Tuesday 22 July 2014

Our suitcases of learning

In my last post I detailed the idea of packing a suitcase of learning before the summer - inspired by Janet Lloyd (see my last post here). 

I've now 'filled' my suitcases with 5 of my 7 schools - between 4/6 classes in each school... you do the maths :-) 

This provided me with really valuable feedback regarding what children enjoy doing in my lessons and I thought I'd share with you the outcome. 





I've compiled the list of the most popular : games, topics, songs and language learning activities. 




  • Favourite games: What’s your favourite game to practice new language?





Most popular : 

Boys vs. girls and other team games
Splat
Corners (in the class or in the hall/large space)
Elevens
Stand up bingo

Also mentioned: 

Tour de France board game (on Janet Lloyd network website - simple board game to download also see my post here)
Jaques a dit (Simon says)
Pass the parcel
Bingo
Flashcard games (hide &guess, hot/cold, revealing from a ‘magic bag’)
Mini whiteboard game (responding game)
OXs
Authentic playground games (or adapted from other languages) : Papier pierre ciseaux (see my post here) and ‘café au lait’ (as ‘chocolate’ in Spanish)
Epiphany game (see my post here)



********



  • Favourite topics:  What did you enjoy learning about?






Most popular: 

Festival (Epiphany) and special events (Tour de France)
Food (fruits & veg, breakfast items, picnic, ice creams)
Animal: including mini-beasts, old Mac Donald had a farm, the very hungry caterpillar.
Flags and countries - We used the 'Mon drapeau' sequence from Lightbulb languages.
Kite festival for European Day of Languages  2014 (see my post here)
Alien family (on Janet Lloyd Network SOW)

Also mentioned:  

Weather
Clothes
Carnival
Town/ cities in France, virtual trip around France and Paris (see my post here
All about me (name, age, where you live, etc.) conversation
Months of the year and birthday party
Numbers/colours



********



  • Songs: What song(s) do you prefer singing? 






Most popular: 

Numbers to 20 (Alain le Lait)
Bonjour, Bonjour, comment ca va? (Alain le Lait)
Months of the year
Jean Petit qui danse
Pomme peche poire abricot

Also mentioned: 

Numbers to 10
Bonjour Madame
Quel age as-tu? Rap
Days of the week
Salut, salut, salut
Alphabet
Tchik Tchak

Check out my Youtube playlists: favourite songs to teach French and Greeting songs for all the links. 



********





  • Favourite language learning activity: How do you enjoy learning French? What do you like doing most in our lessons?





Most popular: 

Singing songs
Games and quizzes
Creative activities i.e making cards, mini-books, masks etc.

Also mentioned :  

Using new technologies (apps) See the presentation I gave at the JLN Primary Languages conference in June 2014.
Role-plays
Joining in stories

14 comments:

  1. To become a linguistic person is my long time goal. I have got some useful information from the content you shared here. You are running an awesome blog. Keep up this good work.


    French Class in Chennai
    French Course in Chennai

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks for your useful posts and articles.
    Here i can refer you best software training in chennai.
    Best software institution

    ReplyDelete
  3. Nice Post! While reading this article was very interesting and remembering our childhood memories. This article given as simple English easily understood by everyone. Thank you for your post.
    I want to share some link it is useful to your improve your technical skills.
    R programming Training in Chennai | IOT Training in Chennai | CCNA Training in Chennai | Matlab Training in Chennai



    ReplyDelete