TWT2010_30.+Six+Ways+to+Engage+Students+in+the+Foreign+Language+Classroom

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Project 1: Teaching French with Skype: Skype gives students an opportunity to have a live discussion with a French teenager and gives them a chance to use French in a real conversation where they have to use their knowledge of French language to express their opinions and to understand their interlocutor. Project 2: Listening comprehension exercises with French Radio International. This presentation will present a project inspired by a lesson plan posted on rfi web site. This project goes from listening comprehension exercise to a lesson on passive voice in French. Project 3: Smart Board provides a great opportunity for the teachers to "show" idiomatic expressions, to visualize new vocabulary and grammar. Project 4: Illustrated one French artists' song on YouTube. In class, they played the song with their Power Point illustration, later each student played her 2 minutes podcast in which she explained how her slide show related to message of the song. Project 5: French murder mystery - students learned present, past and imperfect tense, the uses of French articles, adjectives, reflexive verbs, etc, virtually all topics they studied in grammar found its place in their French murder mystery. They wrote the script and they filmed their story. Project 6: A playful and dramatic presentation of the French fable "Le corbeau et le renard". Two teams worked on the "Le corbeau et le renard" fable, they memorized the poem, they performed it and they filmed their performance which eventually they turned into a movie.