All Sort of Activities for Levels 3 & 4!

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!

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!