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Juanito y las Judías Mágicas

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Posted by Helen on 30 July 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Hiya All Would you believe that I started uploading this yesterday afternoon- was losing the will! Have split the powerpoint into four parts to make it quicker to upload but.....hope it doesn't take as long to download! Would have given up but it became a matter of principle!!! Have sent my kids to playscheme so I can do some work- much to their disgust. Have done a powerpoint of Juanito to use in September -images scanned from a book and text mainly from qca. Have blogged it in case any… Continue

Posted by Helen on 30 July 2008 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Holiday Homework - Have a go at writing your first blog post!

Have you written a blog post yet? Would you like to try but have been worried about how? Now is your chance - and I promise you it really is very easy. Moreover you can have a go in complete privacy if you wish - just follow the instructions below. First - choose your topic. You could writ… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 26 July 2008 at 11:20am — 3 Comments

Monsters Rock!

Class Panda has been studying vocab and describing people recently, and they drew some exceptionally cool monsters in the process. I want to keep a record of this type of work for both the students and myself, so I have set up a wiki for each of my classes; giving each student a page to keep any projects they do. Hopefully the students will enjoy the process and see their own development over time. Also, I have set up a wiki to collect projec… Continue

Posted by kristie williamson on 19 July 2008 at 6:41am — 1 Comment

Take Ten En Español

Yesterday I was lucky enough to catch up with Tracy Adams, a Devon Primary Languages Consultant who is currently working with Chris Wakely on 'Take Ten En Español'. This handy pocket-sized resource with… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 18 July 2008 at 11:48pm — 2 Comments

Money for German projects - curricular and/or extra-curricular

Got an idea for a German project next term? Or maybe you fancy a 'teacher-taster' trip to give you ideas for such a project? Well the Global Gateway team want to help you fund it. They are offering to at least match-fund a project if you… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 16 July 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Catherine Cheater Singing Rhymes

If anyone can use them I have been playing around with Apple Mac's Garageband to produce some music to the rhymes that she suggests for use in the primary classroom. They are loaded onto the music player of my main page and can be downloaded in mp3 format. My first stab at this so apologies for any poor quality! Continue

Posted by Mark Purves on 13 July 2008 at 5:13pm — No Comments

Le Quatorze Juillet - resources and links

also known as Bastille day is on Monday, so here are some resources and links I’ve gathered together for a last minute celebration with your class: This French national holiday, commemorates the… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 12 July 2008 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

Dominique Dimey

I have already put some links to this singer on the site. I think she is a really good composer for children, she has a strong message to convey about children's rights, and her songs would fit well into any work schools might do on this theme. I am adding this song to the site "Enfants des Rues" as a strong example of what she does. The mp3 was downloaded for free from We7.com. Listen to these songs on my page ENFANTS DES RUES : Dans… Continue

Posted by Mark Purves on 12 July 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Football & Primary Languages - slideshare and RSG's

Here is the powerpoint I have been using at our recent Devon Regional Support Groups, minus a few videos of children from our schools as we have not obtained permission to use those on the Internet. But I have put in the links to YouTube and TeacherTube videos, and of course Mr Gorse's wo… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 8 July 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

OUVREZ VOS MAINS

Here are the words Texte parlé Ouvrez vos mains Tendez vos doigts Comptez vos droits Ça fait… Continue

Posted by Mark Purves on 7 July 2008 at 5:32pm — No Comments

JE SOIGNE MON ALIMENTATION

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Posted by Mark Purves on 7 July 2008 at 5:28pm — 1 Comment

TOUS LES ANIMAUX

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Posted by Mark Purves on 7 July 2008 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Songs

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Posted by Mark Purves on 7 July 2008 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Pronunciation

This is my one big worry with the current push for languages at Primary Level. I know that although I am not a native speaker of French, my accent is pretty good. I am asked by French people what part of France I come from, but I know this is because I was first taught French when I was 7 by a French woman. I worry that many pupils first contact with the language is not going to give them that. What do others think? Here is one neat tip that really works though when you are trying to improve pr… Continue

Posted by Mark Purves on 30 June 2008 at 8:41am — 11 Comments

Nings, blogs, wikis and sharing good practice online: A revolution in cpd perhaps?

OK, so Power to the People may not quite be where we are at in cpd (Continuing Professional Development) just yet, but I really do believe that in order for teachers at the chalkface to get the 2010 entitlement for 'all KS2 children to be learning a language during lesson time' to wo… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 28 June 2008 at 10:21pm — 2 Comments

Primary MFL workshop July 11th - Colchester

Hi all, am copying this from the discussion forum since I just realised that by putting it in Blogs more people would see it. Apologies for "cross posting" There are still some places on the Colchester workshop: http://www.aimlanguagelearning.com/Colchester_UK.htm Here's an excerpt from the brochure: In this all-day workshop, you will learn how story-telling, music, drama and gestures can work synergistically to rapidly increase second language acquisition. Histoires en action! , is based on… Continue

Posted by mmichels on 26 June 2008 at 1:25am — No Comments

October half term course for teaching German in primary schools - FREE!

