A session presented at #ililc4 designed to encourage teachers to step away from their boards and leave the students to do the work!

1. With a partner, use the Wordle below to…
1. Write a newspaper article title for this session
2. Create a subtitle for the article.

2. www.wordle.net
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/
1033419/0/
Find... 5 known words
... 5 words you can
guess
...10 new words and
meanings
... share!
Can you...
...write a title?
...write 1st paragraph?
...justify?
Sam Broom’s 23 ways to use Wordle
http://bit.ly/z14Hl

3. Why do we still introduce new
language from a board?
- because it aids memorisation?
- because we’ve got an interactive
whiteboard?!
- because that’s what we’ve
always done?!?!
How varied is
this?
How thoughtprovoking is it?

4. Beware the technology!
• How does it ENHANCE learning?
• How does it develop skills?
• How does it make my classroom operate
better?

5. For more ideas
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
To chat things over
@chrisfullerisms
To discuss and ask questions
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com

6. Issue 1: lack of time
Starter
Nouns introduced
Games for reinforcement
Listening, Speaking, Reading, W
riting
Plenary

7. Lack of time =
DON’T WASTE A SECOND!
(The non-singing, non-dancing method)
1) instruction on the board BEFORE they walk in
2) any resources already on the desk
For lots of ideas see bit.ly/MFLstarters
?

8. 3
Reading images
- Nouns and predictions
In pairs...
a) list 5 things you can see IN
SPANISH
b) decide on 1 adjective (in
Spanish) to describe your
group reaction to the image
c) Vamos a aprender algo sobre

9. 2
Reading images
- Creative writing
What is his
name?
What did he
do last
weekend?
What does he
like doing?
What is he
thinking?
www.mfljones.wordpress.com – packed with ideas

10. 1
Wordle.net
Work with a partner- but you each need to write in your own books!
1) Create a list of 5 words that you KNOW (Spanish+ English)
2) Create a list of 5 words that you think you can GUESS (Spanish+ English)
3) Write (in English) what you think the word cloud is about
4) Write a title for the lesson- in TL

11. bit.lyMFLintros

12. My favourites:
dual language texts

13. En mi opinión soy muy simpática, y
probablemente soy un poco aburrida.
Pero antes, en la escuela primaria, tenía
más confianza. Mi mejor amigo es muy
divertido pero era tímido
My favourites:
Running dictations

14. My favourites:
Highlight+ deduce

15. Your end of unit project this half term will
be to create a blog post on your attitude to
addiction and drug legalisation.
Obviously, the best blog posts aren’t just
text- what else might yours include?
Spend 5 minutes with a partner discussing…
a) What your post might include
b) What words you might need?
My favourites:
setting a project

16. You have 25 minutes to…
Create a vocab list of at least 20 words for yourself on
the topic of “health”- not just drugs!
Write the Spanish and the English
This must include…
• 5 infinitives (AT LEAST)- words that in English
begin “to…” eg “to drink”
• In Spanish these end in –ar , -er or -ir
• 5 opinions eg “healthy”
I have a list of 9 words- if you get more than 3 of
them you get 2 merits
My favourites:
create own word list

17. My favourites:
using word mats

18. ¿Se debe legalizar las drogas?
DEBATE
Drug dealer
Parent
Anti-drugs
campaigner
Politicianwants money
Drug user
17 year old
Exploiting word mats:
Debates

19. 1) Create a creative description of the picture
2) Add your description to the blog post
3) Leave follow-up 2 stars and a wish comments on other
descriptions
Things to describe
My favourites:
Reading images
• Who he is
• Who he is with and
what they’re like
• Where he is
• Is he healthy or not?
• His opinion on drug
legalisation

20. Project Based Learning
- Ron Berger
Principles
• Student planning
• Peer assessment
• Redrafting

21. Project Based Learning
- Critique

22. Flipping the classroom

23. Flipping the classroom
fliplearningmfl.blogspot.co.uk

24. Powtoon

25. Explain Everything
bit.ly/SpanishSamYouTube

26. Podcasting
By students
• Provides audience for speaking tasks
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Editing process = repeated exposure
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere
For students
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere

27. Podcasting
- building oral confidence
Simple recording
Create your own
Grammar series
Revision

28. www.edmodo.com
Social
networking
for education
with thanks to Alex Bellars
@bellaale

29. Freeing students’
creativity

30. What did you do in your bedroom last
night?!

31. http://bit.ly/Shelterboxchallenge

32. How would you approach the
challenge?
- What language would you use?
- How would you present it?

33. Run with
Kelda
Richards, @elkel99

34. Your project brief
Exeter City FC is interested in signing a 26 year old
French striker on a free transfer.
Leyton Orient and York are also both interested.
He left Ligue 3 club Strasbourg at the end of last
season after 4 years, scoring 56 goals in 148 games.
He is married with 3 children (aged 7, 5 and 2)

35. Your
2 challenges today
Challenge 1
• Create a multimedia video in FRENCH to attract
the striker to Exeter City- no longer than 2 minutes.
• This video will be uploaded to a blog
www.europeandayoflanguages2013.wordpress.com
• The video with the most views by 12
midday, Wednesday 2nd October will win.

36. Your
2 challenges today
Challenge 2
• Create a separate, different presentation in
FRENCH to lure the player in person- no more than
3 minutes.
• You will be presenting this in front of the other
teams at 1.00 THIS AFTERNOON.
• This must be business-like. You will be cut off at 3
minutes and all team members must speak.

37. We are looking Going this across various venues
to run forwards
next year- anyone interested?
When you leave today it will be YOUR responsibility to
develop to drive traffic to your video.
Ideas...
• Posters around school
• School website?
• QR codes?
• Speak to family / friends / neighbours

39. What other topics do you hate
teaching?
- How could we twist it and let the
students be creative?
- What support would you need to
provide?

40. For more ideas
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
To chat things over
@chrisfullerisms
To discuss and ask questions
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com