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Year 7 / 8 French - Oral ping-pong translation game (pair-work)
INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with the same English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the translation of sentences 1 to10, whereas Partner B has the translation of sentences 11 to 20.
I call it 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. Here is an example: I made for a very able year 11 of mine. Obviously the activity can be done in writing too.
As a follow-up, I get the students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability
Year 7 French - Talking about school (receptive work: listening and reading)
A sentence builder to present the vocab (subjects, opinions, things one does around school) and a few receptive tasks to recycle it through listening and reading
Year 7/8 French - Narrow reading tasks on general description
Three narrow reading texts exploited through 4 different narrow reading tasks
KS3/4 French - Oral or Written translation board game on character description with answer key
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.
KS2/3 French - Oral translation board game on French basics (personal info)
Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.
I do a round of written transl and one of oral changing partners
KS3/4 Spanish - Talking about a past holiday pool of resources (reading, speaking, writing)
Three narrow reading texts on talking about holidays with a number of tasks aimed at maximising exposure to the target vocabulary and structures
3 files :
1. Narrow reading texts with three tasks on them
2. Same texts have been gapped and missing words/chunks provided in random order
3. Written and oral work - or simply oral work
4. Oral translation board game
5. Oral scaffold
KS3/4 French - Pool of resources on talking about TV
- reading tasks on opinions about tv
- consolidation activities
- a tile puzzle
- translation practice with answer key
- a sentence builder to introduce vocabulary
- talking mats to scaffold oral interaction with follow-up narrow reading
KS3/4 French - Oral scaffold for conversation on TV, narrow reading and oral ping pong translation
1. Talking mats (10 questions about tv habits) + narrow reading including three tenses
2. Oral ping pong translation
KS3 French - Reading comprehension on jobs, opinions and free time (three tenses)
A reading comp meant for my year 7s but can be used with year 8 too. Loosely based on Expo 2 rouge
KS3/4 Cinema - Talking about movies (sentence builder, sentence builders and reading comp)
A pool on resources on cinema
KS3 Spanish - My past holidays (pool of resources)
A sentence builder to present basic sentence in the first person
A Survey for oral pairwork
Two worksheets to consolidate the target chunks
An oral translation board game with answer key ( two players and one referee with the answers
Narro reading tasks
Find someone who with cards
KS3 French - Talking about hobbies in the past
Sentence builder
Consolidation
Reading comprehension
Survey
KS4 French - GCSE HIGHER writing revision quickie
Consolidation of useful linguistic features
KS3 Spanish - Pool of resources on talking about a past holiday
Includes:
A sentence builder
Two pages of narrow reading tasks
One page of narrow reading tasks + translation recycling same vocab
A vocab builder
A survey
KS3/4 French - Après + past infinitive (pool of resources)
A sentence builder and other resources to practise the use of Après + past infinitive
KS3/4 French - Pool of resources on Modal Verbs + hobbies (oral and written tasks and games)
Sentence builder + Find someone who + Oral communicative drills + One pen one dice + Written consolidation
Note: same chunks of language recycled over and over again across all resources included
KS3/4 French writing - Modelling the use of Après + past infinitive
A sentence builder + a set of consolidation activities
KS3-4 Spanish - Family relationships (reading comp)
Narrow reading texts with reading comp and vocab building tasks
Beginner Italian - Pool of resources on hobbies
Conti-style activities to introduce and recycle the same chunks of language over and over again
KS3/4 French - Four new chunk-based revision quickies on Family relationships
4 chunk-based revision quickies on the topic ‘Family’ recycling the same chunks over and over again