Competitions


 * Competitions**

__**Term 1:**__ You are invitied to make a poster, film, PowerPoint or Movie Maker presentation to teach ER verbs to the class. Prizes are awarded to the 3 best presentations. Go to my old Wikispace at this website to get some ideas for your own work. http://bronwynamesbury.wikispaces.com/er++verbs Due date: Lesson 2 in Week 5 __**Term 2:**__ 1//. Role-play Performances// You will be preparing for a role-play presentation for a movie/topic/story or sketch of your choice - (Please refer to the @Cendrillon page). The preparation for this competition will start in Term 1. In week 6 of Term 2, you will be presenting your role-play in the form of a performance to the Year 8 cohort at either the Year Level Assembly or at Year 8 French lessons. Prizes will be awarded to the 3 best performances. 2. //French Poetry Compeition// In this term we will be practising for "//Le Concours Berthe Mouchette"// (the French Poetry competition). This is part of our cultural event at school and it counts towards your Semester 1 report as well. This year we would prefer most of you to take part in this competition. During each lesson throughout the term we will take 15 minutes to rehearse as a whole class, then in small groups and individually as well to prepare you. - You already know the process for this event. (An assessor from the Alliance Francaise de Melbourne will come to school on a date the teachers will decide in the month of June. You will be requested to recite your poem to the assessor who will mark you). All aprticipants will be awarded certificates and those who will be selected as finalists will be further acknowledged with special prizes at the School's Awards Night. - The Year 8 poems will be posted on this page at the end of term1 as soon as they become available on the Alliance Francaise website. The teachers will provide full assistance in creating resources to help you memorise the poems more efficiently. Alliance Francaise link to Le Concours Berthe Mouchette: []

__**Term 3:**__ //Short Movie (Film-making) Competition// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">You will be preparing and filming a short moive based on the theme allocated by the LOTE Film festival to enter this competition. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The preparation for the film-making will start at the beginning of term and we will have a limited amount of time to complete the movie. We will have a criteria and other guidelines to follow, which will be posted on this page as soon as they will be available. If your short movie is selected as one of the best, a Prize money will be awarded to the school to buy resources for French.

__**Term 4:**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">//Cartoon/story-telling Competition// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">You will be preparing for a cartoon/story-telling presentation using the Cartoon Story Maker software to incoporate as many topics as possible that you have studied throughout the year. The teachers will guide you for this presentation and a rubric will be available about the criteria to be met. Your story-telling project/movie will need to be handed to the teacher by the end of Week 6 where you will also play it in class to your peers. Prizes will be awarded to the 5 best stories.