for use in the mfl classroom

PERFECT TENSE

Amazing that, after teaching for all these years, I had never really tackled creating a slide show on the Perfect tense, Passé Composé, call it what you will. So I decided that would be my half term challenge and so, sporadically over a few evenings, I came up with this. Please note that what you see below is this time just an image rather than a Flash version, basically because of all the triggers that are built in and which don’t convert to Flash, so you will need to use the link to the real thing provided below.

I rather ambitiously included avoir and être verbs, regulars and irregulars and reflexives, but there are clear sections, so the slideshow could be shown in bits if preferred for teaching purposes. Timings take care of most things, so the only clicks needed are (1) to advance the slide (2) to action the various triggers, ie the links included on some slides (3) to reveal the answers on the practice slides.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

IL FAUT

A 20 minute rush job with this one, as I decided in the lunch break before the lesson that I needed something, however brief and perfunctory, to illustrate the use of il faut. And pretty brief and perfunctory it turned out to be. Seemed to do the business, however. There’s much to be said for keeping things uncomplicated. As ever, only slide transitions require a click.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

FUTURE TENSE

I’ve pretty much finished teaching the future tense to my year 9 class so it’s a bit late to be finishing off the slideshow! But here it is anyway, with a suitably futuristic background. It’s a pretty stripped-down presentation of the futur simple, but then you don’t want your PowerPoint to do all the work for you, do you? All actions are taken care of by built-in timings, so the only clicking required is to advance the slide.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

MORE REFLEXIVE VERBS

The second and third presentations on reflexive verbs are here in reverse order. The final one of the series deals with the Perfect Tense of reflexives. I often try to give a presentation some kind of theme, however irrelevant: this time I got hung up on things cinematic. The Flash conversion misses a scrolling text on the intermission slides, but is otherwise pretty accurate. Beware of trying to click too much – there are a lot of built-in timings.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

This presentation (second of three) introduces what I think of as the unexpected reflexives, ie not the ones that deal with daily routine stuff. It follows on in style from the first one on reflexives. Sadly, the Flash conversion messed up the text animation on the infinitives, but the original PPT is fine.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

REFLEXIVE VERBS

This recent effort really was a night before the lesson job. I was feeling depressed about dealing with reflexive verbs without something pretty on the IWB, so I sat up from midnight to 1.30 am working on this presentation. It displays my usual minimalist tendencies but is probably none the worse for that. After all, any presentation is just a tool to provide a visual backup for the teacher.

The original PowerPoint version is here.

WEATHER

Now this presentation to help teach or revise weather vocabulary goes back a few years, but I still have a soft spot for it. I spent some time on it, trying to make it less than run of the mill (not sure if I succeeded!). The main flaw with it is that the weather animations didn’t really have the resolution need for screen display, but I liked them so much I just had to use them anyway!

The original PowerPoint version is here.

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