Saturday 8 May 2010

What to do with Year 9...

At this time of year UK based language teachers face a huge problem.

What do I do with my year 9? Most of them are not going to continue with languages next year and they have already decided that they are not going to do any more work.

One solution, particularly popular with boys, is to do a World Cup 2010 project. Clare Seccombe has produced a cornucopia of ideas, presentations, and, even better, resources, here.

But what do you do with students who are not interested in football?

How about teaching them to text in the Foreign Language.

Most English students will already be "textperts" in English, so why not teach them the basics in Spanish, German, or French? (Click the language for a list of abbreviations from about.com)

Give your students a list of the text abbreviations, put a message on the board and get them to come up with a creative response. When I did it last year it worked really well.

What do you make of this?

SLT,
TOQP ?
G1id2kdo
Je vé au 6né V1 avec moi
a tt
biz

2 comments:

Steve Smith said...

Nice idea - I'll follow up that about page.

Catherine Wright said...

Hey, that's a great idea! Thanks.
Cooking is another crowd pleaser.
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