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December 2009 Blog Posts (5)

Canciones de Navidad Wallwisher

In an idle moment this afternoon, I made a Wallwisher of Christmas songs in Spanish (and a few in Catalan as I couldn't resist!)

Feel free to add your own!

For some unknown reason, the wall won't embed so here's the link! http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/navidades

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 24, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

BBC Primary French and Spanish website - Have your say!

I'm helping the producers of the BBC schools website a bit this week, giving them some suggestions about their Primary French and Spanish pages.

If you haven't seen them, there are animated characters to help you speak the language, games to practice the vocabulary in each section, and some interesting fact files about the…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on December 14, 2009 at 14:17 — 4 Comments

Multilingual Online karaoke Christmas

Here is another quick and fun five-minute stocking filler of a site. Click on http://www.ylw.mmtr.or.jp/~johnkoji/hymn/xmas/ and you will get a long list of famous carols. Click on the title of a carol and it will start playing (after a few minutes pause) as a midi file, however if you also click on a flag or country beneath the title of the carol, you will get the lyrics displayed in a separate screen so… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on December 10, 2009 at 19:00 — 3 Comments

French Christmas Cultural info quiz

I was trying to put together something on this and courtesy of the Sunderland MFL Christmas resources site put together this Smartboard Notebook file. It includes a Connect4 game to play with the pupils in teams as they try and memorise what they have learnt as they read the info on the screens.

You can borrow some of the ideas used here and adapt them for a lot of other… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on December 4, 2009 at 7:00 — 2 Comments

The Penguin Show - in any language!

Here's a quick free and fun game for a starter in the classroom. Go to http://www.star28.net/snow.html and type in a short message or item of vocabulary in French / German / Spanish / Italian / Polish (or whatever) and then either email it to your self or click save on the url. Then at the start of your lesson paste the url (or open the message) and get the class to predict what the penguins are spelling out!

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on December 2, 2009 at 23:30 — 4 Comments