Get students speaking by hosting a Game Show!
Bonjour tout le monde! I hope everyone has had a great start to their school year! I haven't posted in a while, and I'd like to thank those of you who've recently reminded me that you are reading my blog which has really encouraged me to keep on writing. I'd like to share a successful lesson that I taught last week. This lesson was used in high school French II and students were learning how to name various professions. I took a writing activity from my textbook (which described what certain people did in their professions and asked students to guess what it was based on the description), and turned it into a television style game show! I made index cards on which I wrote the short descriptions and the French name of the person assuming that profession. Then I made a Power Point presentation to create a game show atmosphere. The slides of the Power Point showed the same names and descriptions that were on the index cards. I also inserted game ...