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Mark Purves Creating puzzles and jigsaws

Hi I have put up a post to a free site called Jigsawplanet that enables you to create some free puzzles on any image file, bit picture or text, you have. Here are two examples, one of an image, the other of a simple text. You can make the puzzles easier than this. The site allows you to choose the level of difficulty. Go here

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Added by Mark Purves on November 9, 2009 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Mark Purves French Autumn poems

Hi I have put info about some poems I found on the subject of Autumn here. I have simply put material I found elsewhere onto a Smartboard Notebook file for easier viewing but the site I found them on is referenced and has links to a lot of 'comptines' and poems suitable for KS2.

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Added by Mark Purves on November 6, 2009 at 9:46am — 3 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Firework Phonics for French

OK so actually this has nothing to do with fireworks - but this is the Phonics PowerPoint I was working on after the Languages Show and which I mentioned in the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 5, 2009 at 11:33am — 4 Comments

Mark Purves November 5th - Harry Potter an the Exploding text

Hi everyone. If you are looking for an idea with some whizz bangs and explosions for Thursday you could try using or adapting materials I have posted at souffler.co.uk It might look at first sight that the text is too hard for Primary age kids but I think you would be surprised at how much they could understand if you teach them the tools to be a Language detective and 'decode' a text. Plus they get to have a go at a Powerpoint that has l… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on October 30, 2009 at 9:51pm — 2 Comments

Lisa Stevens Lisibo talks!

It's been a long time since I posted anything on Talkabout - and that makes me sad as I started blogging here and don't want to neglect a community that I have always valued so much and always wholeheartedly recommend when i'm sharing. So i thought I'd cross post a couple of things from my blog - ¡Vámonos! that you might have missed!… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Lisa Stevens Storybird

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 2:00pm — 13 Comments

Katie Lucas Henri Des - Sorciere de minuit song on youtube.com

Hi, does anyone have a saved version of this video - I was planning to use it in my halloween lesson but youtube have removed it - very annoying! Thanks in advance Continue

Added by Katie Lucas on October 15, 2009 at 1:10pm — 5 Comments

Pat Jewett Teacher Exchange Programs?

We are contemplating sending our German language teacher to Germany for a semester and hosting an German teacher. We are early in the process and figuring out things like how the extra cost for International health insurance if US Medical insurance… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on October 12, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Mixed Age classes and a slideshare

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 12, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Lorraine Puppets and props motivation in mfl

Salut, Bienvenido, Wilkommen and hello to all fellow puppet fans.
Puppets And Props Motivation In Mfl
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Added by Lorraine on September 27, 2009 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones An Olympic theme for European day of Languages

Year 7 and I saw a fantastic joint PE & Languages assembly today over at the Mountbatten School in Romsey. Jointly delivered by the Heads of each faculty, it was based around the values of… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 22, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Sieben French Books and CDs for Reception and Year One

Can anyone help? I am looking for two books and CDs - different ones that could be used in reception and Year One, as we are planning just speaking/singing and listening only, in these year groups. I have seen un, deux, trois but it has mixed reviews - what are your views? If I buy that one I still need another one. HELP!!! Continue

Added by Sieben on September 15, 2009 at 11:07pm — 8 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Good Primary Languages lesson what makes hrrrm?

The above question was posed earlier this afternoon by Joe Brown and Hugh Baldry from… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on September 10, 2009 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Holiday Homework - Do you have any?

So schools out at last and finally a little 'me time' to catch up on things. I've been inspired by two recent stories in the press - firstly that… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 4, 2009 at 3:13pm — 4 Comments

Clare Seccombe Scheme of Work for KS1 French

Just a short one to let you know that I have just uploaded a scheme of work for Reception and KS1 which was produced by a consortium of Sunderland schools Continue

Added by Clare Seccombe on July 22, 2009 at 10:11am — 6 Comments

Clare Seccombe World Cup 2010

Here in Sunderland we're on a bit of a roll with football, being the only NE team in the Premiership and all. (No hard feelings, Newcastle and Middlesbrough fans!) Last week saw the conference for the NE branch of the Regional Network for International Learning a.k.a. Atlas, and I was asked to do a workshop on the forthcoming World Cup and suggest some activities for primary schools. So many of the ideas are easy to adapt for the languages classroom, I thought I would post the link.… Continue

Added by Clare Seccombe on July 10, 2009 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Helen Playing with new gadget!

Thought I'd share this with everyone- very excited! Sad! Have been using a voice recorder for a long time in the 'language' classroom which has a USB so the children can hear themselves straightaway but have now purchased a Flip Video Recorder- yes I bough… Continue

Added by Helen on June 30, 2009 at 7:57pm — 8 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Make your own languages games with 2Simple DIY

Yesterday at the Hampshire ICT conference at Horndean Community College I was introduced to Katherine Smith, an educational consultant for 2Simple software. They were keen to show me their new… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 27, 2009 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments

Hannah Dyer Please Help!!

Hi I am at university studying to be a primary teacher. I am doing a research project on Mfl and am hoping some kind soul might be able to point me in the direction of some resources! I am trying to find some videos/sound clips of French children talking about their daily life and/or celebrations that would be siutable to show to a Year 4 class? Thanks for any help at all! Hannah Continue

Added by Hannah Dyer on June 25, 2009 at 2:34pm — 4 Comments

Jo Rhys-Jones Maths and Language Games

The attached PowerPoint slides are designed to practice numbers in French (though you could easily adapt them to Spanish or German). I made them in the hope of using them to reinforce the concept of number and be slightly more cognitively demanding in a mathematical manner while using t… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 21, 2009 at 1:00am — 4 Comments

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