Find out the names of the main Paris sights in French and 1 or 2 interesting facts about them in English!
http://www.paris.org
If you have any Paris souvenirs or postcars bring them too.
2 Nasal Vowels UN & IN
12 years ago
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
CPD for your colleagues
Roselyne has asked me to do further CPD for South Ayrshire. There will be 4 free standing sessions on Thursday in March in St John's at 4- 6pm
5th ICT for ML teachers
12th blogging - the why and the how
19th active learning
26th French pronunciation
They are on the online CPD. No charge.
Pass the word!
Madame Rouge
Madame Rouge is really huge
She loves to eat French bread.
That’s the way to remember
That rouge means red.
She loves to eat French bread.
That’s the way to remember
That rouge means red.
This is an example of a (mental) image helping us to remember a meaning. Rhyme and rhythm are also used.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
lundi neuf février
Merci à Lynn d'avoir fait l'appel!
We had several of you showing your ideas on presenting new language.
I always find this interesting!
Here are some general points which I hope are helpful and are not meant as criticism.
• Visuals need to be big enough to be seen and be sure to move them from side to side so that all the class can see.
• Think of colour / gender coding
• When using word cards go over the pronunciation. Talk about how to remember meaning and what letter combinations they have seen before
• Give feedback so that class knows what the correct response was eg when saying wrong word keep going until you get to the right one then move on or when doing indiquez la bonne image raise the correct one to confirm
• Make sure you have the correct gender and pronunciation of the key words you are teaching -
We did a chain question game based on Richard Tallaron's. We think it would be better done in groups. I will work on that.
We did a dictionary skills exercise for which there was a handout. Dr Who smartboard file and a Millionaire game I made up on superteachertools.com based on same choices.
We finished up with some creative writing based on the sans toi model (separate post)
Post your best lines in the comments of that post! Some were more romantic than others!
No class next week - mid term! Bonnes vacances!
In 2 weeks time we'll hear the rest of the mini presentations and I'll post some other homework soon.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
la Saint Valentin
poème d'amour
Le quatorze février, c est la Saint Valentin, la fête des amoureux. Pour fêter ce jour on va composer des poèmes d'amour selon cette rubrique -
Le quatorze février, c est la Saint Valentin, la fête des amoureux. Pour fêter ce jour on va composer des poèmes d'amour selon cette rubrique -
Sans toi, je suis un jardin sans fleurs
Sans toi, je suis un lac sans eau
sans = without and it can be followed by a noun with no article eg sans fleurs
you could put comme = like after je suis but I think it sounds better without!
A vous maintenant - postez vos vers en cliquant sur Comments
plus d'infos sur cette fête ici
Joyeuse Saint Valentin! - happy Valentine's day
je t'aime! - I love you!
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
lundi deux février
C'est déjà le mois de février et aujour'dhui il y a de la neige!
Today Diane took the register. Lynne could you do it next week?
We then discussed history of MLPS prompted by a ppt which I will shortly upload to My teaching files. You will also find articles in a folder called "papers"
I prepared a handout on activities for MLPS and we worked our way through that. This is a work in prgress and you can add to the lists roughly divided into Listening and Talking, Reading and Writing. In practice most cativities cover at least 2 of the skills.
We spent some time on Reading and Reading skills looking at these sites
www.africanimo.com and tried the activities suggested by Lynne Horn on her blog We may revisit this.
I also suggested the site journal des enfants and looked at the article on the Obama children
Here is their article on the recent plane crash into the Hudson river
All of these web pages are real, interesting, relevant and not contrived or condescending. They are of course challenging and pupils are not expected to understand everything but gain satisfaction from what thy can decipher. I think of it as a puzzle and like detective work.
A site to help you read foreign language pages is lingro. First you copy the url of the web page and then launch lingro, paste it in and select French- English.Click on any word you don't know and a dictionary pops up with suggestions. Brilliant! Here is what the lion page looks like in lingro
Another site I like but we couldn't get into yesterday is mon jt quotidien meaning my daily newsreel (jt- journal télévisé). This is a bit like newsround with several short video clips changed every weekday. This is a listening only exercise so is harder - good for you though! There are often quirky stories under the tab insolite
Here are a couple of interesting ones
the parrot
the car that crashed into a church roof
Homework
Prepare to teach the class 4 words of your choice using some of activities in flashcard presentation and today's handout. This is by way of preparation for the micro teaching.
Bonne semaine!
Today Diane took the register. Lynne could you do it next week?
We then discussed history of MLPS prompted by a ppt which I will shortly upload to My teaching files. You will also find articles in a folder called "papers"
I prepared a handout on activities for MLPS and we worked our way through that. This is a work in prgress and you can add to the lists roughly divided into Listening and Talking, Reading and Writing. In practice most cativities cover at least 2 of the skills.
We spent some time on Reading and Reading skills looking at these sites
www.africanimo.com and tried the activities suggested by Lynne Horn on her blog We may revisit this.
I also suggested the site journal des enfants and looked at the article on the Obama children
Here is their article on the recent plane crash into the Hudson river
All of these web pages are real, interesting, relevant and not contrived or condescending. They are of course challenging and pupils are not expected to understand everything but gain satisfaction from what thy can decipher. I think of it as a puzzle and like detective work.
A site to help you read foreign language pages is lingro. First you copy the url of the web page and then launch lingro, paste it in and select French- English.Click on any word you don't know and a dictionary pops up with suggestions. Brilliant! Here is what the lion page looks like in lingro
Another site I like but we couldn't get into yesterday is mon jt quotidien meaning my daily newsreel (jt- journal télévisé). This is a bit like newsround with several short video clips changed every weekday. This is a listening only exercise so is harder - good for you though! There are often quirky stories under the tab insolite
Here are a couple of interesting ones
the parrot
the car that crashed into a church roof
Homework
Prepare to teach the class 4 words of your choice using some of activities in flashcard presentation and today's handout. This is by way of preparation for the micro teaching.
Bonne semaine!
Sunday, 1 February 2009
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