Bill Van Patten recently shared a link on the Tea With BVP website to a google doc (see below) on the topic of discourse scrambles.
Discourse scrambles are activities where you take a list of sentences or dialogue utterances, and students are required to put them into the correct order. According to Van Patten, "the language overall should be comprehensible in its original form, otherwise students cannot complete the task".
Van Patten goes on to explain the benefits of discourse scrambles:
We've made an improvement to the "Space" activity (Separate the words), so that if your text has more than 20 words in it, you can now decide on the number of words to be joined up.
Your options are: All words; 1/2 words; 1/3 words; 1/4 words; 1/5 words
Why do this? Well, for a couple of reasons...
Some textivate resources for ks3 or ks4 French, based on these TaskMagic resources.
The contents for the resources are:
- Je vais...
- Je ne vais pas...
- J'ai l'intention de...
- Je vais essayer de...
+ a range of infinitive expressions
The resources are appropriate for KS3 or KS4 pupils as a way of practising the simple future within the context of the New Year.