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KS3 French - Sentence builder on food, narrow reading and oral drills (two tenses)
(1) A sentence builder modelling the use of two sentences (perfect tense and present tense) to say when and what you eat/ate with present and past time markers
(2) A set of oral drills with scaffold aside, to practise the material in the sentence builder orally
(3) narrow reading texts recycling the same chunks of language
(4) a vocab consolidation sheet
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Year 7 Spanish - Narrow reading texts with comprehension tasks across topics for EOY revision
Suitable for year 7 end-of-year revision. Six narrow reading texts recycling family, school, hobbies, food and area I live in (IN PRESENT TENSE ONLY) . Lots of high frequency vocabulary.
Texts were designed in such a way as to contain highly patterned input, with lots of repetitions and contextual cues.
Comprehension questions are on separate sheet and are designed to practise a range of reading micro-skills.
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Year 7 / 8 French - Oral ping-pong translation game (pair-work)
INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with the same English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the translation of sentences 1 to10, whereas Partner B has the translation of sentences 11 to 20.
I call it 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. Here is an example: I made for a very able year 11 of mine. Obviously the activity can be done in writing too.
As a follow-up, I get the students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability
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Year 7 / 8 French - Oral translation board game
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
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Year 7 French - Talking about school (receptive work: listening and reading)
A sentence builder to present the vocab (subjects, opinions, things one does around school) and a few receptive tasks to recycle it through listening and reading
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Year 7 French - Narrow readings on 5 different topics
Narrow reading texts exploited through 'bad translation', 'spot the differences' and other techniques. Ideal for beginners on:
- hobbies
- general description
- morning routine
- adjectives (personality)
- sports
To find out more on this technique click here : https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/eight-narrow-reading-techniques-that-will-enhance-your-students-vocabulary-and-reading-skills/
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KS3/4 French - Oral or Written translation board game on character description with answer key
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.
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KS3/4 French - Oral translation board game on Perfect tense of irregular verbs
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.
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KS2/3 French - Oral translation board game on French basics (personal info)
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round of written transl and one of oral changing partners
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KS4 French - Imperfect : oral translation board game with answer key
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.
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KS3/4 Spanish - Talking about a past holiday pool of resources (reading, speaking, writing)
Three narrow reading texts on talking about holidays with a number of tasks aimed at maximising exposure to the target vocabulary and structures
3 files :
1. Narrow reading texts with three tasks on them
2. Same texts have been gapped and missing words/chunks provided in random order
3. Written and oral work - or simply oral work
4. Oral translation board game
5. Oral scaffold
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KS3/4 French - Pool of resources on "je me présente" (general personal details)
Three files, all recycling exactly the same vocabulary and patterns:
1. Three narrow reading texts a la Conti with a range of comprehension and an oral task.
2. An oral translation board game from French to English to do after 1
3. A gap fill task
4. An oral scaffold on the topic recycling all of the above
5. An oral translation board game from English to French
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KS3-4 French - Collection of 11 oral translation board games on various topics / grammar structures
ANSWER KEY FOR EACH GAME PROVIDED
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.
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KS3/4 French - Pool of resources on talking about TV
- reading tasks on opinions about tv
- consolidation activities
- a tile puzzle
- translation practice with answer key
- a sentence builder to introduce vocabulary
- talking mats to scaffold oral interaction with follow-up narrow reading
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KS3 French - Sentence builder and other resources on adjectival agreement + family
A sentence builder, a written translation board game (players writing on mini boards) and a set of oral drills. All of them recycling the same words.
Materials target only 1,2 and 3 person singular of verb to be.
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KS3 Spanish - Reflexive verbs in ARSE : grammar drills, narrow reading and a range of oral tasks
A series of preliminary old school grammar drills I stage before engaging in oral communicative drills,
a set of narrow reading tasks
Find-someone-who with cards
other oral tasks to recycle the same chunks of language everywhere WITH ANSWER KEY
oral board game recycling the very same chunks WITH ANSWER KEY (instructions included)
another set of old school drills for consolidation
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KS4 Spanish - Holidays: preterite practice
1) Two of my most popular resources to practise the preterite in Spanish
2) Oral translation board game to practise preterite in holidays context
3) a warm up set of activities to do before board game
4) a match questions with answers reading activity
5) Oral ping pong translation
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KS3 French - Oral ping-pong translation: tv programmes and frequency in the present tense
INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with two sets of English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the French translation of first set, whereas Partner B has the translation of second set. It is called 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. As a follow-up, students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability
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KS3/4 French - Oral scaffold for conversation on TV, narrow reading and oral ping pong translation
1. Talking mats (10 questions about tv habits) + narrow reading including three tenses
2. Oral ping pong translation
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2 GCSE French writing quickies on : Daily activities
Two revision quickies which focus on micro-writing skills