Kahoot is very easy and free to use. You can set up quizzes, surveys or a poll and students then independently submit their answers. A useful alternative to socrative. www.getkahoot.com
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A fantastic shared resource, with subject specific contributed SOLO resources from lots of schools. There are also a range of training and display resources explaining more about how SOLO works. Thank you to all contributors for this generous resource!
GO 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. An easy to use site, where you can create a basic game with any content. Students can compete to see how quickly they can complete the game. Easy and free to use, so students could also create their own games for homework. http://www.purposegames.com/
Librivox is a website where you can download audio books in different languages. Thanks to Isabelle Jones (@icpjones) for tweeting about it!Fortune tellers are an easy way to get students talking to one another. Here is a blank template along with a Spanish and German example. DOWNLOADGreat for speaking practice of physical descriptions. Students work in pairs and take it in turns to ask questions. Works best if students have a mat each and use counters to cover up their false guesses. DOWNLOAD |
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