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Students make their own little puppets using socks/ give them names/ converse using the puppet

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Students to write a review on their visit to any of the TL countries. They have to complain or talk about the positives of their accommodation, restaurant or visit to a particular site using the past and conditional tense.

The second part of the activity will be to answer to some other group review.

Reviews and replies will be published in a padlet.

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Writing letters to students in a school in France. Students introduce themselves and then move on to another topic. Facilitated by the school's exchange school.

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Wordwall - Crea mejores lecciones de forma más rápida

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¿Necesitas un nuevo recurso que se ajuste a tu estilo de clase y didáctico? Crea un paquete personalizado de actividades interactivas e imprimibles en un solo minuto.

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Students research French estate agents (agence immobilier) to see vocab. They then write up their own ad.

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One person giving a tour using a virtual tour website, while the other asks questions about the monument or museum.

Preparation -

pre-made teacher worksheet to be completed by students individually using the virtual tour.

pair made script of role play of giving a tour

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Students make their own little puppets using socks/ give them names/ converse using the puppet

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Mon école a un incroyable talent/ My schools got talent

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Mon école a un incroyable talent/ My schools got talent

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A talent contest to showcase Ty talents to include songs, sketches, and diverse talents, viewed by first years

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Students will learn the alphabet and participate in a Spelling Bee once they have learned it by-heart. They will spell the words for a number of classroom items in Ger/Fr/Span. This will also bring a fun, competitive element to class!

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Students have a selection of facial images and they have to guess the person by questioning their partner on hair, eyes, accessories etc.

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Louer un appartement ou une maison dans un pays francophone pour les vacances avec un groupe d’amis 

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Louer un appartement ou une maison dans un pays francophone pour les vacances avec un groupe d’amis 

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Se loger.com to find property

Describe the property, the surroundings and activities available and facilities. Present to class with pictures.

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Draw your family tree + Write a description of your favourite relative including their name, age, hair & eye colour, physical and personality description.

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BR für Kinder: Angebote für Kinder, die es wissen wollen! | BR.de

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Bei BR Kinder findest du alle Sendungen aus Radio und Fernsehen für Kinder, außerdem Umfragen, Quiz und Podcasts - es geht um Tiere, Musik und Politik, um Wissen und Unterhaltung. Wir erklären dir die Welt in deiner Sprache.

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Take advantage of a Fancy Dress Day e.g. last day before Halloween.

Using prior knowledge of vocabulary and adjectives, students can act out a description of a famous person and describe what they have achieved in life as a famous person.

One example, a male student dressed up as Mrs. Doubtfire. He explained (as Mrs. Doubtfire) why he dressed up as a woman and began telling the personal story of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Similarly, in the same class group, 3 students dressed up as witches and pretended they were in Hocus Pocus. These 3 students, as a group, explained what they were planning to do to take control of their little town.

3rd Year Spanish Class.

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1. Students have learned how to tell the weather forecast in Spanish.

2. Students have learned the use of the Imperfect tense and the verb "Hacer" to discuss the weather.

3. Students have a knowledge of how to accurately describe the weather in their area.

4. The weather forecast script can be accompanied by a picture of the weather for a newspaper article.

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A number of items are displayed on the board. Students in Teams, have to guess their price and the closest price without exceeding it is the winner.

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Prior knowledge:

1. Students have learned subjects.

2. Students have learned school personnel.

3. Students have learned areas in the school.

4. Students have learned time.

5. Students have learned verbs and reflexive verbs.

From all previous learning, students can create a vlog of a day in the life of a 1st year student.

Used as revision tool near the end of 1st year in preparation for Summer Exams and can be used for Language Portfolio.

Used in 1st Year Spanish.

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Texting story: Ag déanamh pleannana le do chara. Ag pleanáil chun bualadh leo. Cén ait? Cad é an gníomhaíocht? Úsáid emojis srl.

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Make a poster for a Spanish festival - 1st Years

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Make a poster for a Spanish festival - 1st Years

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Criteria:

Look up a festival online and find an image that best represents it. Stick or draw the image on your poster.

Include the day, date and time of the festival.

