Learn the Sounds of French
An evening for parents of year 7 pupils
PART ONE
The Languages Department
Madame Rogers – Head of Department
Madame Brownhill
Monsieur Mulhearn
Mademoiselle Gibirdi
Mademoiselle Thomas
Léna Chevrollier
What can languages do for you?
• Communication
• Team work
• Problem solving
• Organisation
But also…
• Cultural awareness
• Global dimension to our learning
Bury Church of England Excellent Lesson
Online Textbooks
Other Tools
Year 7 Topics
Profiles
Personal Information, family, personalities traits
School
Subjects, timetables, French cultural differences
Hobbies
Phones, sport, activities, opinions
Town
Features of town, directions, activities
Types of Activities
Speaking
Writing
Presentations
Dialogues
Group Talk
Emails
Letters
Tweets
Listening
1 – 2 minutes
Extracts from textbook
Recordings
Reading
50 – 100 words
Authentic texts
All 4 Assessed
But I don’t speak much French myself…how can I help
my child?
• By encouraging a positive attitude to
languages
• By learning along with him/her
• By watching and listening to French
• By reading together
• By visiting a French-speaking country
Vocabulary Learning
Memory techniques
Visual Learners
• Concept maps with pictures to represent
words
• Spider diagrams also using images
• Mental movies
• Write the word in the air with your finger
Auditory
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Talk out loud
Read notes out loud
Use rhymes
Learn with music
Make recordings of the material and listen to
them
• Teach others out loud
Kinaesthetic
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Walk or pace around (regular, steady steps)
Learn in groups
Create games
Make notes on post-its and arrange on a big
sheet (A3)
• Act out material you are learning (mime)