11 new resources today

11 new resources for you this evening:

• the first worksheets to accompany Mira 1
• the next worksheets to accompany Stimmt 1
• more worksheets to accompany Studio 1 
• 5 new reading texts for KS4 French

Enjoy!

37 new resources today

As the title says, there are 37 new resources on the site today, including:

• verb and gender posters for Spanish
• gender posters for French
• reading texts about the Euro 2016 mascot on the Euro 2016 page
• food resources for KS2 French

18 new resources today

I have uploaded 18 new resources today, mostly for Key Stage 3 French.  There are some new reading texts and some sentence-building worksheets.  Don't forget to do CTRL+F and enter today's date 23.02.16 to find the new resources.

20 new resources today

I've uploaded some more Matisse resources for KS2 French, some reading texts for KS2 French and some Spanish colours spelling resources, among others.

25 new resources today

I have uploaded 25 new resources today:

• Matisse resources for KS2 French.  I'm using them to introduce plural forms with Y6, who have just done Matisse in Art.
• More number activities for KS2 French
• French KS2 Weather resources

• Literary texts for KS4 French and KS4 Spanish.  Suitable for translation, comprehension, adapting for independent writing.....  They are in Word format so that you can adapt the resources.  If you create any activities using these texts, it would be lovely if you could share them with us.

Mon drapeau, Mi bandera and the World Cup

This series of lessons have been part of my KS2 Spanish scheme of work for Year 3 since I designed them for the 2010 World Cup.  They now form part of my "Shapes" unit which begins with flags and finishes with Gaudí mosaics.  I didn't teach Primary French at that point, but I do now, and so have rejigged the resources.  I have had very successful lessons with Year 2 and Year 4 this week, so much so that I have uploaded the resources to Light Bulb Languages (French and Spanish) so that everyone can use them.  They promote sustained, structured speaking and lead to individual reading, writing and creativity.

Here's how it works:

1. Learn / revise the 6 colours red, yellow, blue, greem, white and black.
2. Starting with the plain red flag (not a World Cup flag, but a starting point) do écoutez répétez / escuchad repetid of the parts of the sentence using the actions - Mon drapeau / est / rouge.  Practise until the children are happy to say the whole sentence and perform the actions with you.  Talk about what the sentence means, and why you are doing those particular actions, to help the words to stick.
3. Work through the other colour combinations in the same way.  You'll probably need to run through the colours slides 3 times for the children to be confident.  Talk about why "et" changes its place in the sentence (the children get to explain to you what they know about writing lists in English).  It may be worth having to hand a copy of all the flags, as they will want to know which flag is for which country.  We also used the flags to do some basic maths - how many countries altogether?  8 groups of 4, therefore 32.  Three countries have red and white flags, eight have red, white and blue flags.  How many is that altogether?  How many more flags are we going to see?
4. Repeat the process for the shapes, and practise in the same way.
5. Show the children some flags they have never seen before and ask them to work out its description in pairs.  Then ask for a volunteer pair to share their description with the rest of the class.  There is always a really good hum of speaking and lots of actions when they do this.  They also like to go into lots and lots of detail! 
6. Children draw and colour their own flag.  Beforehand we talk about the meanings of the colours used in flags, and which colours are not used.  This link is useful.  They then show their flag to the rest of the class and describe it.  I usually hold the picture so that they can do all the actions.  It's worth reminding the class that whatever they draw, they will have to speak about!
7. Children can use the writing frame to write the description of their flag.  Great display potential.
8. Children can work on the two reading sheets where they identify the World Cup flags based on their descriptions.

Easily 4 lesson / hours of work there.  And I'm sure lower KS3 would like it too.

Enjoy!