Presentation for PGCE trainees

1. Reading and Listening
in MFL

2. Reading

3. Phonics as a starting point
• Teach students to identify key sounds so they can decode written
texts.
• Some French examples:
• Ch – chat, chou
• Qu – qu’est-ce-que, quand
• German:
• kein, nein, mein
• wie, sie

4. Tongue Twisters
Wenn prahlerische Piraten
pikanten Piratenbraten braten
wird pikanter Piratenbraten von
prahlerischen Piraten gebraten.

5. Websites for tongue twisters
• French: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/fr.htm
• German: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/de.htm
• Spanish: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/es.htm
• There are plenty more on Google!

6. Cognates
• Make use of cognates part of your classroom routine.
• Can you name 10 cognates in your chosen language?
• Can you name 5 false friends in your chosen language?

7. Dominos, Follow me cards
and Tarsia
• Use dominos or follow me cards with single words as a starter –
either in pairs/groups or as a whole class activity.
• Use Tarsia for introducing or revising vocabulary. Can be single words
or short phrases.
• Light Bulb Languages run by Clare Seccombe has plenty of Tarsia
puzzles. http://lightbulblanguages.co.uk/
• Download Tarsia here:
http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php/products/tarsia

8. Jigsaws

9. Triptico
• https://www.tripticoplus.com/
• Bingo
• Find Ten
• Text Spinner
• Order Sorter
• What’s the Question?

10. Running Dictation

11. Trapdoor

12. Highlight key words or
types of words
• What pieces of information can you work out?
• Can you spot any compound nouns?
• Can you spot any cognates?
• Highlight nouns in yellow.
• Highlight opinions in pink.
• Highlight connectives (linking words) in green
• What level is the text and why?

13. Gap fill – great for
differentiation

14. Task Magic

15. Reading to introduce vocab

16. Parallel texts
Frenchteacher.net, run by Steve Smith

17. Literature

18. Poetry
• Jacques Prévert – Déjeuner du matin
• http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/d-jeuner-du-matin/

19. Die Geschichte vom
Daumenlutscher
• Show the image – students
discuss in pairs.
• Show them the video animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzlWy4U
pGw
• Physical punctuation.
• Differentiated vocab tasks:-
• Running dictation/ German and
English verse match-up/ Task
Magic.

20. ALL Literature Wiki
• http://all-literature.wikidot.com/

21. Websites for reading
• Deutsche Welle http://www.dw.com/de/themen/s-9077
• 1 jour 1 actu http://www.1jour1actu.com/
• Newsmap http://newsmap.jp/

22. Task
• Choose 3 of the reading activities we have looked at.
• How you will use them in the coming fortnight?

23. Listening

24. Spot the silent letters
• Nous parlons français tous les jours.
• Ils restent dans un hôtel.

25. Spot certain sounds
• Was werden wir am Mittwoch machen?
• Nein, mein Wein ist zu klein.

26. Spot the rhymes
Der Kaspar, der war kerngesund,
Ein dicker Bub und kuglerund,
Er hatte Backen, rot und Frisch;
Die Suppe aß er hübsch bei Tisch.

27. Strategies
• Get students to identify the strategies they use, eg:
• Listening for cognates
• Listening for key words
• Predicting answers
• Using the questions as a guide
• Listening out for tenses.

28. Sample tasks
• Put a series of words or pictures in order after hearing an extract.
• Fill in the gaps.
• Identify the tense.
• Match the sentence to the picture.
• Fill in a form or table.
• Listen for certain types of words, eg linking words, qualifiers etc.
• True or false.
• Translate key phrases.
• Predict the next word.
• Give them a transcript, play the extract, they have to find the errors.

29. Differentiation
• Give out 2 or 3 different sheets based on the same extract, eg a gap
fill, a true/false and translation of key phrases.
• Some students could have a glossary of key words as support.
• Some students could read along with a transcript.

30. Adverts
• TV adverts – look on YouTube, Google etc.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcF_88HLOYk&list=PL_HKis2sqm
Kf3FepOcbHSXaBs9CMeOtZr
• What activities could you use with adverts?

31. Film trailers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vtu03oabk0
• How could you use film trailers?

32. Songs
• Stromae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc
• Grand Corps Malade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXaSFgVxGs
• Serge Gainsbourg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhccbf0RZTY
• Wise Guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68bL02Ogrt0
• Die Prinzen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZtNq9ebJ4

33. News
• News in slow French http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/
• Deutsche Welle http://www.dw.com/en/langsam-gesprochene-
nachrichten-learning-german/a-2925601
• TV5 http://www.tv5monde.com/

34. Task
• Choose your top 3 from the listening activities we have looked at.
• How will you use them in the next fortnight?