1. Helping your child with learning their foreign language
Helping your child with learning their foreign language Parents’ Forum Wednesday 21st May 2014

2. KS3

3. VOCABULARY LEARNING Mini-whiteboard ( back of the diary)
Card game ( English on one side / Target Language on the other)
The Read / Cover / Write / Check method.
Designing a mind map on the different topics.
Using Post It notes and stick them around the house.
Playing Pictionary
Creating a domino game with pictures/ words
Linguascope website
(username: Fernhill /password: gfs2014)

4. READING
Use of highlighters > key words / cognates / words that can easily be guessed
Annotating texts in English
Title of the text
Use of a bilingual dictionary
WordReference.com

5. WRITING Encourage your child to take their book home
Vocabulary book / sheets
Linguascope vocabulary sheets
Resources on VLE
Leve 6 success criteria
Example of level 6 work
Planning / checklist

6. SAMlearning (reading / listening)
GU1FS Username: TR Password: TR

7. LISTENING
Linguascope
Voki
Babbel
YouTube
(learn123tutorials)

8. KS4
Homework / Revision

9. GCSE 30% Speaking 30% Writing 20% Listening 20% Reading Themes:
Lifestyle: health / social issues
Leisure: sports / hobbies / holidays
Home and Environment : area / town / environment
Work and Education
30% Speaking
30% Writing
20% Listening
20% Reading

10. LISTENING Linguascope Intermediate
YouTube clips / films EXTRA French / German / Spanish
Smartphones App: Babbel (free) / AQA (£1.49)
GCSE bitesize
French / Spanish / German catch up TV
French / Spanish / German music / radio

11. VOCABULARY
- Yellow vocabulary book - AQA vocabulary book - Linguascope - SAMlearning - VLE

12. WRITING - AQA booklets ( grade descriptors) - Planning / checklist
- Examples of A* work
- Vocabulary books
Dictionary
Writing mats

13. SPEAKING Encourage your child:
to practise their sentences with their cue card.
to read out loud.
to record themselves and listen to themselves.
to listen to their teacher’s recording