poisson d'avril

Poisson d'Avril

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Audio files

I have started to upload old audio files to Podomatic. So far I've done the French sound system that I have mentioned before from my French Early Years Course, 2002. Listen here There is a six second pause before I get going!

lundi 23 mars

We started with chain questions and had a look at an American video on gender and articles. It is a bit weird but think it is a good explanation. 

It mentions some clues to gender eg 

Nouns that end in  -ette -ée -tion -ie ière -ance -ence -ure are feminine.

Nouns that end in -eau and most consonants are usually masculine.

This is far from foolproof! Best just to learn the article with the noun.

We had fun with food rhymes and made up a little ditty in French in groups. I didn't note down what you had written. Post your song in comments!

Additional food vocab: miam miam = yum yum and berk or beurk = yuck

We did some more work on nasal vowels. 

For the last half hour we discussed the use of blogs. Notes for this on mlpscpd.blogspot.com

blackboard

blackboard  is the university site. 

you should now be able to log on

try your banner id starts with B00 followed by @uws.ac.uk  as your user name

your password should be your Date of Birth as 6 digit number

or if that doesn't work uws followed by your DOB

On it there are links to docs and papers but I think I have given you most of these already so don't panic if you can't get in.

links to docs Click onMLPS module information

Next week - writing!

Assessment

We will do the writing on 30 March. Write prepared piece from memory. Dictionary use is permitted. This will only take 15 minutes.
Micro Teaching
half come one day and the other half the other day
Monday 20 April: Suzanne, Eleanor, Gavin, Jillian, Gill, Germaine, Fiona, Lynn
Monday 27 April: Rosslyn, Scott, Diane, Louise, Jodie, Jennifer, Lorna, Lesley Ann
(have swapped Jillian with Scott, since Monday)
Written assignment is due 1 May. I'll get anonymous cover papers and you can post in or deliver.
I have added Micro Teaching Success Criteria to the Assessment Folder in My Teaching Files
Rosslyn, we can make alternative arrangements for you if necessary.

Pâques - Easter

Here are some Easter things here in case you need it soon.

Joyeuses Pâques - Happy Easter!

Nice wee poem- Cétait Pâques

Song le petit lapin de Pâques

En allant chercher mon pain

Make a bunny card here

lundi 16 mars

It was lovely to see Rosslyn again!

We started with some more work on nasal vowels.  I found some interesting notes on teaching French phonics from a presentation at this month's primary languages show in Liverpool by Jo Rhys Jones from Cornwall and Lynne Erler form Oxford University. This is where I got the sacks posters which I modified and have uploaded to My Teaching Files.

Working in pairs teachers were asked to fill in examples of each sound from known words, ideally short, monosyllabic words like bon, vin, brun, dent. 

We explored rhymes with a French set of word cards to find rhymes 

and the well known rhyme

à Paris, à Paris sur mon petit cheval gris (H/O) and activboard file

Lynne Erler's 

We also discussed time scale for assignments which I will post separately!

Dans mon pays d'Espagne

This traditional song has it all, repetition (sing every line twice), actions and a great follow-up activity. Flashcards of the vocabulary held up by pupils would help with the order

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a un soleil, comme ça 2x (make a circle)

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a des montagnes, comme ça 2x (make pointy mountains)
Et un soleil, comme ça.

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a la mer, comme ça 2x (make waves)
Et des montagnes, comme ça 2x
Et un soleil, comme ça

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a des danseuses, comme ça 2x (hands in position -1 arm up other down)
Et y a la mer, comme ça 2x
Et des montagnes, comme ça 2x
Et un soleil, comme ça

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a des taureaux, comme ça 2x (make horns)
Et des danseuses, comme ça 2x
Et y a la mer, comme ça 2x
Et des montagnes, comme ça 2x
Et un soleil, comme ça

Dans mon pays d’Espagne, olé 2x
Il y a du bon vin, comme ça 2x (drink wine)
Et des taureaux, comme ça 2x
Et des danseuses, comme ça 2x
Et y a la mer comme ça 2x
Et des montagnes, comme ça 2x
Et un soleil, comme ça

Dans mon pays d’Espagne,
Olé !

Maybe des guitares instead of du bon vin

Make up one for dans mon pays d’Ecosse or another country.  Could be a competition, le facteur X!

Ecosse

la mer

des montagnes

de la pluie (rain, noun)

le monstre du Loch Ness

des châteaux

du haggis

de l'Irn Bru

des moutons

des vaches poilues (hairy cows, fpl for Highland cows)

Comic Relief

Former colleague Mark Pentleton who runs the very successful languages podcasts Radio Lingua Network has produced a tongue in cheek course in Scottish for Comic Relief. For £3 donation all of which goes to Comic Relief you can download 3 lessons, plus you get a 25% discount off your next purchase.

Full details here

Pass the word.

lundi 10 mars

We talked about starters and plenaries. (H/O)

Played a video of some shops from youtube to get us in the French mood

We also played a Flash  game of COUNTDOWN which was originally a French TV game called des chiffres et des lettres! The numbers game works well

un grand et cinq petits 

vous avez 30 secondes

Do the solution in French too.

Letters game more suited to English but worked too

une consonne, une voyelle, encore une consonne etc

I've uploaded the folder to the Shared work file. Enjoy!

Did a lot of work on nasal vowels using minicards and the talktime postcards

Here's my dustbin game made up in minutes on classtools.net

http://classtools.net/my/dustbin44428_french_nasal_vowels_.htm

Click here for full screen version

Listening practice

If you would like to tune your ear, try BBC Ma France 

There are lots of videos and you can turn both  the  French and English subtitles on and off.

For next time be able to tell me what you are planning to do (roughly) in your micro teaching which will be after Easter.

lundi 2 mars

Merci à Scott et à tous pour vos présentations!

Paris - interactive onion map

Picture quiz - but only 7 questions. Click here to open in a new window

Song Aux Champs Elysées by Joe Dassin

has an easy chorus
aux Champs-Elysées
aux Champs-Elysées
au soleil, sous la pluie

à midi ou à minuit

il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs Elysées (there's everything you want on the Champs Elysees

Here are links to 2 versions on youtube

singing and photos of Paris

karaoke version words, singing and pictures

more later

Coffee

Apologies from Claire who forget to order catering! Keep your receipts and bring them next week and I will refund you.

History of MLPS in Scotland -timeline

I have been using Timeglider for the first time. This is a work in progress!

It is easier to see in a new window. Drag the green slider to 25 years.