Last one – for now anyway!
A Colombian Old MacDonald called Tío Ramón.
You know the drill – click the picture and it’ll take you to the song!
And thank to 123SpanishTogether for the wonderful songs!
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"The decision to learn a language is an act of friendship. It is an outstretched hand." John le Carré
Another subtitled video – for those of you still hanging on to Autumn!
Hojas, hojas, again from 123SpanishTogether, is a lovely simple song about falling leaves and colours.
Click the photo and it’ll take you to the subtitled video.
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
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
Uploaded on November 21, 2009 by eyesplash Mikul
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!
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