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November 2007 Blog Posts (8)

Christmas MFL Ideas, Sites and Resources

Here’s a list of easy activities as we prepare for Christmas in school.

Get crafty - use greetings in target language to make Christmas cards - but make it an activity to practise colours by making your own colour-by-numbers…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 28, 2007 at 23:00 — 1 Comment

Blimey - Our ning is a finalist for the 2007 Edublog Awards!!

Check it out - we are under section 13 - Best Educational Use of Social Networking Services. And vote for your favourites while you are there! http://edublogawards.com/edublog-awards-2007-finalists-announced/

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 26, 2007 at 21:28 — 4 Comments

French Stories online

http://www.racontine.com/

This excellent website provides online stories in French which are read by a native speaker. Pages are turned interactively and there are loads of different ones including a Christmas story

Added by jane solloway on November 23, 2007 at 12:47 — 3 Comments

Take 10 en Francais - integrating French into daily physical activity in the primary school

Take 10 en Français is a fantastic little resource from Devon Education Services. It’s a handy pocket-sized book full of games and activites that can be used as PE warm-ups or more sedately in the classroom as Brain-gym exercises.

Aimed at the non-specialist MFL teacher, it is very user-friendly: 29 Activities…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 22, 2007 at 14:15 — 6 Comments

Opportunities for Using ICT in Primary MFL Teaching

Joe Dale has been blogging recently about the work he has been doing “..with members of the CILT Primary Team including Thérèse Comfort, Lucy Adamson, Helen Groothues and Katie Szeless as well as Jim McElwee MFL consultant for Redcar and Cleveland LA on expanding the ICT element of the…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 14, 2007 at 12:02 — 3 Comments

Dictionary Skills

Teaching children how to use a bilingual dictionary is the sort of skill that is not only useful in learning a language but also improves their knowledge of their own mother-tongue simultaneously.

Online Dictionaries:…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 11, 2007 at 16:36 — No Comments

Flashcards - Getting Children to Remember Language

Flashcards are essential in MFL teaching to Introduce new vocabulary. Create an audio / visual link between object + sound + word. Reinforce and aid memory.

The perfect flashcard should be at least A4 size, with a clear image on one side and the target language written large and bold either on the reverse or underneath the image. If…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on November 2, 2007 at 17:49 — No Comments

eTwinning Conference - Nottingham

I spent last weekend at an eTwinning conference in Nottingham at the NCSL. (The place is so cushy, it almost made me think it'd be worth going into Senior leadership just to get to visit often!!)

I had such a great time that I've spent the last few days in a daze, trying to assimilate all the things I learned and keep up to date with blogging on the conference site and also on… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on November 1, 2007 at 23:00 — 1 Comment