Saturday 18 October 2008

Vocab learning - free application


Interlex is a free Windows application that helps students learn vocabulary in a foreign language quickly and easily. The program is built around a simple idea: first you compile a list of words and phrases, then you test yourself until you have learnt them. Thanks to Andrew Quilley for this useful free tool! Go straight to the website by clicking this link www.vocab.co.uk or going to the link in the general section on the right. This website is also well worth visiting for the large number of language links which can be accessed from the home page.

Tuesday 14 October 2008

FAQs about the new GCSEs for MFL

Click here to visit the page on the CILT website with questions and answers about the new GCSEs in MFL.
http://www.cilt.org.uk/14to19/gcse/new_2009/index.htm

Freizeit - song from Youtube!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0HRO2HYv46w

Songs for Teaching


A website for using music to promote learning. Click here http://www.songsforteaching.com/ or go to the general section on the right.

Cool German!

Want to show some street cred? Here is the BBC's essential guide to young German people's slang by Andrea Hoffmann, presenter of their beginners' online course German Steps. The expressions have been divided up so you know what to say and what not to say. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/cool/

Teacher's Pet

The Teacher's Pet is a word processor toolbar that can transform any text into fun classroom activities.The software can create crosswords, bingo cards, jumbles, word search puzzles,flashcards,cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles and much more. Go to the general section on the right or click here: http://www.teachers-pet.org/index.html

La Grande Fête du Chocolat


10 - 19 October is "La Grande Fête du Chocolat" in France. Details can be found here: http://www.lagrandefeteduchocolat.fr/

Hot Potatoes


The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. The website address is in the general section on the right. Click here to go to the site: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/