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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 —
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Posted by Jayne Jackson on 1st May 2008 at 10:27pm —
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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 —
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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 —
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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 —
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Posted by christian komonen on 21st April 2008 at 7:30am —
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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 —
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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 —
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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 —
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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 —
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