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INTRODUCTION FOR TAPIS VOLANT SENIOR Year 12 French

YEAR 12 – Units 7, 6, 5, 8 (one per term)WARNING NOTE IRREGULAR UNIT ORDER

Bonjour, Students of French. Welcome to BSDE.

·       Phone your BSDE French teacher immediately for your Introductory Lesson and to arrange your regular telephone lessons. The French Department telephone numbers are 07 3214 8 351 / 331 / 228 / 353

This course requires:

A  Texts to be purchased:

1.  Tapis Volant Senior 2006 Student Book (includes CD and grammar book) to be purchased from a bookseller.

2. Tapis Volant Senior 2006  Workbook (includes DVD) to be purchased from a bookseller.
3. Grammar Booklet which is included with your Student Book

If you experience difficulty in purchasing the texts, contact BSDE or  purchase online at: http://secondary.cengage.com.au/category/591  

B  Material from BSDE

1  Audio CDs with Contents Menu sent from BSDE Library on a one year loan. Information Booklet sent from BSDE.  This includes also the CD track menu.

2. Work Rate Calendar sent from BSDE. Also available online at:

http://www.brisbanesde.eq.edu.au/?curriculum/Work_Rate_Calendar_Snr

C  Extras

1. An exercise book or computer memory space for your notes and vocabulary lists.

2. Access to an online computer to enable you to access to supplementary material and send your tasks attached to emails to your teacher.

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR RESOURCES

·       Familiarise yourself with the layout of the Student Book and Workbook.

·       Familiarise yourself with the Work Rate Calendar which tells you when your tasks are due to be sent to your BSDE teacher. If you have not received one or misplaced it you can access it online at http://www.brisbanesde.qld.edu.au

·       Listen to the first CD in the pack sent from BSDE and find the corresponding task in your Student Book.  On the Contents menu of the CD on p 5 of this booklet, track numbers are indicated on the left column of the CD Contents Menu.

·       Go to the FRENCH DEPARTMENT website:

 www.media-loop.com/tv  Familiarise yourself with the website. During the course of the units of study there are additional online resources in addition to the tasks in your Workbook.

·       www.tapis.com.au  is the home page of the textbook.  Then navigate to the Tapis Volant Senior site where you will find online activities and topic-specific podcasts.

·       DVD On the DVD in the back of the Workbook, are short videos relevant to each Unit.

ORDER OF UNITS STUDIED

YEAR 12 – Units 7, 6, 5, 8 (one per term)WARNING NOTE IRREGULAR UNIT ORDER

GETTING STARTED WITH THE TEXTS (See below if still waiting for your texts)

• Look at the Work Outlines starting on page 6 of this Booklet.  Find the appropriate Unit for your Year level. OR
• Go to the BSDE French website www.media-loop.com./tv  You will find there complete instructions for starting the course.
• Open your Student Book to the corresponding Unit.  Read/listen as instructed on the Work Outline.
• Your teacher will do the Oral + grammar + extension activities with you in the phone/online lessons.

IF YOU ARE WAITING FOR YOUR TEXTS

• Go to the BSDE French website www.media-loop.com./tv  You will find there complete instructions for starting the course.  Begin studying before your books arrive.
• Go to the website www.tapis.com.au and navigate to the Tapis Volant Senior page.
• Listen to the first track of the CD that came with this booklet.

·        For self-contained French lessons to start you off, go to  http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex

Or to refresh your grammar go to http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi  or to test you grammar knowledge go to http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/tv

·        If you need a dictionary but you haven’t got one, simply use the online http://www.wordreference.com website.

MAIL- IN TASKS

• Your Work Rate Calendar contains the information relating to the tasks you send in to your BSDE French teacher.
• You will have weekly mail-ins and weekly phone/online lessons for each Unit.
• Discuss with your BSDE French teacher the best method for sending your mail-in tasks to BSDE but DO NOT SEND IN YOUR WORKBOOK.

o       Write answers on your computer, save as Word documents and attach to emails. If you do not have MS Office download, open Office.org from http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.1/index.html

o       Write answers in your booklets, photocopy to send.

o       Write answers on paper and send.

o       Scan and print before sending (Scanned work cannot be corrected digitally and are usually too large for the 2MB email limit)

o       Save work on memory sticks and send.

o       Digital transfer through Learning Place will be available later.

·        Most teachers and students prefer work to be sent via e-mail as it is usually a 24 -48 hour return time and is available for discussion in online classes.

E-MAILING WORK

• Remember to label clearly the Unit ,Folio and Task you are sending.
• Tasks should be e-mailed to your teacher in an MS Word document. This enables your teacher to correct your work on the screen
• When you are asked to supply a missing word in a sentence of French, please write out the whole sentence.
• If you have difficulty with the format of a particular Workbook Tasks e.g. a Crossword or table, photocopy or scan the page with your answers and sent to your teacher. Note: Scanning creates problems for online marking and should be avoided for most mail-in tasks.

RETURN OF WORK RATE

• Students must return work regularly as outlined in the Work Rate calendar.
• Failure to return work regularly will result in an “inactive” status.  Students are then NOT eligible to receive examinations and lose credit for the semester and risk not getting an OP rating.

GRAMMAR BOOKLET  The Grammar Booklet  that is included with the purchase of the textbooks is an integral part of the course.  Students are expecting to bring the booklet to phone lessons and to refer to it whenever needed.

TYPING ACCENTS

TO TYPE ACCENTS

·        Use the number pad on the right of the keyboard.

·        Hold down ALT                       (Make sure the keypad lock is on)

·        Type 0+ the numbers given below. (Use the Number Keypad)

224            à                      226 â                           232  è                          233 é

234      ê

238            î                       244 ô                           251  û                          249  ù

199            Ç                     231 ç                           201 É                           192  À

Students working on laptops may have trouble with this system for accents.  Possible alternatives include buying a cheap keyboard with a numeric pad/transferring the work to a PC to add accents/using the insert symbol routine/ or for the technically competent, assigning keystrokes for accents.

LEARNING PLACE ACCESS

All students will be provided with access to the online Learning Place and given an opportunity to participate in online lessons if classes can be organised at suitable times.  Your French teacher will discuss this.

BSDE SCHOOL POLICIES

Failure to return work regularly will result in “inactive” status. Students who are inactive will not receive their summative examinations which could result in the loss of academic credit for the semester.

EXAMINATIONS

• There are four sets of exams each year – mid-semester and end-semester.
• Exams are mailed from BSDE two weeks in advance.
• All exams must be done in the weeks nominated.
• All exams, included tests done on the phone are to be supervised.
• Absences during exams must be covered by medical certificates.
• Applications for extensions must be made prior to the exam week and made directly to the BSDE LOTE HOD

• BSDE French
  • Junior French
  • Senior French 
    • BB SENIOR FRENCH Online Study Units 1 - 10
• BSDE Site Workrate Calendar
• BSDE Site Course outline
• Bsde School website