Say where the festival will take place.

Give ticket prices

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Beidh rogha acu idir físeán, taifead gutha, cur i láthair nó póstaer a chruthú ar pheata ata acu nó ba mhaith leo a bheith agat.

Treoracha le haghaidh an gníomhaíocht: Úsáid 4-6 abairt sa sprioc theanga. Déan cur sios ar ainm, cineál peata, pearsantacht, cuma fhisiciúil, gníomhaíochta is fearr leo.

Cuir hashtags leis mar shampla, #mascotafeliz

Ar deireadh, déan comparáid idir na peataí difriúla agus tabhair vóta ar an gceann is gleoite agus an iontráil is fearr. Is féidir ceisteanna a chur orthu mar gheall ar na peataí ata feicthe acu.

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Comhrá le scoláire atá ar mhalartú teanga agus ag fanacht leat. Ag tabhairt “tour” timpeall an tí ag míniú cad iad na seomrc srl.

Rogha: “tour” timpeall do chomharsantacht / timpeall do scoil/ do teach.

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Research information about a celebrity of choice from the target language country. In pairs, students interview each other and record an audio clip.

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Diorama - could be on anything. We talked about our local area. Some engaged more than others in the creativity.

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Target First Year

Students learn how to meet and introduce in the target language in a comfortable place.

Start with Guess Who game as a warm up excercise. Guess a teacher. Charades guess game. One student reads a description of a teacher and others in class have to guess who it is.

Students prepare questions in order to interview others. Questions samples given on board to help them.

Partner students in twos (mixed ability) to ask each other questions and respond.

Follow this by creating a profile for each student with the info gathered

Bring the full group together again and students must give descriptions of others in the class in the third form and and students need to guess who they are.

Learning Outcomes

Practice questions

Vocabulary

Verbs

Agreement of Adjectives

Group work

Listening practice

Oral practice

Written practice

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Design a website in the target language which could include the following headings:

school uniform,map of the school, school rules, canteen menu details, extra curricular activities.

It could include a video for example a virtual guided tour of the school.

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Following viewing real life examples, showcase sales and deals in different food sections, using pictures, vocabulary and include numeracy.

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Design your own ideal place where you would like to live

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Design your own ideal place where you would like to live

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Obair indibhidiúil

Piocfaidh siad pictúir nó tarraingeoidh siad pictiúr den áit go ba mhaith leo maireachtaint. Sin é an túsphoínte.

Stór focal - Lorgeoidh siad na focail a bheadh ag teastáil chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar an bpictúir.

Rogha slite chun é a roinnt nó é a cur i láthair

*Cur i láthair power point

*2 minute talk

*Postaer a chruthú

*Padlet - an obair atá déanta a roinnt ansan

*Flip.com

Q&A - Óna bpiaraí agus ón múinteoir.

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Research and write in your own words about a well known family in the target language country. Include photos and facts.

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Chatgpt and magic School AI for planning and differentiation.

Diffit for differentiation.

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Students do a TikTok video about their daily routine. They love it and they always remember this for the written section in the Junior Cert!

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Create a weather "forecast" local to your community.

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Create a weather "forecast" local to your community.

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Starting activity:

Map of TL country with weather symbols. The map and weather symbols could represent all seasons or the season of the time of year you are teaching this.

Students link weather phrases in the present tense to the weather symbol.

Teach:

weather phrases in the TL, using the present tense,

compass points in the TL - north, south, east, west,

seasons in TL,

revise days and dates in the TL

Classroom practice:

Spoken production and interaction.

Every day at the start of class, state the day, date, season and what the weather is like daily in the TL.

Practice asking and answering their favourite month, season, type of weather is:

Pair work - language interaction using short questions to their partners.

Class group - using language interaction of the pair work questions, walk and talk and ask others in the class group the same questions.

Practice listening to weather forecasts - even if they are future tense - recognition of vocab.

Task:

Create a video, tik-tok, of what the weather is like in their community, using must, should could:

Students MUST include day, date, season, weather phrase(s).

