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Metalinguistic group-task on French pronouns
Did it with my students after two lessons on direct/indirect object and disjunctive pronouns. Quite challenging if done under time conditions. I also gave the students the effective contributor self-assessment and peer-assessment sheet enclosed.
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Sentence puzzle on relationships
Laminate (possibly) then cut up and give to teams of two or three students to do under timed conditions. One point per square used correctly. if don't want to cut up you can use mini boards.
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KS4 Food - Board game / starter on food
Challenging definitions game on food aimed at a good KS4 group. Instructions: each team call out the case they want to claim and match it to the correct definition. The first team to claim three cases of the same colour win.
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KS4/5 - Metalinguistic challenge (starter/plenary)
Students, working in teams and equipped with mini boards need to spot the antonyms and answer (on the mini-boards) the metalinguistic questions. One point for each pair of antonyms spotted and as many bonus points as the stars in each case if the answers to the questions are 100% correct. The teams take turns in calling out the cases. The winning team is the one who scores the most points or completes the first column in the table.
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KS4/5 - Grammar quiz on adjectives (top set)
A challenging metalinguistic quiz on (mostly) irregular adjectives. An effective starter/plenary.
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KS5 Fr.- Talking about a problem (vocab builder)
Vocab builder and gap-fill activity to drill in phrases useful in discussing problems
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Activities on Jean-Jacques Goldman's 'On ira'
Comprehension and vocab-building activities on the famous song by Jean-Jacques Goldman.
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KS4 negatives - grammaticality judgment task
Students to evaluate correctness of a series of sentences involving the use of negatives. Challenging.
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KS5 relationships - love pain (reading comp.)
Reading comprehension on the 'chagrin d&'amour&'; in adolescents.
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Oublie - song by TAL (activities); KS3/KS4 French
A very uplifting song by Tal about adolescents going through a rough (emotional) time. Great range of vocabulary. Catchy modern tune.
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Street drugs and their effects
KS4 -5 tutorials on drugs with lots of vocab building and reading comprehension activities.
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16+ - Typical errors in young applicants' CVs
A reading comprehension / vocabulary builder on a highly informative article from the internet. Very good range of vocabulary with some challenging and useful phrase. As a follow-up activity students maybe asked to draft their own CV in French incorporating the tips included in the article.
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KS5 relationships - Proverb challenge (starter)
Students are divided into teams; the teacher and/or one or more students will be the judge(s). The challenge consists in paraphrasing, explaining and providing supporting examples for the proverbs in the table (either projected on the screen or blown up on an A3). Fluency and intelligibility of student output are more important than grammatical accuracy.
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Activities on 'Elle' by Melissa M.
An easy and catchy modern tune that can be used with any year group and is bound to strike a chord with any student because of its subject matter: maman...
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S-Kyz - Quand la pluie tombe (activities)
Listening and reading comprehension activities on the very beautiful song by S-Kyz. excellent range of vocab and tenses.
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Activities on the song 'J'ai pas appris' by Judith
Listening activities and wordbuilder on Judith's song &'J&';ai pas appris'.