Modern Foreign Languages
Web Skills
ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop ·
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Modern Foreign Languages Page |
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Task A: Text & Graphics |
Héloïse Roca lives in central France. When she was 8 years old, she wrote her Journal d'Héloïse, describing herself, her interests, her family and her pets. These few lines later appeared on one page of her father's website and her photograph on another.
As an authentic resource, Journal d'Héloïse lends itself to classroom exploitation within the topic of Personal Description. The language and the content are very accessible to beginners and pupils with learning difficulties.
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Problem: For your records, but not for wider distribution in the interests of copyright, you want an A4 printout of Héloïse's Journal and photograph, which are on separate web pages. |
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Problem-solving:
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French primary school pupils spend many hours mastering the national style of cursive handwriting. Research in France suggests that intensive handwriting practice may also boost the fine motor skills associated with activities as diverse as Physical Education and Creative Writing.
Several instituteurs — French primary school teachers — have developed PC handwriting fonts simulating the national script. These fonts are available as freeware on the World Wide Web and may be installed on any machine without infringing copyright.
Authentic handwriting fonts provide MFL teachers with technological solutions to decoding problems that beginners in general and dyslexic pupils in particular, experience when confronted with unfamiliar scripts.
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Problem: Your Year 7 French pupils have just received pen-pal letters from a school in France. Delight quickly turns to dismay when they cannot decipher the handwriting. |
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