using new technologies and apps in language teaching

Using new technology to develop independent language learning in the network’s schools.

Autorap

Turns any voice recording into a rap – you select a tune, record yourself

speaking and the app turns it into a rap !

What I used it for?Who with?

• Make up own rhymes/poems/songs using a range of topic and structures previously learned :

Greetings / family relationships/ hair & eyes colours/ ‘I am’ / ‘Who are

you?’• Producing a creative piece of writing/speaking. • Link with a school in the South of England.

• Year 4 class : 1 hour/week since September.

• 1 lesson.

What I used it for?Who with?

Planning and preparation

• Made my own ‘rap’ and played it to the children to set the scene. (

http://www.smule.com/EmilieWoodroffe)

• Listening task.• Gap fill text : Brainstorm and whole class

examples. • Working in pairs and practicing speaking their

rhymes.

Year 4 raps :

• Louisa and Isabella : http://www.smule.com/p/173498153_34709301

• Barming Primary, Maidstone, Kent.

http://www.smule.com/p/173503992_35180484

Evaluation:

• Engagement• Motivation • Relevant to their own interest• Fun• Real purpose

Yakit

‘Make any picture talk’‘Bring any photo to life’

What I used it for? Who I used it with?

• Describing an outfit you would like to wear using the verb ‘porter’ (je porte), nouns for clothes and adjectives of colour.

• Year 5s

Planning and preparation • Nouns for clothes: listening > repetition activities>

speaking.• Simple sentences with ‘je porte’ and a connective (et).• Adjectival agreement : regular/irregular. • Lots of listening/reading based activity to drill the

structure.• Write own description based on a picture I gave

them/drawn picture. • Talking to partners to practice describing their outfit

orally before the recordings.

Fashion Show !

• Year 5 – St Elphin’s CE Primary School http://freakngenius.com/yak/DD3Bhttp://freakngenius.com/yak/DD95http://freakngenius.com/yak/DD96

Year 5 – St Luke’s Primary Schoolhttp://freakngenius.com/yak/A60A

Evaluation

• Engagement & motivation. • Great for practicing speaking ( - 30 sec recording

only). • Any topic.

Youtube videos : going on virtual trips.

• Paris No words video, fast paced.

• Tour Eiffel: Let’s take a tour of the Eiffel Tower with a French guide.

• Tour de France Great as an introduction to the race, France (geography, etc.).

Other Apps

• PuppetPals2 – create animated cartoons (storytelling)

• Pic Collage – project/investigation work

• Tellagami – create an animated characters & record a message.

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Emilie Woodroffe

Janet Lloyd Network Associate Teacher

www.bonjour-madame.blogspot.co.uk

@Ewoodroffe