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"How I learned to stop worrying about vocab and gave up testing it"
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What TV5 can offer teachers of French
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Teaching French in Kiwiland: Florence's Blog
That's not Teacher Aide stricltly speaking, more like Teacher Inspiration! In March 2009, Florence Lyons (Matamata College) started a blog:
Based on her experience as a Teacher of French, in New Zealand. Florence writes of her reflections on her practice, but also of her relationship with students and of her understanding of what make them tick. She also shares her (wide) experience in the use of ICT and web based tools. Become a "follower", subscribe to the RSS feed, post comments, the choice is yours!
Single Page Unit Format and the NZC.
Wayne Lynch (St Mary's College) suggests a single page Unit Format (slightly modified from Dawn Jarbeau's original - Merci Dawn!) that allows you "to show you care about the new curriculum without having to have a 10 page document for each unit of work!" See below how Wayne has adapted the template for his Unit on School.
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Single Page Unit Format
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Effective Resources for Learning French- B. McHale
Florence Lyons (Matamata College) recommends this online book by Bianca McHale. It provides an annotated bibliography of resources that she has found useful for learning French. These resources include audio courses, books, music, movies and websites, arranged into chapters and sections for ease of reference. Because the author has kept the list short in each section—advocating quality over quantity—the resources are listed arbitrarily rather than in any particular order. A very interesting and thought provoking read.
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Effective Resources for Learning French
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www.schoolexpress.com
These worsheet generators allow you to create a variety of worksheets. It saves you time and keep things simple, no more formatting of word documents, it's all done for you! Just save, print, resuse etc.
With Schoolexpress, you can:
Create Your Own Worksheets
Create a Multiple Choice Quiz
Spelling Practice Worksheets
Writing Sentences
Word Unscramble
Word Walls and Flash Cards and Make Awards!
Examples of Units of Work for Teachers of French at Yrs 7 and 8 and Junior Levels.
The examples of Units of Work listed below are provided for your information only. These Units of Work have not been designed to meet the demands of the New Zealand Curriculum yet they are comprehensive, tested and many of the themes covered are usually taught in New Zealand. Therefore they can used as a source of inspiration to refine your planning and teaching further.
The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is" to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up". One of their purpose is to give children a top class education. Their website, called the Standards Site, offers, amongst a wide array of educational resources, fantastic, well planned, teaching resources, which have been tried and tested. Their purpose is to show how the French Programme of Study for Key stage 2 and Key Stage 3 Students (loosely Levels 1 to 5 of the New Zealand Curriculum) can be translated into manageable Units of Work. All units are available online and are fully downloadable, each providing teachers who chose to use them with clearly set out objectives, a range of activities and planned outcomes.
Each unit is divided into sections with language content and context. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. Also an indication of time for its completion is given (eg: 12 hours).
Example: this Unit is entitled Chez Moi, where students learn to ask and answer questions about where they live.
More units are available in PDF format for Key Stage 2 students and can be useful to teachers of French in New Zealand at Years 7 and 8. The units are written with great attention to details and the web page includes a Guide for Teachers at this level as well as an overview of the 24 Units of Work listed.
