Who is It?

1) Who is “IT?” One pupil goes out of the room and your secretly choose one pupil as “IT”

2) The pupil who went out of the room comes back. All pupils start repeating one word and when IT gives the signal they change to next word

3) The pupil out of the room has to guess who was IT!

Here’s an oldie but goodie

1) Pick 4 pupils to stand in four corners of the room.

2) Ask the pupils sitting down a question if they get it right they get to replace a pupil in one of the corners

3) Games over when the bell goes and the four remaining kids in the corners go out the classroom first!

Had a great day today at Newcastle University with my Year 8s who learnt how to make crepes in French using the Linguacuisine app and the digital kitchen. I thoroughly recommend a visit if you are North East based.

The girls listening to the French instructions

Posing with his perfect crepe!

Part of the morning was working on some Project Based Learning with Alison Whelan designing menus for a cafe and learning about French cafe culture.

Working hard guys!

Here’s your solution –

Rétro badges £1 from Amazon – I wear mine on my lanyard in every mock and speaking exam to remind them to ask me a question .

Remember – it counts as a question if they simply ask “et toi?” at the end of an opinion / statement. I’ve been training mine to get it out of the way in their first question and literally write it in to their speaking booklets in the first couple of questions on every topic!

Last year more than half my kids needed prompting and this year only one had to be asked “tu as une question pour moi?”

Found these very useful and they all know the story. We did this on World Book Day and we are also having our own World Book Week in school next week so doing a new one.

Google “random stock photo” and find some unusual pictures to put around your room.

You could do “qu’est-ce qu’il y a sur la photo?” OR you could do the much “funner” 12 questions game

Pupils have to fill in 10 sentences about the picture and be as creative and funny as possible then as a class you vote on your favourites to create his “identity”

Il s’appelle …

Il a … ans

Il habite …

Il travaille comme …

Il aime manger …

Il aime jouer …

You can make the questions as easy or hard as you need to – some will need the sentence, some you could ask just the questions;

Comment s’appelle-t-il?

Quelle âge a-t-il?

I love using “Discovery Education Puzzle Maker” website to make double puzzles.

It takes only a few minutes to enter a few words which are generated into anagrams and the second part of the puzzle is a code exercise at sentence level for early finishers.

Can you solve this one? The topic is colours in French.

Set your iPhone to French and go to the weather app, take a couple of screenshots and use them to teach weather, days of the week etc. Also good for cultural awareness because you can show them the weather in french speaking countries and they could compare, might be interesting, especially during the current “canicule!”