MFL department Games and Activities

How wonderful to be able to share poetry in different languages. Our great, international boarding community! 

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Year 7 set B making very good use of teacher feedback to help them to improve their independent writing! 

We use songs and actions to help us to remember key vocabulary and structures. This helps with pronunciation, too! A Year 7 lesson from September:

Year 9 set B combined a vocabulary-matching task with making decorations! 😀👍🏻

Year 6 enjoyed interviewing each other to find out their opinions of a variety of different sports!

“One pen, one dice”: a popular activity across all year groups! So much enthusiasm for translating sentences into French or Spanish! 

Another popular speaking game! This activity really helps with confidence, fluency and spontaneous speech. It’s great fun, too!

We make the most of opportunities to practise our language skills with native speakers! Here are Y6 and Y7 pupils working with Spanish-speaking pupils from Tenerife, who spent a month with us here at TC! And Year 9 pupils testing out their Spanish (at lunchtime!) on Luis, a Spanish short-stay boarder.

Preparatory School pupils also act upon teacher feedback to get even better! Here is Favi from Year 4. She completed her target independently and was very proud, as was I!

Great collaborative work by Year 4! Using colours, shapes and adjectives to describe pictures.

The green pen shows how the pupil has read teacher feedback very carefully and made corrections for himself. <br/>Great work!

Y10 listened carefully to feedback and then were able to correct common errors for themselves! 

Whisper phones are very popular across the MFL department! We can whisper in French or Spanish and no one else can hear us! A great way of developing our confidence with pronunciation, and also a great proof reading tool! We read our work “aloud” to ourselves to help us to check that our work makes sense. 

Year 7 enjoyed doing verb surgery! They scrubbed up, donned their gloves, amputated verb endings and “stitched on” the appropriate verb endings! A memorable lesson, indeed! 😀👍🏻

Here are Y4 learning the days of the week in Spanish:

Year 7 set B using teacher marking to identify their own strengths and targets, and then working on these! 😀

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