Planning with the Framework

Planning for the incidental: using language in everyday

routines

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Timing & timetabling!Part 2 Framework

1 Primary Language Learning – An introduction to the Framework for all users. P.9

“ …schools will plan for no less than 60 minutes per week of dedicated ‘language time’. This might be divided into relatively short sessions, for example:

• 15 minutes per day• 3 x 20 minutes• 2 x 30 minutes plus one shorter session of 10 minutesIn addition to this dedicated time allocation, teachers should seek opportunities during the week to enable children to use their newly acquired language skills….”

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Timing & timetabling!Part 2 Framework

2. Co-ordinating Provision – Advice for Head Teachers, Senior Managers and Subject Co-ordinators p.25

“ The Framework encourages schools to integratelanguage learning into the existing curriculum as much aspossible. Through a combination of dedicated languagelessons, teaching language through other subjects areas,and using language for real purposes in daily classroomroutines, schools have found that they can meet therecommended time allocation of 60 minutes…..”

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An hour a week ….?

5 minutes a day = 25 minutes a week10 minutes a day = 50 minutes a week

Language in everyday routines supports: Oracy LiteracyIntercultural Understanding, Knowledge about Language and is a Language Learning Strategy

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What do we do every day? Could we do it in a foreign language?

• answering the register and dinner register• greeting each other around the school• getting rewards for good work• writing the date, getting out equipment• looking around the room when things get boring• quiet reading and browsing in the library • filling the odd minutes

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Answering the register can be different every day

• bonjour / au revoir / déjeuner / sandwichs • a word with a new sound e.g. chien • the name of a town e.g. Paris• présent / présente• personal information e.g. age / pets / birthday month • different words in a topic area e.g. colours / places in

town / classroom objects• words in sequence e.g. numbers, days, months• teacher gives a word e.g. le football / la géographie / le

bleu / les chats, children state opinion using j’adore / j’aime / je n’aime pas / je déteste

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It’s not just about practising vocabulary …

• Oracy: O3.2 Recognise and respond to sound patterns and words

O5.2 Understand and express simple opinions

• KAL:Imitate pronunciation

Recognise some basic aspects of agreement e.g. gender

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Reward stickers

• Stickers in French can reward good work in any subject.

• Bon anniversaire stickers soon become part of the class birthday routine!

(Try www.superstickers.com for stickers, mini-stickers, stampers, certificates and pencils in French, German and Spanish)

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Using French around the school…

If teachers start, children soon join in• bonjour / ça va?• au revoir • il fait froid / chaud• bon appétit!• bravo! super!

O3.3 Perform simple communicative tasks …O6.4 Use spoken language confidently to initiate and sustain

conversations

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Independent tasks for children …

• Writing up the date every day

• Putting up appropriate weather cards

• Checking the birthday calendar and reminding you to sing Joyeux anniversaire.

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Posters and displays can do the work for you

• Language posters • Maps, tourist board posters • Labels on equipment drawers e.g. papier,

cahiers• Displays of new language

“Can you pronounce all these words?”

• L3.1 Recognise some familiar words in written form• L4.3 Read some familiar words and phrases aloud and pronounce them

accurately• IU3.2 Locate countries where the language is spoken• IU4.4 Learn about ways of travelling to the country

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Language games and action rhymes can fill spare moments

• vocabulary noughts and crosses

• head, shoulders, knees and toes

• Simon says (Jacques a dit)

• guessing games (flashcards, whiteboard)

• spell a child’s name in French, others guess who it is

• count and clap while lining up

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Et la musique …?

CDs of French songs

• background music for quiet work

• PE games

• going out and coming in from play

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Browsing in the class library

• Simple story books or bilingual books

• Familiar stories and fairy tales

• Picture dictionaries

• Non-fiction books : dinosaurs, football

European Bookshop, 5 Warwick St., London W1B 5LU

www.europeanbookshop.com

Grant and Cutler, 55-57 Great Marlborough St., London W1F 7AY

www.grantandcutler.com

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