Critical Skills in the languages class
Judit has supplied these challenges which you can try for yourself. There's also a sheet where pupils can fill in their roles, and one for collecting thoughts from a brainstorming session. Finally, you can ask pupils to fill in the self-assessment and group-assessment sheets.
Files
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Word file: Critical Skills S1 French challenge - Food (39 KB)You are about to go to France on a school exchange and are going to stay with a French family. How do you express what you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
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Word file: Critical Skills S1 French challenge - Free Time (34 KB)
You are given the name of a pen friend from France and you are going to write to the pen friend in French and in turn the pen friend is going to write back to you in English.
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Word file: Critical Skills S1 French challenge - Short Play (47 KB)
The local authority is organising a French theatre play competition with all schools in Moray. The winner is going to perform the short play in front of a big audience.
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Word file: Critical Skills S2 German challenge - Fashion Show (44 KB)
The manager of a German shop is interested to know what kind of clothes Scottish people wear. She has contacted the school to ask the S2 German class to prepare a fashion show, video record it and send it to her in Germany.
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Word file: Critical Skills S2 German challenge - German Visitors (33 KB)
A group of students from Hersbruck, Germany, is going to visit your area for a week. Their level of English is very poor so the local council has asked the Modern Languages department in your school for help.
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Word file: Critical Skills roles list (31 KB)
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Word file: Critical Skills brainstorming sheet (32 KB)
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Word file: Critical Skills self-assessment sheet (for individual) (25 KB)
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Word file: Critical Skills self-assessment sheet (for group) (28 KB)