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Introduce the directions in German and give pupils the handouts for note-taking. There is also a completed handout for weaker pupils, so they can concentrate on the presentation.
Then pupils complete the worksheet and finish the lesson with noughts and crosses.
There is also a hangman starter for the following lesson!
This bundle of resources includes a PPT to introduce the new French A level from AQA, followed by an activity using a popular song in the French charts. There is also a worksheet to go with the song activity.
The booklet is designed to accompany the PPT and includes information about the new A level in French from AQA. Remember, you may need to edit such information as the number of teachers and lessons. This is on page 2.
There is reference to resources on Kerboodle as well, which of course will not be relevant to your students, so you may wish to delete/edit these parts.
On the first slide, in line with the GCSE speaking photo card, pupils give sentences about the picture. This is an introduction to the topic of the advantages and disadvantages of social media.
On the following slide, phrases have been taken from a text about social media. Students decide whether the statements are advantages or disadvantages.
Students then use mini whiteboards to recap the vocab.
To finish, students challenge each other for the next lesson. They all write a phrase from this lesson on a Post-It and stick it to the back wall. These are then randomly given out to the students as a starter in the following lesson to be translated.
This PPT introduces the simple future to students, including of course verb endings, but also the most common irregular simple future verbs.
It finished with a mini whiteboard activity. Pupils write the correct translation of the phrases on their boards.
This handout accompanies the PPT introducing the simple future to students, including of course verb endings, but also the most common irregular simple future verbs.
Use the template to get pupils to guess the blanked out word in the headline.
You could also use this HIGNFY template to do ‘reading images’. Pupils discuss what’s in the picture and give it a headline. Simply insert a photo of your choice in the top of the slide!
You could use it to give pupils options of headlines or give them a headline and they have to choose the appropriate image.
Click where it says “Insert words here” to add your clue. If Team O get one right, click on the ‘O’ underneath the picture or clue. It will change to ‘O’. Likewise with Team X.
Use this PPT to introduce the weather in French.
To start, the weather is shown on a map of France. It is worth looking at the patterns of language used here (il y a / il). The patterns are colour-coded.
Then the vocab is formally introduced.
Following this, pupils must identify the weather in French as it whizzes past.
Use this PPT to teach pupils how to tell the time in French.
There is an accompanying worksheet they can complete while doing this.
The first few slides recaps on telling the time in English, as some pupils struggle with using an analogue clock to tell the time.
After introducing the time in French, practise what they have learned by asking pupils to either shout out the time in French or write the time in words on mini whiteboards.
The text is on the topic of sports and is aimed more at KS3. 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.
There are four different slides with phrases about how often you do different activities. Simply click on the lines to reveal the letters and click on different parts of the ‘hangman’ to slowly build it up.
Get pupils to stick these tables into their books for reference.
Definite and indefinite pronouns and their cases (masculine, feminine, neuter and plural + nominative, accusative, genitive and dative).
Pupils are shown a set of numbers for ten seconds at a time, before the curtains automatically close. No writing allowed!
They then must say the numbers they remember in German.
Write them on the board so they can be checked.