coucoucircus.org - Bienvenue This site gives you access to the theme tunes and lyrics of hundreds of French TV programmes, in particular a lot of children's cartoon series.
Flash Video Big Books This is a great site for anyone interested in using story telling as a key component of their courses. Some free stuff but the books you have to buy are pretty cheap and excellent quality. Highly recommended.
Wordle - Create word clouds This is a fantastic little site for anyone wanting to be creative with Language. It creates key word diagrams on any topic in an arty way. It is a great way to introduce a topic or allow kids to create a keyword list to help them prepare for a speaking test
I have been doing some work on the theme of a French breakfast for an end of term treat and am organising a song / dance competition between two groups.
I have re-written lyrics to Kylie Minogue's "Can't get you out of my head". The advantage of using known tunes is that you don't have to teach them. The repetitive nature of the song, whilst annoying musically, at least makes learning the lyrics very easy! The colour coding highlights the different parts of the song, the verse, chorus and the bridge.
To teach the tune, I edit the mp3 using a sound editor called NCH Wavepad and slow it down. If necessary you can also change the pitch to get a higher or lower key.
I know a lot of others have posted about this video elsewhere but if you haven't used it yet it is a really great song to practice parts of the body. This is a Youtube post of it and below you have links to the flv video file to download plus the lyrics. Enjoy!
These are a series of files that I used to follow up work on colours, parts of the body and moving onto teaching clothes and colours. The French version of the song invites the children to sing "Oui Oui" repeatedly and loudly with predictable giggling so you have to feel confident using these! The tune however is very catchy.
It's in flash video format which I use because you can drop it onto any page of Smartboard notebook. If you don't have a flash video player you can use the free one from here
2) A worksheet with the lyrics plus a follow up colouring in exercise
4) I began using this song as a way to get the pupils to identify how many times they could count the French 'i' sound in each line which would also include the French 'y' sound. You can use the mp3 above to do this but if anyone has the Sanako Media Assistant software, I have produced these files. They are in a zip file which you will have to extract to a folder of your choice. You will need file compression software such as Winzip to do this. I use 7z as it is free.
5) I was playing team games with boys against girls for the last exercise and created 2 Smartboard notebook files to do this using the picture of Noddy. You begin with a blank screen but as you click on various parts of the screen the picture is revealed. As each question is answered correctly another part is revealed. Winners are the team to have revealed the whole picture.
6) Finally here is a Smartboard notebook file which I used for teams to come to the board in turn and use the board pens to colour in the correct item indicated on the board. Download Oui oui couleurs
UpdateThere is a French online site to colour in Noddy here The name of the colours they choose is displayed below the picture.
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