Primary MFL Network meeting
15th October 2014
To start with….
La Première Guerre mondiale
http://youtu.be/vgZorMLHrMU
Agenda for the meeting
• What is happening around the schools? What
materials are being used? Support from
secondaries, peripatetic teaching?
Programmes used?
• Some material recommendation for the
classroom: Niveau Bleu/SHSG Scheme of
Work/Sunderland SoW/A cross curricular
project/Teaching through a story.
• Teaching focus: helping vocabulary learning
and vocabulary accuracy in writing
Free materials available
• Niveau Bleu – Institut Français/Catherine Cheater
http://culturetheque.org.uk/learn/primary-french?mode=all
Lesson 1 ppt
lesson 1 plan
• MFL Sunderland – All resources, designed by a
Primary practitioner (Clare Seccombe)
http://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources-pr-fr-resources.htm
http://www.youblisher.com/p/926820-Mon-dictionnaire-monolingueLes-couleurs/
• SHSG Scheme of Work – 2007, linear, still relevant
in methodology.
Other approaches
• Teaching around a story: the book, looking at
content, retelling, story making, mini books.
– Le navet énorme
– Bon appétit, Monsieur Lapin
– Agghh une araignée!
• Cross curricular teaching:
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The Victorians
The Egyptians
Volcanoes
The water cycle
The plant cycle
Focus: teaching vocabulary for oral accuracy
Phonics, repetition, clarity, drilling words
through a variety of activities and games
– Flashcards games (repeat if true, slow reveal,
memory list, pelmanism)
– Hide and seek: repeat a word or sentence loud or
soft.
– Putting words in raps, sounds, clapping words
Take 10 Phonics
Teaching vocabulary for written accuracy
• Writing in the air
• Writing on each other’s back
• Looking at shape of words
• Give out letters: can the group write
the word? Have they got letters missing?
http://jt44.free.fr/abc/lettres-etiquettes-minuscules.pdf
• Alphabet based activities:
– teacher spells out a word, children write it on a
mini whiteboard.
– Le pendu (hangman)
• Using French words for handwriting
• Alternate letters missing/vowels missing/silent
letters missing
j--n- ver- -i-l-t
• Anagrams
• Word search
rmoarn rtuqisoe
• Crosswords
http://www.educol.net/crosswordgenerator/fre/
• Inventing a mnemonic or rhyme to remember
difficult spellings! jaune
Just accept unicorns need elephants
Teaching the phoneme/grapheme links
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Sound dominoes
Sound lotto: le loto des sons
List of words: pick out the correct grapheme
Dictation of words with patterns
Working on high frequency words
Alphabet support
• Florabelle, l’alphabet en chantant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EndtZlN4wgQ
• Vincent la grenouille dit l’alphabet
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FtfZOkKjGYU
• Comptine de l’alphabet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkFXGlHCn_o&index=12
&list=RDEndtZlN4wgQ
• L’alphabet avec Alain Le Lait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYy3P2okyw&index=10&li
st=RDEndtZlN4wgQ
• Chantez plus fort! [Brilliant Publications – 1-903853-37-0]
• Français!Français! [The Language Factory – 1-905898-00-2]
• Singing French [A&C Black – 0-7136-6898-9]
• Cha cha cha [ www.singingfrench.com ]