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Primary French

I am delighted to tell you that "The Really Useful Primary Language book' has been published . This very useful book has been written by my friends Jayne Wright and Alison Taylor. 

This book is for anyone with an interest in primary languages: primary teachers, head teachers, teaching assistants, primary trainee teachers, secondary ML trainees and lecturers. It contains practical strategies, teaching ideas and photocopiable masters. There is a free accompanying online resource which includes French and Spanish sound files for classroom

Having checked the French in this book, I think that it will be a useful reference for primary  and secondary MFL teachers. A copy of the flyer is attached and a reduction in price of 20% is currently being offered. 

Download The Really Useful Primary Language book

Fun with reading & writing from KS2 to KS3

This is the presentation of a workshop presented by Jayne Wright (Specialist Lead Teacher MFL KS2) & myself at University of Bristol Graduate School of Education on 5th May to 40 KS2 and KS3 teachers 

In this workshop we explored the progression with reading and writing from Year 3 to Year 9. We shared ways to find authentic materials and how they might be adapted and exploited to teach reading and writing in the class room. There were practical ideas for everyone to use. Examples are in French but can be easily adapted to other languages.

 

 

 

Here is a list of Websites that I have used in the past for use of authentic material and ideas.

Talk: ALL West of England Conference

Once again, we will be having our conference at the wonderful Bradley Stoke School near the M5/M4 junctions near Bristol.  A morning spent listening to great speakers - Peter Morris, Joe Dale, Philip Campagna and Helen Aberdeen.

 

Opportunity to browse the publishers'display, get resources from the European Commission's table, learn more about the work done by the British council, see what ALL has to offer and if you are locally based join our lovely ALL West of England committee.

 

You can always finish the day shopping in Bristol, Cribbs Causeway or even Bath.  You can as well have a lovely week-end in the West Country!!  

 

 

If interested, fill in the form below

 

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Halte au gaspillage

I have not written anything for sometimes now. I have just retired from teaching but feel that some of you may still be interested in exploiting some items that I find interesting so I have decided to post something from time to time. Feedback would be appreciated.

 

Le sandwich de Monsieur Bean

Use a clip to work out a sequence of events in the past.  

Watch the clip. Discuss what they have seen.  Opinions about the clip. 

 

 

Research some of the vocabulary which will be useful for describing what happened.

Give sequencing vocabulary- D'abord, premièrement, ensuite, puis, après, donc, finalement, enfin etc

Use verbs in the infinitive and change in the past tense (with il)

Aller, prendre, couper, mettre du beurre, ouvrir, tuer, laver, essorer, écraser, boire, manger, éternuer, remercier.

 

A worksheet to use in class

 

 

 

Le sandwich de monsieur bean from Marie-France Perkins