First up, Dominic McGladdery on low-tech ideas for encouraging speaking.
His first, and crucial point was TEACH EM PHONICS. They need to be able to de-code the letters they have in front of them. He gave various ideas for places to go for ideas: languages without limits is a great starting point, and I love their strap line
If we fail to teach phonics, we are condemning many of our learners
to be quasi-dyslexic in the foreign language. | ||
One great tip: 1-15 has most sounds that beginner learners need. After a few years of teaching no French, I will be back teaching French in September, and the thought of tackling French phonics is daunting, but this is something I'm going to follow-up.
Here's a quick list of other things to try:
Suzi Bewell presented the possibilities for combining both listening, speaking, reading and writing using Sonocent.com's Audio Notetaker software. The presentation, which explains it more eloquently than me is here.
Finally an tip for apps, thanks to @misstdunne and @GermanistGLS: Vocab battle. Battle it out on your phones via bluetooth. The winner gets to put stickers onto your opponent's photo.
Finally, thank you for such a great day. Lots to think about - just as well the summer hols are coming up soon ;-)
Here's a quick list of other things to try:
- Get the pupils to think about the phonics - how about venn diagrams? For German, one side would be "ie", the other side "ei".
- How about words that rhyme?
- Tongue twisters
- rhyming dictionaries - this website has many different languages - fantastic!
- Describe the picture
- Spot the difference
- puppets - especially for shy pupils, or better still, masks from poundland. Dom described the fun to be had with Alan Sugar or Simon Cowell masks. Pupils may be reluctant to argue, but once they take on these personas, there's no stopping them!
- Hats are also great.
- Dice can also be used in many different ways to select what the pupils talk about
- Cluedo
- Dom also told us about blogs by Jose Picardo who sets out how to podcast and use audacity.
Suzi Bewell presented the possibilities for combining both listening, speaking, reading and writing using Sonocent.com's Audio Notetaker software. The presentation, which explains it more eloquently than me is here.
Finally an tip for apps, thanks to @misstdunne and @GermanistGLS: Vocab battle. Battle it out on your phones via bluetooth. The winner gets to put stickers onto your opponent's photo.
Finally, thank you for such a great day. Lots to think about - just as well the summer hols are coming up soon ;-)
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