This document provides information about minutes lost during lessons due to late pupil arrival and other factors. It notes that the teacher's lesson started at 10:30 but pupils arrived at 10:34, wasting 4 minutes. Further minutes are lost to the first learning task and throughout the term and school year, totaling up to 540 minutes or 9 missed lessons over the course of an academic year. The document advocates for not losing any minutes of lesson time.

1. It only takes a
minute to win it-
so let’s not lose
any minutes!
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@chrisfullerisms

2. Lesson start: 10.30
Pupils arrive: 10.34
First learning task: 10.40
Minutes lost 10
3 lessons per fortnight 30
During 6 week half term 90
During 1 academic year 540
= 9 missed lessons
= 1 half term LOST

3. Mind map:
suggest ideas for the teacher to teach

4. Dice Stories

5. Match Eng and TL
- Using logic?
- Revision of knowledge?
Me gusta I hate
No me gusta Twice a week
Odio fun
Jugar al fútbol boring
Hacer natación Playing netball
Jugar al netball I don’t like
Cada día Because it is
Dos veces por semana Every day
Porque es swimming
Divertido I like
boring Playing football

6. Can you think of the phonics?
- What words do they go with?
- Can you think of other words with these sounds?
ju
car
cer
la
gar
ción
qui
je
ie
que
do

7. Rewrite with spaces
Normalmentemegustajugaralrugbya
lmínimodosvecesporsemanaporque
meencantayesmuydivertido

8. Find the mistakes
FIND THE 5 MISTAKES
En mi publo hay un pequeño centro
comarcial. Tambien es muchas
tiendas.

9. Discuss how to improve the
sentence / paragraph
I like playing football. It is
fun. I don’t like playing
the piano. It is boring.

10. Silently form yourselves into
words using the cards provided
I

11. Ordering sentences in a
conversation
1) Kinaesthetic
2) Can you continue the conversation?
3) Can you add complexity?
4) Can you pronounce everything?

12. Match beginnings and end
What grammar points do
we want our classes to
focus on?

13. Make a test for your partner
Do they understand what makes a
good / hard test?
Encourages reflection on TRAPS

14. First letters of words
J
V
U Should we put the
C meaning or allow
A groups to come up
U with ideas?
D
S
V
P

15. Continue the sentences
When I was 5
years old…
At the weekend I
normally don’t…
I never…

16. 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

17. Reading images
- Key questions
What is she What is she
doing? going to do?
What has she Why is she
just done? doing it?

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

19. 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

20. Write ideas onto a cartoon grid

21. Who can make longest sentence
using these words
decided green hand happy
concerning

22. Dominoes

23. Odd one out
Una playa Un centro Un cine
comercial
Un Un estadio Un teatro
polideportivo
Quiero Tengo que Necesito

24. Worksheets
- Sometimes we just need to settle ‘em!

25. Partner sharing
- What did you learn last lesson?
Discuss with your partner…
1) What you learned last lesson
2) What skills you learned last lesson
3) How does that fit into a bigger picture?
4) What it would be useful to learn about today?
5) How you could improve your learning today

26. Post-it writing:
- 10 items of vocab from previous sequence

27. Newsreaders

28. Coded letters
Wingdings
Don’t forget the
accents!

29. Peer assess home learning

30. Peer marking to criteria

31. How many points in text

32. Can you work it out?
Highlight in GREEN
– what you already know
Highlight in YELLOW
– what you think you can guess
Highlight in RED
– what you don’t think you can work out

33. Card sort / pelmanism
I live in Me gustaba Vivía en Me gusta
I like I used to live Se podía Hay
in
There was You can Vivo en You used to
be able to
Se puede Había There is I used to like
to

34. Gapped letters
1.Je s_ _ _
2.T_ e_
3._l _s_
4.E_ _e _s_
Create your own + test your partner

35. Come up with a story / song to help
remember these words…
Una azafata

36. Question generator
¿Qué?
¿Cuándo?
¿Quién?
¿Por qué?

37. What’s the question?
Ver la televisión

38. A-Z of…
Merit for the pair who can find
the most A-Z examples of…
LEISURE ACTIVITIES

39. Draw the pic…
My house is quite big. There are 4 bedrooms, 3
on the 1st floor and 1 on the 2nd floor. There is
also a bathroom on the 1st floor. On the ground
floor there is a small kitchen and a large living
room where we watch the TV.

40. Solo Taxonomy Hexagons
Want to know more about Solo?
Be inspired by Chris Harte
www.chrisharte.typepad.com

41. Scrolling vocab / Generation Game

42. Dictionary hunt
• Topic vocab?
• Opinions?
• Best sounding words?
• Longest words?

43. Add to Wallwisher

44. Categorise learning
• From last lesson?
• Unknown words?
• By opinion?
• Venn diagram?

45. MP3 players
Record a Listen to new
conversation? words- any
guesses?
Listen to
Record a
another
conversation?
group’s work?

46. ipads
- Get ‘em active, get ‘em creative!
mfledapps.posterous.com
www.lauradoggett.com

47. Record this list on your phone
- as quickly and accurately as possible!
• Me gusta
• Jugar
• Al fútbol
• Porque es
• Muy
• Divertido
• Pero
• Odio
• Hacer
• Mis deberes

48. It’s all well and good starting well…
www.bit.ly/MFLintro

49. It only takes a
minute to win it-
so let’s not lose
any minutes!
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
@chrisfullerisms