Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Language World 2010 - Liz Black


Embedding languages was also the theme of the last session I attended at Language World.


In Unlocking potential Liz Black talked about a project, or as she prefers to call them ‘series of work in context’ inspired by Le Grand Parc - Puy de fou, a demonstration of community problem solving - in an area of poverty but with lots of land, the community got together to solve it by building a theme park. All the materials she used can be downloaded from Liz’s school website - www.stokesleyschool.com


Her school has a cross curricular day each Wednesday duirng which departments work together, and this project covered history, drama, literacy, French, PSHE, enterprise and finances and more. She shared some brilliant ideas including using Latin roots to provoke pupils to think of words in English with those roots, and gladiator drama to encourage reluctant boys to speak French.


Feedback from staff and pupils was very positive with one child saying ‘I like it when teachers work together’.


I have to say that the website itself for Puy de Fou is absolutely beautiful to look at, with lots of things to click and see. Certainly makes you want to go there !

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Saturday, 27 February 2010

Lyrics training



Not one for Primary language learners perhaps, but nonetheless a find, I think!


Via my Googlereader I read a post on Lifehacker about Lyric Training and thought - 'what fun!'

As Lifehacker says

Lyrics Training is a really fun approach to helping you pick up a foreign language. Choose a YouTube-hosted music video and select one of three mastery levels; Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. As the video begins to play, the song's lyrics appear underneath with several words missing. Your job is to fill in the missing words as they're sung.

If you get stumped, the video stops playing until you can come up with the word, but don't take too long because the app keeps track of the time it takes you to fill in the blanks. Click the "Give Up!" button to see the words that elude you.

Videos are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, and are rated easy medium and hard. You can then choose easy medium or hard tasks. Having said that, I chose easy and an easy task - and it was quite tricky as you have to type as you hear. I think if I listened to the song first I might have had a better chance. There is help - you can rewind the last line with the back space and use the tab to skip words you really can't get! At the end you're given a score based on how many words you successfully filled in and the time it took you in comparison to the actual length of the song. This is how I got on with Himno de la corazon


Good fun! Practises your
listening skills and also your spelling as it won't accept the wrong spelling, letter by letter!

Have a go and see how you do!

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Friday, 12 February 2010

¡Viva la Vida Latina!

I'm Secretary and 'web guru' of the ALL Spanish Committee and would like to bring your attention to the following event that's fast approaching.


¡Vida Latina! will be held at Aston University, easily accessible by road and public transport, and will be a day of celebrating all things Hispanic.

As you can see from the flyer, there are a variety of sessions covering travel, dance, literature and teaching ideas. Guaranteed to be a good day with things to entertain and also make you think.

More details can be found on the Links in languages site.

Excellent value - especially if you're a student!!

I'm looking forward to learning some Tango. Must find a red rose....





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Friday, 1 January 2010

Posters to promote language learning. 9

Photograph by me ;o)

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Happy New Year 2010 in many tongues

Thanks to the BBC Mundo site for this multilingual greetings clip.




Un saludo diferente. La BBC celebra la llegada del 2010 en todas las lenguas en que su Servicio Mundial transmite programas de radio y publica páginas web.

El siguiente es el orden en que aparecen en el video: inglés, persa, uzbeko, swahili, ucraniano, birmano, ruso, bengalí, dari, árabe, portugués, mandarín, francés, cingalés, pashtún, azeri, serbio, hindi, indonesio, nepalí, kirundi, vietnamita, macedonia, somalí, tamil, kirguís, urdu, albanés, turco, cantonés, hausa y español.

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Thursday, 31 December 2009

Posters to promote language learning. 8

Here's another gem - this time brought to my attention by Richard Mayor at Holy Cross Primary in Walmley.

If you have any favourites, perhaps you'd like to share them in the comments below? I'm getting quite into this poster making malarky! ;o)



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Thanks to @simonhowells for this suggestion. And thanks to @josepicardo as I understand Simon saw it on José's website!

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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

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Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Posters to promote language learning. 3

This is one of my favourite comments on language learning.



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Monday, 28 December 2009

Posters to promote language learning.

Over the next few days I'll be posting some 'posters' featuring quotations responding to the question Why learn languages?


