I have made one for AS and one for Spanish GCSE, but clearly it would lend itself to any year group and topic.
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Yesterday I was very excited by the arrival of my new set of dice (to be fair, I'm easily amused but they're so colourful). I had two goals in planning time today - to use my dice and to ensure I got my year 12 talking more. The result is this dice speaking game. The idea is students role two dice (my pretty new ones match the colours across the top and the side) to get a co-ordinate. They then have to talk about whatever topic is shown in order to win that square and place one of their counters on it. Students are competing to place 3 counters in a row. If a second player rolls a coordinate that has already been taken, they can knock the counter and claim the square as their own. Year 12 were really engaged by the task, but most importantly spoke lengthy amounts of German for the whole lesson. We never got a winner by the time we packed up, as they kept knocking each other off but it didn't really matter! I took it to be a good sign that they were amazed when I told them it was pack up time and asked if they could play again on Monday.
I have made one for AS and one for Spanish GCSE, but clearly it would lend itself to any year group and topic. AS German game Spanish GCSE game
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Group discussions This is a support mat to assist students in talking freely and expressing their opinion in Spanish. One version can be folded to stand on the table to encourage group discussion whilst the other could be displayed or put in exercise books. DOWNLOAD Question of the day A good starter to get students talking straight away is to give the class a question to discuss, ensuring students are expressing and justifying their opinions. DOWNLOAD German opinions support sheet and questions of the day DOWNLOAD Spanish example questions of the day 30 second speeches Students are encouraged to speak for 30 seconds on a given topic. Students could participate in a 'reading images' task (inspired by the wonderful work by Rachel Hawkes - if you haven't already, I strongly recommend you view her resources TES for more ideas and info) or be given random key words they have to include. Obviously you can vary the amount of support offered, depending on the group. DOWNLOAD example Spanish 30 second speeches. Question grids The grids offer a variety of questions to get student talking to one another. DOWNLOAD Grid 1 DOWNLOAD Grid 2 Room 101 A simple power point to stimulate discussion as to what items students would place in room 101 and why. Many thanks to Jen Sutton (MFLresources forum) for the Spanish support pages. DOWNLOAD Diamond nines With a diamond nine activity, students have to rank the items in order of most important/relevant to them from top to bottom. This task encourages discussion as students can then justify their choices. DOWNLOAD Spanish friendship diamond nine DOWNLOAD German friendship diamond nine If you are looking to implement more spontaneous talk into your
MFL classroom, then there are lots of inspiring resources on TES. Greg Horton and his colleagues at the Wildern School demonstrated successful ways to get students participating in group talk. Google will bring up a wealth of resources on this topic, but there are some sample resources here. |
Karen WhiteheadI have been teaching languages for 13 years. I enjoy finding and developing new ways to engage students with their learning. This page is designed for sharing anything and everything that may be of use to others. Enjoy! Categories
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