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:
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.
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.
I have added more numeracy resources for Number Sequencing and Addition and Subtraction. I hope you find them useful.
You will see that all the numeracy resources are for French and Spanish. I don't know any German and would not trust my Italian. If you have any numeracy resources for other languages that you would like to share, please email them to mflsunderland@gmail.com. I'm afraid I can't offer you any cash rewards or swanky prizes, but I and the MFL community will be very grateful.
I thought I would share the links to Olympics ideas, information and resources that I have so far.
FRENCH:
French resources from PetitesTetes, especially suitable for KS1
Information in French about the Olympics of the last 20 years
Information in French about the 35 Olympic sports
Interactive French map of the 204 competing nations
Colouring and craft from Tête à Modeler - especially suitable for Primary
Short texts in French about the history of the Olympics
Dossier sur les Jeux Olympiques
SPANISH:
List of the Olympic sports in Spanish
Sport pictures for colouring and flashcards from PrimeraEscuela
GENERAL:
Global resources with an Olympic theme - cross-curricular ideas for all key stages
Olympic medals timeline - BBC news article
The Global Children's Challenge
Cross-curricular Primary ideas which can be adapted for MFL
Resources from Get Set London 2012
Do you have any Olympic links that you would like to share? Put them in a comment!
UPDATE 21.4.12: I've added more links in the comments below, so please read those too.
