Need to improve my French!

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I'm looking for advice on improving my French as I've got to teach ks2 French next year and I'm very rusty!
I've got some basics but I'd ideally like to do course or something to really give me the vocabulary I need.
French has been neglected in my school for a while and so I really want to do my best and embed it cross curricularly.
Can anyone suggest something I can do for my cpd?

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Get onto primary language teachers group on FB, it's excellent

I agree about fb group. Full of ideas. Does your school have a programme they have bought? If so, you can probably learn the vocab before each lesson. I use Salut, which always introduces vocab first. Also, lightbulb languages has a good scheme of work (free!).

The school should offer some support with training you. They might be able to fund a Subject Knowledge Enhancement Course or a term with the Alianza Franzesa if you are in a city.

Linguascope is good for supporting teaching French - not sure of it is a subscription?

'Languages in Primary Schools' facebook group, and the Catherine Cheater free scheme of work

Duo lingo is a free app. That might be helpful if you're a bit rusty.

Google “Kate Languages”, she is offering summer courses.

Lightbulb Languages for free resources and Languages In Primary School (LIPS) on Facebook.

I was going to recommend Duolingo too. Good for a range of vocabulary and brushing up on sentence structure pretty much from the beginning.

No advice, but thanks so much for doing this, my DD (aged 8) has come home with the most atrocious French pronunciation for words I've ever heard. I LOVE the school and the teachers without fail all work exceptionally hard so I'm not criticising but wonder if it would be badly thought of if I offered the headteacher to do and do some conversation classes voluntarily on my day off?

If you could do French GCSE at night school that would help. I did GCSE Spanish as I had to teach Y7. Combined with a trip to the Francophonie that would help you a lot. Have a look at the Institut Français and see if there are any courses for teachers in France. You might get funding too.

Duolingo, plus watch Dark on Netflix with the subtitles on. My French got much better when I started watching more TV in the language.

Duo linguo is a good free app, Memrise is a good cheap paid one - both nice for revising. Memrise is good for hearing native speakers.

@Flippetydip I am having the same internal debate but I think they offer Spanish... just need to be sure we're sticking around long enough to make it worthwhile!

When you say rusty, how rusty? I really appreciate you want to improve but how can it be right that language teaching is left to teachers who are "very rusty"?

Get in touch with your local secondary school. As a secondary head of MFL I have provided resources and CPD for our feeder schools and even taught some sessions in the primaries for them to observe. It is mutually beneficial, so they should be keen to help!

Make sure you listen to lots of French spoken by native french speakers and work on your pronunciation. A gripe of the secondary mfl teachers I know is that many Yr7s arrive with very poor pronunciation which they have to un-teach them.

I like the Coffee Break French podcasts

... and don’t ever utter the words ‘comme ci, comme ça’! No one really says that. Ever!

I'd reiterate getting in touch with your secondary schools and asking them what course they follow etc so you can feed into that. I'm sure they'd be more than willing to help you out and point you in the direction of resources that would be beneficial to you and the students moving up to secondary.

Duolingo