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    100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum: in the Primary Classroom
    100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum: in the Primary Classroom
    100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum: in the Primary Classroom
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    100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum: in the Primary Classroom

    By Nicolette Hannam

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    Bring French to life and make it meaningful by linking it to other subjects using a Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. The practical, easy-to-use ideas in this book will make it easy to integrate language learning across the curriculum. By incorporating French into maths, science, history, geography, ICT, etc, your language learning will complement and enhance learning in other subjects, rather than compete with them for crucial teaching and learning time. Telling you that “six fois sept égal 42” is much more exciting for your class than just practising time tables! With the help of this book, soon your pupils will be able to tell you “Oui, c’est exact” if their science predictions were correct or enjoy being able to “envoyer un document” (send a document) in ICT.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliant Publications
    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9780857475121
    100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum: in the Primary Classroom

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      100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum - Nicolette Hannam

      curriculum.

      English

      Speaking and listening skills feature in every French lesson as children read out loud, question each other, take on roles and discuss meanings of words. These skills can be successfully transferred to English lessons. Using French can reinforce understanding of the rules of English as children make crucial comparisons of language and spelling between the two languages.

      Guided reading sessions can sometimes involve simple French texts, with children picking out key words. Ask children to find examples of questions, and identify the answers.

      Writing can be modelled in French for the children to use as support. Punctuation can be reinforced whilst writing in French. Older children can be asked to punctuate a simple French text.

      Speaking and listening

      Speaking

      1. Learning good habits

      • Tell children you are going to demonstrate both good and bad speaking habits. Do so, then discuss and clarify the differences.

      • Discussion topics: what happens if you don’t look at the person you are speaking to? How does it make the other person feel? What is your body language saying? How should you react when someone doesn’t look at you while talking to you?

      • Take some photographs and display them as a reminder to children about what good verbal communication looks like.

      2. Reading and speaking aloud

      • Reading aloud is only required at a very basic level, but practising little and often will help children improve steadily.

      • Model phrases and sentences for the children to repeat as a whole class. They could repeat key phrases from a traditional story, or have a key phrase to say every time a character is mentioned.

      • Show children a clip of French children reading their work aloud, and discuss their delivery.

      • Assess children’s levels of fluency, comprehension and enjoyment.

      3. Using big books

      • Use French big books to add variety in literacy lessons—either real books or CD-ROMs with an interactive whiteboard. As you read aloud, the children join in where they can. Highlight some phrases for all the children to try, with a lot of praise as they have a go.

      • Ask comprehension questions about the big book for children to answer verbally. Use both open and closed questions, and questions that require inference and deduction skills.

      4. Presenting to different audiences

      • Give children opportunities to speak in French to a range of audiences: each other, teachers, parents, other classes …

      • Use a wide variety of role-play in pairs and in small groups so children get practice in taking on different roles and talking to different kinds of people.

      5. Play reading

      • Help a group of children to read or perform a simple play based on a traditional story such as L’Histoire des Trois Petits Cochons (The Three Little Pigs).

      L’Histoire des Trois Petits Cochons

      List of Characters

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