Planning with the Framework

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Planning with the Framework

• Planning for the incidental using language in
  everyday routines

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Timing timetabling!

• Part 2 Framework
• Primary Language Learning An introduction to
  the Framework for all users. P.9
• schools will plan for no less than 60 minutes
  per week of dedicated language time. This
  might be divided into relatively short sessions,
  for example
• 15 minutes per day
• 3 x 20 minutes
• 2 x 30 minutes plus one shorter session of 10
  minutes
• In addition to this dedicated time allocation,
  teachers
• should seek opportunities during the week to
  enable
• children to use their newly acquired language
  skills.

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Timing timetabling!

• Part 2 Framework
• 2. Co-ordinating Provision Advice for Head
  Teachers,
• Senior Managers and Subject Co-ordinators p.25
• The Framework encourages schools to integrate
• language learning into the existing curriculum as
  much as
• possible. Through a combination of dedicated
  language
• lessons, teaching language through other subjects
  areas,
• and using language for real purposes in daily
  classroom
• routines, schools have found that they can meet
  the
• recommended time allocation of 60 minutes..

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An hour a week .?

• 5 minutes a day 25 minutes a week
• 10 minutes a day 50 minutes a week
• Language in everyday routines supports Oracy
• Literacy
• Intercultural Understanding,
• Knowledge about Language
• and is a Language Learning Strategy

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What do we do every day? Could we do it in a
foreign language?

• answering the register and dinner register
• greeting each other around the school
• getting rewards for good work
• writing the date, getting out equipment
• looking around the room when things get boring
• quiet reading and browsing in the library
• filling the odd minutes

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Answering the register can be different every day

• bonjour / au revoir / déjeuner / sandwichs
• a word with a new sound e.g. chien
• the name of a town e.g. Paris
• présent / présente
• personal information e.g. age / pets / birthday
  month
• different words in a topic area e.g. colours /
  places in town / classroom objects
• words in sequence e.g. numbers, days, months
• teacher gives a word e.g. le football / la
  géographie / le bleu / les chats, children state
  opinion using jadore / jaime / je naime pas /
  je déteste

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Its not just about practising vocabulary

• Oracy O3.2 Recognise and respond to sound
  patterns and words
• O5.2 Understand and express simple opinions
• KAL Imitate pronunciation
• Recognise some basic aspects of agreement
  e.g. gender

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Reward stickers

• Stickers in French can reward good work in any
  subject.
• Bon anniversaire stickers soon become part of the
  class birthday routine!
• (Try www.superstickers.com for stickers,
  mini-stickers, stampers, certificates and pencils
  in French, German and Spanish)

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Using French around the school

• If teachers start, children soon join in
• bonjour / ça va?
• au revoir
• il fait froid / chaud
• bon appétit!
• bravo! super!
• O3.3 Perform simple communicative tasks
• O6.4 Use spoken language confidently to initiate
  and sustain conversations

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Independent tasks for children

• Writing up the date every day
• Putting up appropriate weather cards
• Checking the birthday calendar and reminding you
  to sing Joyeux anniversaire.

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Posters and displays can do the work for you

• Language posters
• Maps, tourist board posters
• Labels on equipment drawers e.g. papier, cahiers
• Displays of new language
• Can you pronounce all these words?
• L3.1 Recognise some familiar words in written
  form
• L4.3 Read some familiar words and phrases aloud
  and pronounce them accurately
• IU3.2 Locate countries where the language is
  spoken
• IU4.4 Learn about ways of travelling to the
  country

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Language games and action rhymes can fill spare
moments

• vocabulary noughts and crosses
• head, shoulders, knees and toes
• Simon says (Jacques a dit)
• guessing games (flashcards, whiteboard)
• spell a childs name in French, others guess who
  it is
• count and clap while lining up

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Et la musique ?

• CDs of French songs
• background music for quiet work
• PE games
• going out and coming in from play

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Browsing in the class library

• Simple story books or bilingual books
• Familiar stories and fairy tales
• Picture dictionaries
• Non-fiction books dinosaurs, football
• European Bookshop, 5 Warwick St., London W1B 5LU
• www.europeanbookshop.com
• Grant and Cutler, 55-57 Great Marlborough St.,
  London W1F 7AY
• www.grantandcutler.com

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