This document provides guidance and ideas for teaching foreign languages more creatively and engagingly. It discusses potential topics to cover such as house and home, daily routine, and holidays. It offers suggestions for incorporating intercultural understanding, linguistic creativity, spontaneity, and skill development into lessons. Some example lessons are provided, such as one about the Chilean earthquake covering house and home. The document encourages generating vocabulary lists and using word mats in lessons. It discusses exploiting dual language texts and using videos to add cultural context. Homework ideas involve continuing online debates.
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1. Imagine you could just… start again.
Write a list of the 5 foundations you’d like
to build your department on.
What do they say about HOW you want
the students to learn?
2. For more ideas
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
To chat things over
@chrisfullerisms
To discuss and ask questions
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com
Issues we face
• Low profile for
MFL in school
• Low motivation
levels
• Low skill levels
• Lack of time!
3. • Could you talk about...
• Would you want to talk
about...
• How creative could you
be when talking about...
being healthy?items in a house?
The traditional topics?
- school - sports and leisure
- environment - house and home
- daily routine - food / healthy living
- local area - family
- weather - holidays
4. How do we
encourage...
- intercultural understanding?
- linguistic creativity?
- INTEREST?
- spontaneity?
- skill development?
7. Querría
Me haría falta
Me gustaría
porque
sería
esencial
útil
inútil
un lujo
Use your word mat to match the vocab below.
What do you think we will be learning about?
I would like
because
I would want
It would be
I would need
useless
a luxury
useful
essential
I would want
I would need
I would like
because
It would be
essential
useful
useless
a luxury
8. Work with a partner
- Note down as many details in the back of your
book as you can from the video
9. ?Exploiting word mats
• Translation tasks (written)
• Mini whiteboard tasks
• Answering questions (set number of words?)
• Improving model answers
• Peer feedback
11. ¿Qué necesitarías después de un
terremoto ?
Estoy de acuerdo
No estoy de
acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
¿En serio? =
Seriously?
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
Sería (it would be) más... QUE (more…than)
menos… QUE (less…than)
tan… como (as… as)
Me gustaría (I would like)
Necesitaría (I would need)
12. La próxima vez intenta…
- incluir más detalle
- practicar más
- conectar tus frases (y, pero, muy,
bastante, a veces, probablemente)
- revisar tu trabajo para precisión
- incluir más vocabulario nuevo
La
pronunciación
fue…
extraña
inconsistente
Las respuestas
fueron
rápidas
sin pausa
con pausa
buenas
malas
La conversación fue
basura aceptable genial
La variedad
fue…
de diez (10)
1 = uno 6 = seis
2 = dos 7 = siete
3 = tres 8 = ocho
4 = cuatro 9 = nueve
5 = cinco 10 = diez
1
54
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With thanks to Nina Elliot
@senoraelliott
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1) Design a digital Shelterbox containing 10
items that you would want after a disaster
2) Rank them 1 to 10- 1 the most important
3) Use the word mat to explain WHY you
would want that item
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be to create a blog post on your attitude to
addiction and drug legalisation.
Obviously, the best blog posts aren’t just
text- what else might yours include?
Spend 5 minutes with a partner discussing…
a) What your post might include
b) What words you might need?
19. You have 25 minutes to…
Create a vocab list of at least 20 words for yourself on
the topic of “health”- not just drugs!
Write the Spanish and the English
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begin “to…” eg “to drink”
Remember: these end in –ar , -er or -ir
• 5 opinions eg “healthy”
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Swap words with other pairs
- Get at least 3 more infinitives
- + 1 more opinion
21. My words
fumar
– to
smoke
tomar
– to take
beber
– to drink
comprar
– to buy
prohibir
– to ban
horrible
– horrible
ilegal
– illegal
enfermo
– ill
sano
– healthy
23. fumar tomar beber
comprar prohibir horrible
ilegal enfermo sano
Quiero = I want Voy a= I am going to
se debe = you should porque = because menos = less
más = more es = it is te hace = it makes you
24. 1) I am ill and I have a cough- it’s horrible
Estoy enfermo y tengo tos- es horrible
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peligrosas
It’s important to ban drugs as they are dangerous
3) Cuando era joven quería probar un cigarillo pero
ahora prefiero hacer ejercicio porque es sano
When I was young I used to want to try a cigarette
but now I prefer to do exercise because it’s healthy
Use the grids in front of you to translate the
following phrases
Title= Mis opiniones sobre el salud
(My opinions about health)
2
26. Writing challenge:
You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions
on health and addiction
1) What was your attitude to smoking when
you were younger
2) What your attitude to smoking is now
3) Do you think we should legalise drugs?
