Friday, 17 May 2013

Le sac des filles - opportunities for thinking and speaking


Le sac des filles is a blog which publishes photos of the contents of girls' bags (and sometimes boys' pockets) and lists the contents in French.

That's pretty much it.

I discovered this from a conference I went to in Manchester in 2010 run by Juliet Park and Wendy Adeniji of i-languages. It was from Wendy's session on thinking skills which I just discovered on an old memory stick.

So, why do I like it?

It can be used for lots of things:

  • Learning vocabulary (it's more up to date than your text books and dictionaries)
  • Describing people from the contents of their bags. are they male or female? How old are they?what kind of a person do you think owns this bag? Why? etc...
  • A "Through the Keyhole" activity. Guess the celebrity: This is Rihanna's bag because it contains....
  • Comparing 2 people by studying their personal effects. 
  • Comparing British and French culture. (There's a lot of bags with cigarettes in!)

Some of the pictures are annotated:







and some are just photos with lists added at the end.
These are great if you want to teach in a different language, or if you want to get the students to describe the contents by themselves.


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