New A-level slide decks on frenchteacher

 In recent months I've been using ChatGPT a good deal to speed up my resource writing. Up to now, I haven't used it much at all for producing slides, but I decided I could make some useful slide decks for A-Level teachers. Funnily enough, I was never a great user of slides at A-level, preferring aural and written  textual material. Why? Well, the obvious danger with PowerPoint is that it becomes too teacher-led and leads to a lecturing style with insufficient interactiin with the class. Now, there may be a place for some lecturing, particularly in view of the AO4 requirement for A-level (AO4 means Assessment Objective 4, which is about cultural knowledge). So this is why I've made some sets of slides covering typcal A-level topics. 

So far I've done four, eah with between 12 to 15 slides, covering the following topics: immigration, occupation, resistance and volunteering. More will follow.

The main point of these slides is to provide factural information in French. The obvious issue is: how could you use them to make them more than just lectures.

Here is how I might approach it:

• As you read from the slides (which is good aural and reading input anyway), students can complete questions in English. This will keep them active and engaged. I have included sets of these with my resources.
• Alternatively, after you have read aloud each slide, ask questions in English or French. I think English would be fine here with most classes since a key aim is to ensure that students have knowledge they can use later in exams.
• After showing a group of slides (I'd suggest about 3), get students in pairs to sum up what they have learned so far. This also could be in English or in French. With Y13 students I would suggest French.
• After all 12-15 slides have been worked through, students could get into pairs and do one of my favourite tasks: each partner must say something they have learned in turn. The first partner who cannot say anything useful is the loser. This is a nifty way of keeping pairs talking at this level.
• Questions and answers: again in pairs, each partner is given some questions to ask after the slides have been worked through (different questions for each partner). they then have a conversation using their questions. I really like this one as it's naturally a more communicative task.
• More prosaically, after all the slides have been worked through (may be adding an acivity above), do some language-focused work, e.g. what's the French for? Translate this phrase into English? What's the erb associated with this noun? (and vice versa). 
• Students could also just have the slides to work with individually, with questions to answer. This would work if you are well set up with computers and a way to share the PowerPoints. My site rules allow for this, as well as any editing of the slides.