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MFL classroom tools and tricks Updated December 2014
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MFL Widgets & Wizardry
30+ ideas for the language classroom
http://iconscrabble.com
By attending the course you will:
be given information about online tools to help language learning
be given some information about recent e-learning developments
have a chance to share and discuss strategies for using online tools to raise attainment in MFL
Have a break from the frenzy of school
Questions?
Topic area?
Quick flash?
Quick flash?
Questions?
Topic area?
Quick flash?
Don’t forget that you can also use scrolling effects to see how much pupils remember
Tu vois……Un vase
OuDeux têtes?
Le nezLa boucheLe menton
Une jeune femme
ou
une vieille dame?
Tu vois
un lapin
ou
un canard?
Build your wildselfhttp://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Also Sonic character creatorhttp://devbook.com/charactercreators/sonic/
Mr Picassohead
• www.picassohead.com
• anime character maker
• sonic character creator
• gamepuma character creator
Countdown timerwww.online-stopwatch.com
A nice collection of timers.
Includes countdown bomb!
www.classtools.net
Has tunes you can use to countdown
Also : name/word randomizers, hidden image
www.classtools.net
Fakebook
& Fake Tweet (‘Twister’)
Great for project work – a celebrity, a town, a character in a novel, play or film
Linguascope widgets
[Log in needed]
Countdown timers
Dice
www.barryfunenglish.com
Look under ‘tools’ for scoreboards. One of the few free resources available on this site
‘wheeldecide’
http://wheeldecide.com/
A wheel spinner which you can customize with any number of segments and contents
You could add words, pupil’s names, topic categories
Les vacancesMa chambreMa villeMa maisonMon copain /ma copineMes animauxMon film préféréMon écoleMes profsMa routine
Word /name/phrase picker
http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/
Google primary ict random name selector
Works best on Chrome
Sandfields Comp IWB resources
• ‘Bingo in’ mad
• Click clock
• Fridge magnet
• Sketchpad for Pictionary
http://www.npted.org/schools/sandfieldsComp/games/Pages/default.aspx
Talking points Google: ‘unusual pictures’; check before use!
Harry Styles
Russell Brand
Justin Bieber
Kate Middleton
Victoria Beckham Jennifer Lawrence
The victim has made no mistakes. The killer has made 3 grammar or spelling mistakes. Everyone else has made 1 or 2. Find the killer & the victim
J’ai mangé une tartineet j’ai buune tasse de café
J’ai regarde la télé et après j’avons lire une BD d’Astérix
J’ai faire mes devoirs et j’ai surfé sur le web
J’ai allée au cinémaavec mes amies
Je suis resté à la maisonet j’ai faire la cousine
J’ai travaille dansle magasinde mon père
Pistols at Dawn
2 pupils stand back to back, hands in shape of drawn guns. T asks a question which requires a short (1 or 2 words) answer. Pupils turn round quickly and face each other, say the answer followed by BANG. Correct answer + ‘Bang’ wins. You can do a class knockout if not too many.
TTS IM text translatorText to speech- Good for pupils’
learning for speaking and writing tests. Cluttered interface but OK once you’re used to it. You can slow down the speed of the spoken text.
Bonjour les professeursindomptables.
J’espère que vous trouverez certaines de ces idées utiles et que cette présentation n’est pas trop exigeante.Rappelez que l’essentiel, c’est l’équilibre entre la vie professionnelle et la vie privée.
Passez des vacances reposantes.
Paste in the following text:
Pause n’ play videos
Favourite at the momentGerman:Edeka – supergeilRowan Atkinson singt das Europalied
French:Evian roller babies
Mr Bean – Packing for Holidayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dr_juOiI
Popplet
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907
Easy diagram creator
You can include youtubevideos
Babysittenhttp://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1283283
blockbusters
• Use http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters
Easy prompter
http://www.easyprompter.com/
Paste text into the box and it turns into a broadcast-style autocue
Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Zap readerwww.zapreader.comSelect ‘Reader’
Paste a bunch of text in to the boxHit ‘zap it’The page will display one word at a timeYou can adjust the speed and the number of words displayed at any one time (up to 5)
Good for reading practice (phonics)Information recallTranslation / comprehensionPredict next wordRepeat/ recall last word
Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice –not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
This is a wordle (wordle.net) how do we use it?
