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Ten European Christmas traditions - CBBC Newsround Getty Images In the UK, many of us enjoy turkey, mince pies and presents on 25 December, but Christmas can be celebrated in different ways in other countries. Newsround checks out ten festive traditions from across Europe. Spain My go-to Starter Activities – My Primary Languages Classroom Fun ways to revisit learning and ensure retention I can’t be the only teacher to have noticed that Rosenshine’s Principals seem to be everywhere at the moment. Certainly at my own school, we have spent a lot of INSET time focusing on these principals and considering how we are employing them to ensure that pupils are learning in the most effective way possible. Leaving aside debate relating to the danger of these seventeen principals being used by school leaders as a tick-list during formal lesson observations (“we didn’t see any evidence of modelling today, so this lesson wasn’t good enough,”) and the criticism by many educators that, if asked to create a list of tried-and-tested strategies that work well to improve outcomes in the classroom, most experienced and reflective teachers would come up with a selection not dissimilar to Rosenshine’s own, these principals are a helpful tool to get us reflecting on the way that we teach and why. Retrieval Grids: Loto:
GCSE Spanish Picture Description – TeachVid Blog One of the simplest ways of creating YouTube video content that you can use with your students on TeachVid is to add a voice-over track to a still image. Describing a picture is a common assessment method for language learners, so why not make simple video content based on a still image plus your own scripted description of the image content? Try to include vocabulary and structures that would be useful in as many contexts as possible, and bear in mind that the content should be vocabulary and structures that you would ideally like your students to be able to produce. Have a look at the examples below. (Click on the links in blue to open the resources.)
Languages in outstanding primary schools - Ofsted blog: schools, early years, further education and skills Michael Wardle HMI, Ofsted’s subject lead for languages, discusses our language subject inspections. Languages are an essential part of a broad, balanced curriculum. Not only do they provide an opportunity to communicate more effectively with others, they also help children to understand what it is to be a global citizen. This includes the importance of tolerance and understanding, which is crucial knowledge in today’s world. Primary schools have had a legal responsibility to teach languages since 2014. The first cohort of pupils that should have studied languages throughout key stage 2 moved to secondary school in September 2018.
Things to do with sentence builders in the primary languages classroom Writing frames, sentence builders, whatever you call them, are enjoying considerable popularity in the languages community at the moment, due mainly to the work of Gianfranco Conti. If you are a tweeter or if you are in one of the languages Facebook group, you'll have seen lots of posts about them and ideas for using them. You can see at the top of this post one of the sentence builders that I have been using most recently. I nearly always use the flowchart format (thanks Joe!)
Primary The pairs of training sessions below were delivered as part of the Primary PGCE course at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge University. They were written for non-specialist linguists and contain a wealth of links to online materials in French, German and Spanish, useful for any primary teachers preparing to teach a foreign language to their pupils. Teaching materials and planning documents can be found in the KS2 part of the resources section of the website. Introduction to Primary Languages (pdf) Primary Languages Links (pdf) Primary Languages - Transition (pdf) Spanish Teacher Language for the primary classroom (with sounds) (PPT)
Guided / scaffolded translation activities - The textivate blog There's a renewed focus on translation in Modern Languages teaching in the UK. The GCSE exam will soon include some form of translation to and from the target language. Exactly what form that will take remains to be seen, but I thought I'd put together a post on the ways textivate can be used to help create scaffolded translation activities -- with varying levels of support provided to the student. This post focuses on translation into the target language, which is where I think textivate can be more useful.
Have a repertoire, lighten your workload (part one) The next four blogs I'm going to post are the equivalent of one of those TV clip shows - you know, the ones where they need to fill a weekly slot by showing the best bits, or deleted scenes, from the series. But these four blogs have a theme. The clue is in the title. Sentence Stealers with a twist Sentence Stealers is a reading aloud game invented by Gianfranco Conti. I'll describe the game to you, then suggest an extension of it which goes a bit further than reading aloud. By the way, I shouldn't need to justify the usefulness of reading aloud, but just in case, we are talking here about matching sounds to spellings, practising listening, pronunciation and intonation and repeating/recycling high frequency language patterns. This is how it works: Display around 15 sentences on the board, preferably ones which show language patterns you have been working on recently or some time ago.Hand out four cards or slips of paper to each student.On each card students must secretly write a sentence from the displayed list.Students then circulate around the class, approaching their classmates and reading a sentence from the displayed list. If the other person has that sentence on one of their cards, they must hand over the card.