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An interactive network for those teaching (or considering teaching) foreign languages in Primary school; a place to share your worries/successes with supportive colleagues. Please respect contributers rights to be identified as authors of their work.


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recommendations of fab resources
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I have quite a bit of money to spend from this year's MFL budget and was wondering what fab resources people on here think is really worth having. It's mainly for Spanish but feel free to recommend... Continue

Started by Emma Dawson. Last reply by Rosie 1 day ago.

Recommended Scheme of Work for Spanish at KS2?
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Hi, Have just been asked to start teaching spanish across ks2, Very happy about this but need to order sow quite quickly,and wanted to know if anyone has any strong views on what works and what doe... Continue

Started by Penny. Last reply by Agnes Chavez 9 May.

Can anyone recommend a French scheme of work for Years 3 - 6?
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I am looking to purchase a scheme of work that would be suited to 30 minute slots of French language tuition to Years 3 - 6 (30 minutes per year group). La Jolie Ronde and the Catherine Cheater Sch... Continue

Started by Cathy Tickle. Last reply by Cathy Tickle 7 May.

Any bright ideas re: child who doesn't speak English??
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I know this isn't really our remit here, but figured people might have experience of such matters - We have a Chinese boy in Year 6 who speaks very little English. He seems bright enough but finds... Continue

Tagged: mandarin, english, online_games, chinese, esl

Started by Lisa Stevens. Last reply by Barbara Jones 21 Apr.

International Language Learning Projects
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I wanted to find some collaborative projects that involved language learning. I've really enjoyed being part of Voices of The World by Sharon Tonner which involves classes around the world completi... Continue

Started by Jess McCulloch. Last reply by Jo Rhys-Jones 21 Apr.

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ConjugationsBack

I'm sure by now many of you have already seen these videos but they are so inspired and fun that I can't resist sharing them once more. I'm not advocating teaching conjugations as such in PLL, but I do think a fun song like this makes the whole thing seem more 'normal' and makes g… Continue

Posted by Lisa Stevens on 4th May 2008 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Animated 'Creepy Crawly' Videos

You may remember that Jo posted a blog on the subject of minibeasts quite recently. Well I'm not professing to have actually tried using any of the resources yet but I came upon these amusing videos quite by chance and couldn't resist sharing! Here's the link to the… Continue

Posted by Jayne Jackson on 1st May 2008 at 10:27pm — 1 Comment (Add)

QCA Unit 16 – La Plage – some ideas & resources

I’ve started to gather resources for this & thought I’d share what I’ve come up with so far. Ideally this unit would be taught to a Yr 5 class in the second half of the spring term, presuming they’d completed units 1-6 in… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 30th April 2008 at 6:30pm — 9 Comments (Add)

Name that MFL Blogger!

Have a go at these quizzes on MFL bloggers - see how many you can identify - Joe Dale has made this one based on photos - http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/… Continue

Posted by Lisa Stevens on 25th April 2008 at 9:02pm — 4 Comments (Add)

New Facility on Talkabout Primary MFL - Groups Creation

To celebrate the upcoming birthday of this site - and the fact that we now have 145 signed-up members and average 300 plus 'lurkers' (users who prefer to remain anonymous) who visit the site each day - there is now a new facility which I hope you will find useful. 'Groups' can be created by… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 23rd April 2008 at 11:53am — 1 Comment (Add)

Try Immersion and MagazineFactory

MagazineFactory is embedding rich media - is this the tipping point? Media creation, sharing and publishing are strongly coupled with the concept of UGC (User Generated Content) and the Social Web. The environment of on-line production is changing rapidly. Not only the "shape" of the typical student but also the available tools are changing. Also the increasing globalization is changing the scene, how we work, study, collaborate, and communicate. Our audience is not merely listening anymore ...… Continue

Posted by christian komonen on 21st April 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments (Add)

Bring some Eurovision fun to your classroom/podcast/vodcast....

Yes it’s that time of year again – the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is bigger (and cheesier) than ever, with the final in Belgrade on 24th May. So here are some easy-to-implement ideas to have a little fun with the event in class. Taking a cross-curricular Geography / Int… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 19th April 2008 at 11:00am — 5 Comments (Add)

Good King Wenceslas looked out, on my snowy garden.

Very strange to wake up to snow this morning - not the subject of my blog, but the title just came to me as I looked at my Flickr pics from the last three days as I gazed at my youngest making snow angels! I…

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Posted by Lisa Stevens on 6th April 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Junior Language Challenge 2008

Do you have anyone really keen on language-learning in your class? Do they have access to a computer? Are they aged 10 or younger? Want to combine learning fun and support a charity at the same time? Then you might want to take up the Juni… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 5th April 2008 at 10:08pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Poisson d'avril - April Fool's Day Fun in French with KS1 and 2

Now while in Spanish-speaking countries, pranks are practised on December 28, the Day of the Holy Innocents. The French celebrate April Fool’s Day on the 1st just as we do, so why not have a little fishy fun with your class… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 29th March 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments (Add)

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