French+Resources

Nowhere near as exciting as the lesson below, but here are a couple of lesson plans for this week. Again, based mainly on Expo.

- Adjectives and Comparatives (Expo 2 Vert) - Perfect and holidays (Expo 2 Rouge) - Perfect and holidays (Expo 2 Vert) Writing and marking according to NC Levels - Based on NVQ Level 2 Lesson 21 - French Order Forms - Work on describing people (Expo 3 Vert) - Dailry routine, finishing off their songs, performance and then consolidation writing. (Expo1)

After the Paul Kelly lecture the other day I thought I would have a go at spaced learning with my year 9s. We were learning the passé composé so was likely to be a pretty heavy lesson and thought that would make it perfect to have a go at spaced learning.

After a bit of research http://spacedlearning.org.uk/player.aspx?id=1 I set up the lesson like this...I introduced them to the idea and warned them they were in for a heavy start but with some dossy bits inbetween to bribe them to concentrate.

First bit. I lectured to them about the passé composé in English....when it is used and how it is formed (only avoir verbs though... I will make them aware of être but cover it another time). This took about 8 minutes of me talking at them and it was pretty heavy. A lot of talking by me and not an ofsted friendly lesson by any means by the way.

Then stage 2 they had ten minutes of playing with play dough. The excitement that play dough can create should not be underestimated. (I just spent 15 quid on play dough from tesco...they must have thought I was cannies odd.) They had ten mins to make a model of an elephant. Best one judged by me got some sweets. (They whinged like hell if I didn't like their elephant by the way which was canny funny.)

Next, stage 3 they listen to me go through the presentation again only this time there are quite a few gaps and I ask for hands up and pick volunteers to fill them. (Same input but slightly more interactive I tried to pick volunteers at random but found that a hands up or shout out policy was the only way to keep up the pace. Took about 8-10 mins again.

Then stage 4 they had another ten minutes with the play dough. This time they have to make a frog...same deal....they still loved it and were gutted when I collected it in...about 5 lads tried to nick it.

Lastly stage 5 they had to fill in a worksheet based on the presentation to show how much they understood. These were collected in and will be marked.

So how did it go? Pretty well I think...the plenary at the end showed that every single person wanted more similar lessons...they also said that they learned more than they would in a normal lesson although some of them found the level too high. If I did it again I would start from the very beginning (what does je, tu etc mean) there were some that didn't know this (amazingly...and this meant it was very hard for them to access the material). The more able pupils made massive progress though and enjoyed what could otherwise be a really dry subject. I'm going to give it another go in a lesson next week.

Ere's the stuff anyway...the lesson stopped at the questions slide before it says lesson 2 on the PP. Any questions let me know, Tom.



Lesson Plans for the coming week...all based on Expo

- A lesson on daily routine culminating in the class coming up with a song. For top set Y7 using Expo 1. - A lesson on asking and answering questions based on "Voyager en ligne" from Expo 2 vert, Y8 middle set. - A lesson on il y a and beaucoup de/trop de/assez de based on "Au centre de vacances" from Expo 3 rouge, Y8 higher set. - A lesson on using the perfect tense on the topic "Destination Senegal" from Expo 2 vert, Y8 middle set. - A lesson on using the perfect tense on the topic "Destination Senegal" from Expo 2 rouge, Y8 higher set. - A lesson on chores for Y10 GCSE French.

So the guilt about not uploading any resources here for ages finally got the better of me. Below is a lesson description with an attached plan and resources that I made for a Y7 french lesson on "Ma Maison". The art is from Story bird and the thumbs up, thumbs middle thumbs down bit was taken from Chris Harte's presentation at the Links into Languages conference in January.The idea for the booklet was taken from Simon Finch at the recent TeachMeet. (simfin on twitter).

