Beauvais arrangements

Check in online, print off both boarding passes.

Get to airport by 6 am and make your way through security. We'll find each other in the departure lounge.

I have booked taxis to wait for us. From past experience taxis are few and far between.

Bring your cameras. What about bringing a wee puppet to pose in photos for class use? 

Got Helen's text message!

Here is meteo France link

Can you find Beauvais in Picardy region, Oise departement?

Croisons les doigts pour le beau temps!

mardi dix mars la nourriture

Pour commencer une vidéo sur des magasins de la rue Cadet à Paris  pour de l'ambiance!

et une vidéo du BBC marché en Guadeloupe 

Ressources:

des images ici sur ESL-kids

et aussi sur ce site français les coccinelles

les courses à faire by Orchard Toys  @ £7 - bon marché!

menu from the zinc bleu à Beauvais

We played a Countdown flash game on the whiteboard. It can be downloaded from my teaching files>shared work. ! Lots of opportunities for using numbers and alphabet.

This was a TV game in France called des chiffres et des lettres before it came to Channel 4!

Aim to make the longest French word from the 9 letters

Lettres: une consonne, une voyelle 

Aim to get the target, using the numbers. Can only use a number once. Don;t have to use all the numbers

Chiffres: un grand et cinq petits et la cible (target) est 

fois x, plus +, moins - , divisé par /

Beauvais photos from last year

Eating out

We'll learn about food this week

Have a look at the BBC ma France videos on eating out

Grammar Ninja

We spent the final 15 minutes on a flash game Grammar Ninja on the whiteboard.  You can play online in English (Knowledge about language, L1)  

You can download it and make up your own sentences. 

You have to identify parts of speech. Beginner level seems to be nouns and verbs only.

Skilled includes articles and adjectives, including possessive adjectives

Master has also adverbs, prepositions, pronouns including personal pronouns, conjunctions and interjections.

I disagree with some of the original labelling. It is advisable to make up your own sentences!

Talk Time Cards

We had lots of fun exploring the possible uses for our new low tech tools, Talktime postcards from TTS.

These are postcard size recordable modules. On one side there is a red record button. You need to hold it down while recording and you get 10 seconds.  On the other side there is the play button. There is a flimsy stick-on pouch to slip in a drawing, picture or photo. We preferred not to use the pouches.  If you click the record button by accident you delete the previous recording but it is easy to record again. Sound quality is not wonderful but adequate.

1 First idea - matching sound to picture, pupils record one card each

I gave all the class of 11 teachers a French flashcard (newly bought in Tesco's sale for £1.25, rather nice, have word on one side and picture and words on the other) and a talktime card. I said aloud the words for each card and they repeated while recording, one at a time.  Then we laid out the flashcards on a table and they swapped the talktime cards about. In turn each played their sound and found the matching card. Then go on to 

2 concentration game with all the cards on the table and find a matching pair

3 blutacked to wall as a talking flashcard resource

4 to support any written text especially when working independently. 

They cost about £3 each depending on how many you order. No way of replacing the battery so don;t know how long they would last.

TTS also has A4 sized ones and smaller ones.

I also ordered the recording button which could be used with a display or to give intructions. You can record 10 seconds and it has a replaceable battery.

We are looking forward to exploring more possibilities! There was a real buzz about when we were using them . I am sure the pupils will love using them especially when they get to record themselves.