Students SHOULD include correct pronunciation and sentences structure as per TL (use of faire / il y a in French and hacer / estar /hay in Spanish)

Students COULD present the weather - they are the presenter - or present scenery of the weather of the community where they live with voiceover in the TL, with music.

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Portfolio Tasks supporting TL and agency

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Portfolio Tasks supporting TL and agency

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Student work and shared success criteria

MUST include...

SHOULD include...

COULD include... (choice)

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Students learn any verb in a rap format and perform a TikTok rap/dance. Props, costumes etc. make it fun. We used inflatable mics and some French-themed clothes to make learning “avoir” fun. There is a YouTube video of an American classroom learning avoir this way as an example. https://youtu.be/1yqfzxNXRGU?si=iqrDnZpXghSZ9fHk

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lightbulblanguages.co.uk is a great website and covers French, Sp, It, German and even Latin!

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lightbulblanguages.co.uk is a great website and covers French, Sp, It, German and even Latin!

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Students plan a week shopping and a weekly meal plan, using containers names, quantities, food names, etc.. based on the nutrition piramid.

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Floor plan a tharraingt den teach ab fhearr leo agus na seomraí a lipéadiú.

Tomhais na seomraí a chur san áireamh le uimhreachta a sníomh isteach freisin.

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Cás: dalta i lár na cathrach agus ag lorg leabharlainne, oifig an phoist, iarsmalainne srl..

Tugann dalta/í eile teoracha dóibh. Má tá bac cainte ann, bíonn teanga coirp éifeachtach freisin.

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4Bs strategy - ownership of learning and reflection

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4Bs strategy - ownership of learning and reflection

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1. Brain

2. Buddy

3. Book

4. Boss

Use your brain, ask your buddy in TL, use your book/notes BEFORE asking the Boss!

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Students could brainstorm expressions for ordering in a restaurant and then design a menu. They could then use a chatbot (various examples) to simulate ordering food in a restaurant. Students could record the conversation afterwards themselves.

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Täglich aktuelle Nachrichten aus aller Welt, verständlich erklärt - präsentiert von den logo!-Moderatoren Tim, Maral, Linda und Sherif.

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Learn to Speak French and Feel French The only place to learn to both speak real French, not textbook French, and understand French culture so you can cultivate your inner Gaulois(e).French lessons for francophiles that go far beyond anything you've learned in school. Watch the latest episo

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"apprendre français" "learn french" "apprendre le français" "parler français" "apprendre parler français" "learn speak french" "speak french" "learning frenc...

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Everything you need to learn French! I created this channel after realizing that people want to learn French but have no time, money, or have trouble keeping what they already learned! Every lesson has a free PDF that you can download on my website. Want to stay informed?

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Great video for senior cycle German. Shows social problems as well as environmental issues.  Rap and pop duet with Sido and Andreas Bouranini. Reference to Clockwork Orange (photo)

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Students select a digital image of type of housing common in France, from flat, to apartment, chalet to villa - after pre-teaching house/facilities vocabulary - students present in the image/images to the class as an estate agent selling the house using descriptive adjectives. Give criteria of what information to include,

price,

reference to floors

what rooms

adjectives to describe

garden/balcony/pool/ roof terrrace

nearby facilities

location on map (town/country etc)

Follow up activity is to make a physical or digital poster including key points for property for sale/rent

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Passport to Paris film for 1st years. It's largely in English but with French subtitles and a basic worksheet all of the young ones I have taught have loved it. DVD on Amazon.

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Ról imirt "na treoracha" mar shampla, berets a thabhairt do na daoine "francacha" agus hata lá le pádraig do dhaoine "eireannacha" Bíonn piosa spraoi leis!

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1. Réamhobair - ag dul siar an fhoclóir bunúsach a bhaineann le bialann nó bia. Frásaí bialainne comónta. "Bonjour" - réamheolas a aimsiú ó na scoláirí.

2. Tús a chur leis an ról-imirt.

An comhthéasc - an suíomh a chruthú - freastalaí, custaméir, 7rl - custaiméar ag cur ceisteanna 7rl

3. Ullmhúchán ról-imeartha - (deich nóiméad) = obair bheirte (duine amháin ina c(h)ustaiméar) Biachlár a chur ar fáil - barántúil - Sampla a thabhairt (aithris a dhéanamh ar chomhrá maith).

