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Wow! Just discovered that there are starter clips in Spanish too!
This time they’re set in Mexico. They cover similar themes – traditions as well as daily life.
One particularly caught my eye – La cultura folclorica de Veracruz . This short clip is about music and musicians, and a story telling festival. This links with Unit 14 of the QCDA scheme – and I happen to be doing that at the moment with year5!
Hopefully this will help them understand what ‘la música folclórica’ is all about!
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
On the eve of the World Cup in South Africa, here’s the first of (I expect!) several football related posts.
I am a football fan, and I make no secret of my love for La Furia Roja.
¡Sí, podemos!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5YNmTQ5Qng
Today sees the beginning of another wonderful offering from Radio Lingua Network as episode 1 of NewsTime Spanish is launched.
Made by a highly talented trio – Mark ‘Mr RadioLingua’ Pentleton, José ‘just say Edmodo and I melt’ Picardo and Chris ‘where’s it to?’ Fuller, this weekly podcast keeps you up to date with news from Spain and Hispanic countries.
In this week’s edition of News Time Spanish we’ll be looking at the major financial reform in Spain as a result of the ongoing issues around Europe. Other stories include:
- UK elections news
- Spanish sporting successes
- Mexican/US immigration issues
- Health problems in Spain
You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and listen for free, whilst a Premium pass will allow you access to transcripts, exercises and a slower version of the audio.
I came across this wonderful website today, linked from Teaching Ideas site.
Chillola.com is a multilingual site, offering simple resources in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.
There are attractive vocabulary presentations accompanied by audio on subjects like colours, numbers, months, fruit and vegetables and body parts. There are also very simple printable activities and colourables.
It’s a great resource for introducing vocabulary and for individual access, as well for raising awareness of other languages that are not necessarily taught at your school.
My favourites are the hamster teaching prepositions and the lovely illustrations for the opposites.
The site also offers links to several other websites about which I’ve never previously heard. I feel more posts may be forthcoming…
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!
Another find today on Youtube.
Where the wild things are in Spanish! So useful as pupils know the story already so don’t need to be hung up on meaning of every word.
Just proves something that Mark Reid from BFI showed us last week at the Primary Language Show – the context is key, and in film, it’s the interplay between image, sound, dialogue, context and a bit of imagination that makes it!
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.
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