alice’s posterous

The BBC language website is full of useful resources, especially videos in the target language.
This week I have been using the BBC Talk French website with both year 7 and 8: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk/

With year 7, the objective of the lesson was to be able to say how many brothers and sisters pupils have. So at the end of the lesson, I showed them a short clip of different French people introducing their families and saying how many brothers and sisters they had. Exactly, the vocabulary pupils had learnt during the lesson. I showed them the whole clip first without the English subtitles. Then, I showed them the clip a second time but with missing words. So they had to remember the kew words. I didn't have to pause because the BBC does it all for you :). The pupils liked it because they could understand real French people talking at normal speed.

I also tried it with a year 8 low ability group. The lesson was about hobbies and saying what you like to do at the weekend. Again, as a plenary, I showed them a short clip about French people saying what they like doing in the evening. They enjoyed watching it because it was a bit different from the usual "I like to watch TV and play football..."