Intro: And now for some year 7 students’ examples…

1. Intro: And now for some year 7 students’ examples… They created these in one lesson, with very brief teacher input and subsequent peer teaching (cascading)

2. Que faites-vous ce matin Nous lisons et nous allons de promenade By Harriet 7n

3. Que faites-vous ce matin? • Nous allons danser.

4. By Cassie Hall and Hannah Tapp Que faites-vous ce matin • Nous faisons des promenades.

5. Que faites-vous ce matin? Nous faisons du velo

6. Que faites-vous ce matin? Nous faisons du vélo. By Sarah Kingscott

7. Que faites-vous ce matin? Nous faisons du cheval. By Laura Pinches

8. ¿Dónde está…? un banco? un bar? un policía?

9. ein Rathaus ein Kino ein Theater ein Museum ein Sportzentrum ein Jugendzentrum a town hall a cinema a theatre a museum a sports centre a youth centre In meiner Stadt gibt es … Focus on the spellings of the words and their meanings. You have one minute.

10. a town hall a cinema a theatre a museum a sports centre a youth centre In meiner Stadt gibt es … Now write down the German for the following words:

11. ein Rathaus ein Kino ein Theater ein Museum ein Sportzentrum ein Jugendzentrum In meiner Stadt gibt es … Now correct your mistakes. You must remember what is correct and not what was wrong to learn effectively.

12. ein Rathaus ein Kino ein Theater ein Museum ein Sportzentrum ein Jugendzentrum In meiner Stadt gibt es … Focus on the spellings of the words and their meanings. You now have ½ a minute. Concentrate on the ones you misspelt before.

13. ein Rathaus ein Kino ein Theater ein Museum ein Sportzentrum ein Jugendzentrum In meiner Stadt gibt es … Now check your answers again. How many did you get right this time?

14. Using Powerpoint for teaching MFL By Volker Green@SBL, 18 November 2000

15. Or: why there can be some singing… and dancing

16. Why use Powerpoint presentations? • it’s fun to watch and gets the students’ attention • you can get important language and structures across through a mixture of sound, text, images and video • it inspires and motivates the students to work with the foreign language through the tool of ICT; • you can teach ICT through MFL and vice versa; • it allows students to be creative (with ICT) and achieve attractive, professional looking results.

17. How can you use Powerpoint? As a teacher you can create presentations • on grammar points; • for oral exam preparation; • slide shows for cultural awareness; • “How to…” guides; • self-study exercises;

18. How can students use Powerpoint? Students can create presentations • to practise their exam presentations with bullet points on slides; • to teach something as they understand it toothers; • as part of their coursework; • to gain confidence in general by creating stunning pieces of work.

19. What is Powerpoint? It is a software package that can be seen as a combination of Word, Publisher and Media Player which allows you to combine • text (written in Powerpoint or pasted in from other sources, i.e. Word, Internet, CD-ROM encyclopedias etc) • images (clip art from galleries, Internet, CD-ROM encyclopedias, scanner, digital camera) • video clips (from Internet, gallery, camcorder) • sounds (from CDs, sound gallery, self-recorded)

20. You can add text, clipart, movie files and sound files easily… • just click “Insert” on the menu bar • a list of shortcuts to everything you might want to insert drops down: “Text box” for any writing you want to do (like this one); all the usual formatting options are available, i.e. different fonts, sizes,BOLD etc; you can have borders or bullet points and so on.

21. “Picture” for any type of image • from “Clipart “ • “from File” = an image file anywhere on your PC, a floppy disk or CD-ROM • “from Scanner or Camera” • or, as mentioned before, by copying and pasting from the Internet (use the right click on your mouse)

22. “AutoShapes” and “WordArt” WordArt

23. “Movies and Sound” • for short video clips, i .e. a motion clip from the gallery or from a file • for sound recordings already on a file or on a CD • for recording your own voice

24. “Hyperlink” • to call up an Internet site then and there, e.g. the web cam from Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz or the weather forecast from a Spanish tv station • to call up a different file on your floppy disk or hard drive or CD.

25. Some important pointsto avoid frustration… • Don’t be too ambitious to begin with – start with 2 or three slides and see how it works • Movie clips and *.wav sound files take up a lot of memory – use them sparingly • Try it out before you use it in class • Always create backup copies somewhere.

26. About animations… Order of appearance, timings and special effects of your animation(s) are controlled by “Slide Show”. Next click “Custom Animation” – then follow the instructions (or is it your intuition?)

27. About filling the background … • Click on “Format” in the menu bar and then “Background”; • Click on the little down arrow below the picture to reveal “Fill Effects”; • Try out what shadings, directions, textures, and colour combinations are available; • Click “Apply to all” if you want every slide to have the same background.

28. Final tips… • Press “F5” on the keyboard at any time to view your slide show; • Press “Esc” to end it and get back to the drawing board; • By pressing the space bar or clicking the mouse you progress through your slide show.