December 2008 Archives
Afin d'ajouter le contenu à notre Twitter nous vous invitons à contribuer vos mots français ou espagnols préférés...
For example, my favourite french word is feuille (noun: fem) - leaf
It appears in one of my favourite poems..Green by Paul Verlaine
Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches..
Tell us yours (and maybe why) by clicking Comments above.
Here's a Christmas themed word and phrase list for you to download.KS2 French christmas worksheet C00 vocab sheet.doc
Si La Vie est Cadeau was the rather excellent 1983 Euro Song Contest winner for Luxembourg sung by Corinne Hermès.We'd like a list of your favourite tracks sung in French. When we turn our minds to creating our MFL web radio content we'll use your suggestions to create the music playlist.
So tell us your favourite French tunes...use the comments link above.
Web 2.0 apps and services like Flickr (filtered out on our networks) offer a rich treasure trove of possibilities. Why not do a search on French/Spanish...street or shop signs and see what comes? Go to Advanced Search and at the bottom select Creative Commons so that you get free to use images. Or images with minor conditions for use attached. Like this one, taken in Paris by Yersinia
¿Qué me dices? is a developing KS3+ weblog created by the MFL folk at Thomas Hepburn School. They're busy playing with Vokis to create engaging student generated content.
Why not take a look at www.kmedices.org ?
And this is an example of a Voki
You can have similar fun with a fab bit of software called Crazy Talk. You can have a trial download of the software here.
We've just taken delivery of a couple of Flip Ultra mini camcorders and first impressions are a big thumbs up. Great quality and as easy as an easy thing to use. Point and click and you're away. This could be a must-have tool for the classroom.
Anyway, a small bit of footage taken with the Flip is a click away below...
Hurrah then for this useful website
http://french.typeit.org/
Meantime, take a look at:
Universed - many languages, downloadable exemplar audio podcasts and more
Linguacast - Podcasting for languages at Newcastle University
