House and Town - Knowledge Organiser (Parallel Text)

Ma ville et ma maison - French GCSE

A Knowledge Organiser (KO) in the form of a parallel text about someone’s city and home.

Designed to expose students’ to many of the key vocabulary items from the AQA GCSE Specification (Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region section - e.g. verbs like déménager) and to provide useful recyclable structures and phrases.

Google ‘Michaela French Knowledge Organisers’ for some ideas about what to do with this kind of parallel text.

Had a productive couple of lessons with my GCSE class exploiting this text, all with minimum teacher preparation (apart from writing the text!)

e.g. You can use it for pronunciation practice/awareness:
I got pupils focussing on the recurring [ɛ] and [ɑ̃] in the first few paragraphs. They had to listen and highlight the text, then I re-read the text with pupils putting hands up when they heard the sound. Then they had a go in pairs.
Then we did some work on the vocabulary. Listening activities too where I changed parts of the text and pupils had to identify what had changed. Then they had a go at adapting parts of the text and combining words and phrases from it to make their own paragraphs.

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