Year+12

= Online quiz: conditional tense =

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While the other students are doing lower-level exercises, get gifted students to create a facebook-style quiz which focuses on the hypothetical. They can also create the 'results'. Later on, the rest of the class can take the quiz, giving them extra exposure to the conditional.======

Gifted students will: use the language meaningfully, to express their ideas. They can be creative with the questions and answers. They will also need to use higher level thinking skills to develop the 'answers'. Students then need to think in reverse to develop quiz answers show that a person has these traits.

For example:

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a) Vous êtes spontané et tu as la joie de vivre, mais n'oubliez pas de penser aux atures avant d'agir. ======

Have a look at QuizMoz, which allows you to create your own quiz online.
Quel fan de Twilight etes vous? For an example of a quiz in French, on a topic which most students will know a bit about... Sport au cinema A quiz about sport in movies.

= Story starters/'Amorces' =



The above file contains four 'amorces' which you could use with students.

On my first teaching experience, my associate encouraged her combined year 12 and 13 class to enter a French writing competition (in the 'as a foreign language section'). They were given a choice of three 'amorces' to start them off. Some of the students worked in pairs, some alone. A gifted student came back after the holidays with approximately three pages of French (with few errors) that I would have been pretty pleased to have written myself.

Lowe (2002, p.157) asserts that ** "using language creatively to express ideas" ** is an activity which promotes and uses thinking skills. This activity is particularly good for linguistically gifted students or creatively gifted. If students do not want to write, you could ask them to develop the story using a series of pictures and some written words as prompts, and then deliver it orally.