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"The decision to learn a language is an act of friendship. It is an outstretched hand." John le Carré
This is one of my favourite comments on language learning.
Over the next few days I’ll be posting some ‘posters’ featuring quotations responding to the question Why learn languages?
Here’s the first, featuring a quotation from Wittgenstein.
It’s that time of year again!
I thought I’d remind you of a couple of posts from last Christmas that are still relevant now – Firstly, some ideas of resources for Christmas.
Secondly, I’d like to reintroduce you to my friend, El pequeño petirrojo and introduce his French cousin, Le petit gorge rouge (see below)
Le Petit Rouge Gorge
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Thirdly, some wonderful ideas about using The Snowman
And to highlight some ideas from elsewhere –
Check out Talkabout Primary MFL for ideas on sending messages via penguins and singing mulitlingual Christmas carols.
Alice Ayel has instructions on making a homemade nativity scene
Mark Purves has put together a quiz using Smartboard for French cultural information.
The BBC Primary Spanish site has a slideshow about events over the Christmas period in Spain.
A few ideas in this thread on the TES Forum and you can always check out resources in the TES Connect Resources area.
That should keep you going!
And a video to finish!
On Saturday I’ll be in London at The Language Show. So excited!
There is so much to see and do – check it out for yourself here!
I’ve been asked to do a seminar this year – so if you want to know How to Survive Primary Languages, pop by to see me in room 3 at 1pm. And there are so many more too.
You can get in free by registering on the site so whatever your interest in language learning, if you can get to Olympia over the next three days, it’s well worth the effort!
Of course, I’ll post my presentation here straight after the show, and I’ll be tweeting all day too.
Very sweet – love the graphics. And it’s short too.
This looks like the Spanish version of Ten Town!
I like the repetition in this one.
Further to my previous post about the wonderful STORYBIRD site, I’ve got good news and bad news!
The bad news is that, as the site is still in its infancy, if your story is written in a language other than English it cannot be published (ie put in the public gallery) as it cannot be moderated. As the site grows, this will change.
The good news is that you can still write stories and save them on the site, and that these can be shared via the ‘Send to a friend’ link.
Saira Ghani has just written a story too and I’m about to write another.
Here’s the Tweet conversation I had with @storybird
So let’s keep making stories and hope that the site grows at an amazing rate!
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