4. Cleachtadh.

5. Ról-imirt forbartha - Spreag

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Students create a tik tok where there pretend to be an estate agent and sell their house.

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Students report on the weather in their TL country/ countries. They can keep a journal of the report across the days of the week. They can also draw the symbols on the map of France, German, Spanish etc. They can also practice the varied tenses, cardinal points and weather vocabulary/ phrases.

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Students write about their ideal holiday. They use this opportunity to review the vocabulary associated with holidays and trips as well as the chance to showcase and practice their understanding of the conditional tense.

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Create a funpage of famous Polish person - facebook or instagram page.

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Testez vos connaissances sur la France avec Quiz France - Le plaisir d'apprendre

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16 thèmes pour aborder les connaissances essentielles sur la France avec le CAVILAM - Alliance française. Jouer à Quiz France

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Tourist Information brochure or digital guide

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Tourist Information brochure or digital guide

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Students create a flyer, brochure, promotional ad (video/audio), or digital interactive maps to promote their area or city to tourists.

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Students book a holiday house/apartment for a family.

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Alloggi vacanza: case sulla spiaggia, condomini, baite, appartamenti e case vacanza | Casamundo

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Prenoti ora in modo davvero facile e sicuro appartamenti e case vacanza economici su Casamundo – semplicemente la mia casa vacanza

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Students create a short video in the TL taking us through their homes in the style of MTV cribs.

Scaffolded by floor plan maps of their house and descriptive activities using Ser, Estar, Tener and Hay.

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QR codes for recording oral work in Student Language Portfolios

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QR codes for recording oral work in Student Language Portfolios

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You can convert an MP3 file and create a URL. This can be then converted to a QR code which be put into their portfolio.

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Hello! Another idea is whether you are traveling anywhere you can create a video blog with tools as CapCut and talk with the students in the Target Language!

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Topaic : Le travail

-Ag lorg post samhraidh sa Fhrainc ag úsáid fíor suíomh: francetravail.fr

-Ag cruthú CV

-Ról glacadh - agallamh trí glao gutháin

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Tagann daltaí ó scoil sa Bheilg/ sa Ghearmáin ar mhalartú cultúrtha / teanga

Cruthaíonn daltaí óstacha Blog / Pod cast faoinar scoil le fáilte a chur rompu!

Turas scoile a thaifead , na seomraí, an ceaintín , áiseanna spoirt a thaispeáint

Turas ar chathair Chill Chainnigh - bialanna a thaispeáint , Páirc an chaisleáin , páirc scátála , siopaí ... áiteanna éile spéisiúla do dhaoine óga sa chathair.

Tuairisc a dhéanamh ar chluiche átá ar siúl sa scoil.

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FRENCH film/series - ideas and pls add to this!

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FRENCH film/series - ideas and pls add to this!

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la vie scolaire - film [one scene of sexual nature]

stuck together - about paris appt block during covid, funny

spoiled brats - les pourris gates

c'est quoi cette famille - v good JC, blended family in Paris, funny

intouchable

lupin - series

drole - film but senior cycle as adult jokes!

bazar de la charite - historical series

blood coast - set in Marseille, series

l'agence - good for JC vocab on houses/rooms in house etc

dix pour cent

chefs table france [see separate post about one ep with worksheet]

zone blanche - thriller

undercover - set in belgium, series

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hristmas flow - 4 eps, good for TY

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French series on netflix - chefs table: france 

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French series on netflix - chefs table: france 

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This series has a set of programmes in French - the one I usually use is about Adeline Grattard, french chef and resto owner in Paris. The students watch the first 15 mins and I have listening and reading questions for them plus a passage / transcript with grammar ... see attached. Plus she's a role model: there is a chance to discuss food, to discuss jobs, to look at the www of the resto itself and hopefully they'd then carry on to watch the other in the series. And their netflix algorithm now has french on it!

