MFL @ Northgate

Some of the sites mentioned were:
www.agency-dynamite.fr - personal descriptions such as hair and eye colour (Don’t forget to click on the French flag bottom right so the site appears in French).
www.meteofrance.com - real forecasts which can be particularly useful for practising tenses. e.g. Il a plu hier (It rained yesterday). Il pleut aujourd’hui (It is raining today). Il va pleuvoir demain (It will rain tomorrow).
www.unpeudamour.com - generator of creative love poems.
http://vendre.visitenet.com - French Canadian site which includes descriptions of houses with slideshows.
Avis de recherche de la Police Nationale - includes authentic descriptions of French missing persons.
http://mtv.fr - multimedia French music site.
TV5 - Real French video clips with accompanying teaching tips. Paroles de clips particularly recommended for Saturday morning viewing.
http://Pubstv.com - downloadable authentic video clips of adverts from around the world.

Using wikis in lessons
For the next MFL session, Wikimania, Peter Morris, senior teacher and languages AST from Gordano School, in Bristol described how he has been using wikis (webpages that can be added to and edited by a group of users) to promote creative writing in German and French.

Originally set up as a CILT/ALL Action Research project to encourage pupils to produce extended spontaneous speech, Peter has found wikis to be useful for:

  • developing collaborative writing as changes can be viewed and tips or guidance added
  • assessment for learning purposes as pupils are able to see each other’s work and correct each other’s mistakes
  • encouraging freer and more spontaneous writing
  • independent work as pupils can access pages away from school
  • linking to other resources such as advice on how to insert accents, Hot Potatoes grammar exercises or downloadable help sheets

To see examples of the wikis that have been created as part of the Wikimania project, click on the links below:
http://unserewebseite2006.pbwiki.com
http://gordonocool.pbwiki.com
http://goodbyelenin.pbwiki.com
http://germanvocabrevision.pbwiki.com
http://bonjour2007.pbwiki.c

http://www.espacefrancophone.org/home.html

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