Here's the first, featuring a quotation from Wittgenstein.



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Sunday, 13 December 2009

Ideas for Christmas

It's that time of year again!


I thought I'd remind you of a couple of posts from last Christmas that are still relevant now - Firstly, some ideas of resources for Christmas.

Secondly, I'd like to reintroduce you to my friend, El pequeño petirrojo and introduce his French cousin, Le petit gorge rouge (see below)



Thirdly, some wonderful ideas about using The Snowman

And to highlight some ideas from elsewhere -


Alice Ayel has instructions on making a homemade nativity scene

Mark Purves has put together a quiz using Smartboard for French cultural information.

The BBC Primary Spanish site has a slideshow about events over the Christmas period in Spain.

A few ideas in this thread on the TES Forum and you can always check out resources in the TES Connect Resources area.

That should keep you going!

And a video to finish!

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Thursday, 29 October 2009

The Language Show



On Saturday I'll be in London at The Language Show. So excited!

There is so much to see and do - check it out for yourself here!

I've been asked to do a seminar this year - so if you want to know How to Survive Primary Languages, pop by to see me in room 3 at 1pm. And there are so many more too.

You can get in free by registering on the site so whatever your interest in language learning, if you can get to Olympia over the next three days, it's well worth the effort!

Of course, I'll post my presentation here straight after the show, and I'll be tweeting all day too.


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Sunday, 18 October 2009

Some clips to help teach numbers to young learners.

Very sweet - love the graphics. And it's short too.


This looks like the Spanish version of Ten Town!

I like the repetition in this one.

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Saturday, 17 October 2009

Storybird - update!


Further to my previous post about the wonderful STORYBIRD site, I've got good news and bad news!

The bad news is that, as the site is still in its infancy, if your story is written in a language other than English it cannot be published (ie put in the public gallery) as it cannot be moderated. As the site grows, this will change.

The good news is that you can still write stories and save them on the site, and that these can be shared via the 'Send to a friend' link.

Saira Ghani has just written a story too and I'm about to write another.

Here's the Tweet conversation I had with @storybird


So let's keep making stories and hope that the site grows at an amazing rate!

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Storybird



I'm on a blog writing roll this week aren't I?

I picked up the following earlier -



which was followed by this tweet -



And being an inquisitive gal, I went and had a look.

What a brilliant tool! You're provided with a vast array of images from different artists that you can use to make story books. You just choose the images and write the story. SOOOOOO exciting!

I wrote a story - click below to read it!


I'll be writing more soon too.

And I can see pupils enjoying this too - lots of scope for description, imagination and creativity! For example, there are many monsters that could be used for physical description. There are animals for stories of the jungle and savannah and quirky characters just asking to be written about.

Not only a great tool for creating though - when you write a story you can choose to keep it private or make it public - and there are many many public stories so you need never be stuck for a story again!

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Animated languages


Another highlight of the Hampshire Language Conference was Oscar Stringer's session on Animation. So popular it was put on twice, and had to move rooms to accommodate the number of people wishing to attend, from the conversations I heard, Oscar and his ideas were a hit!

Using I Can Animate and a Hue webcam, Oscar guided the assembled throng through how to animate using fuzzy felts before adding voiceover using iMovie - bet he had no shortage of volunteers!

You can see the finished movies - made in 20 minutes!- on Oscar's blog, along with other examples of animation using languages such as the ones from Wednesday in Gloucestershire, and the lovely animations made with a Reception class last year. You'll also find plenty of tips and guidance on how animation can be used right across the curriculum and beyond.


Animation is such a brilliant way of getting kids to be creative, to collaborate and to be independent - and it's such fun!

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Exciting ICT in the Language Classroom - Hampshire Language Conference


As Jo Rhys-Jones kindly pointed out last night, in all my blogging I have failed to post my own presentation!


My session was entitled Exciting ICT for the Language Classroom and looked at (mainly free) ICT tools that can be used to enhance and support language learning. The Internet played ball this week which is always a bonus, and I hope that everyone who attended went away with at least one idea that they could implement in their classroom.

Below is my presentation to which I've added the audio so you can watch and listen! Aren't you lucky?!


Exciting ICT for the Language Classroom
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