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Secondary Modern Foreign Languages
BBC 11-16 Languages
An excellent site full of
useful resources and links to other sites.
I Love Languages
iLoveLanguages is a
comprehensive catalogue of language-related Internet
resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have
been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the
Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language
lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature,
translation services, software, language schools, or just a
little information on a language you've heard about,
iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.
Resources-for-teaching-German
German teaching games, new
ideas and strategies, lesson plans, job boards for German
teachers, teaching tools, and other resources for teaching
german.
DFES - MFL Schemesof Work
The Standards Site Home
page offerring Schemes of workfor teaching German at Key stage
3.
Learning French
Improve your French for
free. Listenening practice based on native speaker
interviews. Talking pages - cut and paste any French
text to hear it spoken. Practice your oral skills or
your vocabulary.
C Kids Language Program
Children learn Spanish, Italian,
French, or German. Award winning site!
Songs for teaching German
A most interesting
site with sound clips available for teaching German through
song. Well worth a visit.
Songs for teaching French and the same for Spanish and
other languages.
ESL Images
ESL-Images.com is a
resource site for language teachers. We provide teachers with
fun, colorful, and attractive
ESL images
and ESL Flashcards, to help elicit new vocabulary and
teach new language structures. Our site also features a large
variety of task-based
ESL
lesson plans full of pair and group activities, and
focusing on all four language skills. Some good free
resources if you look carefully.
Wildfrench
This site is intended to
assist both teachers and learners of French by making
available a range of online resources that complement many of
the popular published courses and GCSE examinations.
Le Monde
On-line version of the
newspaper. In French
Le Télégramme
On-line version of the
newspaper
Le Télégramme
in French
THI - French TV Channel
Links to the TFI French TV
programme which can be viewed on satellite TV
Institut Francais
The British Council Support-for-schools
They can help you find a
partner school, help develop school partnerships and provide
access to a database of internet based curriculum projects.
Why not have a look at how exemplary partnerships are
recognised though the International School Award or find out
about the benefits of inviting a foreign language assistant to
teach in your school.
Kid Link
This charity works to
provide pen friends and ‘e-friends’ for children of secondary
school age throughout Europe and beyond.
French -About
Lots of links of general
interest to French learners. Each month more than 20 million
people visit About.com. Whether it be home repair and
decorating ideas, recipes, movie trailers, or car buying tips,
our Guides offer practical advice and solutions for every day
life. Wherever you land on the new About.com, you'll find
other content that is relevant to your interests.
BBC - online
languages -French, German, Spanish
The BBC’s online language
courses in French, German, Spanish and Italian, each of which
has a 24-lesson course attached are excellent. The delivery may
be faintly formal, but the substance is unexpectedly funky.
Slide shows of typical scenes, such as shopping or going on a
date — with attendant chitchat — are coolly effective, too, with
an option to show a transcription in English or the foreign
language. Sound clips include both male and female voices, with
colloquial intonations rather than grammar-book correctness.
There is scope here to achieve a basic grounding in several
languages, with an emphasis on absorbing culture to sweeten the
pill.
Language Guide
What a great site!
Choose any language from French to Hebrew and the same quality
can be found. For example, if you already know a bit of
French and want to brush up without trawling through a long
course of basic lessons, this is the site for you. Browsing
through the vocabulary sections — on insects or computers, say —
brings up a collection of about 20 colour drawings for each, and
you simply move your mouse over the picture to see the French
word and hear it pronounced. This is simple, and much better
than waiting 10 seconds for each word, as elsewhere. In the
lectures section, you can hear French being read aloud, again
deploying the mouse for help with difficult words, while an
excellent section on pronunciation covers the parts other sites
don’t reach. As an addition to any French course, this site
would come in handy — and it makes a printed vocab book
redundant.
Smart Phrase
Thousands of foreign phrases
arranged by subject for seven major languages in a fully
searchable online database. Helpful expressions such as
“It’s a bit like ...” and “What does that mean?” sit alongside
“Do you have your insurance certificate? ”. There are chat-up
lines, too, created by the random phrase generator, with
memorably leaden examples in the German section. Judging from
the French phrases, the vocab is snappy and up-to-date rather
than fussily correct.
Learn
Japanese
With a bare minimum of sound
files to help with pronunciation, this is a good site that
should give the serious student a solid grounding in Japanese.
Italian lessons from the City University of New York
20 Italian lessons presented
by the City University of New York.
Babelfish
translator
An excellent on-line
translator.
Foreignword translator
There are many
translation packages, offered at this portal. It finds no
less than nine sites that will turn English into “French”. Other
languages are also available.
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