Voulez-Vous French Language Workshop
Big Wheel Theatre Company
Voulez-Vous?! is an immersive and interactive workshop for students of all ages - with versions for every Key Stage. The workshop is like a TV magazine programme composed of a variety of items. Depending on the Key Stage these can include a competition to win a family holiday, interspersed with travel surveys, advert breaks, time-checks, catchphrases, and a weather forecast.
The audience are always involved in the action and our facilitators are skilled at making contact with every member of the audience to create a fun and safe atmosphere for participation. Students are immersed in the language and are often surprised at how much French they know and how much more they understand. Plus it’s lots of fun for everyone.
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What activities are available during this school workshop?
Students are involved in the action at all times – they become the TV audience, the contestants of a game show and get to tell the time, talk about the weather and create an audience wide soundscape of the regions of France. Learning is scaffolded throughout using call and response and a plenty of repetition.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Drama
We use drama and theatre skills to engage students in this workshop in French. Students are immersed in the language and take a very active role. Teachers will see how easy it is to use simple drama techniques to animate their teaching, embed learning and make the experience memorable and fun.
Languages
'Voulez-Vous?!' is full of games, interviews and storytelling with lots of repetition! We create a safe and fun atmosphere where students are so engaged they want to take part and embrace the language in order to do so. In order to play they have to works it out and come to understand that language is not just about knowing all the words.
Topics and vocabulary covered includes, greetings, family, transport, France, food, shopping, holidays, telling the time, and the weather.
What size groups do we cater for?
The audience maximum for this workshop is 60 students.
People often ask for us to accommodate more but we find that when the audience is too big the overall learning experience for the students not as good. Our workshops are very interactive, students are encouraged to take part, speak out etc and it can become rather overwhelming when there are too many of them.
People often ask for us to accommodate more but we find that when the audience is too big the overall learning experience for the students not as good. Our workshops are very interactive, students are encouraged to take part, speak out etc and it can become rather overwhelming when there are too many of them.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Yes of course - we work in a flexible way that allows for the easy adaptation of our sessions to students of all abilities.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
We have extensive experience working with a range of different needs and abilities with ages ranging from Early Years through to KS4, including much work in SEN and PRU settings, and all our actors thrive on the variety of audiences that we encounter.
Anything else?
Workshop duration:
KS1 - 45 mins,
KS2 - 60-75 minutes,
KS4 - 75 -90 minutes
We can present up to 4 workshops a day depending on your school timetable.
KS1 - 45 mins,
KS2 - 60-75 minutes,
KS4 - 75 -90 minutes
We can present up to 4 workshops a day depending on your school timetable.
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