Ideas, ideas, ideas for Exeter's MFL PGCE students. And anyone else who wants to have a look!

1. Voting with their feet
- why vote MFL?
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2. What are the issues
facing MFL teachers?
1) lack of time to DO anything
2) lack of self-belief
3) lack of standing: why choose languages
over Science / Maths?

3. Issue 1: lack of time
Starter
Who’s
doing the
work?
Nouns introduced Invariably
the
teacher
in this
Games for reinforcement
model!
Listening, Speaking, Reading,
Writing
Plenary

4. Issue 1: lack of time
SO DON’T WASTE A SECOND!
?

5. Issue 1: lack of time
SO DON’T WASTE A SECOND!
1) Tell a partner what you learned last lesson then
test each other
2) Phonics grid on board- can you say the sound+
think of the word it was used in (+ other examples)
3) Reorder the words on the board
4) work out how to extend the basic sentence to 9
words, 15 words then 25 words

6. Issue 1: lack of time
Hier
je suis
allée
à la plage
mais
malheureusement
c’était
assez...

7. Find... 5 known words
Issue 1: lack of time ... 5 words you can guess
...10 new words and
meanings
... share!
www.wordle.net Can you...
...write a title?
...write 1st paragraph?
...justify?
Sam Lunn’s 23 ways to use Wordle:
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/
1033419/0/ http://bit.ly/z14Hl

8. Issue 1: lack of time
Reading images
Focus on recently
covered structures
-he has just...
- he is going to...
- he was...
Is there a
right answer?
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/744307/0/informe/crisis/racismo/

9. Issue 1: lack of time
http://bit.ly/nH566v

10. Issue 1: lack of time
Running dictations- teacher input?

11. Issue 1: lack of time
Stay in touch but also
let students discuss
www.edmodo.com issues themselves!
with thanks to Alex Bellars
@bellaale

12. Issue 1: lack of time
www.classdojo.com

13. Issue 1: lack of time
Let other departments do the
work
What are the
English
department
teaching?

14. Issue 1: lack of time
Google Reader

15. Issue 1: lack of time
Twitter
http://tweepml.org/MFL-Twitterers

17. Issue 1: lack of time
Dropbox
Get on Twitter,
join in the resource sharing!

18. Issue 2:
lack of self-belief

19. “Even in the strongest departments, students
had too few opportunities to use their
languages to communicate in a realistic
manner” (page 23)
OFSTED,
Modern languages,
Achievement and challenge 2007-2010

20. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
PHONICS!!!!
www.rachelhawkes.com
www.doonceandshare.wikispaces.com

21. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Facilitating self-expression-
you’ve got the language, now use it!
see www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/linkedup

22. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Who communicating FOR?

23. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Who communicating FOR?

24. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Who communicating FOR?
vs

25. Every blog will look different and
serve a different purpose

26. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Podcasting

27. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
iTunes- using podcasts
(choose your country)

28. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Simple recording
Create your own
Grammar series
Revision

29. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Creative self-expression
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/search/label/ICT
http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com

30. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
www.storybird.com

31. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
www.mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com

32. Issue 3:
lack of standing

33. How do year 7s start in MFL?
What messages do we give about
what our subject is?

34. Your challenge:
Talk for 1 minute with 3 partners on the
theme of “My daily routine”
You can challenge each other for...
-hesitation
- deviation
- repetition
Did you have enough to talk about? Could you manage to talk
for 4 to 6 minutes?

35. Where’s the world understanding?
A standard year 7 French SoW
Transferrable skills? Confidence? Worth?
Topic Structure
1 Age, pencil case to have
2 School adjectives, present tense, there is
3 Family possessives, to be
4 At home more present tense
5 Free time Irregular verbs, simple future
6 Local area Justifying, recaps

36. A standard year 7 Geography SoW
Topic Skill?
1 Global divisions
2 Using OS maps
3 Housing investigation in local area
4 What is the UK?
5 Moving goods and people
6 British scenery and protecting it
7 Shopping: past, present, future
8 Climate and personal choices

37. Government ministries have huge advertising budgets,
dealing with the issues in the country- huge scope for ICU

38. Issue 1: lack of time
Videos for listening
/ generating responses
Creative writing
/ speaking springboards
http://bit.ly/kQQ9db
Content introducers
http://bit.ly/jzFtAY
See www.mfljones.wordpress.com for
some great ideas

39. Downloading useful materials
Real Player 11
www.zamzar.com/url

40. Sources to investigate
www.petitepipelette.posterous.com
www.mfljones.wordpress.com

41. Sources to investigate
www.clil4teachers.pbworks.com

42. Issue 3: lack of standing
Debates
- language of speculation
How do learners
communicate amongst
themselves in L1?
Group Talk?

43. (Deutsch) ist cool. Ich mag (Deutsch).
Was denkst du?
Ja, Nein, das
X
 das stimmt. stimmt nicht.
X Du spinnst! X
Ich denke … ©Wildern School

44. ¡(No) me gusta! ¿Qué piensas? 
¡Yo también!
¡Yo tampoco! X
¿Por qué? ¿Por qué?
 ¡Sí, es verdad!
¡No, no es verdad!X
Porque... Porque...
Pienso que... porque Prefiero.. porque
..es mejor que..
..es peor que..
..es más..que..
 Sí, tienes razón
No, no tienes razón
..es menos..que.
X
¡Ni hablar! ¡Qué va!
(no) estoy de acuerdo ¿Qué piensas?
Gracias @ Greg Horton

45. Issue 3: lack of standing
Taxonomy of tasks
•What would you predict / infer from...?
• do you agree that...?
• place the following in order of priority?
• classify...
• translate
• memorise
• recall
Where do most of your MFL tasks fit?

46. Issue 3: lack of standing
Encouraging
thought and reflection

47. Issue 3: lack of standing
Mysteries

48. Sort through the cards
+ build up the case for
each argument.
•¿España?
•¿El extranjero?
Your answer must be based on the information
given. FIND YOUR EVIDENCE! Write down your
conclusions in full in English.
with thanks to Neil Jones

49. with thanks to Neil Jones

50. Las Islas Canarias
Las Islas Canarias
forman parte del
Estado Español.
with thanks to Neil Jones

51. Issue 3: lack of standing
Living graph
© MFL Sunderland Resources

52. Issue 3: lack of standing
Sunderland MFL

53. Issue 1: lack of time
Managing Impulsivity penser
• Take your time réflechir
• Think before you act Examiner
• Remain calm and thoughtful considerer
Listening to others écouter
• Consider someone else’s point examiner
of view considerer
• Consider all the options évaluer
Thinking flexibly considerer
• Look at it another way réflechir
• Is your way the “right” way? adapter
évaluer
Thinking about thinking considerer with thanks to
• What are you thinking discuter Helena Butterfield
• What are you doing? évaluer www.langwitch.net

54. Issue 1: lack of time
Who did the work?
Bob
Ian
Marie
Christine
idea with thanks to
Rachel Hawkes

55. With a partner discuss...
1) have you seen any examples of these in
school?
2) what 3 things do you think you could use
IMMEDIATELY
3) what 2 things would you like to strive to
incorporate in your teaching?

56. content
control? confidence
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