Just received this email from Liz Hitchcock, editor of Global Gateway (British Council), with a great opportunity for anyone teaching or planning to teach German in a UK primary school: "If you or one of your staff teaches primary Germ… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 25 June 2008 at 9:13pm — 1 Comment

More Primary resources

There are a whole load of KS2 powerpoint and interactive whiteboard resources on this site. Teachers Resource Exchange Wendy Adeniji is one teacher with a lot of particularly good mat… Continue

Posted by Mark Purves on 25 June 2008 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

J'aime pas l'anglais video

Here's attempt number two at the subtitling. There are LOADS of neat vids on youtube that could be used for any level of teaching. You can tailor what kids have to listen out for at any level as long as you simplify the task. Great for teaching kids to sift through noise to find one relevant sound, and in a fun way. Song is pretty annoying after a while though!

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Posted by Mark Purves on 25 June 2008 at 9:29am — No Comments

Asterix vid

Well just joined this site so thought I would post my first vid. I learnt at last how to do subtitles and this was my first stab. I love this song from Asterix and Cleopatre.

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Posted by Mark Purves on 24 June 2008 at 5:39pm — 6 Comments

Animation and MFL's

I had a great day yesterday, working with 20 Primary teachers from LA's in the West Midlands. They were all Modern Languages teachers and had signed up to my two hour workshop to find out how animation can help teach French and Spanish, keeping the students engaged and thinking about different languages and cultures, as well as their own. We decided to do adverts, keeping all minds focused is always a challenge and short adverts around a product or idea automatically keep everyone involved think… Continue

Posted by Oscar Stringer on 24 June 2008 at 11:26am — 5 Comments

Theatre in Spanish for primary children

Thought I would bring this to the attention of folks who do Spanish, especially as you seem to lose out to French in terms of resources and so on. A Cuerpo is a theatre company offering performances, workshops and resources for KS2 Spanish. They are based in the Leicester but could travel further afield. Continue

Posted by Clare Seccombe on 23 June 2008 at 8:06pm — 3 Comments

QCA Unit 14 Le Musicien

Another work in progress this, for the remainder of this half term with my whole KS2 class. I've attached my first powerpoint so far, which introduces the Unit - it has lots of soundfiles which are from the built-in PowerPoint mediaclips (so should work on most people's versions of ppt) or from the… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 20 June 2008 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments

Animation For Education - for complete beginners and experts too!

Just a quick post to alert people to a new ‘ning’ group that has been set up by Oscar Stringer. Animation for Education is for those interested in learning how… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 15 June 2008 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Something for the weekend?

Lots happening this weekend: Lisa and I are off to Nottingham for the British Council eTwinning National Conference (will tell you all about it and… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 13 June 2008 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

European Day Of Languages -26th September

Just spotted it's European Day of Languages on 26th September. A long way off but nothing like forward planning! 'What is the European Day of Languages? With just four months to go until this year’s European Day of Languages, schools, colleges, businesses, universities and individuals around the country are beginning to plan how to celebrate the Day. The European Day of Languages on 26 September is an ideal opportunity to raise awareness of different languages and cultures from arou… Continue

Posted by Helen on 12 June 2008 at 6:41am — 2 Comments

Using Catherine Cheater Scheme of Work

The Catherine Cheater schemes are very popular - some LA's have even bought enough for all their schools. In Devon the scheme is even handed out free to schools who attend the Catherine Cheater training for each Year group. By sending in a receipt for th… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 4 June 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Sparklebox - Free display materials

Sparklebox has been very popular among Primary practitioners, particularly those active on the TES forum, for quite some time. Plenty of bright col… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 2 June 2008 at 7:50pm — 1 Comment

Sing a French song !

A couple of weeks ago I discovered that we had in the LA a very talented French assistant who sang and played the guitar. Last week we set up an impromptu recording studio at the Sandhill Centre and recorded 25 French songs, some traditional, some not so traditional. I'm so glad I found out about her the week before their contract ended and not the week after ! You'll find all the songs in mp3 format here http… Continue

Posted by Clare Seccombe on 30 May 2008 at 8:57am — 3 Comments

Les Quatre Amis

les quatre amis.ppt I'm a blog virgin - well I was until just now! I've been on dial-up for years and we've just got broadband so thi… Continue

Posted by Judy Carruthers on 22 May 2008 at 11:00pm — 6 Comments

QCA Unit 16 La Plage - part 3 - SlideShare

Below is a SlideShare of the third powerpoint I've made for QCA Unit 16 - La Plage. The others you can find here and on the… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 21 May 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Take Ten en Espanol

Just had an email from Chris Wakely and Vera Anderson at Devon letting me know that Take Ten en Espanol will be out in November 2008.Those of you familiar with Take Ten en Francais will know the cd's an… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 21 May 2008 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

eTwinning Art Competition

The British Council have just announced an eTwinning UK art competition: enter by 16 June 2008! To celebrate the ongoing success of… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 16 May 2008 at 7:11pm — 1 Comment

Aliens!

