Last weekend I saw a lovely man called Nick Bilbrough from www.horizonlanguagetraining.co.uk speak at the Languages Show 2009 at Olympia. The man is a genius! I saw him speak last year and came away with masses of brilliant ideas for livening up my lessons and this year was no different.
Below you will find 3 videos from my first lesson back after the show with Y9 who are getting ready for their AfL speaking tasks on Friday. (Video 3 still converting!!!) In the hope of showing them that revision can be fun, we had a go at some active listening. Firstly as a whole calss and then in pairs. They had fun. I had fun. I even pretended to be a kangaroo. It's worth watching the clips for that shot alone!!! Everyone was engaged and I knew that they had understood the French as they were miming the correct mimes. Result.
Have a watch and please comment below - we'd love to know what you think.
Email me if you want copies of any of the resources I used [email protected]
Thanks again Nick - you got my first day back off to a lovely, lively start.
Vos élèves sont très talenteux Madame Bewell! Excellent!
Monsieur H, Cheadle Hulme School
Posted by: Simon Howells | 11/04/2009 at 09:15 PM
Bonjour la classe :-) I am very impressed! off to see if my pupils are up to it..
Posted by: twitter.com/amandasalt | 11/04/2009 at 09:23 PM