A presentation given at #ililc4 designed to encouraged teachers to rethink the content that they teach and then how to free their students to express themselves!

1. Imagine you could just… start again.
Write a list of the 5 foundations you’d like
to build your department on.
What do they say about HOW you want
the students to learn?

2. Issues we face
• Low profile for
MFL in school
• Low motivation
levels
• Low skill levels
• Lack of time!
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3. • Could you talk about...
• Would you want to talk
about...
• How creative could you
be when talking about...
items inhealthy?
being a house?
The traditional topics?
- school
- environment
- daily routine
- local area
- weather
- sports and leisure
- house and home
- food / healthy living
- family
- holidays

4. How do we
encourage...
- intercultural understanding?
- linguistic creativity?
- INTEREST?
- spontaneity?
- skill development?

5. Difficulties in dealing with
complex content
- introducing new, complex language
- ensuring language is appropriate moving
forward
- students won’t understand the concepts
- students don’t have opinions on the
subjects

6. How I build in
creativity + ICT ...
Chilean earthquake
- house and home
(year 8)

8. Use your word mat to match the vocab below.
What do you think we will be learning about?
Querría
Me haría falta
Me gustaría
porque
sería
esencial
útil
inútil
un lujo
I would want
I would need
I would like
because
It would be
essential
useful
useless
a luxury
I would like
because
I would want
It would be
I would need
useless
a luxury
useful
essential

9. Work with a partner
- Note down as many details in the back of your
book as you can from the video

10. ?
Exploiting word mats
• Translation tasks (written)
• Mini whiteboard tasks
• Answering questions (set number of words?)
• Improving model answers
• Peer feedback

11. Dual language texts to add
cultural context

12. ¿Qué necesitarías después de un
terremoto ?
Me gustaría (I would like)
Necesitaría (I would need)
Have you investigated
No estoy de
Estoy de acuerdo
Group Talk
acuerdo
Sería (it would be) before? (more…than)
más...
QUE
menos… QUE (less…than)
tan… como
Claro
= of
course
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
(as… as)
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
¿En serio? =
Seriously?

13. Your challenge:
1) Design a digital Shelterbox containing 10
items that you would want after a disaster
2) Rank them 1 to 10- 1 the most important
3) Use the word mat to explain WHY you
would want that item

14. Uruguayan drug legalisation
-healthy living
(year 8)

15. Your end of unit project this half term will
be to create a blog post on your attitude to
addiction and drug legalisation.
Obviously, the best blog posts aren’t just
text- what else might yours include?
Spend 5 minutes with a partner discussing…
a) What your post might include
b) What words you might need?

16. You have 25 minutes to…
Create a vocab list of at least 20 words for yourself on
the topic of “health”- not just drugs!
Write the Spanish and the English
This must include…
• 5 infinitives (AT LEAST)- words that in English
begin “to…” eg “to drink”
Remember: these end in –ar , -er or -ir
• 5 opinions eg “healthy”
I have a list of 9 words- if you get more than 3 of
them you get 2 merits

17. You have 5 minutes to…
Swap words with other pairs
- Get at least 3 more infinitives
- + 1 more opinion

18. My words
fumar
– to
smoke
tomar
– to take
beber
– to drink
comprar
– to buy
prohibir
– to ban
horrible
– horrible
ilegal
– illegal
enfermo
– ill
sano
– healthy

19. My words
fumar
tomar
beber
comprar
prohibir
horrible
ilegal
enfermo
sano

20. Quiero = I want
Voy a= I am going to
se debe = you should
porque = because menos = less
más = more es = it is
te hace = it makes you
fumar
tomar
beber
comprar
prohibir
horrible
ilegal
enfermo
sano

21. 2
Use the grids in front of you to translate the
following phrases
Title= Mis opiniones sobre el salud
(My opinions about health)
1) I am ill and I have a cough- it’s horrible
Estoy enfermo y tengo tos- es horrible
2) Es importante de prohibir las drogas porque son
peligrosas
It’s important to ban drugs as they are dangerous
3) Cuando era joven quería probar un cigarillo pero
ahora prefiero hacer ejercicio porque es sano
When I was young I used to want to try a cigarette
but now I prefer to do exercise because it’s healthy

22. 2
?

23. 2
Writing challenge:
You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions
on health and addiction
1) What was your attitude to smoking when
you were younger
2) What your attitude to smoking is now
3) Do you think we should legalise drugs?
4) What do you think we should do to stay
healthy?
5) What would you do in the future, if you
could, either to stay healthy or to have fun?