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chefs table france Adeline Grattard TY text

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Using ChatGPT for Conversation Practice

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Using ChatGPT for Conversation Practice

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I encourage students to practice asking questions in German with chatgbt

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TYs engage outside of class with the Snapchat MyAi in German - their prompt was "can you help me improve my German" and the AI chats away in the TL. Students enjoy the novelty and try to ask tricky questions about friendships etc but all in the target language. This is acknowledged but not suggested by teacher.

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Film shorts in both German and French. Current affairs and cultural. Transcripts available for each so you can create cloze tests, word bingo games, pre-teach key vocab etc. Can watch with or without subtitles

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Les Français et les Allemands décryptés

Mots, rites, objets, références... Karambolage propose une anthropologie comparative amusée des autochtones, de part et d'autre du Rhin.

Mots, rites, objets, références... Karambolage propose une anthropologie comparative amusée des autochtones, de part et d'autre du Rhin.

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Mots, rites, objets, références... Karambolage propose une anthropologie comparative amusée des autochtones, de part et d'autre du Rhin.

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Please find the the link below to a database with a variety of short films. Some have TL, others are silent...so many learning opportunities for the classroom! check links yourself https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yukF8Zc1ZtAlX2lkvXeUi6hoM9igqGlH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113755376605446710932&rtpof=true&sd=true

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 Spanish Teaching Videos, Movies Movietalk Database  Authentic resources.xlsx

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Good activities, some based around film clips, includes worksheets.

I used one extract from Le Petit Nicolas about going on holidays, arriving in hotel

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Des activités interactives, des jeux et des fiches pour exploiter des vidéos authentiques en classe de FLE

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Good to practise aural comprehension, vocabulary, awareness of current events, but worksheets and support fiches are available

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Learn French with the international news - Le français facile avec RFI

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Podcasts to learn French while following the international news. Work on your French with exercises for all levels.

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With my 3rd year classes who can speak in the past tense, we sat down in circle and talked about a nice memory starting from a photo that I had asked them to bring in. I modelled it with a photo of an Italian food tasting that we did with one of my classes who are now 6th year.

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good to practise aural comprehension, vocabulary building, but also current events

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Die Langsam Gesprochenen Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle bieten von Montag bis Samstag aktuelle Tagesnachrichten aus aller Welt. Das langsam und verständlich gesprochene Audio trainiert das Hörverstehen. Zusätzlich gibt es den vollständigen Text zum Mitlesen. Die Audio-Datei kann auch heruntergeladen werden.

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Die Langsam Gesprochenen Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle bieten von Montag bis Samstag aktuelle Tagesnachrichten aus aller Welt. Das langsam und verständlich gesprochene Audio trainiert das Hörverstehen. Zusätzlich gibt es den vollständigen Text zum Mitlesen. Die Audio-Datei kann auch heruntergeladen werden.

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We set up a task where our second years, who are usually asked by management to guide people through the Open day school torus, to create leaflets in the TL for visitors who are not English speakers. It is a very practical task that gets a lot of recognition form the parents who visit the school and it is very rewarding.

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Senior Cycle: A letter about why I should go to Magaluf

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Senior Cycle: A letter about why I should go to Magaluf

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Students write a letter to their parents/guardians explaining why they want to go to Magaluf for their 6th year hols. This comes with the topic of Holidays.

Students will have to convince their parents/ guardians as to why they should go.

They can practice the Future Tense & Conditional tense here too as well as practicing all of their holiday vocab.

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A good thing to display when calling the roll/ students are setting up. Has the front page of all the newspapers of the day. Can lead to discussion etc.

https://www.366.fr/unes-du-jour/

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J'accepte que 366 traite mon adresse mail, comme décrit dans la politique de confidentialité, afin de m'envoyer des newsletters.

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Film director: describe the superhero of your new film

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Film director: describe the superhero of your new film

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Create + Describe your own superhero.

Use AI to get a physical representation of your superhero.

Individual or group work:

Write the script for the description of the hero.

Say which superpowers they have.

Present to the class, show picture at the end for suspense.

Vote for the best superhero.

