Engaging your Core French students BEVERLY KUKHTAJACKSON HAMILTONWENTWORTH

Engaging your Core French students BEVERLY KUKHTAJACKSON HAMILTON-WENTWORTH DSB

DESCRIPTION This workshop will present strategies and tips for increasing participation and motivation of your teenage students in Core French. The focus will be on practical activities that are easy to incorporate into your daily lessons for secondary, but with applications to elementary and immersion.

BEV’S BACKGROUND • over 20 years experience teaching Core and Immersion French - applied and general and academic, mostly secondary, some elementary • department head, facilitator, Special Assignment • programs used: Sans Frontières , Communi-quête & stuff I borrow & adapt & share • DELF Correcteur • Co-author of Tu Parles 1, RK Publishing • Projet à Québec

ENGAGEMENT Do you like spending all day with kids? Do you like French? Are you taking care of your own health and well-being?

POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT http: //www. curriculum. org/storage /30/1370607571/FSL-module-2. pdf

FOSTERING COMMUNICATION http: //www. edu. gov. on. ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/cbs_core_french. pd f

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS http: //theeducatorsroom. com/2014/10/high-school-classroom-management-101 -buildingrelationships/? utm_source=The+Educator%27 s+Room&utm_campaign=e 36 db 6748 b. RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_86 a 3913 f 89 -e 36 db 6748 b 85804073&mc_cid=e 36 db 6748 b&mc_eid=cd 77091 d 30

MOTIVATION http: //kenwilsonelt. wordpress. com/2010/08/30/2465/

ACTIVITIES FROM PINTEREST http: //www. pinterest. com/tonitheisen/activities-to-engage-learners-in-french-class/

COMPUTER GAMES AND APPS • Duolingo • Digital Dialects • Bonjour de France http: //www. bonjourdefrance. com/ • Kahoot! https: //getkahoot. com/ • Blog article by Sylvia Duckworth: http: //mmeduckworth. blogspot. ca/2014/09/kahoot. html • BBC French: http: //www. bbc. co. uk/languages/french/ • Très bien French: http: //www. tresbienfrench. com/games/en • Quia: http: //www. quia. com/shared/french/

BLOGGING

BLOGGING

SPEAKING – GAP ACTIVITIES Video description – no English, but gestures acceptable and encouraged • Partner out in hall • Watch short video twice • Review some vocabulary • Describe to partner • Watch together • Peer assessment – level 4 – no English, not one word Resources: Avez-vous déjà vu? You. Tube, Facebook

SPEAKING – GAP ACTIVITIES Take your Partners

SPEAKING – GAP ACTIVITIES Take your partners

SPEAKING – GROUP ACTIVITIES Short videos http: //1 jour 1 actu. com/infos-animees/

SPEAKING – GROUP ACTIVITIES Têtes à Claques http: //www. tetesaclaques. tv/

SPEAKING – GROUP ACTIVITIES Watch short videos together. Can take very brief notes. Discuss what saw, what thought, what felt in small groups. i. e. Vimeo: Montreal by Winter http: //vimeo. com/64760211 Quebec City http: //vimeo. com/11468419 Paris http: //vimeo. com/9672151 • http: //vimeo. com/7659561 Switzerland http: //vimeo. com/40902373 • http: //vimeo. com/45061747 Morocco http: //vimeo. com/52246416 • http: //vimeo. com/46964108

LE CARNAVAL DE QUEBEC http: //carnaval. qc. ca/

SPEAKING ASSESSMENT Mon introduction • diagnostic/formative • Summative i. Pads – Educreations, Audioboom, Explain Everything Xpresslab

SPEAKING ASSESSMENT

PRIZES For finishing puzzles, for speaking French spontaneously etc…

LES CHANSONS You. Tube https: //www. youtube. com/playlist? list=PL 8 D 9 E 2 B 2 F 2 F 8 A 54 EB • Cloze activities – with key words in a box – cover with a sticky note to make it more of a listening activity. • Can listen first, then show video. Discuss perceptions. • Students can form small groups to share music by preparing a handout and presenting to the class.

GOOGLE TRANSLATE https: //www. youtube. com/playlist? list=PLBms. JMq 1 Ex. IASqo 6 KBvgk. T 64 w. Hxcw. WKF Fresh Prince of Belair Let it Go Wrecking Ball

LITERATURE CIRCLES Trésor

CLASSROOM DESIGN Input from students Vocabulary building

FOOD!!! Les Crêpes Vin faux et vrai fromage Le chocolat Chef à l’école Les croissants Le thé, les bougies et la poésie

SPEED-DATING BBC French: Ma France http: //www. bbc. co. uk/languages/french/mafrance/html/dating/summary. shtml Monsters Book: Chat Boosters – Tralco http: //www. tralco. com/product/00/SO 05/French-Chat. Boosters-Revised-Edition-ONLY-IN-CANADA

SPEED-DATING Si tu etais en retard, qu’est-ce que tu dirais? (Le conditionnel et l’imparfait) • Students create questions in small groups and hand in. Teacher chooses best 20 or so (look for variety) and creates handout. Students form own answers and practice (on own or partner). Set up desks in 2 circles, and allow about 4 minutes per interaction, then one minute to write some brief summary notes for each “date”. At end of 6 – 8 “dates”, write exit card – see example on next slide. • Consider having students text each other with questions and answers. Write number on a slip of paper and pull out of a box.

SPEED-DATING

SPEED-DATING Exit Card: Je suis le plus compatible avec: ____ • Parce que… Je suis le mois compatible avec: ______ • Parce que… Comment est-ce que je pourrais mieux me préparer pour cette activite?

LES FILMS Every Friday for 30 – 40 minutes. French audio, try for French subtitles.

IMOVIE https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ss. Cqquf. Fo 2 g&list=UUFDAv. N 6 MTq. XYptfb 5 t. SYkyg Projet à Québec, juillet 2014 <iframe width="854" height="510" src="//www. youtube. com/embed/ss. Cqquf. F o 2 g? list=UUFDAv. N 6 MTq. XYptfb 5 t. SYkyg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

LA MEILLEURE CLASSE DE FRANÇAIS EN ONTARIO https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=0 Dv. Ks. BKcdx 0&list=UUFDAv. N 6 MTq. XYptfb 5 t. SYkyg&index=4

LA FIN bkukhtaj@hwdsb. on. ca (Former email address: beverly. kukhta-jackson@hwdsb. on. ca) also: and: Twitter @bevkj or search by email address blog: www. ms-k-j. blogspot. com (This blog is aimed at students and parents and is usually updated daily. ) Instagram : bevkukhtaj