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Please visit our website for more information, including our blog and our Bright Ideas!
In 2 teams, pupils compete to move from one side of the board to the other, translating the weather phrases (any language).
Simply click on the hexagon and then click on the team's colour to change the colour of the hexagon.
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.
When you click on the slide, the picture very slowly reveals. Pupils could then, with the vocab in front of them, race to be the first to name the place.
The final slide is a game of our famous 'Donate or Steal'. In teams (blue & red), pupils answer a question and choose a square from the opponents’ grid. Their opponents then get that score. They are allowed to steal one score only from their opponents throughout the game. An ‘X’ is a wipeout and wipes the opponents’ score.
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.
One of my personal favourites!
Have a reading text in the box. 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.
3 slides with different scores.
Use this PPT to introduce directions to pupils in French.
There is a map with an animated arrow to show the directions as well as giving the French.
Pupils then match the French to the English in their books.
This can be used with any language.
Pupils play in two teams. When you click on the O or the X, the square will change to either O or X.
Instructions are within the PowerPoint.
In two teams, pupils choose a number and say it in the target language. If it’s correct, click on that number to reveal the random score that team gets. There are 2 ‘X’, meaning the team’s score is wiped out!
