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February 2011 Blog Posts (7)

Song and game idea to teach Sports and likes/dislikes in any language

Here is a simple idea to teach sports and likes dislikes to the backing track of Manu Chao's Me gustas tu. I've knicked a spanish song shamelessly for French! You could use it though for any language and even for a different topic.

http://souffler.typepad.com/home/2011/02/song-for-sports-and-opinons-a-game-idea.html

Good luck everyone as you get back to work!

Mark

Added by Mark Purves on February 27, 2011 at 20:51 — No Comments

How to write your own songs for language teaching

Hi

I posted a new article on this here. It was the fruit of a 4 week Sing Up funded project to assess the impact of singing on language learning. It was only a short time so hard conclusions can't be drawn but I thought the feedback from the pupils at the end of this article was very telling, especially as their comments were completely unprompted and they had no warning they were going to be interviewed.…

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Added by Mark Purves on February 26, 2011 at 11:44 — No Comments

Hungry Caterpillar- Spanish

Hiya All

Have put some resources on my forum on RESOURCES page for Hungry Caterpillar if any use to anyone? Will add more when I work out what I've put on!

Helen

Added by Helen on February 24, 2011 at 21:08 — 2 Comments

Using FL songs to help improve pronunciation

Hi Everyone.

I don't get back to this wonderful site as often as I should but as I started out here when blogging et al was a very novel thing to do, so kind of feel it's a bit like home!

Anyway, just thought I would share a couple of posts from my own blog that have been drawing a lot of traffic and want to share in particular with primary MFL teachers.

If you know anything about my pet topic on the souffler blog site, I am passionate about using music to help…

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Added by Mark Purves on February 23, 2011 at 14:30 — No Comments

Soy una taza - KS1 Fun in Spanish

Many thanks to Clare Seccombe(webmistress of the wonderful MFL Sunderlandsite) for her inspirational demonstration of this song at the Show'n'tell free session for MFL teachers at Eastleigh last weekend as part of the ICT Links Into Languages Conference. And for those of you who want to see the dance that…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on February 16, 2011 at 22:57 — 3 Comments

Languages Show'n'tell Free Workshop

Really looking forward to the MFL Show'n'tell session this Saturday 12th February at Southampton Uni Sports Centre, Wide Lane, Eastleigh. An unofficial part of the ICT Links Into Languages Conference (#ililc on twitter) which is completely sold out - this free session still has a couple of spaces. It is my…