All Sort of Activities for Levels 3 & 4!
 

Back to School!

Florence Lyons (Matamata College) has put together these "Speaking Cards" to get students back into the swing of French at the beginning of the year.  Print all, one per student, and let the students work with a partner or more, asking the questions and filling in the answers!

Ratatouille: a Film Study for Juniors

Verna Morris (Dunstan College) has kindly shared a Unit of Work her year 9 students have thoroughly enjoyed, based on the famous film

Ratatouille

(Disney/Pixar, 2006) Verna has created and developed two PPT and the documents below. Verna also outlines step by step how her students used the resources in the introduction. The answers to the activities are also provided. Merci beaucoup!

Festival and Tradition Board Game

Margaret Ubels, St Peter's College Auckland, has put together and shared a group task for students to gain an understanding of traditions and festivals in France – being able to identify what, when and how.
Students create a ‘jeu de société’ based on festivals and traditions in France. They need to include material that indicates what the festivals are, when they are held, and what happens ( food, clothing, special activities – any special terms or words associated with the festival). Download the full task below.

Picture by Secret Madeira, with thanks

French Expressions using Fruit and Vegetables

Sue Kano (St Mary's Wellington) sent the presentation below illustrating common expressions using words for fruit and vegetables. Why not show your students the presentation, ask them to look up the missing words (vocab for fruit and veg), discuss the expressions and meaning and reuse a chosen phrase in a short role play they create?

Image: 'colorful vegetables' with thanks

 

Madeline - A Film Study for Juniors

Hilary de Joux (Nelson College for Girls) has developed a wonderful film study opportunity for Junior students at level 4.  Based on the film Madeline, Hilary has compiled in the document below a wide range of activities to be carried out upon viewing the film in class.  The document provides reading, speaking, writing and grammar exercises, invites reflection on characters and encourages students to work in pairs. The quiz allows for differentiation.  Feel free to print and cut and vocabulary cards to introduce the basics before embarking on the study itself or use as revision/reinforcement.

Logic Activity - Le Tour de France

This is a French logic puzzle for the Tour de France created by Clairwillsmum and shared on the TES Website. Pupils have to read the statements and fill in the grid beneath when they have the information. Extra clues can be gained from answering the questions at the bottom of the worksheet. As this reading activity can be adapted to any context, it can be saved as a proformat for you to create others. Or why not invite your students to make up their own for a thinking skills practice?

La Véritable Histoire du Chat Botté

Created by the Alliance Française de Sydney, this Unit of Work provides worksheets on the film: La véritable histoire du Chat Botté
The activities are devised for two different levels and can be used with different age groups. You can decide to use all or part of the "séquence pédagogique" upon viewing the film with your students. These worksheets and the answers were initially published on the

(AFTV) website.  It is well worth a visit for other teaching resources. 

Digital Photostory Project

Philippa Kruger (St Hilda's Collegiate School) has created a Photostory project for her Year 10 Class. She was inspired by the presentation she saw at the AFMLTA Conference this year, and has followed the guidelines shared on that occasion to come with this project. Philippa had in mind an activity to round up the knowledge acquired throughout the school year. The 5 week task is for students to create a photostory to introduce themselves. The end product must be a photo movie with sound to go with each photo in the movie. Obviously the sound recording must be in French. Students can create the photostory either about their own life or about the life of a made up character.
Watch other photostories to get ideas! Or click here for useful information on Windows Photostory programme, which is a simple digital storytelling tool.

Jeopardy: Revision ( IWB )

Based on the quiz show Jeopardy, this truly interactive activity has an answer and question format in which students are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their answers in question form. Florence Lyons (Matamata College) has adapted this format to get her year 10 students go over what they acquired the previous year.  Organising your students in small group, a tally chart, open the Interactive White Board file and get started. Students choose how much they want to wager (the more the more difficult) and click on "music" to start the timer.  Go to Wikipedia for a comprehensive yet short set of rules if you really want to get going with the real thing!

Band Blog

This activity, created and shared by Philippa Kruger (St Hilda's Collegiate School) is particularly suitable for year 10 students who have had the opportunity to work with a blog or wiki.  The task is to keep the blog of an imaginary music band, whose members and music style are also issued from the students' imagination.  Access to computers for the duration of the project is required.  Philippa has also outlined the Key Competencies involved in the task outlined below.

►Countries, Flags and National Stereotyping ; A range of activities.

►Common Foods, Dishes, Meals and Cooking terms: a range of online and printable resources from Languages Online

 ►Cours de Français pour Débutants

Discover these lessons at www.francaisfacile.com: Discover 100s of short lessons, organised on a range of topics (vocab, grammar, adjectives etc).  All lessons are short and in French.  Some are designed for French primay school students, but if you scroll down the page, many FLE (Français Langue Etrangère) lessons are also available and are relevant for students of French at this level.  Each interactive lesson offers illustrated vocabulary and sound files, and online exercises marked on the spot!  Topics include: A la Boulangerie, Au Zoo, A l'Ecole ...as well as conjugations, use of être and avoir etc.

  Foo da FaFa - Flights of the Conchords.

Stefanie Hossback (Marian College) has put together a listening and reading activity based on the funny Foo da FaFa song!  Stefanie has included the text of the lyrics as they are, as well as a corrected version.  The topics covered are food and drinks and places in town. This resource culminates to a creative writing activity where students can write their own verse following the Flights of the Conchords style.

TBL - Des Compliments qui Font Chaud au Coeur (Warm Fuzzies)

Manu Ménard (St Matthew's Collegiate) has created and shared an other comprehensive Task-Based Learning activity.  Manu invites students to create warm fuzzies to share with their peers and teachers, while placing a grammar focus on -er verbs.  Download the step by step guide to this 3-lesson activity, and teach the task-based way!