My last post was about my new communicative lessons book called Let's Get Them Talking: 50 Communicative French Lessons . It's available here . This post offers you an example of a simply structured pair work task (not in the book, by the way) you could carry out with a class working at Level A2. (I'm thinking a good Y9 class or an average GCSE class - it's too easy for a high-flying GCSE class.) I'll copy in the worksheet below. I like the simplicity of it - classes will get it straight away and how it is simply scaffolded from a matching task to a second part which requires some memory and retrieval work. You could extend the task for fast classes by asking them to develop a more flowing conversation based on the questions. I've suggested other ways to exploit it in my teacher notes below. There's nothing fancy here. It's not really a strongly communicative task in that that there is no great information gap involved and there's plenty of reading a...
Well this is jolly exciting! My new book called Let's Get Them Talking: 50 Communicative French Lessons is now available . The last three weeks have been all about tweaking and copy-editing (thanks to my wife and editor Elspeth Jones). I always find this is the fiddliest part of self-publishing. But the huge advantage is that I get to make the book immediately available and that, to be candid, royalties are much fairer than going with a publisher. This is how I have always published, except for my Outstanding Languages Teacher book with Routledge. So what can I say about the book? It costs under five flat whites in the UK, it's on Amazon and it's almost 190 pages long. It's A4, with photocopiable pages, and comes with slides and Word docs freely available on my frenchteacher site. Just choose the tab Let's Get Them Talking! Here's summary based on the introductory material from the book ...............................................................................