MFL in time of Corona

Improve as a result of this period and will blog and broadcast my theories on this over the next few weeks
LinguaCuisine on Tour !
Here’s an article about LinguaCuisine PBL Project coming to our school last week 🙂
Festisite

I’ve been using Festisite to make these fantastic word spirals as little starter activities – bit different to a wordsearch and dead easy to copy and paste into worksheets.
Fun (stocking) Filler!
I had ten minutes spare in Year 7 lesson on physical description this week so opened up my visualiser and took out a clean sheet of paper – and made up some sentences about them – this was zero prep and the kids loved it.
I really couldn’t believe how much they enjoyed it, I wrote sentence such as “il est assez petit, il a les yeux bleus et les cheveux roux” and they had to guess who it was in the class.
I did it again with the Year 8 but this time it was about their personality as well – “Je pense qu’il est assez timide mais ses amis pensent qu’il est drôle. Il est toujours travailleur et poli …”
They then decided they wanted to write their own – which they did in silence (highly unusual for this class) and literally ran to put them up on the visualiser for others to see.
If you don’t have a visualiser you could just write them on a mini whiteboard and hold it up or take a photo on your phone and send it to your email.
Great review of my Inside Government Conference presentation
Exciting Study
Embedding Translation AI in the L2 Secondary School Classroom
Really excited to be taking part in this study discussing pupil experiences with Translation Technologies and Creative materials and helping to create an app
https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk

Extra source of Higher Tier translation material

Look up the GCSE AQA papers in other languages – this one was English to Spanish, but they could do English to French – cut and paste. Whole new set of translations to do
MFL Conference 2019

Amusant est ennuyeux!
I’m really sick of students writing “parce que c’est amusant” over and over, especially in Year 11! I found this online and thought I would share – 
