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All Blog Posts Tagged 'french' (19)

Snow days - ideas for KS2 languages

We are having a snow day today - so for teachers and children who may find themselves in similar situations perhaps you might want to consider some of the following?

There is an abundance of online sites that any child with Internet access can use from home, so here are some of my favourites - please do…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on January 18, 2013 at 12:04 — 2 Comments

Passeport pour la Francophonie - Education Scotland

(Originally posted on ¡Vámonos!)

I was really interested to read the following press release this week -

Education Scotland publishes new online resource for modern languages called 'Passeport pour la Francophonie' at the Scottish Learning Festival on 19…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on September 22, 2012 at 19:30 — No Comments

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

Inspired by the life of Neil Armstrong, this blog is a quick reminder of all the free KS2 resources out there that link Space and Languages. You can download…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on August 28, 2012 at 11:00 — No Comments

Primary French German Spanish flashcards - free!

Just had a tip-off from Early Start that they are offering some free sample flashcards to support the launch of MLG Publishing 'Ici on parle francais'.

The MLG scheme is aimed at supporting non-specialist primary teachers and is available in French, German and Spanish, as are the free flashcards and sample chapters. Click here http://www.earlystart.co.uk/mlg.htm to read more and download…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 6, 2010 at 11:18 — 2 Comments

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

New Scholastic cross-curricular French resources published today

Hi All

Happy New Year!

2010 is the year I become a published author; `time she put her money where her mouth is' you might say!

I have to say the books have been a long time in coming- nearly 2 years since the project was initiated. I did the outline planning for the whole series and masses of research, re-writes and editing along the way, including finding additional authors. Great to have my friends and colleagues Alison Clarke and Heather Crabtree from the… Continue

Added by Jan Lewandowski on January 4, 2010 at 10:00 — 5 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

Partner School in France

So - yes, it's probably not even called that . . . but I'm at home and the folder with information is at school.

The HT decided that - while most children are away on residential for the week - the remainder of Y5/Y6 could work with me and send something to our partner school. The small primary school in France has already sent photographs of children : we had to decide which child was which by reading info on an 'identity card' which described features such as hair, glasses,… Continue

Added by Francis Hannaway on November 14, 2009 at 16:21 — 3 Comments

Partner School in France

Added by Francis Hannaway on November 14, 2009 at 16:21 — 4 Comments

Scheme of Work for KS1 French

Just a short one to let you know that I have just uploaded a scheme of work for Reception and KS1 which was produced by a consortium of Sunderland schools

Added by Clare Seccombe on July 22, 2009 at 10:11 — 6 Comments

Talking online French dictionary

Hi there!
Does anyone know of a talking French dictionary online? so people can type in the word amd hear it in French?
Thanks

Added by Laure on June 12, 2009 at 13:09 — 3 Comments

French resources

Hi everyone.
I work at St Margarets High school in Liverpool as a language teacher and community link coordinator. This year I am working with 5 primary schools which I really enjoy!!! I set up a blog to post my lessons weekly.
Hope you will find it useful.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all
Gaelle Leroux

French in Primary

Added by gaelle leroux on December 20, 2008 at 11:53 — 2 Comments

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… Continue

Added by Clare Seccombe on May 30, 2008 at 8:57 — 3 Comments

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 Yr 3 & so on, but I have a whole KS2 group, some have been doing French for about 5 yrs, some are new this yr to language-learning.

So back to the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on April 30, 2008 at 18:30 — 10 Comments

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 and devise an action to go with it (my class like to stick their tongues out). Then in a circle go around getting each child to say the… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on February 27, 2008 at 14:30 — 2 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

EDL and Rugby!

What a mixture, eh! But they are related - in my mind anyway!

Just over a week left before we're back to school and my mind is seriously turning to what to do on my alloted display boards. Don't know how I managed it, but I've got three - to everyone else's two per year group - guess it has something to do with my ability to fill them! Anyway, I love displays and in my previous school I even got a point for being 'display… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on August 22, 2007 at 18:46 — 5 Comments

Barbie / Action Man Fashion Show

This is work in progress - having practised lots of clothes vocabulary, watched 'Promenons nous dans les bois' on the Mon Ane DVD, sang and danced to Rock'n'Roll Machine a Laver, read repeatedly 'Je m'habille, je te croque', played…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 20, 2007 at 14:16 — 3 Comments

A carousel lesson with a whole KS2 class

Just thought I'd make a quick note of what went on in my classroom this week so far - we're doing the topic of 'Clothes' at the moment.

We first introduced the new vocabulary 2 weeks ago now. So we started as a whole class reading 'Je m'habille, Je te croque' by Benedicte Guettier (Publisher: L’école des loisirs. ISBN: 2 211 055 97 4). It's one of the resources that…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 14, 2007 at 22:15 — 1 Comment