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March 2010 Blog Posts (9)

Poisson d'avril! April Fools day!

Got your fishes at the ready everybody? If not dive over to teteamodeler and print out some, colour them in (practising colours in French of course) and then cut them out ready to stick onto some poor unsuspecting sole's back.

Want to play some bigger tricks? You could tell your students how

back in 1986 Le Parisien, a…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on March 31, 2010 at 21:00 — No Comments

Last minute Easter lessons for KS2 languages

Here goes - a last minute round up of some Easter resources ready and free for teachers to use in these last few days of term:

In addition to previous blogs and posts about Easter, and some cracking Easter powerpoints, don't forget there are some lovely make'n'do style activities in French over on… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on March 29, 2010 at 17:30 — No Comments

Primary Languages Survey - some results at last!

Thank you so much to all the teachers who took the trouble to complete the Talkabout Primary Languages survey on survey monkey earlier this year.

I have been going through all the individual responses and removed the incomplete responses so that the results here are only those that answered all 10 questions. After I had done this I have finally ended up with 99 complete, individual replies.

Here are the raw results (I will run some… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on March 21, 2010 at 12:37 — No Comments

Using song clips as a backing track for language work

Hi

I have put a post about this here

and there are links to enable you to download the files for free.

I used it today with a yr 6 class who picked it up very quickly.

I would just like to add my own congrats to all those on the CILT primary Mfl conference team. As someone working with SingUp and Mfl I was thrilled to see the emphasis on language… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on March 17, 2010 at 0:06 — No Comments

Mindmap of ideas for integrating the ML with other curricular areas

integration_ml_new.pdf

Added by Aoife on March 16, 2010 at 16:44 — 7 Comments

La araña pequeñita

Here's a Voki I made yesterday in my session at the Primary Language Show, using a song I'd recorded for a non-Spanish speaker to use with her class.

Sadly no spider avatar on Voki, but I did manage some rain.....…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on March 14, 2010 at 22:13 — 1 Comment

Primary Languages Show 2010 - blog post

I had a fantastic time at the Primary Languages Show on Friday 12th March, and have blogged it for anyone who couldn't be there or who did different workshops.

Read about it here

Added by Clare Seccombe on March 14, 2010 at 13:51 — No Comments

Who is going to the Primary Languages Show ?

Well I am!

Would be good to put a few faces to names; see you there!

Added by Jan Lewandowski on March 9, 2010 at 18:14 — 3 Comments

I love this song! It's very simples ...

Hi everyone

I put a post here about cross-curricular links with Music departments more related to Secondary but the song is great and wanted to share it with you. The link the Canadian Site mentioned might be new to you as well and contains a lot of great resources.

amusez-vous…

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Added by Mark Purves on March 2, 2010 at 7:51 — 1 Comment