French year 8 - Introductory Lesson (NCELP focused) - Why study French?

The very first lesson of the year with the new year 8s.
I have labeled it as “NCELP focused” because it is the scheme of work that my school follows and as such there are a few slides throughout introducing students to the homework model followed by NCELP (flipped learning).

The lesson begins with a simple activity of chain introductions, and setting up classroom expectations (can be altered or removed altogether as desired).

Throughout the rest of the lesson the students are given a brief presentation about the importance of learning French, are introduced to classroom commands in French through a fun “Simon says” game and are tested on their knowledge of content covered in year 7 through are a variety of grammar/vocabulary activities on topics they should have covered throughout y7 - this is recap of previous content and mainly covers greetings, basic questions, and adjective-noun agreement.

Additionally, there is also fun quiz about general French cultural knowledge and MFL use in England that the students can do in pairs/groups as a competition. The lesson finishes by assigning the students vocabulary learning homework to prepare students for the first NCELP lesson (following their flipped learning approach).

I hope this is useful!

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