Intensity Lab

Design specification

1. Before every activity there will be a page of the vocabulary that they need to know to do the activity

2. For every vocabulary word their will be a parenthesis of how to pronounce it

Need to include in the book

Numbers

Colors

Clothes

Hello and Bye

Weather

Different types of transportation

Days of the week

Clothes game:

http://www.cartoonito.co.uk/games/french-word-fun-clothes

Duck Duck goose game

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/duckduckgoose.htm

Description of game:

This game will be used to learn how to say “Hello and Bye” in French. It is an adaptation of the original duck duck goose game. But instead of saying Duck Duck Goose they will say “Salut” in replacement of Duck and “au revoir” in replacement of goose.

Whats missing

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/whatsmissing.htm

Teaching grammar

There will be a picture of a place full of objects, then another one with some of this objects missing, the kid will need to identify what this objects are.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/livingbingo.htm

Living Bingo

This one I have adapted a little there will be two decks of cards one of them with a drawing of an animal and the other one with the name of the animal. The kids will have to match them.

This is a : gesture game

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/thisisa.htm

Hidden dfs

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/hiddenwords.htm

Put a simple French sentence together without spaces such as “JemappelleEsmeralda” The kid will need to separate each word to form the sentence.

Crossword:

At the end with all the vocabulary learned I will do a crossword using all the vocabulary.

The numbers from 1- 20 will be seen then with a deck of cards need to divide half, half between two people, these cant see the cards “nervioso”

Teaching colors: Teach the colors and the do a drawing which they will need to color as the instruction says, the instruction will be in English but the name of the color in French

Why is it good to play games for to learn a foreign language for kids.

http://languagepie.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/whats-the-best-way-to-teach-children-a-language/

Online book:

http://giraffian.com/colours/brown

Language Resources for kids that do work

Fortunately our language professors are equally clear about what characteristics language resources for children should have. We have already stated one: Fun! The other key ingredient is Human Interaction. The human does not have to be a teacher or fluent in the second language –

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