Quizlet is a lightning fast way to memorize vocabulary lists. It's like flashcards, but much more fun and interactive, including target language sound clips for each word/phrase to be practised - brilliant!
Simply record your text in French and this free app instantly turns it into a song. Great fun! 
Have now added games for Expo 2 Module 2! - still building!
Lots of ideas for MFL games to be explored, in addition to www.classtools.net, www.spellmaster.com, www.hotpot.uvic.ca (hot potatoes), http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/msgames.htm (EdGames), www.zondle.com and http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/. 
How a German teacher uses Lego bricks to help teach word order in German. 
Glogster.com - Poster yourself - Anything you used to make in the classroom with scissors and glue can be made and shared on Glogster. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. It is fantastic! Via Madame Shea 
Voicethread is a free online collaborative tool that can be used across the curriculum to present, rehearse and assess learning by initiating group conversations around images, documents and videos. Responses can be made via video, voice and text commenting.
Ideas on how to use Voice Thread in MFL are presented here by Jo Rhys-Jones, advisor for Hampshire.
A must-see collection of short, animated tales about Simon's troublesome Cat on YouTube. These short films have huge potential for developing speaking and writing skills. 
Dom's MFL Page. Welcome to the rambling thoughts of a 40-something languages teacher with too much time on his hands, most of it spent in the kitchen. 
TrueTube is the preeminent video resource for inspiring lessons in PSHE, RE & Citizenship... 
CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service where you simply copy and paste your French text into the teleprompter text box, decide which font/background settings you want then click on Start Prompter at the bottom of the page and it will convert your text into an autocue passage to be read at a speed of your choice. Great strategy for memorising a speaking script! 
Excellent set of free dictionary worksheets. Ideal for homeworks or extension activities for young learners. |
A really easy to use movie-making site. No sign up required and my Year 7 and 8s love it! Watch Russell Stannard's excellent training video to understand how Dvolver works: http://teachertrainingvideos.com/volver/index.html. 
Really easy interface, especially for those students who struggle to understand/remember how to use Num Lock with the numerical keypad. 
The MFL department have chosen the free language learning Wiki website as the MFL website of the month. It is very useful for learning French, German and Spanish vocabulary. Just choose English as the language you speak and then ...
ipadio takes any phone call and streams it live on the web, makes phonecasts and phlogs simple and immediate... 
A lovely site for pupils/teachers to write stories in the target language, either to present, revise or practise key language. See Fiona Joyce's Wiki on MFL Storybirds where MFL teachers share their stories - very creative and inspiring! 
Some practical suggestions on how to gradually adapt to changing the culture of your classroom by allowing pupils to use their mobiles. 
Popplet is a new service that combines the best of online sticky note services like Wallwisher with collaborative mind mapping functions. Popplet allows you to create a wall of multimedia sticky notes that you can share with others. Your stickies can include videos and images that you pull from other online services. You can also upload media from your desktop to your sticky notes. Popplet offers a browser bookmarklet that you can use to add content from other webpages to your Popplet pages. Invite others via email to collaborate on your wall of sticky notes.
The mind mapping element of Popplet is the option to connect your notes. To do this just click one of the small circles that hovers near your note (Popplet calls them "Popples") while you're editing. Click those small circles will launch a connected blank note that you can edit.
You can create as many Popplet walls as you like within your account. Each Popplet that you make public can be embedded into your blog or website. 
MYLO is a free KS3 and KS4 language learning resource developed for the Department for Education and run by RM Education. It offers a new way to learn French, German, Spanish and Chinese.
Here's the link to Mylo's You Tube page where there are excellent videos available, and I particularly like the Learning To Learn Series on language learning strategies - very well presented short clips.
Here are the links to MYLO's blog: http://dcsf.typepad.com/osfl/ and page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MYLOLanguages.
Last year, I worked with a film director on a video clip to promote languages and this year, I focused on music using a French rap project to try to engage some of my de-motivated boys. ... By TwitterButtons.net MFL Twitterers ... 
LyricsTraining is an easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills, through the music videos and lyrics of your favourite songs. You can choose your language, select which level: easy/medium/hard and choose an interactive activity you'd like to time yourself doing. If you sign up to the website you can even track your progress. See this link from Russell Stannard on how LyricsTraining works: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/lyrics/index.html Via robert green 
These great-looking word clouds are super quick to generate - simply copy and paste your chosen vocab into the 'create' screen on www.wordle.net then press Alt + PrntSc at the same time on your keyboard, paste into PowerPoint and crop/resize as you wish. You can also right-click and select Save Picture As ... to make a separate picture file of your Wordle.
Also, if you install CutePDF you can make your Wordle into a pdf file too. Simply go to Print and select CutePDF as your printing option. A dialogue box will appear and you can save your Wordle as pdf there: http://www.cutepdf.com.
Wordles can be a fun homework activity too as many students enjoy being creative with them.
The Wordle pictured here is one I created in House colours from the revised behaviour expectations last summer for the school's new BfL policy. It is basic, but you can include much more detailed vocabulary and even copy a full text from which the Wordle generator will automatically enlarge the most frequently occuring words. 
These short BBC clips are ideal for SEN students. There are four clips in total on the topics of Pets, School, Weather and Clothes. They are based on the funny antics of two bilingual (English & French speaking) kids called Spud and Soda and a French dog called Farley - very funny! |
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