Phillips Hilary - Jumpstart! French and German: engaging activities for ages 7-12

JUMPSTART! FRENCH AND GERMAN

Jumpstart! French and German presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart students understanding of modern languages into action. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to teach languages engagingly, then this is the perfect book for you.

The book opens with a range of innovative ideas to help you set the scene in your language classroom. These are followed by a feast of short and simple activities designed to help you make quick starts with your students and hold their attention. The focus throughout is on communicative action, bringing languages alive, with all activities presented in two languages: French and German. Specifically written to help teachers work within the guidelines of the new curriculum, activities in the book will help pupils to:

listen to, respond to and understand key elements of the target language

speak in phrases and sentences with appropriate pronunciation

express and communicate simple ideas with clarity

write phrases and short sentences

develop an understanding of basic grammar

learn songs and simple poems in the language studied

engage in active learning through a range of varied activities.

Jumpstart! French and German celebrates the joys of language and will help you to find just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say.

Catherine Watts is currently Director of the Routes into Languages South consortium and is Principal Lecturer in English Language and German within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities as well as contributing to the EdD, PGCE and MA in Education at the University of Brighton, UK.

Hilary Phillips has been a primary class teacher for over 20 years. She was also Lead Teacher for Primary Languages in Brighton and Hove and has co-presented workshops at many national conferences.

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JUMPSTART! FRENCH AND GERMAN

ENGAGING ACTIVITIES FOR AGES 712

Catherine Watts and Hilary Phillips

First published 2014
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Catherine Watts and Hilary Phillips

The right of Catherine Watts and Hilary Phillips to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Watts, Catherine.
Jumpstart! French and German: engaging activities for ages 712 /
Catherine Watts, Hilary Phillips.
pages cm. (Jumpstart!)
1. Language and languagesStudy and teaching (Secondary)
2. French languageStudy and teaching (Secondary) 3. German
languageStudy and teaching (Secondary) 4. Interdisciplinary
approach in education. I. Phillips, Hilary. II. Title.
P53.W38 2014
372.6531044dc23
2013034330

ISBN: 978-0-415-85695-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-81483-4 (ebk)

Typeset in Palatino and Scala San
by FiSH Books Ltd, Enfield

To our students and colleagues: past, present and future.

CW and HP

Contents

Simple greetings 1

Taking the register

Sporting vocabulary

Newsletter language

Room labels

Welcome

Polite phrases 1

Months of the year

Introductory questions

School subjects

Describing people/animals

Counting/colour rhyme

Points of the compass/weather

Growing vegetables and flowers

Playground signs

Expressing negatives

Odd/even numbers

Take two steps

Points of the compass/locations

Positions

Body parts 1

Body parts 2

Action verbs 1

Action verbs 2

Clock times

Show me a

Useful phrases

Polite phrases 2

Clothes 1

Hot potatoes

Beginnings

Asking questions 1

Im ill

Prices and items

Basic moves

Touch colours

Commands

Mister Monster/Wolf

Days of the week

Quantities

The post

Fruit Salad

Polite phrases 3

Adjective animals

Asking questions 2

Traffic lights

Directions

Clothes 2

Describing a monster

Aquaria/sealife

Describing emotions

Simple greetings 2

Describing clothes

Recipes

Transport

Rain forest

Christmas

Fruit

Farm animals

Food

Daily routines 1

Weather/seasons

Classroom instructions

Body parts 3

Reverse counting

Actions

Daily routines 2

Colours

Animals

Describing people

Clothes to wear

Cooking pancakes

Animals and actions

Menus

Food

Likes and dislikes

Shopping

Adjectives

Celebrations

Writing an e-mail

Writing a postcard

Weather 1

Writing a poem

Animal habitats

Stationery items

Weather 2

Simon Says

Tongue twisters

Snow rhyme

Weekdays rhyme

Describing objects

Farewell routines

The authors and publishers would like to thank the following people for their help with both the text and the artwork in Jumpstart! French and German. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book.

Grateful thanks are due to Astrid Masson (Lewes Old Grammar School) and Sandrine Stringer (Upper Beeding Primary School) for helping us with the translations and final proof-reading.

We are most grateful to b small publishing ltd for allowing us to design some of the artwork ( b small publishing ltd.) in

We are also grateful to Nicola Goodland for the fruit illustrations in too.

Why teach young children a foreign language? Most language experts agree that there is a highly efficient window of opportunity for young learners to absorb a new language efficiently. In other words: the younger the better in terms of learning a new language! It is certainly easier for young children to absorb a new language without the selfconsciousness and embarrassment of older learners. They are keen and fresh, full of curiosity about new ideas, ready to experiment, open to new experiences and eager to find out about how other people live. They love getting their tongues around strange new sounds, even those that do not feature in their mother tongue. They are in one of the most productive learning phases of their lives and they lap up the sheer fun of the experience.