
You (plural)
They (feminine)
They (masculine/mixed
group)
il
nous
tu
French
elle
je
vous
English
I
You (singular)
He
She
It
We
You (plural)
They
ich
sie
Sie
ils
elles
German
es
wir
Sie
du
er
ihr
Silver: Highlight/underline the pronouns in the following German text:
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Ich heisse Heike und ich habe zwei Schwestern.
Wo wohnst du? Ich wohne in Coleford in England.
Mein Vater heisst Tom und er ist 45 Jahre alt.
Claudias Lieblingsfach ist Kunst. Sie ist kreativ.
Mark und ich trinken Wasser und wir essen Chips und Kekse.
Silver: Write the correct pronoun into the following French sentences:
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______ m’appelle Sarah (I)
_______ joues au foot (you – singular)
_______ avons l’EPS (we)
______ jouons l’hockey (they – masculine)
Comment _________ s’appelle? (she)
Exercise 2 – German Word Order
The verb is the action of a sentence and it is usually the 2nd idea in a sentence, e.g Ich
habe eine Katze – I have a cat.
Using ‘weil’ (because) in a sentence changes the word order, to send any verbs that
follow it to the end of the sentence.
(verb in the 2nd part of the sentence gets chased to the end of the sentence after
‘weil’).
Silver: Put these sentences in the correct order following the rules:
a) esse Ich ein Butterbrot.
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b) wohnt in Deutschland er.
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c) findet Mathe sie schwierig.
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d) trinken wir Cola.
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e) eine Schwester habe Ich.
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f) heissen Sophie sie und Claire. -
Gold: Link both sentences together with ‘weil’ remembering the word order rule
Example: Ich finde Sport toll. Es ist einfach  Ich finde Sport toll, weil es einfach ist.
a) Ich mag Geschichte. Ich finde es interessant.
b) Ich lese gern. Ich finde Comics toll.
c) Wir finden Werken super. Es ist sehr praktisch.
Gold: Write 3 sentences of your own that are linked using ‘weil’ – they can be on any
topic you like:
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Exercise 3 – Reading Comprehension - German
All read the text below about school.
Bronze: Highlight the words that are cognates (look like English words).
Silver: Underline the nouns – remember nouns have capital letters in German.
Gold: Circle the verbs – remember the word order rules in German.
Bronze: In the space below write out 5 German words mentioned in the text which you
have been able to work out from reading it carefully. Translate into English.
Silver: In the space below write out 5 short German sentences mentioned in the text
which you have been able to work out from reading it carefully. Translate into English.
Gold: In the space below write out 5 new/adapted sentences using new opinions, verbs,
vocabulary. Write out in German the new text you have adapted. Include the English
translations too.
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Exercise 4 – French Grammar - Present Tense
When you look up a verb in the dictionary it is always given in the INFINITIVE.
This means it is the full name of the verb – eg to play, to do, to go etc.
You need to change the ending of the verb in the present tense to follow a
pattern.
Regular verbs eg jouer = to play. You remove the ‘er’ to make the STEM then add
the ending shown, depending on who is in the sentence.
Je joue = I play
Tu joues – you play (singular)
Il/elle joue – he/she plays
Nous jouons – we play
Vous jouez – you play (plural)
Ils/elles jouent – they play (boys/girls)
Bronze: Fill in the correct part of the present tense verbs, following the pattern
shown above.
Silver: Fill in the correct part of the present tense verbs below AND write what
they mean in English.
1) Elle (parler) = Elle parle = she speaks
2) J’ (arriver) = J’ ______ = _________
3) Tu (manger) = tu ______ = ________
4) Je (travailler) = Je ______ = _________
5) Il (jouer) = il _______ = ____________
Exercise 5 – French Comprehension
The French text below is all about hobbies, sports and free-time activities.
Read the text:
Bronze: Underline all the pronouns.
Silver: Highlight all the sports and activities you know or could work out.
Gold: Circle all the different ways to give an opinion in French .
By breaking down a text like this you should start to understand what it is talking
about.
Bronze: In the space below write out 5 French words mentioned in the text
which you have been able to work out from reading it carefully. Translate into
English.
Silver: In the space below write out 5 short French sentences mentioned in the
text which you have been able to work out from reading it carefully. Translate
into English.
Gold: In the space below write out 5 new/adapted sentences using new opinions,
verbs, vocabulary. Write out in French the new text you have adapted. Include
the English translations too.
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Self Assessment
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Fill in the boxes based on how you feel you have done in these exercises.
Write your target/comment about how you feel you did.
I can …….
recognise and correctly identify
French and German pronouns.
use a dictionary to work out
gender of nouns.
follow word order rules in
German.
scan information from German
text accurately.
scan information from French
text accurately.
use and understand French
present tense.
Fairly well
Very well
Need more help
Self Evaluation of my Homework
I believe that my effort and attitude to learning for this booklet is a:
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I know this because:
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I am a R____________________ learner.
I know this because:
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