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Jo Rhys-Jones's Blog – April 2008 Archive (3)

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

Bring some Eurovision fun to your classroom/podcast/vodcast....

Yes it’s that time of year again – the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is bigger (and cheesier) than ever, with the final in Belgrade on 24th May. So here are some easy-to-implement ideas to have a little fun with the event in class.

Taking a cross-curricular Geography / Intercultural Understanding slant, you could give every child in your class a participating country to research – there are 43 to choose from. They can then;•locate the country on a map – maybe try this… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on April 19, 2008 at 11:00 — 5 Comments

Junior Language Challenge 2008

Do you have anyone really keen on language-learning in your class? Do they have access to a computer? Are they aged 10 or younger? Want to combine learning fun and support a charity at the same time? Then you might want to take up the Junior Language Challenge to learn up to three languages in just 9 months. For a one-off entry fee of £2.50 each child who takes part receives a 'learn Dutch CD' packed with language-learning games to get… Continue

Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on April 5, 2008 at 22:08 — 2 Comments