The starter was me standing at the front reading out a little french story about a house inspired by art I found on Storybird (well worth a look by the way - google it!). I did actions and asked the pupils to copy them à la Elaine Bulman minus the funny sheep thing (did this twice). Then they worked on the worksheet (Green Q.s for everyone, Orange for most and Red for some). This was to get them to engage with the language and understand the story. We then got some ideas together for what they could write in their own stories inspired by the same art. We collated these on the smart board next to the pictures. (The smartboard was broken which made writing v. difficult...my handwriting isn't that bad normally) We then agreed success criteria for their stories so that they knew what I wanted them to include. I then demonstrated how you can fold over the piece of paper to make it into a little booklet so that their stories could be written up into a tiny story book. This is really hard to explain so sorry in advance..feel free to skip this gibberish.

You fold the page with the pictures on it in half three times so that its like a little booklet an eighth of the size of a piece of A4. (but with only four pages.) You then need to unfold it twice and rip from the closed end to the centre line. Now when you completly unfold it there will be a rip in the middle like a mouth. Fold it over the other way this time (horizontally) so you have a piece of paper that looks like this -<>- Push the two end bits together and fold over to give an A7 booklet with eight pages (including covers).

Students then wrote their stories into their books...I corrected and helped during this time. For homework they had to finish off the booklet and learn some vocabulary for a test. There was a three-two-one plenary at the end. It went quite well and they seemed to enjoy the lesson right the way through...I'm looking forward to getting their booklets back in to see how they got on. Here's the stuff anyway, any Qs. let me know, Tom.



Gap fill exercise as a starter when doing daily routine (year 8) based on the first half of Claude Francois's 'Comme d'habitude' Negative reflexive verbs based on Equipe 2 p51 Another song for imperfect tense. The song itself is actually quite good and you can play the youtube video with it. (You might want to change it quite a lot before using it - I haven't actually used it yet.) And another on Benabar's 'A notre santé' for when doing healthy food with year 9. Gap fill with 'find the French' extension task. Nutritional pyramid for introducing vocab on healthy food (+ the partitive article)

Two lessons from today...both from Expo 2 Rouge

- Countries, nationalities and languages à/en/au. (Y8 Expo 2 Rouge - p78-79) - Au restaurant (Y8 Expo 2 Rouge - p68-69) ~Eleanor

- A lesson on numbers 60-99 - could probably be quite easily used for any year group. - And then one I used for Y9 lower ability group on healthy lifestyle and the imperative. (Expo 3 Vert p48-49) - And finally a Y7 lesson on the preposition "à" including "je vais" and "je suis". (Expo 1 with a sheet from Cahier B p35) ~Eleanor

This is most of the FLASPs stuff. Some of the files were too big. Courtesy of Emilie Trabichet. Posted by Alice.

PowerPoint for two French lessons for top set year 8 on **body parts** as well as the two lesson plans to go with it. Includes a song, labelling body parts activity, a couple of Kagan cooperative learning activities and [|www.buildyourwildself.com]. Let me know if you use it and how it goes please, Tom.



PowerPoint for a lesson introducing the use of **French language** in the classroom focussing on student talk. PowerPoint inspired by Kathleen (currently teaching staff at Gosforth High, Newcastle). Added by Issac



PowerPoint that was prepared to share the laborious slides that I had prepared covering many topics including **grammar**. The front slide shows the bank of lessons that I had created, if you need anything for those topics, let me know. The colours used for the grammar have a specific use:

Orange = Future tense/simple future = The future is bright, the future is orange Red = Past tense (mainly passe compose) = Don't look back in anger Green = Present = GO!

If anyone can add to this, that would be great :0) Added by Issac



Just read Tom's intro...obviously everyone knows this story comes from Elaine Bulman's Storytelling workshop but I'm writing it to make sure :) Hey guys!! I thought I would put 'les quatre amis' story on here incase anyone wants to use it on Thursday! (World Book Day) René is sending us discs out with this and the microteaching resources etc. but I thought this might be quicker if anyone needs it! Here is the story, the speech cadrs and the lotto game cards. Enjoy!!! **Lindsey :)**

Hey :). I translated the Spanish phrases Lindsey sent out into French if anyone is doing a TL lesson... Jenn