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Free Christmas Resources for KS2 French Spanish and Chinese

Thanks to Jamie at Languagenut.com for sharing this link to free KS2 French, Spanish and Chinese resources for Christmas.

Click HERE to find songs with soundfiles and lyrics,…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on December 12, 2011 at 22:56 — No Comments

Sing Spanish Phonics

Since my change of role in September, I have a lot more spare time, and have been filling some of it in the last couple of weeks making up some songs to help my KS2s with their phonics in Spanish. So far I've done one for the "j" sound and one for the "th" sound. You can download them and accompanying resources here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

Added by Clare Seccombe on November 18, 2011 at 12:45 — 1 Comment

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

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

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

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

Singing training and MfL

Hi everyone. Just posting something which I have found to be really useful. I have attended quite a few training sessions recently, all provided for free and by top class singing trainers from Sing Up. For anyone who doesn't know they have been working widely with all LEAs in Primary Ed to promote singing.

Their website has a lot of free materials at http://www.singup.org/ some of which are FL songs with full music to download, teaching tips etc.… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on February 11, 2010 at 17:32 — 9 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

Song for Y6 leavers assembly

Does anyone out there know of a simple song (In French) suitable for a Y6 leavers assembly? Maybe one of you 'creative types' has written some words to a familiar tune that you would be willing to share?! I thought I'd ask before setting to and trying to write my own!!!
Many thanks
Corinne

Added by corinne on June 13, 2009 at 11:16 — 8 Comments

Italian rhymes and songs

There are a couple of sites here and here for rhymes, songs, colouring pages and games for Italian.

Also check out youtube for the following songs: ci vuole un fiore and il caffe della peppina amongst others.

Barbara

Added by Barbara on April 14, 2009 at 15:17 — No Comments

You and Youtube - PLS 09

Here's my presentation from my Saturday session at the Primary Languages Show in Liverpool entitled You and Youtube.

The idea of the session was to give people ideas about how Youtube can be used in Primary Language Learning (PLL). We looked at alternatives to Youtube, how to use video clips if a site is blocked by downloading via one of a number of tools… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on March 10, 2009 at 10:18 — 7 Comments

Join El Carnaval de los Animales! - PLS09

I was very privileged to be invited to present this year at the Primary Languages Show in Liverpool, not once but twice!

I promised at my two sessions that I would post my notes and resources on my blog for people to download and use.

So here's my first presentation. If you download it, the hyperlinks all work - or did when I tried them. However, if they… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on March 10, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

La canción de las brujas

This is to go with Jo's brilliant post on La sorciere de minuit - but in Spanish!

Here's a Spanish song about witches -

And if that one's a bit complicated / it scary for you, here's a lovely short one about a mad witch.…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 31, 2008 at 15:30 — 1 Comment

SONGS

I have followed the thread on the blogs about songs in language teaching. There are some really good pointers in them. Here are a few more

1) Youtube user angelaying who has lots of traditional nursery rhymes with animations and subtitles. I especially liked J'ai perdu le do de ma clarinette.

To download Youtube videos with a Mac, you can use… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on October 20, 2008 at 7:33 — 1 Comment

Catherine Cheater Singing Rhymes

If anyone can use them I have been playing around with Apple Mac's Garageband to produce some music to the rhymes that she suggests for use in the primary classroom. They are loaded onto the music player of my main page and can be downloaded in mp3 format. My first stab at this so apologies for any poor quality!

Added by Mark Purves on July 13, 2008 at 17:13 — No Comments

Dominique Dimey

I have already put some links to this singer on the site. I think she is a really good composer for children, she has a strong message to convey about children's rights, and her songs would fit well into any work schools might do on this theme. I am adding this song to the site "Enfants des Rues" as a strong example of what she does. The mp3 was downloaded for free from We7.com. Listen to these songs on my page

ENFANTS DES RUES… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on July 12, 2008 at 10:00 — No Comments

Songs

Discover Dominique Dimey!

If anyone finds links to any good songs, perhaps you could post them… Continue

Added by Mark Purves on July 7, 2008 at 16:00 — 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

Take Ten en Espanol

Just had an email from Chris Wakely and Vera Anderson at Devon letting me know that Take Ten en Espanol will be out in November 2008.Those of you familiar with Take Ten en Francais will know the cd's and pocket-sized book make a very versatile little resource. Non-specialists like the fact you can just pick it up and go - all the linguistic support as well as demo DVD are provided. Each activity is… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on May 21, 2008 at 10:30 — 6 Comments

ConjugationsBack

I'm sure by now many of you have already seen these videos but they are so inspired and fun that I can't resist sharing them once more. I'm not advocating teaching conjugations as such in PLL, but I do think a fun song like this makes the whole thing seem more 'normal' and makes grammar much less of a 'big deal'.

Anyhow, enjoy!…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on May 4, 2008 at 12:00 — 8 Comments