From squawk to talk

Improving speaking in MFL

Dominic McGladdery

@dominic_mcg

I ain't no hollaback girl!

Teaching Phonics

www.rachelhawkes.com

www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/phonics.html

Teaching phonics

http://bit.ly/xjelKY - 10 minute phonics guide by Suzi Bewell

From MFL Sunderland: http://bit.ly/aw02nX

Activities using phonics

Identifying words which rhyme.

Categorising words with similar sounds.

Students try to find words which contain a certain sound.

Students fill in a venn diagram.

Activities using phonics

Learn tongue-twisters.

Reading aloud within a group.

Introducing an “if you wrote it, you can say it” policy.

Task: 5 minutes

Use the rhyming dictionaries http://www.alcor.com.au/ to create a resource in a language of your choice.

Random name pickers

www.classtools.net

www.classdojo.com

http://bit.ly/XiHfZH fresher schools

http://bit.ly/ideLZu primary schools ict

Random question pickers

www.classtools.net

http://bit.ly/XiHfZH fresher schools

http://bit.ly/ideLZu primary schools ict

Task: 5 minutes

Use one of the random name pickers to create a random question activity.

Kagan structures

Exercises designed to get pupils speaking

http://bit.ly/10PCdR3

Dice activitiesStudents make sentences based on lists.

Example: Mon monstre a...

1 trois 1 yeux 1 rouges

2 quatre 2 bras 2 oranges

3 six 3 jambes 3 jaunes

4 vingt 4 oreilles 4 roses

5 sept 5 bouches 5 drôles

6 huit 6 pieds 6 horribles

Rory's story cubes

Rory's story cubes

Story cubes are dice with pictures on them.

There are 2 different sets of 9 dice: original and actions.

The actions set is ideal for teaching sports.

The students throw the dice and make sentences.

There is an ipad app but no android app as yet.

Songs

Make up songs.

Use a familiar tune.

Get the students to make up songs.

Use youtube to find songs in target language.

Students will join in and the more able can create their own extra verses.

Task: 5 minutes

Search a song on youtube.com which you could use in your classroom.

Puppets

Get students to use puppets to act out dialogues in TL.

Students can create pencil puppets in minutes.

Cluedo activitiesQui a vomi?

Je pense que c'était dans le jardin sur le bébé.le chien

Je crois quele chat

la cuisine la table.

À mon avis la tortue

le salon la chaise.

Selon moi la souris

le garage les devoirs.

J'imagine que le bébé la chambre

la télé.

Describing a picture

Comparing 2 pictures

I went to the shop...

The old primary school game.

In groups.

Pupil A starts “I went to the shop and I bought X.”

Pupil B continues “I went to the shop and I bought X and Y.”

Pupil C continues “I went to the shop and I bought X and Y and Z.”

Audacity

Resource for recording and changing voices.

Great for motivating boys!

Task: 5 minutes

Record yourself on audacity & change your voice.

blabberize.com

Upload a picture and a sound file

(made with audacity?)

voki.com

Like blabberize but with more features.

Crazy talk

A program which allows pupils to create 3D living puppets from 2D photos and pictures.

Quite expensive but worth the money.

songify

An app for android and iphone/pad/pod

Record speech and it turns it into song.

Example

Task: 5 minutes

Create a create a voki, a blabberize or songify something.

Further reading

Steve Smith's blog: 50 speaking activities

http://bit.ly/WefH1d

From squawk to talk

Dominic McGladdery

@dominic_mcg

domsmflpage.blogspot.com

I ain't no hollaback girl!