Using mini whiteboards in the MFL classroom - Flipbook - Page 3
Practising new
vocabulary
The teacher asks the students to reect on their understanding of a topic/questions.
Student can write a word or a symbol to indicate the stage they are at such as an
emoji or a word in the target language.
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Dictogloss
A dictagloss is an activity to help students remember certain sentences, phrases or
strings of words. Students write out what they want to say on the board. They then
have 30 seconds to read over what they have written. They hand the board to a
partner and as they try to explain the points they made in writing the partner rubs
off all the parts that they manage to say. The partner then returns the board and the
students looks at the bits they didn’t mention. They then return the board again and
repeat the process. The aim is to orally produce all the ideas on the board and have
a clear board returned to you.
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Peer dictation
In pairs or small group, one student reads a sentence or short text and the other
students write the sentences/text. Students can then compare and discuss their
differences before checking with the original version.
Write a line and
pass it on
In groups, students are making a story. The rst student writes the rst sentence
and pass the board to the next student who adds to the story. It must make sense.
Then it is passed to the other students in turns. At the end students review the story
from a language point of view and see if it works.
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Practising grammar
Teacher calls out a verb, a tense and a person. Students write the conjugated form
and lift their boards to show to the teacher. This can be made more interactive in
conjunction with an animated dice on the whiteboard where each number of the
dice represents a person of the verb. Every time the dice is rolled students have to
write the correct conjugation on the board. Give the students a subject and an
innitive and have them write a sentence that has more to it than just the subject
and the verb. Challenge students to create a long sentence. Give the students a
start to a sentence and have them nish it
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Creating questions
Write an answer to a question on the board and have the students write down what
they think the question was (sometimes there is more than one possibility).
Placemat
Groups of 4. The board is divided in 4 areas with a rectangle in the middle. Each
student write their ideas or vocabulary individually on one of the 4 parts. Then,
students review the ideas and pick the best one which goes in the middle. This then
can be feedback to the class.
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