Click on the link for video: PLHS Paris Trip 2011
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Bonjour de Paris!!
Quelle chaleur!!! Having a great time here in Paris despite the scorching temperatures of 41 degrees recorded on the coach today! We have been to the artists’ quarter and the Sacré Coeur in Montmartre yesterday. Today we went to the top of the Montparnasse tower – a lightening fast 56 floors in less than a minute! We ventured onto the 12 lane crazy roundabout which encircles the arch de triomphe. The rest of the afternoon was spent lunching and shopping on the champs Élysée stopping off to cool down in fountains. We finished off the afternoon with a trip to the iconic Eiffel Tower and a brief visit to Notre Dame and La Seine.
Demain Euro Disney!!
More updates to follow assuming we don’t melt 😉
Un essai
Packing for Paris!!
Poor language skills ‘leave Britons out of EU jobs’
German Christmas Market Opens!! Wunderbar!
S4 French Cinema visit
On Thursday November the 4th a selection of S4 French students took part in a school visit to the cinema at the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh. The film, Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), which deals with some very challenging human relationship issues was appreciated by the majority of the pupils. Indeed, some of the pupil comments following the show were quite insightful and showed a mature appreciation and empathy towards the film’s characters. Following the film there was a discussion with a well-known Edinburgh French specialist which helped to expand on some of the themes in the film. Further discussion took part later on in class as pupils relayed some of their experience to others who had not made the trip.
The 25 pupils from PL represented themselves very well both at the screening and to and from the theatre and were a credit to the school. Overall the visit demonstrated a healthy appetite amongst pupils for foreign language films which help compliment the department’s work in the classroom and brings language and culture more to life. We hope as a department to keep the interest and momentum going and are able to offer more pupils the opportunity to view foreign language films as part of their learning.
Bravo à tous!!
Auf die Plätze, fertig, los!Ready, Steady, Cook (well, bake!) with the S3 German Class
Auf die Plätze, fertig, los!
Ready, Steady, Cook (well, bake!) with the S3 German Class
Pupils in the third year German class enjoyed baking Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Moons) along with Joanna – the language assistant from Austria.
The pupils have been working on some recipes as part of their food and drink unit and decided to put Joanna’s recipe into practice. The recipe has been translated for you below.
Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Moons)
280g flour
60g sugar
100g ground almonds
210g margarine
1 packet vanilla sugar
a few drops of vanilla essence
Mix the ingredients together in a bowl.
Roll out the dough then shape into little moons. Place on a baking tray and bake at 180 degrees for approximately 10 minutes.
Roll the warm moons in a mixture of vanilla sugar almonds.
Guten Appetit!
Hotel de Ville
Click here to read about a woman who should have listened a bit more during her French lessons at school! Pretty funny!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8218069.stm
One School, One Scotland, Many Languages!
Preston Lodge’s Polyglots
Some of the pupils at Preston Lodge High School speak more than one language. We think this is something to be celebrated!
Here is a sample of the languages spoken. You can click on the links below to see and hear them…
Portuguese Polish Norwegian German Urdu Chinese (Modern)
Urdu Punjabi Cantonese Gujarati