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Students are given 3 verbs (ar / er / ir) and they need to conjugate them. Then, they use the words to create their ships. After that, they play in pairs and they play battleship taking turns trying to guess where the ships are by conjugating the verbs

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Each TY group prepares a song in the TL and performs them on stage for a 1st Year audience.

Groups in Each language class compete & the winning group is put forward to the contest. Battle of the languages begins ;)

There are a team of hosts, one for each language (including English) who introduce each performance.

At the end, the audience can vote by clapping for their favourite or an online voting platform can be used.

The winning group then perform their number again and win a pizza party the following week.

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Create an ad to put their house - real or imaginary- for rent in AirB&B describing the area, property, rooms,...

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When doing the unit of clothes and after learning the clothes. We decided to buy an outfit for the birthday girl. In groups and using the Zara.com website we put outfits together and pretended to give them as a present to one girl in the class.

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Designing + recording a fake ad in Target Language for a product.

Humour encouraged if possible/comfortable.

Based on ads in Target language watched in class beforehand.

Group work:

Choosing the product

Writing the script for the fake ad

Filming

Incorporating subtitles (optional but encouraged, tutorial provided).

Voting for the best ad?

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Students design a roleplay of a situation in a Starbucks in Spain where they ask for a coffee and then need to spell their names.

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Virtual visit to a francophone art museum, choose your favourite painting and describe it. Or choose choose your favourite artist and describe them.

Students can potentially use colours, opinions, adjectives, introductory vocabulary.

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Google Arts & Culture offre la possibilité d'accéder depuis chez soi à des collections permanentes d'institutions culturelles du monde entier.
La plateforme propose à l'internaute de déambuler virtuellement dans les deux salles ovales des Nymphéas, conçues par Claude Monet entre 1915 et 1926 à Giverny, et aussi, grâce à la fonction de zoom, de s'immerger dans l'ensemble des huit compositions monumentales du maître impressionniste.
Cette immersion virtuelle permet d'appréhender, de préparer mais aussi d'approfondir et d'enrichir sa venue à l'Orangerie.

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Google Arts & Culture offre la possibilité d'accéder depuis chez soi à des collections permanentes d'institutions culturelles du monde entier. La plateforme propose à l'internaute de déambuler virtuellement dans les deux salles ovales des Nymphéas, conçues par Claude Monet entre 1915 et 1926 à Giverny, et aussi, grâce à la fonction de zoom, de s'immerger dans l'ensemble des huit compositions monumentales du maître impressionniste.

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A board game to play in groups where each box has a picture representing a verb. They throw the die once to move along and have to say the infinitive and then throw again and conjugate the verb- 1-yo, 2- tú....

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Am Bahnhof;

Students are given travel plans Dates, times type of ticket, no of people travelling and need to find a suitable/ cheapest ticket available on DB website.

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Bring your pet to school day (video task)

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Bring your pet to school day (video task)

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Students prepare video with voice over describing pet.

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Very useful website with interactive exercises and mini series for all levels.

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With Deutsche Welle’s mobile courses, you can learn German easily and free of charge. Whether you are a beginner or highly proficient, this is where you will find German courses. You can also learn German with the news or music - from level A1 to C1. For German teachers there are teaching materials and the latest on German language teaching.

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3rd yr - video tour of my school in the TL task

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3rd yr - video tour of my school in the TL task

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Ideally find a class in a school abroad to pair with (but can be done without).

Organise students into groups (e.g groups of 4 or 5)

Learning intention : introduce your school through a video in the target language - all areas of school need to be filmed and commented on in the TL (classrooms, labs, library, cantine, halls, lockers, outdoor pitches, gym …..)

Scaffolding : Allow students enough time to prepare with dictionaries, notes, textbook so they are proficient enough to talk about the areas /rooms

Work should be allocated evenly by the group so all members communicate in the TL (e.g. students 1 & 2 will introduce the science labs and locker area, students 3 & 4 will introduce the MFL classroom and another area …….)

When they are ready (date pre-decided) to speak autonomously about their areas of the school, they can move into the filming phase

Allocate 1 filming device per group

Allocate filming time

To integrate further digital skills, they can use editing options before submitting the final product (video clip)

The individual video clips can be grouped together in a zipped file or « wetransfer » or « pearltrees » to be sent to the « paired » foreign school.

