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Use this as a random picture selector:
Press F5 and then ‘s’ randomly. Whatever the picture is and the symbol at the bottom of the slide, pupils must take it in turns to say something – a question about the picture, an exclamation, a positive, a negative, something in the future and something in the past.
One of my personal favourites!
Have a reading text in the box. In 2 teams, pupils choose a word to find in the text. The pupils don’t know what each word is worth. Click on the word they have chosen when they have correctly identified it in the text and their score will be revealed. The winning team is the team with the highest score once all words have been found in the text.
3 slides with different scores.
Students choose a number and have to make a sentence with the word shown. Depending upon ability, they could make new sentences with the following words chosen, or they could try to make a story with the following words.
You must buy sentences at every shop.
Each sentence costs 1€.
Each sentence is worth a different amount of winnings. Draw your Euros into your winning column. If you run out of Euros in your bank, you can use your winnings to buy sentences.
The winners have the most Euros.
Full instructions in the notes section of the PPT.
Pupils roll the dice and then: ask a question, give a statement, say something positive, say something negative, say something in the future, say something in the past about a given topic.
Groups of 3 or 4. Choose a pupil at random to choose a number. Click on the number (on your computer) to reveal a word. All pupils have 30 seconds to write a sentence using that word. The most impressive (and correct) sentence wins a point for their team.
Give the students a gap-fill text with 10 gaps in it (A to I). Of course, this can be more or fewer gaps – just remember to adjust the A to I in the table.
In each gap in the text, write a letter (A to I). Along the corresponding row in the table, give 6 alternatives to go in that gap. Pupils then choose one by rolling a dice.
When the student reaches the gap, they roll a dice and say/write the corresponding word.
Use the PPT to introduce and practise saying where it hurts.
Use the worksheet to practise the grammar point (j'ai mal au, etc).
At the start of the following lesson, use the 'select 6' starter as a review of pupils' learning.
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Use this PPT to introduce parts of the body (I've included a lot!).
There's a simple introduction to parts of the body to begin with.
Then discuss with them what techniques will they use to remember each word. Pupils always come up with some interesting ideas… As long as they work!
Then, show the picture before the word to see what they remember.
Afterwards, in pairs, pupils take it in turns to throw the dice and then use the clues to complete the sentence (e.g. 'On marche avec...').
Then, go through the grammar point to say where it hurts.
Pupils then complete the matching worksheet.
To finish, play Connect 4 as a class. Each team takes it in turns to choose a phrase to translate into French. If they’re right, click on the relevant coloured dot to change the colour of the box to their team’s colour. 1 point for 4 in a row and 2 points for 5 in a row.
Go through each sound-spelling with the pupils.
Then, play Kim's game using words containing the sound-spellings.
There is then a Connect 4 game using the same words.
The PPT then goes through a display about spontaneous speaking and then finishes with a dictionary challenge.
This can be used with any language.
Pupils play in two teams. When you click on the O or the X, the square will change to either O or X.
Instructions are within the PowerPoint.
On the topic of 'saying where it hurts', pupils select the 6 correct answers – focus is on the grammar (j'ai mal au genou, etc).
They reveal either a tick or a cross when they click on their answer.
This is a really fun activity to do with a whole class!
If they have the phrase that's just been said in one language, they stand up and say it in the opposite language. They then say the second phrase they have on their card.
By the end of the activity, everyone in the class should have said a phrase in French about daily routine and time.
Full instructions are on the bottom of the document.
Pupils work in pairs. They take it in turns to roll the dice and say in French the corresponding phrase. For example, “Je porte des chaussures et un pull”.
This is a translation lesson (from French into English) based on the lives of two different children of the same age in Haiti and the United States.
The PPT includes a starter activity based on connectives and then looks at where both countries are and then to the two different texts to translate.
The worksheet is the two texts.
I get my students to write a rough translation on rough paper before copying their final version into their books, along with a copy of the French texts and each flag.
