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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.

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

 

Le poussin Piou

Il nous vient d'Italie et maintenant il fait la folie des radios françaises.  Pour tous les élèves qui m'ont demandé les détails

 

L'imparfait

How well do you know the imperfect tense?

 

zondle - games to support learning

A la mode

Year 9 are planning a fashion show.  To help with fashion terms and describing clothes.  I have found a link which may be useful:   http://tiny.cc/ftsygw

You can watch "un défilé de mode" to get some ideas. http://tiny.cc/crsygw

Hope that you will be using this to produce the best fashion show ever!!!

Le commerce équitable

Following our unit on Fairtrade, year 9 were asked to set a task to the rest of the class.  Here is one of the task set by one student

Download French assessment India

J'aime pas les bananes

Year 9 are getting involved in "le Commerce équitable"-  Last week, we worked with this clip and worksheet http://mmeperkins.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/02/le-commerce-%C3%A9quitable.html

 

 I found this lovely video about bananas.  

1. Watch the clip
2. Read the script in silence
3. Watch the clip and follow the script
4. Practise pronunciation and phonics.  (comment prononce-t-on?,  Quels mots ont le son -en, ou etc..
5. Look at the questions and answer
6. Act out
7. Make own conversation involving other "Fairtrade product"
8. Poster based on conversation  to explain Fairtrade

 

 

Mange ta banane

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Attention on filme!!

Year 9 have worked with Jamie McDine (who has produced short films in the Uk and abroad) to produce a series of short films to promote languages and make language learning fun.  They had only 2 lessons to prepare their work and the third lesson was spend filming.  This was done by all the students in year 9 in the 5 ability groups.  We have been impressed by the work produced!!

Oldfield School: Year 9 French films from Jamie McDine on Vimeo.

Bientôt Halloween: la sorcière de minuit

Following my previous blogs on Halloween and la veille de la Toussaint, I would like to introduce more words and a song.  Before watching the song learn the vocabulary:

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

 

 

 

Décris où tu habites

Building up confidence is important and Year 9 have been working on this.  We are starting a project on my local area.  

First step, we have looked at different areas on a map of France and researched single geographical words in the dictionary.  This helped us build a bank of vocabulary which will help us describe different areas in France.

i.e Marseilles est dans le sud.  Elle est sur la mer Méditerranée.  

     Strasbourg est dans l'est.  Elle est sur le Rhin.

We then added more details such as "elle est située", "elle se trouve", "à côté de"

      Strasbourg est située dans l'est de la France à côté de l'Allemagne. Elle se trouve sur un fleuve qui s'appelle le Rhin.

We then looked at photos about Strasbourg  and thought about what could be added.

Description:  il y a,  on trouve ...

Opinion:  Je pense que, à mon avis ....

adjectives:  historique, touristique, pittoresque, beau/belle etc.

Connectives:  parce que, mais, car, alors etc

Je pense que c'est un ville historique parce qu'il y a des bâtiments pittoresques. A mon avis, elle est aussi touristique car c'est très joli alors il y beaucoup de touristes dans les rues.

Then the students transferred what they have learnt on other towns and they produced some excellent sentences.  The feedback was very positive and the students felt they have developed their written work well.

Next lesson, we will look at the past tense perfect and imperfect and see how it can be used to improve written work further.  The students will then produce their own work on their local area.