I’m on a roll of finding little gems on Youtube!
Here’s an alphabet rap in Spanish – and it has a section on vowels too which I particularly like.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK8HBnUcbuQ
¡Vámonos!
"The decision to learn a language is an act of friendship. It is an outstretched hand." John le Carré
I normally make Slideshares of my presentations and add the audio for Slidecasts.
However, the lovely @eyebeams was UStreaming the MFL Show and Tell from Nottingham today so I’m able to embed the video of my presentation!
Hope you find it useful. Although my pupils are primary aged and some of the ideas are very ‘primary centric’, I think that there are many things that secondary colleagues can take and adapt to their situations. teh fun doesn’t have to stop at the end of KS2, you know ;o)
CILT advertisement that might be of interest to people – 
If you’re interested in this, the closing date is 15th September, so best to sign up before the holidays! Find out more on the CILT website or by emailing ptp@cilt.org.uk
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There has been much debate about the status of Primary Language Learning, beginning when the General Election process led to the rejection of The New Primary Curriculum being added to the Statute books. Will the entitlement become statutory or will, heaven forbid, PLL be abandoned?
Forums have been buzzing with ideas opinions and worries.
Today, Kate Board, Chief Executive of CILT wrote the following letter to one such fora:-
Dear colleagues
In light of recent discussions on the forum, we thought it important to clarify the current status of languages at Key Stage 2.
Key Stage 2 languages do not currently have the legal status to become statutory in September 2011. However, the entitlement to learn a foreign language in Key Stage 2 still stands, having come into effect this year.
As many of you are aware, reforming the primary curriculum was one of the key provisions removed from the Children Schools and Families Bill during consideration of Lords Amendments in April 2010. The introduction of statutory languages in Key Stage 2 from September 2011 was part of the proposed new primary curriculum and therefore was also removed from the Bill. (For more information, please see the Children Schools and Families Bill
The future shape of the primary curriculum and the statutory status of languages will depend on the policies of the new government. CILT is in close contact with Baroness Coussins, and others in a position of influence through the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, and we are very grateful to her for raising this issue so prominently. We will continue to work together to encourage this dialogue and to promote the further development of language teaching in the primary school.
Kind regards,
Kate Board
Chief Executive
CILT, the National Centre for Languages
As far as I’m concerned, I passionately believe in Primary Languages and will fight for the continuance of a policy that gives pupils the right and entitlement to learn other languages during their Primary years.
Just realised that I hadn’t blogged the Wallwisher made by Year 5 just before Language World.
It was the first time I’d used this online tool – which allows you to ‘stick’ Post-it notes on a virtual wall – with this group, and it was done as a sort of ‘Mexican wave’ type exercise.
Five pupils got out a laptop and I showed them what to do. They posted their notes then passed on their laptop – and expertise – to the next person. By the end of the lesson, everyone had posted their version of the poem extract from La Primavera by Antonio Machado, and also tried and mastered a new tool.
You’ll have to move the notes around to read them all; there are so many!
I made friends with Claire on Facebook just before Language World – what a great decision that was! She’s as mad and lively as me!
Her session was on Embedding Languages in the Curriculum and gave plenty of ideas for doing just that!
Highlights including dancing to www.genkigerman.com (just tried it out again with Isaac – a big hit!) and learning a song in Italian about food! It went to the tune of La Cucharacha and I think the words were
macaroni, ravioli
pizza pasta e ragu
trapitini e (missed that word)
panna e tiramisu
Then Claire asked me if I’d contribute some French / Spanish which I happily did! I shared www.UptoTen.com and the duck song – Peux-tu marcher comme un canard? and then demonstrated the ‘animal symphony’ activity I used to link Spanish, music and literacy. Materials and instructions to replicate it can be found here.
Molto bene Claire!
I’ve been looking for resources about healthy lifestyles and food today, and came across this song on my travels around Youtube.
Very catchy and good for practising opinions about food – me gusta(n) / no me gusta(n)
Ojo – it’s South American so uses the phrase ‘el jugo de naranja’ for orange juice instead of the Spanish ‘el zumo de naranja’.
Another useful video on the same theme, and with the same ‘quirk’ is the one below. This time it’s a rap that could easily be adapted to include other items of food, or other vocabulary too.
A proper blog post will follow tomorrow, but here are the photos from today!
At the ELL Local Support Group (LSG) last week, we were talking about short activities that needed minimal preparation and could be used for the ‘little and often’ model.
One of the activities discussed was I spy…
In Spanish there is a lovely little rhyme that goes with the game – check out the East Riding site for sound files, instructions and words. A good game for playing with kids who have a wider vocabulary, but also for discrete groups of words eg food, sports, colours. You could change it to ‘tengo tengo’ (I have..) and play with items in a bag even.
Veo veo I see, I see,
¿Qué ves? What do you see?
Una cosita. A thing
Y ¿qué cosita es? And what thing is it?
Empieza con la ……. It begins with ………
¿Qué será? ¿Qué será? ¿Qué será? What can it be? (x 3)
I also came across this catchy sung version of the rhyme – here I’ve chosen the kiddies version rather than the tropical island and bikinis! Lyrics below.
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la “A”, ¿qué será?, ¿qué será?, ¿qué será?, alefante
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la “A” se escribe amor, con la a se escribe adiós
la alegría del amigo y un montón de cosas más
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la “E”, ¿qué seré?, ¿qué seré?, ¿qué seré?, eyuntamiento
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la “E” de la emoción estudiamos la expresíon
y entonando esta canción encontramos la verdad
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la “I”, ¿qué serí?, ¿qué serí?, ¿qué serí? invidia
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la “I” nuestra ilusión va intentando imaginar
cuan insolita inquietud una infancia sin maldad
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la “O”, ¿qué seró?, ¿qué seró?, ¿qué seró? oscuela
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es la hora del final
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la “F”, ¿qué seraf?, ¿qué seraf?, ¿qué seraf?, final
si si si eso si si si eso si si si es así
si si si eso si si si eso si si si llegó el final
cha cha cha
photo from Look Into My Eyes on Flickr
My love of trees is becoming very well known now – I now get sent all sorts of tree related links.
Clare Seccombe aka @vallesco sent me one such message this afternoon –
I’m glad she did as it reminded me of this wonderful website – Primera Escuela.
Clare had actually linked to a page entitled Las árboles, a whole page of activities linked to trees. What a joy! You can ‘contar bellotas‘ (count acorns), make a tree from shapes – un árbol de formas – colour in a tree online – colorear en linea – or do an online jigsaw – rompecabezas.
And there’s a link to the Universidad de Illinois ‘Los árboles son fabulosos…aprende más con Pedro‘ Pedro is an acorn who teaches you all about trees. A great resource for CLIL lessons interesting science and Spanish.
‘Las árboles’ is a mini-tema on the site which means it has numerous actvities linked to it. However, there is a wealth of other activities on the site including
- downloadable sheets for every letter of the alphabet;
- animals from various habitats; songs and rhymes;
- animated stories;
- activities for special days such as San Valentín and also cultural events.
Particularly catching my eye were the resources linked to the Winter Olympics – very topical! There are colouring pictures and posters for all the events at the Juegos Olímpicos – that would’ve saved me trying to act out luging on a tray!!
A site well worth checking out if you teach Spanish, or even if you want to introduce a little bit into FS/KS1 through colouring activities or stories.
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