Transcript Doing things differently- building engagement in MFL

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“It may sound obvious but the first step in
encouraging high-quality student work is to have
assignments that inspire and challenge students”
Ron Berger, An Ethic of Excellence, pg 65
School ethos
- Project Based Learning
- Overview planned in conjunction
with other departments
- Student-lead learning
- Making mistakes and re-drafting
- Opportunities for creativity but
based on thoughtfulness
Capture the attention
- Cognitive stimulation!
A few projects
we run
Who’s to blame
for climate
change?
Life after a
disaster
San Fermín
graphic novel
Design 21st
century school
for rural Bolivia
Design + publish
a travel guide
Uruguayan drug
legalisation
Capture the
attention
Project
celebration
evenings
ShelterBox
Spanish Challenge
Immigration
guides
Materials on blog
Celebrate success
Capture the
attention
Tweet your
succeses
Capture the
attention
Parent support
evening
- Phonics
- Running dictation
- Peer mark +
exploit
- How to support
Capture the
attention
Decrease the fear
Listening = scary
Speaking = v, v scary
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3
elefante
araña
5
6
universo
9
10
coche
14
España
4
idea
1
7
cerdo
11
8
ciclista
12
cucaracha
gimnasia
15
16
quiero
zumo
olvidar
hamburguesa
17
guitarra
casa
13
jardín
18
llave
Capture the
attention
Decrease the fear
Answers in a
phonics grid
Use of transcripts
Listening = scary
Speaking = v, v scary
Being Bob
- Work with a partner
1 student says the English
+ other student translates.
If partner can’t translate, swap roles
No sé
=
No puedo =
I don’t know
I can’t
Preguntas:
• ¿Qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre?
• ¿Si tuvieras más tiempo libre qué te gustaría hacer?
• ¿Si pudieras, preferirías hacer deporte o una actividad en casa? ¿Por qué?
Capture the
attention
Decrease the fear
1) Primero en el alfabeto
2) Segundo en el alfabeto
3) Tercero en el alfabeto
4) Cuarto en el alfabeto
20 minutos
Decrease the fear
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Decrease the fear
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Decrease the fear
www.thisislanguage.com
Decrease the fear
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
A asks question
B answers then asks partner
A answers question
Rock, paper, scissors
Evolve / devolve
Decrease the fear
- Confidence tracking during a
session (3 cards on walls- not
much confidence, some
confidence, lots of confidence)
What do students want to say?
- Students mindmap + suggest content for the unit
Transferable knowledge- health and food
You have 10 minutes.
Write a bullet pointed list of things that you already
know which will also be useful for describing the topic of
health and food.
Write the English and Spanish
Ejemplo:
• Me gustaría – I would like
• Odiaba – I used to hate
• probar – to try
• la comida – food
• porque – because
www.wordreference.com
You have 20 minutes to…
Create a vocab list of at least 20 15 10 words
for yourself on the topic of “food”!
Write the Spanish and the English
This must include…
5
• 10 8
items of food- include whether it is
masculine (nm) or feminine (nf)
• 5
infinitives (AT LEAST)
4
3
- words that in English begin “to…” eg “to drink”
In Spanish these end in –ar , -er or -ir
• 5
opinions eg “healthy”
3
2
I have a list of 9 words- if you get more than 3 of
them you get a reward…
Wordclouds to extract key words, especially when
supported by prompt sheets to find certain words.
Getting ahead
Memrise
Google Classroom
Quizlet (Live)
Mistakes are healthy
What tenses are important
for beginners?
What could beginners use
them for?
Perfect
Present
S future
Future
Conditional
Imperfect
Preterite
Verb walking
1) Card sort into categories (without
telling students what the categories
are) + explain their choices
2) Categorise into a tense grid
3) Call out verbs from the grid, each
tense has a points score (eg present
= 0 as it is neither past nor future,
pluperfect = -4), students take the
correct steps forward / backwards
Less in book,
more smiles
Building student understanding of criteria
For this draft I need to work on:
Developing target
setting
dos estrellas
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un deseo
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Peer marking to criteria + looking for key elements
Students propose
the criteria
Building the
profile
Expert workshops
Real experiences
- PE teaching + fixtures in Madrid
http://bit.ly/Shelterboxchallenge
Exeter iPad
project
Your project brief
Exeter City FC is interested in signing a 26 year old
French striker on a free transfer.
Leyton Orient and York are also both interested.
He left a Ligue 2 club at the end of last season after 4
years, scoring 56 goals in 148 games.
He is married with 3 children (aged 7, 5 and 2)
Exeter iPad
project
Your
2 challenges today
Challenge 1
• Create a multimedia video in FRENCH to attract
the striker to Exeter City- no longer than 2 minutes.
• This video will be uploaded to a blog
www.europeandayoflanguages2013.wordpress.com
• The video with the most views by 12 midday,
Wednesday 2nd October will win.
Exeter iPad
project
Your
2 challenges today
Challenge 2
• Create a separate, different presentation in
FRENCH to lure the player in person- no more than
3 minutes.
• You will be presenting this in front of the other
teams at 1.00 THIS AFTERNOON.
• This must be business-like. You will be cut off at 3
minutes and all team members must speak.
Still worried they’re staring
out the window?
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