Bridging unit & Consolidation
2.16 Où habites-tu?
Bridging unit, consolidation & assessment This section includes ideas for additional activities that can be used to consolidate pupils’s learning, help you assess their progress, and celebrate just how much they have progressed .
Planning your work
We suggest 4 levels of activities:
1
Play “consolidation games” in everyday classwork, to bring together children’s learning from previous sections.
2 A more extended “cross-curricular project” using e.g. ICT or drama.
3
A “special event” with an audience to celebrate pupils’ linguistic achievement and cultural awareness, e.g. a whole-school assembly, a joint activity with a secondary school. Discuss with pupils how to assess their own
4 progress, using “can-do” sheets.
You can plan any such work together with their next class teacher as a “bridge” in readiness for the work they will do with Early Start French 3.
Progress in language learning:
Pupils who have covered the first two Early Start French packs can now conduct significant conversations and transactions. They can: ■ exchange personal details and preferences; ■ describe their town and their school; ■ ask for and give directions; ■ buy and pay for items in shops; ■ say what they like and want at mealtimes; ■ understand dates and times; ■ talk about the weather, clothes and hobbies. They will also have developed language-learning skills, e.g. using a dictionary to find new words; strategies for remembering. Pupils will have an insight into French life and culture from watching the films and discussing the topics highlighted in “talking points” and presentations. See the Introduction for a full section-by-section table of core vocabulary in Early Start French 2.
Activities
1. Consolidation games These games can be played with the whole class to reinforce the core vocabulary learned during Early Start French 1 and 2.
❑ Play “lucky dip” (name the card) Divide the class into two teams. Pupils from each team take it in turns to draw a card from a box for the opposing team to name. Prepare by putting a selection of picture cards from the activity sheets into a deep box so that pupils cannot see what is inside. There should be an even number of pictures, covering a variety of topics, e.g. colours, pets, groups of brothers and sisters, numbers, places in the town, rooms in school, classroom objects, clock faces, weather, sports and pastimes, school subjects, clothes, food and drink. ❑ Play “the memory game” Pupils have 30 seconds to memorize a selection of pictures from both Early Start French 1 and 2 that you display on the whiteboard, or by attaching flashcards to the wall. You remove one of the pictures and rearrange the rest while pupils’s eyes are closed. Pupils try to remember which picture is missing. Continue until only one picture remains. ❑ Play “what shall I draw?” Begin with a completely blank whiteboard and a pen - with which you will draw a French scene including anything that pupils say - as long as it is in French. You say “Quel temps fait-il?”. A pupil suggests you draw, e.g. “il y a du soleil”. You repeat what s/he said and draw a big sun. Someone says “il fait chaud” - you draw someone looking hot. Another suggests “une piscine”; you draw a swimming pool.
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