Conference+Resources


 * Here are the resources from the PGCE conference - they include resources and instructions. Thank you everyone for sharing!!!! :)**


 * Ashleigh:** Grand prix powerpoint

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 * Lindsey:** Songs


 * Terri:** Blockbusters activity.


 * Nicola:** bubbles activity

I made a script for groups of five (four friends plus the narrator). Everything else is pretty self explanatory from the PowerPoint. 'Les quatre amis' is on YouTube and the other links on the PowerPoint should work as well. The penultimate slide with the countryside background and apple tree was used as a backdrop when the kids were acting it out. I also printed out laminated versions of the characters for the students to hold to avoid them literally jumping on top of one another.
 * Jenn:** Year 7 lesson on Story Telling (adapted from some of Elaine's resources). As it was a double lesson, I spent the first half on drilling the key vocab in the story and the second half going over pronunciation and having the students act it out.

There is one link for pronunciation that is also a YouTube clip of Joey from Friends trying to speak French by just 'sounding French'. Afterwards I had students create their own stories (with PowerPoint and Pivot) and they use the NGFL Northumberland website which is AMAZING.




 * Emma**: resource used for an end of unit recap lesson (families, descriptions, likes/dislikes, hobbies). The theme of the lesson was Monsters vs. Aliens. An attempt to give a different, more stimulating context for the language.

The wee sheet with pics of monsters/aliens was used for the starter activity - brainstorming vocab/word association followed by guess who. The worksheet is what followed. All tasks are differentiated based on NC levels and students were free to choose which task they tackled first (some guidance by teacher may be required).



Before starting the project we did some work on general clothes (9EFR5LesVetements) during one lesson. The students independently worked through the sheets and then produced their own football kit/new look in a .ppt presentation. The briefs for each project are on the resources. At the end of each lesson the students had to fill in a reflective blog, they really developed their reflective skills. I did this with year 9 and some of them did really well!
 * Issac**'s fashion projects that took place over a period of five/six lessons and that were inspired by MYLO.




 * Eleano**r - card activity, instructions at bottom of document






 * Lucy** - starter activity

http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp
 * Alice** - a useful website for A-Level, which has the news French.

and a lesson that went really well:


 * Stacey** - activity based on pupils talking about what they and others like to do. They read the info on their sheets first, then had a specified time to get up, wander about the room and find each person's ideal penfriend (character cards were up around the room). Time to make il/elle sentences when back in seats. It was challenging for top set year 7 (I had to secretly extend the time twice.....got caught out! they miss nothing, these kids....)




 * Stephen**'s speaking pyramid


 * Seb'**s Resource: 'Tarsia' - a cool programme that makes puzzles.


 * Rachael**: **Treasure Hunt** used to revise places in town and prepositions. It works on the same principle asa reading race: students work in pairs and must have each of their answers checked before they move onto next clue.




 * Beth**: Human sentence activity.


 * Rosa sent in this Vocabulary Circle (****Cercle de vocabulaire** **/ Vokelkreis /** **Circulo del vocabulario****), which could be used as a mid-lesson plenary or an end of lesson one.**

__The learning objective__: To be able to memorise and revise words associated with the topic in order to gauge the progress you have made __Skills__: Memorisation and reading __Assessment__: Peer assessment leading to AfL from the whole class.

Here's a 1 slide PowerPoint with an audio clip of me doing a military style chant type thing of the sports in Spanish. It's a really easy way to get some song into the classroom that takes next to no preparation and fits pretty much any vocabulary. (No scratching round for ages on youtube). It also makes drilling a bit more interesting and helps students to remember vocab. I record it using Audacity and export it as a wav file before inserting it into the PP. Recording the audio can be helpful because then I can sing with the students, encourage more people to join in or spend more time working out exacly who is singing and who is just moving their mouth etc. Sometimes I just skip the recording bit and sing it in class though. Really easy to do with other songs like London Bridge, the Flintstones theme tune the animals went in two by two etc. Obviously you haven't all got a voice like me so if you need me to record some stuff for you just let me know, **Tom**. media type="file" key="juego al futbol military.wav" width="300" height="50"