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4-minute French adventures
On Monday 11th January 2021, for our 3rd lockdown, I started challenging myself to teach French daily in under 4 minutes: join me weekdays at 11.45am live on my YouTube channel! And keeping it to 4 minutes and one word a day IS a challenge for me! What do you think?...
Je m’habille et… je t’apporte un cadeau !
I bought this lovely story from Little Linguist at York St John's for our ALL Primary Languages Show in 2019... I have finally got round to writing about it and am using it with all my classes in December 2020! Extra resources on French websites: click here or click...
Essential picture books for the French classroom
Click here for essential picture books for the French classroom. Click here for the stories I recommend to go with the Primary French project. If you are looking for a random story I have recommended before, click here! Click here for ideas on how you can use picture...
Lapin is hungry
I came across this fun and beautiful book whilst doing research on puppet shows in French in the UK: it is how I discovered the whole world of "Le petit monde" in Edinburgh! (click here to check out their website). Its creator, Tania, got in touch with me, we had a...
Songs, stories and rhymes at the ALL Primary Languages Conference Online
Click here to check out the conference programme. What a great day we had on 17th October! It was a lovely way to spend most of my birthday haha! You will find below a summary of my main takeaways. I hope they help you too! My takeaways from Michael Wardle, Ofsted...
October 2020 newsletter
As we are approaching half-term where I am, in England... Well, I have another cold sore... even though I have not done any kissing, promise!! It must be all the work I have put into my new website: I wanted something easier for you to navigate. Please tell me what...
Le petit livre des VOISINS
I fell in love with this beautiful book in Aix-les Bains in August 2020. It gets us and the children thinking about our neighbours by describing, in a very simple way, some of the different types that you may encounter near your home. It could even lead to discussions...
Using picture books in the language classroom – ideas on how to do it!
After I delivered a webinar for Linguascope in August 2020 (click here to access my presentation called "You can teach (nearly) everything with a picture book"), Lisa, in Malaysia, got in touch and asked me if I had a sequence I follow on how to teach my pupils with...
Comptines / French nursery rhymes
Below is a list of those I have recorded specifically with learners of French in mind. Each link takes you to a video and ideas on how you may exploit it. I filmed one of these weekly for 6 months from January 2020 to July 2020, which was great fun. Enjoy them! Quand...
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