mardi vingt-cinq novembre

Noël va arriver
More Christmas voc and practising of vocab presentation techniques using mini cards in "my teaching files" under Modules>Christmas as Xmas bingo. PW is valley.
We finished with a Christmas song from Henri Dès entitled Belle Histoire about the Christmas story. Each "pupil" was allocated a key word and had to leap to their feet when it came up accompanied by suitable acting eg the stable, the star. The ox and the ass got plenty of exercise due to the repetition!

Next week, if you have a simple craft idea you are using with your class, can you bring the bits and bobs and we'll try and do it in French.

Here are some craft ideas. How much of your newly acquired Christmas voc can you find here?

For Ann looking for bauble template there is one on this page and this French one

mardi 18 novembre

Parts of the body 

Christmas vocab as example of flashcard presentation

Started the Body topic with traditional song Jean Petit available on youtube

Did head shoulders knees and toes as a very visual way of learning vocab 

Did also a clap dance song.

Tiens voilà main droite

Tiens voila main gauche

Tiens voilà main droite main gauche

Tiens voilà les deux

body related activities bookmarked here

Christmas activities

mardi onze novembre

We looked at BBC's ma France no2 of the video podcasts which deals with alphabet, spelling, playing games.

For date, birthdays etc see this post from module 1 blog

We played happy families and snakes and ladders. 

You can download  both from My Teaching Files, pw valley 

Modules>Family for happy families cards and vocab le jeu des 7 familles

Modules>Number snakes and teddies is pdf of the original Appleworks file 6x6 snakes grid

David brought along Who's who which is a brilliant game to play. You really need enough sets for one between 4. There is an online version on the Chez Mimi site. Click on the man in the doorway. We played on the whiteboard and liked level one best. There are teachers notes and vocab

Next week it will be parts of the body, by special request and maybe a wee start to Christmas!

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Table top games

If you have some games such as snakes and ladders, snap, happy families that we can use to practise playing games in French please bring them along on Tuesday!

Toondoo challenge

Go to www.toondoo.com
Log in as UWSclass password craigie
Click on the turquoise TOONS menu and my toons to see what the BEds have been doing. Then, on top right, click create and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a brief dialogue using vocab we have been doing. Try and stick to what you know, spell carefully and if you can get any humour so much the better! Here is one of the BEds. Save and add your name .

Meet young French people

Ayrshire Modern Languages Association (AMLA) is hosting a social evening for Ayrshire's foreign language assistants, French, German, Spanish, Chinese. All interested teachers are invited along.
It will take place in Greenwood Academy, Dreghorn, Irvine on Tuesday 2 December at 7pm. Refreshments will be served.
If you would like to attend please email David Alexander.
alexanderdj@tiscali.co.uk
I'll be there!