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Sharing practice

 Here is a space for you to share some of the ideas and activities you’ve developed for your class, and have a look at what others are doing.

Want to find out what happens in France on April fools day? Click here to find out!

Coaching in context – sharing ideas.

This Africa study plan has been developed to link to an ES study of Africa with a P6 & 7 class. Its structure is based on the teaching cycle we looked at from Maximising Potential. Please let me know how you get on if you decide to try it. You can try this Promethean Africa flipchart for starters. ( And I’m sure you’ll be able to make it much more exciting !) The flags are all on here – convert to powerpoint if you don’t have Promethean boards. These  Word cards might come in handy when used in conjunction with the flags from these countries for practice and consolidation games with stile trays etc. Another great thing I learned about at a conference at the weekend is Quizlet – I made up a set of vocabulary for the pupils learning about the African francophone countries to practise with .

For more detailed study, or for a different emphasis to your study; Africanimo  is a website for finding out all about the animals of Africa.

A fairly lengthy history text about South Africa………………….

Advice here would be to identify the main points or messages in the text, highlight them and see if we can undertand the gist.

Obiously you can tailor anything to suit your own learners – especially the final challenge. As this class is small, I left it open, but you could get them all working on different countries and presentations in small groups or whatever suits. If anyone wants any more information on this mini – project please get in touch. 

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To follow up on the work we did on countries and nationalities, here are some flags and a link to David Wilson’s resources on countiries and nationalities – thanks David!  Hilary also sent me a neat little countries quiz which I think children will love doing. It will help with their knowledge of countries and capital cities, if they need to refresh this before tackling the language  in MLPS. Thanks again HILARY!

This came from the resources bank on the Times educational website Simpsons family tree powerpoint

Here is the sheet we looked at on day one to give reasons for learning a language – some of these reasons might not resonate with primary pupils, but remember that the most important thing is to foster a positive attitude to language learning, and that can be done from a very early age. 10 reasons to learn a foreign language 

 Signs and pictures for the classroom

Food Flashcards

Colour flashcards

More colour flash cards

Some furniture flashcards

These flashcards either came directly from or were made up from material on the TES ML resource bank To try to encourage your pupils to start using French in real contexts in the classroom, here are Some help signs for your classroom : expand upon these if you can and you can always give rewards for good requests, or pronunciation to add incentive! More signs and labels for your classrooms can be downloaded free from Sparklebox – I bet lots of you use it already, but I wonder if you’re like me and had no idea that they had some French signs as well!

Her is a useful website with lots of general activities which could be used in class on IWB. There is audio as well, which is great . _________________________________________________________________________________________________

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