Toot Hill School
Modern Foreign Languages Department
Year Eight Homework Tasks
Half Term 4:Geography and Environmental IssuesLanguage: French
Your homework for this year is going to be to create a booklet with cultural information about the country (or countries!) whose language you are studying . Your findings for each week should be displayed on a page in your booklet. Your tasks are detailed below. Bonne Chance!
Week / Homework Task / Guidance1 / Design the cover of your booklet / Make your cover as bright and inspirational as possible. Can you find some relevant images to include?
2 / Create a map / Find or create a map of the main cities in France. Can you illustrate it with images of famous landmarks in the cities? Imagine that you have visited this city. What did you do? Write10 sentences IN FRENCH about your imaginary trip using THE PAST TENSE and as MANY TIME PHRASES AND CONNECTIVES AS YOU CAN. USE YOUR FRENCH BOOK AND CLASS NOTES O HELP YOU. NO TRANSLATORS ALLOWED APART FROM THE ODD WORD!!!
3 / Choose a city / Choose a city and research it. Find out about the population, buildings, events, etc.You need to bring your booklet into school this week so your teacher can check how you are getting on.
4 / Weather / Research the weather in France and write a report on it in your own words, in English.
5 / Environmental Issues 1 / Find out what the major environmental issues in France are and summarise these in English.
6 / Environmental Issues 2 / What does your country do to help the environment? What groups are there? What are they called?
7 / Get it ready to hand in‼ / Compile and check your booklet. Ensure all of the above is complete and hand it in to your teacher!
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