Using new technologies and apps in language teaching

1. Using new technology to develop
independent language learning in the
network’s schools.

2. Autorap
Turns any voice recording into a rap –
you select a tune, record yourself
speaking and the app turns it into a rap !

3. What I used it for?
Who with?
• Make up own rhymes/poems/songs using a range
of topic and structures previously learned :
Greetings / family relationships/ hair &
eyes colours/ ‘I am’ / ‘Who are you?’
• Producing a creative piece of writing/speaking.
• Link with a school in the South of England.

4. • Year 4 class : 1 hour/week since September.
• 1 lesson.
What I used it for?
Who with?

5. Planning and preparation
• Made my own ‘rap’ and played it to the children to
set the scene. (
http://www.smule.com/EmilieWoodroffe)
• Listening task.
• Gap fill text : Brainstorm and whole class
examples.
• Working in pairs and practicing speaking their
rhymes.

6. Year 4 raps :
• Louisa and Isabella :
http://www.smule.com/p/173498153_34709301
• Barming Primary, Maidstone, Kent.

7. http://www.smule.com/p/173503992_35180484

8. Evaluation:
• Engagement
• Motivation
• Relevant to their own interest
• Fun
• Real purpose

9. Yakit
‘Make any picture talk’
‘Bring any photo to life’

10. What I used it for?
Who I used it with?
• Describing an outfit you would like to wear using
the verb ‘porter’ (je porte), nouns for clothes and
adjectives of colour.
• Year 5s

11. Planning and preparation
• Nouns for clothes: listening > repetition activities>
speaking.
• Simple sentences with ‘je porte’ and a connective (et).
• Adjectival agreement : regular/irregular.
• Lots of listening/reading based activity to drill the
structure.
• Write own description based on a picture I gave
them/drawn picture.
• Talking to partners to practice describing their outfit
orally before the recordings.

12. Fashion Show !
• Year 5 – St Elphin’s CE Primary School
http://freakngenius.com/yak/DD3B
http://freakngenius.com/yak/DD95
http://freakngenius.com/yak/DD96
Year 5 – St Luke’s Primary School
http://freakngenius.com/yak/A60A

13. Evaluation
• Engagement & motivation.
• Great for practicing speaking ( - 30 sec recording
only).
• Any topic.

14. Youtube videos : going on virtual trips.
• Paris
No words video, fast paced.
• Tour Eiffel: Let’s take a tour of the Eiffel Tower
with a French guide.
• Tour de France
Great as an introduction to the race, France
(geography, etc.).

15. Other Apps
• PuppetPals2 – create animated cartoons
(storytelling)
• Pic Collage – project/investigation work
• Tellagami – create an animated characters &
record a message.
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16. Emilie Woodroffe
Janet Lloyd Network Associate Teacher
www.bonjour-madame.blogspot.co.uk
@Ewoodroffe