Answer the following questions about the mystery…

1. Who is Betty?2. Where was Betty originally from?3. Why does Betty speak a different language to her parents?4. Why did Betty’s family leave their original home?5. Why are education rates in Sudan so low?

Stretch and challenge questions: What impact would so many extra people – such as those in Mayo camp – have on the services of an area?

What impact would the additional people have on the environment?

A card sort activity

with some more

challenging questions

Students encouraged

to create their own

key questions

High expectations

for the selection and

use of appropriate

data

Clear Mark scheme given

This peer assessment

worked really well

followed by DIRT

DIRTMany of the

students improved their work by a GCSE

grade

Pupils used the structure of a writing

frame to extend their

writing

They assessed their own work

against the framework and set their own

targets to improve.

 1. What do these words have in common? What

might some of them mean?CHAT ELEPHANT TORTUE POISSON 

TIGRE CHIEN HAMSTER GIRAFFEOISEAU CHAMEAU FURET CHEVAL ZEBRE

Le grand défi

 2. Why do you think ‘je’ shortens to ‘j’ in all these cases?

How would you translate them…? j’ai, j’aime, j’écoute, j’insiste, j’oublie,j’utilise, j’habite

 3. Which one is the odd one out in A and in B?

A: mon père, mon frère, mon oncle, ma cousine, mon cousineB: ma mère, ma tante, ma soeur, ma grand-mère, ma voisine

 4. If a ‘un club de sport’ is a

sports club how do you think you would say:

A football club?A rugby club?A chess club?

Le grand défi

 2. Why do you think ‘je’ shortens to ‘j’ in all these cases?

How would you translate them…? j’ai, j’aime, j’écoute, j’insiste, j’oublie,j’utilise, j’habite

 3. Which one is the odd one out in A and in B?

A: mon père, mon frère, mon oncle, ma cousine, mon cousineB: ma mère, ma tante, ma soeur, ma grand-mère, ma voisine

 1. What do these words have in common? What might some of

them mean?

CHAT ELEPHANT TORTUE POISSON TIGRE CHIENHAMSTER GIRAFFE

OISEAU CHAMEAU FURET CHEVAL ZEBRE

They are all animalscat/elephant/tortoise/fishtiger/dog/hamster/giraffe

bird/camel/ferrethorse/zebra

Le grand défi

 3. Which one is the odd one out in A and in B?

A: mon père, mon frère, mon oncle, ma cousine, mon cousineB: ma mère, ma tante, ma soeur, ma grand-mère, ma voisine

 2. Why do you think ‘je’ shortens to ‘j’ in all these

cases? How would you translate them…? j’ai, j’aime, j’écoute, j’insiste, j’oublie,j’utilise,

j’habite

The next word after starts with a vowel:a,e,i,o,u or h

In French the ‘h’ is treated like a vowel

l’hôtel, l’hôpital, l’hongrie, l’hélicoptère

Le grand défi

 3. Which one is the odd one out in A and in B?

A: mon père, mon frère, mon oncle, ma cousine, mon cousineB: ma mère, ma tante, ma soeur, ma grand-mère, ma voisine

A: Did some of us think it was ‘ma cousine’? Why?It was actually mon cousine – this was the only incorrect one!

B: Did anyone think it was grandmother? Why?It was ‘ma voisine’ as neighbour isn’t a member of the family (well not

normally anyway!)

Le grand défi

 4. If a ‘un club de sport’ is a sports club

how do you think you would say:A football club? – un club de foot(ball)

A rugby club? – un club de rugbyA chess club? – How do we say chess?

Les échecs = chess

Now what do we do?

Le grand défi

 4. If a ‘un club de sport’ is a sports club how do you

think you would say:A football club? – un club de foot(ball)

A rugby club? – un club de rugbyA chess club? – How do we say chess?

Les échecs = chess

Now what do we do?

Un club de + activity (un club de tennis….)BUT…..

de + échecs????

Le grand défi

 4. If a ‘un club de sport’ is a sports club how do you think you

would say:A football club? – un club de foot(ball)

A rugby club? – un club de rugbyA chess club? – How do we say chess?

Les échecs = chess

Now what do we do?

Un club de + activity (un club de tennis….)BUT…..

de + échecs????

Un club d’échecs

1. Do you understand?

Mon père est secrétaire

Ma soeur est coiffeuse

Ma mère est éléctricienne

Mon frère est mécanicien

Je voudrais être médecin

Je ne voudrais pas être agent de police

2. Can you translate?

3. Could you improve the sentence? How?

4. Use the box to help!

Mon père est médecin, c’est bien payé et intéressant!

Ma mère est serveuse, c’est mal payé et nul!

c’est = it isintéressantbien payé

nulmal payé

Theory of Disuse

Theory of Disuse

Seeing the students once a week leaves too much time for

retention

Working on a 3 week cycle…

testing on any topic in the

previous 3 weeks

Students tested on retention

every week….

Extension questions – beyond the scope of the syllabus. Building

resilience because some of the questions break rules that they

had just learnt.

• Challenge for lower ability students – using key words to

finish sentences or draw diagrams

Challenge at A-level.

Applying prior knowledge.