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Los egipcios

I've just written a very long post on my website about making links between Spanish learning and the Egyptians, a popular theme/topic in primary schools.

I won't copy it all here - click the image on the left to take you there and feel free to leave comments!

However, below is an extract!

Ideas from other…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on April 6, 2013 at 11:18 — 2 Comments

Cinco calabazas - a simple song for Halloween

A simple song from Youtube to which I've added subtitles using Amara(previously known as Universal Subtitles)

Unfortunately NING doesn't like the embed code so click on the image to play the video!…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 30, 2012 at 15:00 — 1 Comment

Contar conmigo en Halloween / Zähl mit mir, 9 bis 0

I've re-discovered Storybird this weekend after a tweet announcing some new features. Whilst they included the ability to write in non Latin scripts like Greek and Mandarin, it did not include the ability to publish Storybirds in languages other than English to the public gallery on Storybird :o( This is…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 29, 2012 at 19:21 — No 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

Fasten your bug belts!!

Fasten your bug-belts for some exciting news!

Starting on Monday 12th every weekday on CBeebies at 09.35 and repeated at 13.35, The Lingo Show hits CBeebies!

You may have already discovered Lingo and his multi-lingual bug…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on March 8, 2012 at 12:40 — 1 Comment

Animated squirrels, tomatoes and flowers?

Some stunning fun animations here for displaying text.

A talking animal perhaps?

A troubled tomato?

Perhaps a bit of Antonio Machado?…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on November 1, 2010 at 19:23 — 2 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

Primera Escuela

My love of trees is becoming very well known now - I now get sent all sorts of tree related links.

Clare Seccombe aka @vallesco sent me one such message this afternoon -

I'm glad s

he did as it reminded me of this wonderful website - Prim era… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on February 18, 2010 at 15:00 — 2 Comments

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

Spanish online courses for teachers

Received an exciting email from the Consejería de Educación today about courses for teachers of Spanish.… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on November 11, 2009 at 22:27 — No Comments

Lisibo talks!

It's been a long time since I posted anything on Talkabout - and that makes me sad as I started blogging here and don't want to neglect a community that I have always valued so much and always wholeheartedly recommend when i'm sharing.

So i thought I'd cross post a couple of things from my blog - ¡Vámonos! that you might have missed!… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 14:01 — No Comments

Storybird

(originally posted on ¡Vámonos!)

I picked up the following earlier -…

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Added by Lisa Stevens on October 20, 2009 at 14:00 — 13 Comments

CILT Primary eZIne

Received an e-mail from CILT today with the latest copy of the Primary Languages e-Zine.

This online magazine contains news of… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on April 23, 2009 at 10:50 — 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

TeachMeet09 @BETT Friday 16th January

This time next week, I will be reflecting back on TeachMeet09 and the subsequent pizza feast with accompanying networking and discussions. And I can't wait!

As Drew Buddie has put it so eloquently on his blog, I'll leave it to him to explain… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on January 11, 2009 at 19:34 — 6 Comments

El pequeño petirrojo

At this time of year I am regularly greeted at meetings in the West Midlands area with 'What's that story you told last year ?' or 'You're the one who tells that story about the robin, aren't you?'

For the last three I've promised to put it online. And I've finally done it!

I first came across this story on a… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 2, 2008 at 9:55 — 3 Comments

Ideas for Christmas

It's December, and Jo has decorated the page, so guess we'd better acknowledge that Christmas is coming! So, in case you don't find it all by yourself, I thought I'd point you towards a post on my blog entitled Resources for Christmas. I could just copy it all here but I don't like to do that too often as it seems like cheating to me. So if you're interested, all you have to do is… Continue

Added by Lisa Stevens on December 1, 2008 at 17:14 — No Comments