Knutsford Academy

Let's make them SPEAK @ GCSE

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Disclaimer

What this is NOT

This is NOT EPI training. For training in EPI, consult Gianfranco Conti.

What this IS

This IS pragmatic class room application of a Lexicogrammar approach to teaching MFL

How good is your short term memory?

Input

Intake

3/5 items in second language

OutputFLUENCY

Your memory and the forgetting curve

Memory, what every Language Teacher should know

Why is speaking important?

to Motivation

STRUCTUREDPRODUCTION

FLUENCY

The Learning journey:PURPOSE:FLUENCY, INDEPENDENCE =Rosenshine

CREATIVITY

MODELLING

MODELLING

STRUCTURED PRACTICE

INTERLEAVING

CREATIVITY

GRAMMAR

RETRIEVAL PRACTICE

FLUENCY

Working towards FLUENCY

MODELLING: CREATING FOUNDATIONS FOR FLUENCY

TIP: exploit thetextbook audiofiles!

USING LISTENING/READING FOR LEARNING

3. Listening, Reading Battleships

4. Reading for learning

8. The Buzzer game

1. Sentence Builders

5. Beat the teacher

2. Dictations

TIP: Check for understanding, constantly!! Questions

6. Spotting activities

TIP: Modelling the thinking process=EXAMS

7. Tranlating listening activities

Tech

A listening strategy for the Exam

What examiners say

Textbook Listenings

A 7 step approach to tackle Listening

Creating a LanguageLab in your Classroom

Vocab learning = Vocab sticking

Receptive and Productive Vocabulary

Focus on HighFrequency words: General Vocab from AQA spec

Low Stakes Tests

Training students for the reading EXAM

checkingfor understanding

RECEPTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

RETRIEVALPRACTICE 5 POWERS

pRODUCTIVEVOCAB LEARNING

modellingFROM Sbs

EXAMListening READING SKILLS

Fluency/GC Qs WRITING

Structuredscaffoldedpractice

GRammar

1. Board Games

7. High Five!

2. Jenga Game

STRUCTURED PRACTICE: Scaffolded support

3. Stealing Sentences: Levels 2/3

4. Dictogloss in pairs

INTERLEAVING

5. Information Gap Activities

6. Battleships

RETRIEVAL

Tech

6. Flippity : Random Picker

1. Cops and Robbers

CREATIVITY: starting to manipulate the language!

2. 4 Boxes

7.Flip

3. Walkabout Bingo

8. Oral/ written creative tasks via Padlet

4. Relay Races

5. The sticky game

Tip: before attempting these tasks, practise creative answers with MWBs

RETRIEVAL= HIGH EXPECTATIONS

STICKABILITY

Board games

Connect 4, 3 in a row

Genially

Snakes and Ladders

Piñata game

Jumanlly

RELATEDNESS

All Activities from Creativity with time!

1. Speed dating

2. Piedra, papel, tijera

3. Spider Game

4. Board Games but with open ended responses

fLUENCY: 3 2 1

7. Flippity with Questions

5. High Five

6. Flippity : Random Picker with TIME

8. The Sticky Game

The GC is key

7. Tik-tok videos

5. One dice: Speak!

7. Quizziz

Accelerating progress = Confidence= Motivation

Embedding Grammar in the process:An approach

InductiveGrammar

Acknowledgements

Gianfranco Conti Steve Smith Kate Jones Pooja K. Agarwal Patrice Bain SHAUN ALLISON ANDY THARBY TOM SHERRINGTON mfltwitterati community

Further Reading

Memory: What every Language teacher should know Make every lesson count Powerful Teaching Retrieval Practice Rosenshine's principles in action

THANKS

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