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Mark Purves's Blog Posts Tagged 'songs' (8)

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

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

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