Thankyou to all the #MFLTwitterati who suggested famous historical female Spaniards on Sunday evening. Here's the resulting speaking activity that I have made, to practise numbers with thousands, hundreds, tens and units and get some Intercultural Understanding in there too.
And the accompanying PowerPoint:
You often find the best things while you're looking for something else, and this morning I found this Money Count Generator. You decide how many questions you want to have, and how many of each note and coin you'd like it to use, then click "PDF" at the bottom and it generates you a worksheet. Here's one I've just made, to show you what you get:
Something else that I found was a giant online calculator suitable for the IWB. You can view it in two different sizes and can also be downloaded and saved so that you can use it offline as well.
Some activities, like "Follow-me" can be spiced up by timing them or trying to beat the clock. Why not use this online stopwatch and countdown timer?
Looking for a resource to help your class to practise numbers to 9999? Then have a go at this Follow-me activity. Each student has a card. The top, purple, number is their incoming number that they have to listen out for. When they hear it, they have to give the bottom, blue, number, which is their outgoing number, for the next student to listen for.
To vary the activity:
I've just uploaded 55 new resources to the website. Many thanks to new contributors Marie O'Sullivan and Terri Dunne, as well as regular contributor Marie Connolly.
There are new resources for Primary Spanish, Primary French, Spanish Starters and Plenaries, KS3 Spanish, KS3 French, KS3 German, KS4 Spanish, Numeracy and the Olympics.
Apologies for this latest update taking so long - I've just purchased the latest version of the software that I use, and it's different enough to make the update a bit more tricky than usual.
Do you have any resources that you would like to share via MFL Sunderland? I can't pay you or enter you in a prize draw, but I can put you on the Thanks page and you will make the working life of many MFL teachers much easier. All you have to do is email them to mflsunderland@gmail.com. Thanks!
Over the Easter holidays there was a lot of interesting talk on Twitter and on the fora about speaking and the use of the target language. I also watched a video of Greg Horton's Group Talk. I have gathered together a language mat's worth of Spanish phrases which I hope will facilitate speaking in class and give students a bit of extra confidence.
There is now a dedicated page for Olympics resources on MFL Sunderland.
The latest installment of Numeracy resources - some number chains which practis e addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The target-language numbers used are 1-30, although the calculations deal with numbers to 100.
Here are lists in French and Spanish of the 26* sports that will be contested in London this summer. I've included the genders to facilitate and practise putting the correct definite articles and writing sentences correctly using je joue/je fais and juego/practico.
*Sorry - first upload had 28 sports! List now correct.
A table of information for you. Practise reading information from a table, make a pie chart to show how often different continents have hosted the Games, work out average numbers of medals..... There are all sorts of numeracy possibilities as well as lots of intercultural and global ones.
I have spent this afternoon doing some long-overdue housekeeping on the website. I have split the KS4 Spanish resources up into Grammar, Texts, PowerPoints and Worksheets, and divided the resources up into topics to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.
I have also divided up into topics the Spanish Starters and Plenaries.
