¡Vámonos!

I'm very excited to pass on the news from Val Thornber of Little Tales of the Unexpected and Beelingua fame.

Her message reads -

I am delighted to inform you that a unique collection of GrowstoryGrow’s wonderful stories has just been published by Beelingua Products Ltd (makers of Little Tails of the Unexpected).

The stories are all designed to help primary school children effectively learn a foreign language.

Each story has sentence-building tasks, games, fun lesson plans and many other useful resources.

All of these stories are currently available “Free of Charge” for a trial period.

COMING SOON - over 100 extra stories will be available in many languages including German, Italian, Urdu, Russian, Hindi, Portuguese, Arabic and Polish.

Over the course of the next few months we will be regularly publishing these new stories. If you would like us to tell you about these new publications you need to subscribe to our newsletter.

Please forward tell parents, teachers and friends who you think may find GrowStoryGrow stories useful. Why not try out the stories with your children TODAY and please let us have any feedback by sending an email to Valerie Thornber (creator of GSG): val@growstorygrow.com

To access the stories you will need to log-in to the website www.growstorygrow.com

There you will receive a trial login and be able to try out the product for a while.

I love Les sacs en plastique - very simple but with an important message; and Le monstre de la musique is very amusing too - if only it were in Spanish, I could use it wth Year 5 in their current unit of work!

Can't wait for more languages and more stories to be added.

If yu check out the site in detail, you'll find details of the methodology behind the resource, how the Scheme of work will be comprised and also details of pricing for September.

Well done Val and keep up the hard work!

Posted by lisibo at 18:58 0 comments    

Labels: english, free resources, french, online, primarylanguages

Getting into the Eurovision spirit ....

Here's the Andorran entry La teva decisió sung partly in Catalan (disappointed that it switches to English for the chorus but I guess that's so more people understand it!)



And the Spanish entry by Soraya called La noche es para mi (again has English in the chorus!)


Here are the words in case you feel the need to join in!
Vuelvo a mirar, tus ojos son un volcán
No escaparás, tu fuego dirá la verdad
No importa si quieres o no, porque hoy mando yo

Come on and take me, come on and shake me
Quiero saber lo que sientes por mí
Come on and take me, come on and shake me
¿Que no lo ves que estoy loca por ti?
Come set me free, just you and me
La noche es para mí

No puedo más, juro que mío serás
Ven a bailar, ya no podrás escapar
No importa si quieres o no, porque hoy mando yo

Come on and take me, come on and shake me
Quiero saber lo que sientes por mí
Come on and take me, come on and shake me
¿Que no lo ves que estoy loca por ti?
Come set me free, just you and me
La noche es para mí

Ah...
Take me, shake me, take me

Brilla la luz, mi mágica noche eres tu
Ya no hay tabús
Quiero clavarte mi cruz

Come on and take me, come on and shake me
Quiero saber lo que sientes por mí
Come on and take me, come on and shake me
¿Que no lo ves que estoy loca por ti?
La noche es para mí
La noche es para mí
Come set me free, just you and me
La noche es para mí

Wonder who'll win? Could it be Jade and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber? Or Soraya? Who knows with the way the voting works at times!

Posted by lisibo at 13:47 0 comments    

Labels: catalan, Eurovision, music, spanish

I spent this afternoon taking part in an eTwinning event at the British Council in Manchester, delivering a case study and explaining a bit about eTwinning.

Below is my presentation (soon to have sound added to it so you can listen and look!):

Posted by lisibo at 19:15 0 comments    

Labels: etwinning, presentations, primarylanguages, spanish, workshops

Currently listening to Paz from the Consejeria de Educación talking about all the wonderful things that they do to promote Spanish within the UK and Ireland.

• Courses for Primary teachers to improve their language skills,
• Arsenal Double Club,
• classes for Spanish children in the UK,
• Ruta Quetzal,
• resources held at Manchester University School of Language and Linguistics that you can borrow,
• awards for Spanish Primary and Secondary School of the year
• facilitating links between Local Authorities in UK and Ireland, and Consejerías de Educación of autonomous regions in Spain,
• training British Council language assistants,
• Spanish workshops
• publications for Primary and Secondary including TECLA and Acti/España - published online

Check out their website for more information of the great work they do!

Posted by lisibo at 13:42 0 comments    

Labels: consejeria primarylanguages, courses, etwinning, workshops, workshops spanish consejeria primarylanguages

I love musicals and thought I'd share this clip from Los Miserables with you as I love it!

Posted by lisibo at 00:08 0 comments    

Labels: music, offtopic

Fed up at going back to work after the Bank Holiday? Here's a quick guide to How to celebrate Cinco de mayo!


Here's a video giving details of how and why Cinco de mayo is celebrated.

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And this is hilarious!!

Posted by lisibo at 18:23 0 comments    

Labels: festivals, hispanic, mexico

Hope you're all having a lovely Bank Holiday. A little clip to amuse you all on this, Star Wars Day! You can't go wrong with the Muppets!


May the fourth be with you!!

Posted by lisibo at 11:11 0 comments    

Labels: offtopic