At the beginning of the year, I slowly introduce
games to my students and eventually run them as centers, with students rotating or choosing to play different games.
Game Centers:
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As the year progresses and my students become more proficient, I introduce tech centers. I run 7 different centers that use technology to help fuel French learning, so students are often in groups of 3 at each center. Each center focuses on developing a specific competency.
Using iPads, students build collaboratively in
Minecraft: Education Edition. My students work together in French to build, developing their
interaction orale. They created building in a French town that we called Francoville. We ended up using this as a location for a
French field trip for other classes at the end of the year.
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Centre de travail de mots
My students play a scrabble-inspired game on the Smartboard, using the words that they know. This focuses on vocabulary development and their compréhension écrite.
Centre de la compréhension orale
Students complete the activity Le défi d'écoute, where they practice their listening skills by listening to audio files played via a computer and headphones. They follow 50 instructions to draw/write/trace/colour an activity page. This activity develops their compréhension orale.
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| LE DÉFI D'ÉCOUTE 1 |
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Centre d'écoute
At this listening center, students do the activity Écoute et écris, where they listen to French audio files of simple French sentences on a computer and type out what they hear. This develops their French typing skills and their compréhension orale.
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| ÉCOUTE ET ÉCRIS |
Centre de la conscience phonologique
Using computers, students login to their Lalilo account to complete activities that develop their phonological awareness and reading comprehension skills. With Lalilo, students are developing their compréhension écrite.
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Centre de codage
At this center, students set up mazes for the
Code & Go Robot Mouse to complete. They work together in French to design the maze and code the robot mouse through it. I made a larger grid for the robot and added blocks from my Tumbling Tower sets that I purchased at Dollarama so that students could increase the size and difficulty of their mazes. Students practice their
interaction orale at this center.
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| Centre de codage |
