from squawk to talk
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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!