Lisa Stevens June 19th 2008-06-18 Tile Hill Wood
Top Tips for Primary Language Learning
Join a network
ELL forum - http://www.nacell.org.uk/networking/ell_forum.htm MFL resources - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/ MFLCo - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/
Talkabout Primary MFL – can’t recommend highly enough!
http://primarymfl.ning.com
Puppets
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Buy from – IKEA / Tesco / Charity shops / The Entertainer www.puppetsbypost.com Make from comics / photos / socks Online resources – see handout of masks / puppets that are downloadable See - http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/05/puppets.html http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/02/inspired-in-ikea-part-2.html http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2007/11/diez-animales.html
Sing!
http://www.language-factory.co.uk/index.html ELC – French and Spanish CDs - £5 http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-32768 nd www.elc.co.uk/toy-42544 blog post with resources http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/04/fun-with-spanish.html Mama Lisa - http://www.mamalisa.com/world/ make up your own! Youtube – lots of videos to help you – see my del.icio.us bookmarks – http://del.ico.us/lisibo La Vaca Lola - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJAEfQYUnhk (also blog post http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-vaca-lola.html )
Savez-vous planter les choux? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJIrpgHAW8&feature=related
Use the language everywhere
PE / physical activity – see Take Ten en francais – soon to be en español http://primarymfl.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=738935%3ABlogPost% 3A7722 explains it and www.deseducation.org for more details of how to obtain it. Posters / labels from http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/resources_mfl.htm http://www.sparklebox2.co.uk/topics/ http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/mfl/mfl.htm also lots of stuff in TES resources – not just posters / labels etc http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resources.aspx?root=&src=&size=&page= 1&resourceId=&subjectId=18&keyStageId=2&topicId=&keywords=&typeI d=&order= using rhymes - http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/04/fun-with-spanish.html
Make links – cross curricular
Mira Miró – http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/03/reporting-back-frompls-6-mira-mir.html Jumping through hoops – http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/03/reportingback-from-pls-4-jumping.html West Sussex - http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/03/reporting-back-frompls-3-get-creative.html Euro08 - http://lisibo.blogspot.com/2008/03/reporting-back-from-pls-3get-creative.html RugbyWorld Cup http://primarymfl.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=738935:BlogPost:383 3 QCA Units – download from http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_11752.aspx
Make links – cross country
eTwinning – http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/index2006.htm http://www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning Global Gateway -http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/ eLanguages - http://www.elanguages.org/ International Schools Award - http://www.britishcouncil.org/learninginternational-school-award.htm
Be creative
animation – workshops and advice – http://www.oscarstringer.co.uk http://animationfored.ning.com examples of MFL animations http://web.mac.com/ostringer/Emagination/CILT_.html Primary Schools Spanish competition http://www.whitehousecommon.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&ta sk=view&id=345
Keep on the edge
Voicethread – www.voicethread.com Voki – www.voki.com Weemee – http://www.weeworld.com/ Buildyourwildself - http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ Audacity – download from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Twitter – I’m lisibo - http://twitter.com If you’re really interested… http://edtechroundup.com/
Share! Feel free to contact melstevens@whitehousecommon.bham.sch.uk nocilla13@yahoo.co.uk Read my blog for ideas, thoughts and resources – ¡Vámonos! http://lisibo.blogspot.com