French time telling with Hot Potatoes

Janice Levens, a modern languages teacher at Greenock Academy, has created exercises using Microsoft PowerPoint and the ‘Hot Potatoes’ program for her S1 pupils to do on the computer in order to revise telling the time in French. Hot Potatoes is a program available to download from the internet, which allows users to create interactive multiple choice, fill-in-the-gap, crossword and matching/ordering exercises.

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Janice Levens studied at Glasgow University and has been teaching for 10 years, nine and a half at Greenock Academy. She is now acting principal teacher of modern languages and the modern languages ICT coordinator for Inverclyde. 

Janice teaches S1-S6 pupils and uses computers and digital video where appropriate in her classes. She has recently had an interactive whiteboard installed in her classroom, which she now uses in every lesson. 

She says that she has attended lots of ICT courses and that she develops her ICT skills by practising at home. 

Greenock Academy in Greenock, to the north west of Glasgow, has 930 pupils. Of these, around 10 per cent have free school lunches, 16 are recorded as having special educational needs and two speak English as a second language. 

The school has approximately 200 computers and three ICT rooms. Part of the depute’s remit is to be the ICT coordinator. New Opportunities Fund (NOF) training is available to staff. 

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