How can I be a SUPER LEARNER in MFL?

Resilient Use the support book to look up key vocabulary

Use a dictionary to find more complicated words

Look back through your exercise book to help you

Speak in the target language even if you’re not sure you’re right

Think about your prior knowledge to see if a similar rule can be

used

Always check your book and ask someone else before you ask

the teacher

Responsible Remember to bring your support book, exercise book and

homework book to every lesson

Engage in pair work, group work and individual work

Speak as much in the target language as you can to improve

your language skills

Be silent during listening tasks and follow all of your teach-

er’s instructions

Ask questions if you do not understand

Rational Try to work out new grammar rules for yourself by applying

prior knowledge

Always be open to learning a new topic or about something

cultural

Look at ways to apply what you have learnt to new struc-

tures and vocabulary

Help those around you by explaining how you understand

things if they do not

Take a positive role in pair and group work

Reflective Know what level you are working at and how to move on to the

next one

Be aware of the skills where your strengths lie and where you

need improvement eg. Listening, speaking, reading, writing

Use table mats and displays to improve your work and level

Respond to marking as guided to by your teacher

Check all accents, adjective endings etc. before handing in a

piece of work

Resourceful Take part in all tasks whether listening, speaking, reading or

writing

Apply prior knowledge to new topics

Use previously learnt grammar and vocabulary to improve your

work

Use online dictionaries, not google translate, to look up new

words at home

Use your support book and dictionaries to find words you don’t

know

Do the Challenge page in your homework book