24. 2
2 stars and a wish
Writing challenge:
You have 20 minutes to describe your opinions
on health and addiction
1) What was your attitude to smoking when
you were younger
2) What your attitude to smoking is now
3) Do you think we should legalise drugs?
4) What do you think we should do to stay
healthy?
5) What would you do in the future, if you
could, either to stay healthy or to have fun?

25. 3
What can you work
out from this
government
campaign?

26. 3

27. 3 A) Find the following phrases in the text
1. The regulated and controlled legalisation
La legalización regulada y controlada
2. At the moment the situation provokes
En este momento la situación provoca
3. It is an impossible fight
Es una lucha imposible
4. More problems than the drugs themselves
Más problemas que las drogas sí mismas
5. Drug trafficking causes a “dramatic situation”
El narcotráfico causa una “situación drámatica”
6. Owing to their strong addiction
Debido a su fuerte addición

28. 3
Can you think on your feet?
Tell your partner how you’d say the
following words and phrases…

29. 3
In my opinion
you should
try drugs
because
they don’t cause
problems
of memory
En mi opinión
Se debe
probar drogas
porque
no causan
problemas
de memoria

30. 3
I believe that
drugs
are
Creo que
las drogas
son
a part of growing up
una parte de la juventud
but
they are
harmful
and
boring
pero
son
nocivas
y
aburridas

31. 3
From my point of
view
drugs
they are
stupid
and
you should not
legalise them
Desde mi punto de
vista
las drogas
son
estúpidas
y
no se debe
legalizarlas

32. 3
Now practise this with your partner1 says the English, the other says the Spanish
- Who can build the longest sentence?
- Use…
y = and
Sin embargo = however
Pero = but
También = also
No obstante = nevertheless
Además = furthermore

33. 3
¿Cuál es tu opinión de las
drogas?
Estoy de
acuerdo
No estoy
de
acuerdo

34. 3
Homework:
1) Type up your response to ¿Cuál
es tu opinión de las drogas?
2) Add it to the Padlet wall

35. 4
¿Cuál es tu opinión de las
drogas?
Estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
No estoy de acuerdo
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
¿En serio? =
Seriously?

36. 4
¿Cuál es tu opinión del
alcohol?
Estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
No estoy de acuerdo
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
¿En serio? =
Seriously?

37. 4
¿Cuál es tu opinión del
tabaco?
Estoy de acuerdo
Claro
= of
course
Estás loco / a
= you’re
crazy
No estoy de acuerdo
¡Qué va!
= yeah
right!
¿En serio? =
Seriously?

38. 4
I want
Quiero

39. 4
To smoke
fumar

40. 4
To drink
beber

41. 4
¿Se debe legalizar las drogas?
DEBATE
Drug dealer
Parent
Drug user
17 year old
Follow-up homework
- Type up your conclusions for the
blog?
Anti-drugs
Teacher
- campaigner task on a blog?
Reading image
- Continue the debate on Edmodo?

42. An outward-facing
department

43. Issue 2: lack of self-belief
Who communicating FOR?

44. What’s your audience?
vs

45. www.ridgewaylanguages.typepad.com

46. www.roydslanguagesdepartment.typepad.com
Creating an audience for
work

47. Departmental Twitter accounts
@longsladeMFL
Possible uses
• Share links
• Reminders
• Highlight great work
• New blog posts
• Building audience

48. Podcasting
By students
• Provides audience for speaking tasks
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Editing process = repeated exposure
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere
For students
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere

49. iTunes- choose your country

50. Podcasting
- building oral confidence
Simple recording
Create your own
Grammar series
Revision

51. QR code displays
http://bit.ly/QRcodedisplay

52. Wespeke
I’d love your feedback on this!

53. Sharing
=
Awesomeness

54. Learning from blogs
A few blogs to investigate...
• mfljones.wordpress.com
• changing-phase.blogspot.com
• missmclachlan.blogspot.com
• msmfl.wordpress.com
• amandasalt.blogspot.com

55. www.clil4teachers.pbworks.com

56. Feedly

57. Twitter
- your personal support network
http://tweepml.org/MFL-Twitterers

58. Dropbox
- Among your group
- On Twitter

59. content
control?
confidence
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Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com
@chrisfullerisms