Learning event teaching MFL with apps - june 2020
- 1. Learning Event 2020: Teaching MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) with Apps eTwinning June 2020 Module 4 - Activity #6 Brigitte Collomb – France Maria Rita Pepe – Italy Yovka Zhecheva – Bulgaria Maike Vüst - Germany
- 2. Module 4 - Activity #6 Our choice: Option 2: “You create a sequence of 4 to 5 consecutive lessons using DIFFERENT apps (for different MFL purposes) in 4 to 5 lessons when teaching MFL (to be decided by the respective teams)” Material: tablet / smartphone. Language: English Students age / grade: 14 - 15 Objectives: From book reading to book writing. Grammar: present tenses: simple vs be-ing, Vocabulary: book & film genres; according to the chosen short story. Interaction: expressing likes, opinion, comparison. European competences: 2. Communication in foreign languages 4. Digital competence 5. Learning to learn 6. Social and civic competences 7. Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship 8. Cultural awareness and expression
- 3. SEQUENCING: The students have been asked to read a short story on their tablet (which is also adapted into a movie for the cinema) at home. They will study an extract from this short story at school. (Narration: present tense) Lesson 1: Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: the teacher suggests a global understanding quiz of the short story. Check the students’ global understanding. (auto corrective) Kahoot Or Plickers 10 minutes 2 Listening : after a teacher’s introduction, the students watch a trailer of the movie and answer questions about the plot. Listening comprehension. Questioning Present be-ing. (auto corrective) Ed Puzzle. 20 minutes 3 The students give their first impressions about this adaptation of the movie: written discussion. The teacher works orally with some students. Social interaction: train to express ideas, argue, vote for other students’ ideas, agree, disagree… Simple present Tricider 15 minutes. Homework: the students train reading an extract of the book with an online reader. Mind mapping of the new vocabulary OR interactive image creation. Pronunciation and listening training. Various accents. Memorizing vocabulary. TTSReader or NaturalReader / Coggle or Mindmeister Thinglink / Genially
- 4. Lesson 2: Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: quiz on the extract vocabulary. The teacher or a students can read the questions. Check the students’ work of memorization of the vocabulary and spelling. Kahoot Or Plickers 5 minutes 2 ACTING: some students read and act the extract of the book. Students give their impression about this reading and acting work, about the story theme orally. Practice pronunciation, intonation, acting. Eloquence. Simple present Express opinion spontaneously. Some of the students who are not involved in a reading task can shoot a video or record for feedback work. 20 minutes 3 Team work: each group of students create a little quiz, each team 3 questions about a passage of the extract. Collaborative work. Present tense: questions + possible answers. Interrogative words. Survey Monkey or Drag’n Survey 20 minutes. Homework: the students answer the short quizzes on the extract; they play an online vocabulary game on the theme of the story. Present tense Memorization Reading comprehension. Prepare next lesson activity. Survey Monkey or Drag’n Survey LearningApps or Quizzes
- 5. Lesson 3: Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: remember how to compare : comparative, superlative and lexicon. Auto corrective grammar exercises for a successful speaking activity. Liveworksheets British council grammar 15 minutes 2 Speaking: now the students are ready to answer questions and to discuss the book adaptation as a movie using their previous acting feedback and other activities. Use the studied vocabulary, the present tenses, the work on the short story theme, cultural aspects to speak. Eloquence. Flipgrid 25 minutes Homework branch out speaking: What movie genre do you prefer? Why? Discuss your habits: when, where, how do you enjoy watching TV? What are your favourite programs? Film? Series? Revising vocabulary: movie genres, TV programs, series, characters… Simple present Adverbs of frequency Vocaroo or Voki Class or Flipgrid
- 6. Lesson 4: Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: collaborative writing of the lesson “the present tenses” according to their uses in the previous activities. Co-writing a lesson. Being able to deduce the construction and choice of the tenses. Framapad Padlet Or Interactive whiteboard 20 minutes 2 Grammar: The students practice their grammar online with an escape game on the theme of the sequence. (individual or team work; we can also imagine the students have to move in the classroom for QR codes) Checking vocabulary, memorizing grammar understanding and illustrating the theme of the short story and trailer in another way to convey messages. Maybe working on the cultural aspect. LearningApps British council grammar Teachers’ websites (auto corrective) 35 minutes 3 Homework: vocabulary brainstorming on story writing: time, places, characters. Brainstorm the required vocabulary for the following lesson. Mentimeter
- 7. Lesson 5: (the teacher can create WordArt word clouds with the words from the 3 Mentimeters.) Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: Use Genially “Wheels of fortune” on the board to help the students write a short story in groups. Each group turns the first wheel to choose a setting. Turns the second wheel to choose a special time. Turns a last wheel to pick the characters! Revise vocabulary. Help the students with their imagination. Fasten decision making. Write different sorts of captivating and sometimes weird short stories in the class. Challenging and fun! Genially (wheels prepared by the teacher from the students Mentimeter or not = comparison of vocabulary possible) 10 minutes 2 Collaborative writing: Each group of 5 students writes his 30 line short story on Framapad using the ingredients from the wheels. They can add small dialogues to their story. Find a theme. Write in the present. Be able to write a number of lines in due time. Write complex and engaging sentences. Framapad. Online dictionary 35 minutes 3 Homework: the students watch the video tutorial of Storyjumper; the team captain creates the ebook, types the story in (3 pages) and invites the other team members and the teacher to collaborate on the ebook: one will illustrate it using the library; the 3 others will record one page each. Listening comprehension. Learn to use a tutorial. Read the story again. Illustrating and dual coding. Storytelling / voicing. Storyjumper TTSReader NaturalReader to train reading. Remove.bg or Bonanza if the illustrator needs to remove background to pictures.
- 8. Lesson 6: The teacher creates a Genially interactive picture with all the stories to be shared with all the students. Tasks objectives Apps Time 1 Warm up: Global vocabulary revision. Writing the ebook blurb. Presenting the ebook orally. Flippity Flashcards 10 minutes 2 Speaking: Each group presents its story to the other groups from the board. (5 ebooks) Eloquence. From the Genially interactive map. Possible recording 20 minutes 3 Guessing game: can you guess which story I am interpreting? Change the story genre. Change the present narrative for the past narrative. Speech to text Apps: Speechnotes Voice notes 15 minutes. TEST from home: quiz. .Check story understanding and grammar use. ProProfs Quiz Maker / Class Marker This sequencing is suggested as a final European collaborative activity for the “Learning Event 2020: Teaching MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) with Apps.” In your country, the lessons and sequencing may require changes according to the period duration, 45 minutes being an average time in Europe. Finally, some teachers may not give homework or think their students are not ready to perform some of the suggested tasks alone, so they might add an extra lesson to this sequencing. Thanks for your attention!