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[|For FLEAT VI at Harvard Aug 2015] =FLEAT VI Harvard=

Our intro-5 minutes

 * [|Joanne Thomas]
 * HIES, teaching for 18 years, 7 year member of Quizlet, author, honorary language consultant for Quizlet-worked with team in San Fran
 * motivation, flashcards, realistic activities, web 2.0
 * Andrea Dignon
 * NCCS, teaching for 9 years, 5 year member of Quizlet, same methodology as Joanne

Intro to Quizlet-15 minutes

 * Signing up (have teachers sign up)
 * Differences among the 3 accounts
 * Basic (has ads, no image upload, no microphone, but may copy other sets with images-$0/year)
 * Quizlet Plus (no ads, allows images and microphone, class organization-$15/year)
 * Quizlet Teacher (same as “Plus”, plus track student progress, and search “teacher created sets only” feature -$25/year)
 * will get 2 weeks free of teacher account (??)
 * Searching, copying, editing (search your textbook), look for “teacher” icon. (model this for the class – then give them 5 minutes to search on their own)
 * Find a creator you like and click on that name to find more sets you like
 * Setting language (which side to set-click on “Learn” to confirm
 * Make [|folders]
 * Generating Notes
 * [|Make a worksheet]


 * //**NOTE-it’s not just for vocab flashcards (bonjour= hello)-SEGUE into part II**//

ACTIVITIES – Speaking with Listening Comprehension – 25 min

 * 1) Week 1 of school-[|Names Quizlet]
 * 2) [|Repeat & Recognize]
 * 3) Turns into [|Oral Mastery] @ home
 * 4) [|Around Me] (autour de moi) (HAVE FLASHCARDS IN HAND (print/laminate))
 * 5) [|Hot Seat]
 * 6) [|Screen Recording] PC/MAC
 * 7) [|Birthday shopping] / Café
 * 8) Google Voice / [|School Voicemail]
 * 9) [|Running Dictation]
 * 10) Answer [|Reading Comprehension questions] in class
 * 11) [|Marathon]
 * 12) ORAL Quiz / Test / Exam (show the [|Oral Exam 7th grade Semester 1] exam)

ACTIVITIES – WRITING with Listening Comprehension – 25 minutes

 * 1) [|Solitaire]
 * 2) Learn / Speller (earphones if done in class) (never mute speller) (students sign in) (SCREEN SHOTS!) HW
 * 3) Set goals – 40 or more right / 65% or more complete on speller
 * 4) 45 minute rule!!!
 * 5) Space Race – never graded / only in class
 * 6) Scatter (DON'T USE-waste of class time)
 * 7) Fake [|White board] (low stress environment / not graded)
 * 8) If everyone does perfectly on this, then graded – no REAL whiteboard. 10-15 shuffled (PRE-STARRED 20-25 if necessary (instead of skipping)).
 * 9) [|Avalanche]
 * 10) [|Running Dictation]
 * 11) Written Mastery (similar to Solitaire – but no English)
 * 12) [|Relay] with adjective agreement (could also do w/ verb conjugations and expressions)
 * 13) [|Fake Test]/ Worksheet (2 days before test/quiz)
 * 14) [|Read story and fill in answers, then take "test"]
 * 15) [|The Doggie Bets] (the day before a test/quiz – this is the review) The winning team could receive a SLIGHT bonus – or candy – or fame and glory)
 * 16) [|Real White board](10 pt. grade) Reasonable stress
 * 17) Written Quiz/Test (give an example – tie into the Written only portion of Quizlet)

ACTIVITIES –READING Comprehension – 15 minutes

 * 1) [|Relay]
 * 2) Two teams form the phrase & read for accuracy while the non-playing team writes.
 * 3) Script Passage – weather, [|shopping], [|play lines], [|café], [|make one's own for speaking practice], etc (AIM)
 * 4) [|Story passage]-Who What When Where Why questions – English and Target language
 * 5) Student Teaching w/ story passage
 * 6) [|Running Dictation]

BOOM – 45 minutes

 * 1) [|Traveling] / Interviews
 * 2) One Group travels while two groups receive them.
 * 3) In Interviews, students have a goal to how many classmates they speak with.
 * 4) [|Public Speaking] - family
 * 5) Skype/FaceTime/[|Google Hangout]
 * 6) Authentic Application – [|Café] / [|Birthday] / Directions with Google Maps
 * 7) Job Interviews
 * 8) [|Museum / Auction Field Trip]
 * 9) [|Scavenger hunt]– Can be done on a field trip or in your school.
 * 10) Reconnaissance work – Permanent Collection
 * 11) Weather
 * 12) Student Teaching – Reading passage
 * 13) Hardcore sentences then students wrote the sentences/story on a quizlet – then they did a pictoral reference to the story
 * 14) Then when it’s time to student teach, students are given a “Who” card, they must ask the two students in front of them “Qui va à la plage?”
 * 15) [|AIM]

Extra
"Can you [|help me learn French]? I'm going to Paris this summer..."

Close – survey – 5 minutes
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