French Outside the Classroom Getting a buzz around
French Outside the Classroom Getting a buzz around the school
Children recording themselves n n n The Talking Tin Lid records for 10 or 15 seconds, replacing any previous recording. It is small and portable. It can be part of an interactive display, held in the hand or passed around. Choose dates in advance and the whole school participates on the same day, throughout the day.
Children recording themselves n n This idea involves listening to the previous recording before adding your own. (The Tin Lid is good for this. ) Run a competition – a challenge for each member of the whole class to record themselves, saying an expression by the end of the day.
Children recording themselves n n Greetings amongst all children within the classroom, eg Bonne année, Paul! Use the same one for all, or offer a choice. To make sure everyone gets a greeting, the child recording himself/herself has to take a name from a hat.
Children recording themselves n Cultural focus, eg 1 st April “Poisson d’avril!” Saints’ feast days “Joyeuse fête de. . ” Next to the voice recorder in all classes, put a sign explaining what the French do on these dates and place a French calendar nearby.
French/Food Awareness Fortnight n n Plan as a key stage, using cross-curricular approach to making links with French food and healthy eating. Plan around the French market in Woodley. Make French bread, croissants, smoothies – healthy eating! Plan a French picnic – healthy eating!
French/Food Awareness Fortnight n n n Cultural understanding – have a café outside, fresh bread from the boulangerie etc. French songs about food. Regional specialities can be researched, eg variety of cheeses, crêpes, bouillabaisse, etc.
French/Food Awareness Fortnight n n Foods for which we already know the French, eg blancmange, gateau, petits pois, fromage frais, éclairs etc, are a good starting point for French pronunciation. Key stage/ House competition to make the longest list of the above
Opportunities to ‘showcase’ learning to parents n n Open evening is a good opportunity for parents to see lots of children perform in groups or as a whole year group. They can perform finger rhymes, songs and small scenes (props can be hats) using the French they have learned during the year.
Aux Enchères de Grammaire n n Present some sentences that the class will understand, making some grammatically correct, others not. Each child, or group of children, has an imaginary amount of euros to spend at the auction, eg 100 euros (depending on numbers learnt in French).
Aux Enchères de Grammaire n n n The object of the game is to ‘buy’ the sentence(s) that they think is (are) correct and to spend all their money. Individuals (or groups if preferable) ’bid’ using their money. Multiples of 5 or 10 should be used if dealing with larger amounts of money. If only one sentence is correct, they could spend all their money on it.
Aux Enchères de Grammaire n n A grammar auction. This could be played as an inter-class competition, using representatives instead of the whole class. E-bay français is less passé(!) and bidders have a time limit imposed on them.
Dictionary Work n n Each class has to contribute to a central display, finding translations of French words that are amusing, eg un chauvesouris, un rat de bibliothèque, etc. A trawl through the dictionary over a period of time may appeal to some and not to others! An element of competition, or setting a target number of words, injects immediacy to the exercise.
French Outside the Classroom Walking through the lunch hall holding Albert and Annick always creates a little buzz!
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