Telephone numbers

Looking for a resource to help your class to practise numbers to 9999?  Then have a go at this Follow-me activity.  Each student has a card.  The top, purple, number is their incoming number that they have to listen out for.  When they hear it, they have to give the bottom, blue, number, which is their outgoing number, for the next student to listen for.

To vary the activity:

  • try doing the activity against the clock (great online stopwatch here) 
  • use it as single numbers rather than thousands for beginner learners
  • use it for a whole-class listening activity where one person (teacher or one of the students) calls one number.  The person with that number has to answer saying "¿Diga?"

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phone-number-followme.pdf (932 KB)
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La Fête des Mères

Sunday 3rd June in France will be la Fête des Mères - Mother's Day.  I am thinking that a good activity for the last week before half term will be to make cards for the children to take home.

Here are some links with information about la Fête des Mères:

This mini-dossier from the ever-reliable Momes.net has information about the origin of la Fête des Mères, plus ideas for crafts, gifts, recipes and games.

There are plenty of craft ideas and colouring pages from Petites Têtes.

Tête à Modeler also has a dossier about the history of la Fête des Mères.  It also has a list of how to say "Happy Mother's Day" in lots of languages and a selection of "certificates for the best mum" as well.

I've designed a card which the children will do in conjunction with my "French handwriting" sheet.  They can have a go at copying this comptine in "French writing" onto the lined section of the card, and then can decorate and colour the rest.

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UPDATE:  Here's the PowerPoint that I've made for the lesson.  It shows a completed version of the card.

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fete-des-meres.ppt (2.12 MB)
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55 new resources on MFL Sunderland

I've just uploaded 55 new resources to the website.  Many thanks to new contributors Marie O'Sullivan and Terri Dunne, as well as regular contributor Marie Connolly.

There are new resources for Primary Spanish, Primary French, Spanish Starters and Plenaries, KS3 Spanish, KS3 French, KS3 German, KS4 Spanish, Numeracy and the Olympics.

Apologies for this latest update taking so long - I've just purchased the latest version of the software that I use, and it's different enough to make the update a bit more tricky than usual.

Do you have any resources that you would like to share via MFL Sunderland?  I can't pay you or enter you in a prize draw, but I can put you on the Thanks page and you will make the working life of many MFL teachers much easier.  All you have to do is email them to mflsunderland@gmail.com.  Thanks!

 

Number puzzles for French and Spanish

The latest installment of Numeracy resources - some number chains which practis e addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  The target-language numbers used are 1-30, although the calculations deal with numbers to 100. 

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Olympic resources: sport lists

Here are lists in French and Spanish of the 26* sports that will be contested in London this summer.  I've included the genders to facilitate and practise putting the correct definite articles and writing sentences correctly using je joue/je fais and juego/practico.  

*Sorry - first upload had 28 sports!  List now correct.

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Olympic Data Handling in English, French and Spanish

A table of information for you.  Practise reading information from a table, make a pie chart to show how often different continents have hosted the Games, work out average numbers of medals.....  There are all sorts of numeracy possibilities as well as lots of intercultural and global ones.

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Olympics-table-en.doc (74 KB)
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Olympics-table-sp.doc (72 KB)
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More numeracy resources on MFL Sunderland

I have added more numeracy resources for Number Sequencing and Addition and Subtraction.  I hope you find them useful.

You will see that all the numeracy resources are for French and Spanish.  I don't know any German and would not trust my Italian.  If you have any numeracy resources for other languages that you would like to share, please email them to mflsunderland@gmail.com.  I'm afraid I can't offer you any cash rewards or swanky prizes, but I and the MFL community will be very grateful.

Link to the Olympics

I thought I would share the links to Olympics ideas, information and resources that I have so far.

FRENCH:

French resources from PetitesTetes, especially suitable for KS1

French Olympic Rings song

Information in French about the Olympics of the last 20 years

Information in French about the 35 Olympic sports

Interactive French map of the 204 competing nations

Colouring and craft from Tête à Modeler - especially suitable for Primary

Short texts in French about the history of the Olympics

Dossier sur les Jeux Olympiques

SPANISH:

List of the Olympic sports in Spanish

Sport pictures for colouring and flashcards from PrimeraEscuela

GENERAL:

London 2012 Facts and Figures

Global resources with an Olympic theme - cross-curricular ideas for all key stages

Olympic medals timeline - BBC news article

The Global Children's Challenge

Cross-curricular Primary ideas which can be adapted for MFL

Resources from Get Set London 2012

 

Do you have any Olympic links that you would like to share?  Put them in a comment!

UPDATE 21.4.12:  I've added more links in the comments below, so please read those too.

 

Easter links and ideas for French

It's finally the last week of term (for most of us!) and people are looking for activities with an Easter theme.

My Year 2 French classes today made Cloches Volantes  We talked about the chocolate shapes that we have at Easter (eggs, rabbits and chicks) and then I showed them some of the chocolate shapes that can be bought in France - fish and bells. I gave them the basic bell and they coloured it in and some drew wings on them.  You can download the bells and the PowerPoint below.

Here are some other useful links:

French Easter colouring

Easter crafts

Some more Easter crafts

French Bible stories for children, including the First Easter

Fantastic French Easter chocolate

Easter wordsearches in French

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cloches_volantes.ppt (788 KB)
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cloches-volantes.pdf (76 KB)
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Jour de la Francophonie

Tuesday 20th March is Jour Internationale de la Francophonie.  If you would like to celebrate the day in school, here are some useful links:

PowerPoint presentation from TES resources

Information from About.com

Account of a Jour de la Francophonie celebration in the West Midlands

Conte-moi la francophonie - stories from Francophone countries

Les cantines scolaires du monde francophone

Le monde de la francophonie - a useful map

Dis-moi dix mots qui te racontent - learn 10 French words chosen by the Francophone countries

Official website of the International Organisation of Francophonie - lots of useful facts and figures about French

Les grands champions de la francophonie - Video that begins and ends with a bit of Monty Python! - and ideas from TES resources to go with it.