The school from the TL country reciprocate the above.

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First year activity to add to student portfolio:

Design a wanted poster (once students have the language/scaffolds to talk about name, age, physical and personality descriptions, etc.). To develop numeracy skills students can also include a reward.

Students will be given a template to include a drawing of the 'suspect' as well as a space to write as much of a description about the 'suspect' as possible. Students can then stick their posters on the board (creating a 'gallery') and share their work with their peers - this can also lead to some peer feedback.

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cf Radio Canada Internationale for news of the day suited to secondary students at whatever level. Some just look at the small photo accompanying each article. Some can only understand the title, some the subtitle, and some the article. There are about six languages.https://ici.radio-canada.ca/

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Radio-Canada.ca | Information, radio, télé, sports, arts

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Consultez le site web de Radio-Canada pour vous informer et vous divertir. Trouvez vos nouvelles, émissions télé ou radio, en direct et sur demande.

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Speed dating exercise with students questions based on what have been covered.

Students then report back to the class about their partner (changing the pronoun and verb)

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Having studied vocab for the house, students write an ad for a house for sale. They can include pictures, details of furnishings, appliances, and facilites in the neighbourhood.

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For 5th or 6th year as warm-up and listening; collect key words in a word bank; display in classroom and use as exit / entrance ticket;

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Rund um die Uhr kompakt und aktuell informiert mit dem tagesschau-Nachrichtenüberblick in 100 Sekunden.

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Choose a French designer that you're interested in and make a poster. Draw/stick on a picture of an outfit from a designer & describe the outfit. Creative idea & allows them to engage culturally but also use vocab and grammar

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Students learn a French song for a mini performance (in class/multicultural day/school event). Their singing is then recorded for the portfolio.

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Sentence Stealers is a reading aloud game invented by Gianfranco Conti. I'll describe the game to you, then suggest an extension of it which goes a bit further than reading aloud. By the way, I shouldn't need to justify the usefulness of reading aloud, but just in case, we are talking here about matching sounds to spellings, practising listening, pronunciation and intonation and repeating/recycling high frequency language patterns.

This is how it works:

Display around 15 sentences on the board, preferably ones which show language patterns you have been working on recently or some time ago.

Hand out four cards or slips of paper to each student.

On each card students must secretly write a sentence from the displayed list.

Students then circulate around the class, approaching their classmates and reading a sentence from the displayed list. If the other person has that sentence on one of their cards, they must hand over the card. The other person then does the same, choosing a sentence from the board to see if their partner has it.

As an alternative, to add some spice students can play rock/paper/scissors to see who has the right to read a sentence.

After five minutes, the winner is the person with the most cards.

This is a jolly good little game to recycle some language in a fun way and teachers say it works really well.
Extensions

You take take the game a little further, though, adding an element of memory to go with the reading aloud aspect.

So, after playing the first game for five minutes, you could then display a list of the same sentences, but with gaps. The number and nature of the gaps would depend on your class. Each sentence would be numbered or lettered, e.g. A, B, C, D etc.

This time, instead of students writing a sentence on each of their cards, they simply write the letter of the sentence from the board. Then the game proceeds in the usual way, except this time students must produce their sentences from memory (referring to the gapped sentences on the board). The teacher could even create some more gaps in the displayed sentences as the game proceeds, to provide a bit more challenge.

Esmerelda Salgado on Twitter added this idea:

"I take your idea a step further by doing a final round with the sentences written in English on the board and the correspondent initials in TL."

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All in all, this is a low preparation, high impact little game which allows for some useful retrieval practice all in the target language.

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Sentence Stealers is a reading aloud game invented by Gianfranco Conti. I'll describe the game to you, then suggest an extension of it which goes a bit further than reading aloud. By the way, I shouldn't need to justify the usefulness of reading aloud, but just in case, we are talking here about matching sounds to spellings, practising listening, pronunciation and intonation and repeating/recycling high frequency language patterns.