1. Learn the Sounds of French An evening for parents of year 7 pupils PART ONE

2. The Languages Department Madame Rogers – Head of Department Madame Brownhill Monsieur Mulhearn Mademoiselle Gibirdi Mademoiselle Thomas Léna Chevrollier

3. What can languages do for you? Communication Team work Problem solving Organisation But also… Cultural awareness Global dimension to our learning

4. Bury Church of England Excellent Lesson

5. Online Textbooks

6. Other Tools

7. Year 7 Topics Profiles Personal Information, family, personalities traits School Subjects, timetables, French cultural differences Hobbies Phones, sport, activities, opinions Town Features of town, directions, activities

8. Types of Activities Speaking Presentations Dialogues Group Talk Writing Emails Letters Tweets Reading 50 – 100 words Authentic texts Listening 1 – 2 minutes Extracts from textbook Recordings All 4 Assessed

9. But I don’t speak much French myself…how can I help my child? By encouraging a positive attitude to languages By learning along with him/her By watching and listening to French By reading together By visiting a French-speaking country

10. Vocabulary Learning

12. Memory techniques Chunking Visualisation All in a song! Roman room Flashcards

13. Visual Learners Concept maps with pictures to represent words Spider diagrams also using images Mental movies Write the word in the air with your finger

14. Auditory Talk out loud Read notes out loud Use rhymes Learn with music Make recordings of the material and listen to them Teach others out loud

15. Kinaesthetic Walk or pace around (regular, steady steps) Learn in groups Create games Make notes on post-its and arrange on a big sheet (A3) Act out material you are learning (mime)