Suzi recently posted this idea on the MFLresources "forum" (Yahoo group). I'd like to try this with a Y8,9 or 10 group.
This is how she described it:
"I often get pupils to do something called a live listening where I prepare a similar text to the one they are expected to revise for controlled assessment and divide class in 2. Grp 1 write the first letters of everything I say (eg JSAEF _ Je suis alle en France) and group 2 draw pictures (which tend to depict nouns eg Eiffel Tower/French flag).
At the end of the exercise,a pupil from group 1 joins a friend from group 2 and in pairs they try to reconstruct the story on paper. When they have done their best, you give them the original to compare and then have a class discussion about the sorts of mistakes they made eg adj endings, incorrect verb tenses.
This is v successful in my experience and encourages pupils to do the same to help them to prepare for their own revision (also slightly less tedious) and as they get better at remembering it, they can withdrw the words and / or pictures."
This is how she described it:
"I often get pupils to do something called a live listening where I prepare a similar text to the one they are expected to revise for controlled assessment and divide class in 2. Grp 1 write the first letters of everything I say (eg JSAEF _ Je suis alle en France) and group 2 draw pictures (which tend to depict nouns eg Eiffel Tower/French flag).
At the end of the exercise,a pupil from group 1 joins a friend from group 2 and in pairs they try to reconstruct the story on paper. When they have done their best, you give them the original to compare and then have a class discussion about the sorts of mistakes they made eg adj endings, incorrect verb tenses.
This is v successful in my experience and encourages pupils to do the same to help them to prepare for their own revision (also slightly less tedious) and as they get better at remembering it, they can withdrw the words and / or pictures."
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