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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.
Use this PPT to introduce the students to the facts about the French language.
On the following slides, students identify the slowly-revealed flags from either general knowledge or even football knowledge!
Introduce the well-known poem ‘L’Automne’ using the PPT and use the worksheet alongside it.
The poem goes through the poem, using the words and images for certain parts of the poem to aid understanding. Pupils do gap-fill on the worksheet whilst listening and watching the presentation.
By the end of the detailed presentation, pupils will be able to write their own version of the poem in French, using support.
Teach pupils how to use the modal verbs in French - pouvoir, devoir and vouloir.
The presentation shows the conjugated verbs to start with and then asks pupils to test their memory by asking them to match the correct verb to the pronoun. Then, they must remember how to spell the verbs.
At the end, they must translate the sentences from English into French.
Introduce school rules using this PPT.
After introducing the rules, using 'il faut' and 'il est interdit de', students try to remember which of these to use for each rule.
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 Connect 4 game practises the simple future of both regular and irregular verbs in French.
Pupils work in two teams (red and blue) and their objective is to get 4 (or 3, if you prefer) of their coloured rectangles in a row. This can be vertically, horizontally or diagonally. In presentation mode, click on the relevant coloured circle to change the colour of the rectangle.
Use this to practise asking questions.
In presentation mode, your answers will show in each square. Challenge pupils to work out what the question could be.
I award one point for any relevant question they come up with and 2 points if they correctly guess the question I came up with.
Simply clicking on the square with your answer reveals your question.
This PPT introduces the idea of using 'gern', 'lieber' and 'am liebsten' to talk about what you like doing in your free time.
It also looks at the word order - pupils then put the words in order to make a phrase.
To begin with, pupils match the definition from Wikipedia to the appropriate sport on the screen.
At the end of the presentation, there is a random score team game to practise the vocab.
Use this PPT to introduce and practise French letter/letter string pronunciation.
The first slide introduces each letter/letter string with an example, then there is a Kim's Game-style game to practise pronunciation.
Finally, play Connect 4 with pupils using the given words.
Instructions are in the notes section of the PPT.
Use this PPT to introduce places in town in French.
On the first slides, in two teams, students choose a square. Click on the square to reveal a part of the image underneath.
Students decide to either guess the place in French or pass to the other team. If they guess correctly, they get a point. If they guess incorrectly, the other team get the point. This encourages students to use context and clues to work out the new vocab.
Finish with a team game. Students choose a number and answer a question about places in town. If they guess correctly, click to reveal their score underneath.
Activities in town.
To start with, show the phrases for the activities with the words jumbled up. Pupils can then work out (if possible!) what the correct word order should be, before being told what the activities are.
The second activity for the pupils is one where all the images of the activities are on the board and when you say one of the activities in French, they raise their hands, according to what symbol is by the picture.
Finally, pupils translate the sentences into English at the end of the PPT. The sentences are saying what you can do and where.
This PPT introduces some differences between France and the UK.
Go through the chosen differences with students, allowing them to guess which country it refers to.
The following slides are extra bits of information. Students use the clues to work out what the differences could be.
Finally, give students facts in French to translate – they then choose a square and if there’s a treasure underneath, they get the point for their team.
New addition - noughts and crosses to practise the new vocab!
This presentation starts by comparing how many own their own houses in the UK and Germany. Then, using the German logic, looking at the vocab of rooms in the house.
There is then a team game to practise the new vocab and, finally, a matching activity.
This PPT introduces some facts about Christmas in France and can be used in conjunction with the Christmas wordsearch, where a lot of the vocab used is introduced. For the wordsearch, students use a school French dictionary to look up the English Christmas words and find the French words in the grid.
The PPT starts by introducing and then practising some facts about Christmas in France, followed by a video of a Christmas market in Mulhouse, Alsace.
There is then a Connect 4 game, practising the vocab and facts, followed by an Advent Calendar team game.
Instructions are in the notes section of the PPT.
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.