See also Tagxedo
www.wordle.net
Bart’s ChalkboardNext time, I
must remember to get this
right…… (x5 !)
3 things I learnt this lesson
You can use Bart’s chalkboard on a worksheet or the IWB
Here’s a question I want to ask the
teacher/ the class
Storybird & bookbox
• some lovely illustrated books in French Spanish German
• Good for a language club
Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting systems?
Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit
Download the ‘kit’ here: http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-mini-plenaries.html
Cartoon creators
Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters &
props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes. Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here
• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator.
Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.
http://www.toondoo.com/ Example here
Top 10shttp://www.aneki.com/lists.html
Go out of Powerpoint slideshow into edit mode & move this rectangle around
Try BARB as well for TV ratings
Good for comparatives and superlatives
Online voice recorders
• AudiobooEasy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.
Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to do a quick audio message and send it to your email address (your network techies can set one up a shadow (proxy) one for you)
• Vocaroo Easy audio recorder
There’s a more flexible one called Audiopal
Soundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio
Thinglink
Make an image interactive
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/428890774537502720
Fotobabble
Upload a photo and add your audio commentary
Here ’s an example (year 8 German)
Ideal for topic work at any level
Voki – talking avatar creator
• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of characters, voices and languages.
Selected pupils come to the front and create a target language Voki message to the class
Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil. Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.
Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5 most useful words from the lesson for the rest of the class to guess
Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter activity or a message which contains the lesson objective
Strip bingo
Strip bingoGive kids a strip of paper divided into 8 rows
(half of A4, vertical is OK). Teach about 20 vocab items . The pupils then choose 8 French words and copy each one into their 8 rows, one per row. Teacher then reads the English from the original list. If pupils has the word at top or bottom of their strip, they tear it off. Teacher keeps reading the list, in any order. The winner is the first pupil to ‘lose’ all their words.
One motion drum machine
Click on the image to see it in action –If you’re feeling brave, try the alphabet song
Gap fill generator
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html
Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator
Blabberize
• http://blabberize.com/view/id/794856
Upload any image, customize the mouth, record a message and watch the lip-sync in action.
Works best with cartoon faces but you can try celebs too.
Dice
I get up
I wash
I eat
I get dressed
I brush my teeth
I go to bed
In the garden
In the kitchen
In the garage
On the balcony
In my room
In the school
With my dog
With my cat
With my horse
With my two goldfish
With my mouse
With my tortoise
For dice rollers – see http://dice.miniwebapps.net/Also Linguascope widgets &IWB software e.g. Active Inspire
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More dicey ideas
Number each pupil in your class 1-12Go round again, so in a class of 24 you’ll have two pupils who are number 1 etcRoll 2 dieThe pupils with that number stand up and answer
Divide class into two teams - Ask a question then, if they answer correctly, roll one dice for number of points
‘cricket’: - roll a dice, then ask a question worth that number of points. So a six would be a really hard question, a one would be an easy one
Verb conjugation
quizlet
• Make you own sets of flashcards – audio enabled !
• Ma ville: http://quizlet.com/26983558/flashcards
TextivateApprox £35 a year
Copy and paste text
Choose sequencing or gap fill
Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Text mechanic + reverse text generator
• puts Use the words online different a a in which scrambler sentence order an text of
use an online text scrambler which puts the words of a sentence in a different order
• txet sdrawkcab ecudorp ekil sgniht rehto od uoy stel moc.esacelggot.www
www.togglecase.com lets you do other things like produce backwards text.
http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.phpGoogle: rjwoerheide + text scrambler
Text Srambler
Lingro
• Go to Lingro
• Import a foreign language webpage address and see what happens
• each word becomes clickable
• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it in a word list
• It will also generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked
Suggestions:
Amazon.deAmazon.frTV: la grille des émissionsCinema + Rouen+ programme
Subway BelgiqueMcDonalds FranceSubway FrancePizzas `a emporter
Using Authentic materials
www.allocine.fr
funny.pho.tophotobox
fodeyimagechef
Caption generators –
Photofunia does it all
Also: Glass giant
Kahoot
Pupils use www.kahoot.it
Teacher uses getkahoot.com
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/d57c4d55-10f7-47a4-ad62-78fbc5a5230b
Keep calmomatic