As soon as I read this BBC report about the M… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 14 May 2008 at 12:30pm — 5 Comments

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 4 May 2008 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

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 1 May 2008 at 10:27pm — 1 Comment

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 30 April 2008 at 6:30pm — 10 Comments

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 25 April 2008 at 9:02pm — 4 Comments

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 23 April 2008 at 11:53am — 1 Comment

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 21 April 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

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 19 April 2008 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

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 6 April 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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 5 April 2008 at 10:08pm — 2 Comments

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 29 March 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Happy Easter to you all!

As we're (aspiring) linguists, here's Happy Easter from around the world! (courtesy of Easterbunnys.net) Catalan:- Felices Pasques Chinese:- Fu huo jie kuai le Croatian:- Sretan Uskrs Danish:- Glædelig Påske Du… Continue

Posted by Lisa Stevens on 23 March 2008 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

La Tienda de Luis -Spanish video

Hiya Helen again. Was looking at www.tts-group.co.uk which was advertised Junior Education Plus which does have some lovely resources for MFL but one of them was a DVD called La Tienda de Luis. I thought I'd google it and see if I could get it cheaper- free!! You can on Teacher's TV. It's a five part series. The series is set in the old town of Oviedo in Asturias in northern Spain. In programme one, Luis is just opening his shop for the first time, pinning up a job advertisement for an assis… Continue

Posted by Helen on 15 March 2008 at 6:00pm — 8 Comments

Easter - Crafts, Maths, MFL and RE too!

Now's the sort of time I tend to hunt around for end-of-term Easter themed activities in a panic - having always left it to the week before. So I'll start with a list of some of my favourite French websites with the usual craft, make'n'do and songs with an Easter theme:… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 14 March 2008 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

Just Testing?

Is this going to be seen by all? Have put a couple of resources on Forum to see if it works. Can you let me know please? Cheers Helenx Continue

Posted by Helen on 9 March 2008 at 7:45pm — 4 Comments

Mini-Beasts: A Spiralling scheme of work from Reception to Year 6 from Linda Owen

Linda Owen, Primary Languages Advisory Teacher & International Education Officer at Gloucestershire LA has generously shared this work from her Ants in Your Pants workshop at the Primary Languages Show. It is a spiralling scheme of work, where the topic of ‘mini-beast… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 8 March 2008 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

So many people at the Primary Languages Show in Manchester

It was great to meet up with Lisa and Helen, at the CILT Primary Languages Show in Manchester this year - and a real shame that… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 5 March 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

Jumping on the back of Jo's last blog!

Jo's ideas were inspiring as always and I just wanted to add my voice to one of her recommendations in particular... if you haven't tried using the 'Toutes les couleurs' story by Alex Sanders yet, then get on-line and order yourself a copy straight away! It's a fabulous little tale of a very endearing rabbit and how she manages to come ho… Continue

Posted by Jayne Jackson on 28 February 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Teaching Colours to Year 1

This post began life as a response to a question over on the TES staffroom. How do you introduce colours to Year 1? Here are some of my ideas: I'd start with a phoneme eg 'eu'. Get the class to repeat the sound an… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 27 February 2008 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Free SMART notebook stuff on animals

Been making some Interactive Whiteboard resources and thought I'd share a few with anybody who may be using the same software. I will eventually transfer most of this to powerpoint too and will add it to the post for those who don't have an IWB / compatible hardware. Thanks to… Continue

Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 23 February 2008 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

¡Feliz Día de San Valentín!

I know I've shared this before but it is a classic! Listen to Mike and his beautiful Spanish love song ;o)

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Posted by Lisa Stevens on 14 February 2008 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Something to whet the appetite!

I'm intending to begin a series of blog posts later this week on the subject of storytelling in primary MFL. In the meantime I hope you enjoy these photographs of our school display, which exhibits work from both Y4 & Y5 pupils produced during a unit of study based on Eric Carle's much loved text 'La chenille qui fait des trous'. The little mini-books you can see on the cupboards illustrate the sequence in which the caterpillar eats the different items of food throghout the week. Pupils gl… Continue

Posted by Jayne Jackson on 12 February 2008 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

La Vaca Lola

Just found the cutest video on Youtube for Spanish.

I've just blogged about it on my blog but thought it was too good to not share with you (in case you don't read ¡Vámonos!)

So here it is -

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Posted by Lisa Stevens on 5 February 2008 at 9:22pm — 7 Comments

Mardi Gras

If you're looking for any last minute Mardi Gras related activities, here are a few links I've come across that you may find useful.

Let's start with information about how Pancake Day is celebrated around the wor…

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Posted by Jayne Jackson on 4 February 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Valentines Disco at Gorseville

For those of you who haven't come across Stuart Gorse's gorgeous animations on you tube, here is the latest edition:

I think the girl in the red dress and the flower in her hair is the coolest!

If you can't access YouTube in school you can always copy the url at the top of the page of the vide…

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Posted by Jo Rhys-Jones on 31 January 2008 at 8:39pm — 4 Comments