Lingua@Com: CILT Cymru, Cardiff

Both Leigh McClelland and I had a fantastic time in Cardiff on Friday. It was great to meet you all and share some ideas and materials. The only drawback for us was the brevity of the visit - we arrived back in Cambridge only 22 hours after setting out the previous evening so no time for sightseeing!

As promised, I'm uploading materials and documents from the sessions here. Hopefully I'll manage to put them into a logical structure that works for you! So, session 1 on using song, music, rhythm and movement for languages teaching. Here I'm including a recap of the rationale for using song in teaching and learning, the list of the main songs we use in teaching, two years of Spanglovision lyrics with 10 songs in each, a document on how to insert soundfiles into PowerPoint that I wrote (with pictures!) and finally the actual teaching slides, mostly without the music itself for copyright reasons.

Download The benefits of singing
Download Songs used & adapted for MFL teaching
Download Spanish song lyrics for Spanglovision1
Download Spanglovision2_Lyrics_Miliki
Download Guide to inserting soundfiles into PowerPoint
Download Rhythm_for_repetition
Download Singing_for_structure_french
Download Singing_for_structure_german
Download Singing_for_structure_spanish
Download Singing_for_structure_spanish2
Download Singing_for_fun
Download Singing_for_vocabulary

Session 2 - The USPs (Unique Selling Points of Languages) - making the case to teachers, parents and learners. From this session, I'm uploading a sample memory assembly, the booklet that I give out to parents on memory and learning styles, a presentation on the alternatives to GCSE that includes information on Language Leaders and an address for the Language Leader pins that we have produced. From the cross-curriculum ideas section, I'm uploading documents that detail the ideas that we've used so far in our year 7 curriculum. For the final USP, the international dimension, I direct you to rafi.ki which is a social networking tool but for schools so it is completely safe. It is quite new, is supported and part-financed by the DCSF and the British Council. It already has over 1000 schools signed up from over 96 countries. Subscription is free to all schools outside the UK so your exchange or partner schools can get involved without paying anything. It is a registered charity so the subscription that UK schools pay serves to pay for the round the clock monitoring of all material that is posted to ensure its safety. My school has signed up already. For further info visit the website and contact them.

And I am not sure that you could call this cross-curricular with technology but I think there is lots of mileage in using instructions for making things in the target language and even better when these objects then become a vehicle for using the target language. So I'm including here an idea for making 'palomitas' or fortune tellers and then using them. The great thing about these is that they can be adapted for using language at lots of different levels.
Download Las Palomitas

Session 3 - this was Leigh's excellent session on her use of audio and visual technology in languages teaching and I will post again on Monday with all the relevant documents and links from this session.

Please get in touch if there are any further materials you are missing from the day that you want to follow up on. Have a very happy christmas!

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Thanks Rachel for all this wonderfully useful information (so quickly delivered to the blog) and for a really useful and inspiring day! I hope it's not the last time we'll see you over here in Wales.
Nadolig Llawen / Happy Christmas,
Kristina

Posted by: Kristina Hedges | December 15, 2008 at 04:05 PM

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December 14, 2008

CILT Cymru, Cardiff

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