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Course application form

Here is a course application form...if you can't find one on SIX, then this will always be here for you.

Accented letters

 2 ways to put accents on letters.  If you are using SMART notebook, there is no facility to do this, other then to use Word and then copy and paste that word into SMART.  (You CAN alter the language setting and have the whole thing in French - the tool bars and everything! This is also true for Word).

LCP & Early Start mapped

 Here are the LCP Pack 1  and pack 2 units mapped against Early Start Packs 1 and 2.

Subject Leader/Co-ordinator Job Description

Basic outline of elements of MFL subject leader job description.

French Alphabet

 Phonetic help to say the letters of the Alphabet - produced as a "frieze" ready to print off and stick up if you wish!

French Spiritual Songs

   Julie Larter from Lympsham has provided the following information about a resource for Assemblies and the spiritual dimension.

French Spiritual Songs (book plus CD)    www.teachmetapes.com

                        ISBN  0-934633-50-9

            By Judy and Anne Mahoney

LCP and Early Start CDs

Here are  the contents of the CDs at the back of the Early Start Packs - both Early Start 1 CD 1 and Early Start 2 CD .  I have identified the exact title of each track.  LCP 1 CD and LCP 2 CD are both here as well.  Hopefully this will make it much easier for you to find and use material on the CDs.

Story, DVD and audio resources for KS1 and KS2.

This is a complete listing of French story books suitable for use with KS1 or KS2, together with authors and in some cases, ISBN numbers.  You will find suppliers names and contact details or web sites here too.  Please bear in mind that some of the story packs are available on loan from Resources for Learning in Bridgwater as Red star boxes.

Many of the books form part of the Somerset Primary MFL Resource collection and can be viewed at events.

Please bear  in mind that the items selected for use with KS1 are also suitable for use with KS2 - "familiar" stories, songs and rhymes are key in the KS2 Framework!  Indeed, many of the stories in this list are suitable across the Keystage even though they are categorised under Year Group headings.

For other languages - see further down this page!

Spanish Story books for KS1 & KS2.

Here is a selection of stories in Spanish suitable for young learners.  They can all be obtained from European Schoolbooks - find the link on "Links to useful sites"...or go to www.amazon.es and search for the title you are after.

Italian story books for KS1 & KS2.

Italian stories to use with both KS1 and KS2 here.  All to be obtained from Europeanschoolbooks....link on "Links to useful sites" page...or go the Italian amazon site and find the title of your choice there.

German stories for KS1 & KS2

Here are some German titles that work well with young learners.  Either find them on the Europeanschoolbooks site, Little lLnguist or go to ammazon.de.

How to order the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages

Here is the telephone number and the reference numbers for the two parts of the Framework.  This document has NOT been sent out to all schools so you may not have a copy yet and would like to obtain one.

Book reviews - of storypack books

At the 2 Storytelling workshops during this academic year teacerhs reviewed the story books and made recommendations on how to use them.  Here are those reviews for your interest and use...with thanks to Wedny Kerr who brought them all together for us.

Travelling in Europe - Activity Sheet

This sheet goes with the resource entitled Travelling in Europe, available from the European Parliament website - see the link on  "Links to useful sites".

Resources order form - for additional resources from the European Parliament office.

This order form has resources listed that don't appear on the website that has a link under "Links to useful websites"...no idea why...??

MFL Phonics resources

Here are some phonic fans, using some of the common but trickier French phonemes/graphemes. 

There are also some additional activities I have found that work on the "ch" phoneme/grapheme in French.

I have also produced phonic fans for Spanish.

Alphabet - infinitely cloned

This notebook page has the alphabet - capital letters and lower case, together with accented letters for French that I have "infinitely cloned".  This means that the children can use the letters to spell out words from memory....but as if by magic, the letters still remain available for use a many times as they are needed!

There is also a Spanish version.

There is a Spanish version under construction and is coming soon!!  Watch this space...

Can do sheets

Here is an electronic version of the Can do sheets.  They are produced as Word docs - so cut and paste as you like.

Phonics

Check out the new phonics resources on Calendar - Nov 10th - they are there ready for the MFL Co-Ordinators day, but others will find these resources useful too.  A great website with phonics activities plus some "nonsense" rhymes and soundfiles to accompany some of them...a bit along the lines of "Am, stram gram" - useful for playground games - skipping; clapping etc.

Spanish resources on the CONSEJERIA site

Here you will find a link to a new Spanish Alphabet resource that you can download and save - a native speaker goes through the alphabet (cartoon letters that are animated, and then a simple song.

On the same site, there are a number of downloadable "booklets", on different primary themes.  Each book has a song - words towards the end of each book - and you can even play the song from a "button" by the picture of the book.

All these resources are absolutely FREE!!

Spanish pronunciation guide and daily routine language

  Some resources to help support Spanish pronunciation - the powerpoint is in 3 parts but you can download the 3 sections and cut and paste to give you just one presentation!

There is also a presentation of daily routine language, together with a guide as to the meaning of the phrases plus pictures/words ready to print off and display in your classroom.

There is a random collection of resources in Spanish

  Here you will find the loink to an on-line rhyming dictionary - plus play UNO in Spanish..and some great Finger Rhymes for KS1....a simple story presentation based on the Big Green Monster...an idea for a Dictionary Challenge...cultural information ...and a few miscellaneous other lists and activities.....things I have been collecting and storing for a while now.

Non fiction texts for KS2

Here are some non-fiction texts that fit in with areas of the KS2 curriculum:

The Romans;

The Environment - Eco town in China and Eco Schools;

Dinosaurs;

Solar System;

Colours.

On-line French rhyming dictionary, idea for Dictionary challenge..plus a poem

 Hommes de Couleurs is a poem to do with the colour of our skin.

Literacy - looking at different sorts of texts and the European Picture Book Collection

There are now 10 titles from this wonderful collection held at Resources for Learning, for you to borrow.  The stories come from:

Austria; Belgium; Denmark; England; France; Germany: Holland: Ireland; Luxembourg; Wales.

These are great books to use when looking at different sorts of text types in Literacy.

There is a booklet of notes to accompany the resources ...or you can simply download the notes for the individual books.  The notes give very clear guidance and ideas on how you might exploit each text - together with a working translation in English.