4) What do you think we should do to stay
healthy?
5) What would you do in the future, if you
could, either to stay healthy or to have fun?
2
27. Writing challenge:
You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions
on health and addiction
1) What was your attitude to smoking when
you were younger
2) What your attitude to smoking is now
3) Do you think we should legalise drugs?
4) What do you think we should do to stay
healthy?
5) What would you do in the future, if you
could, either to stay healthy or to have fun?
2 stars and a wish2
31. A) Find the following phrases in the text
1. The regulated and controlled legalisation
La legalización regulada y controlada
2. At the moment the situation provokes
En este momento la situación provoca
3. It is an impossible fight
Es una lucha imposible
4. More problems than the drugs themselves
Más problemas que las drogas sí mismas
5. Drug trafficking causes a “dramatic situation”
El narcotráfico causa una “situación drámatica”
6. Owing to their strong addiction
Debido a su fuerte addición
3
32. Can you think on your feet?
Tell your partner how you’d say the
following words and phrases…
3
33. In my opinion
you should
try drugs
because
they don’t cause
problems
of memory
En mi opinión
Se debe
probar drogas
porque
no causan
problemas
de memoria
3
34. I believe that
drugs
are
a part of growing up
but
they are
harmful
and
boring
Creo que
las drogas
son
una parte de la juventud
pero
son
nocivas
y
aburridas
3
35. From my point of
view
drugs
they are
stupid
and
you should not
legalise them
Desde mi punto de
vista
las drogas
son
estúpidas
y
no se debe
legalizarlas
3
36. Now practise this with your partner-
1 says the English, the other says the Spanish
- Who can build the longest sentence?
- Use…
y = and
Sin embargo = however
Pero = but
También = also
No obstante = nevertheless
Además = furthermore
3
37. ¿Cuál es tu opinión de las
drogas?
Estoy de
acuerdo
No estoy
de
acuerdo
3
38. Homework:
1) Type up your response to ¿Cuál
es tu opinión de las drogas?
2) Add it to the Padlet wall
3
39. ¿Cuál es tu opinión de las
drogas?
Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
¿En serio? =
Seriously?
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
4
40. ¿Cuál es tu opinión del
alcohol?
Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
¿En serio? =
Seriously?
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
4
41. ¿Cuál es tu opinión del
tabaco?
Estoy de acuerdo No estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
¿En serio? =
Seriously?
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
4
45. ¿Se debe legalizar las drogas?
DEBATE
Drug dealer Parent
Anti-drugs
campaigner
Teacher
Drug user 17 year old
4
Follow-up homework
- Type up your conclusions for the
blog?
- Reading image task on a blog?
- Continue the debate on Edmodo?
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Exeter City FC is interested in signing a 26 year old
French striker on a free transfer.
Leyton Orient and York are also both interested.
He left Ligue 3 club Strasbourg at the end of last
season after 4 years, scoring 56 goals in 148 games.
He is married with 3 children (aged 7, 5 and 2)
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Challenge 1
• Create a multimedia video in FRENCH to attract
the striker to Exeter City- no longer than 2 minutes.
• This video will be uploaded to a blog
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• The video with the most views by 12 midday,
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FRENCH to lure the player in person- no more than
3 minutes.
• You will be presenting this in front of the other
teams at 1.00 THIS AFTERNOON.
• This must be business-like. You will be cut off at 3
minutes and all team members must speak.
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When you leave today it will be YOUR responsibility to
develop to drive traffic to your video.
Ideas...
• Posters around school
• School website?
• QR codes?
• Speak to family / friends / neighbours
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next year- anyone interested?
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