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Resources Summer 2022

TV5 monde Digital library, and music clips with worksheets (School and Adult relevance) Please click here for full details. An incredible array of texts and notes. You might be interested in looking through... Amazing!! TV5 monde lyrics Also fun to look through! Un...

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KS2 Spanish 2021

September 2021 - Rachel Hawkes generously shares Cam Trust's new primary Spanish Scheme of Work and resources (with full audio versions, if required). The scheme is based on the RIPL recommendation of a minimum 1 hour per week, but organised into 30 mins slots with...

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An update from: Oak National Academy

The Oak National Academy came about over a very short timescale during the Easter holiday as a spontaneous coming together of a number of academy trusts around the country in response to the growing awareness that during the ongoing lockdown period many schools would...

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Home Learning Help: EAL Hub

Our friends at EAL Hub have resources freely available here to ensure that in these unprecedented circumstances that everyone is a learner. There is lots to choose from to help all learners continue their learning at distance or indeed if they are in school from...

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Encore: Still with a song in my scheme of work

Encore: Still with a song in my scheme of work

Steven Fawkes writes (having listened to this again after 25 years): This is the audio recording made for the original edition of this book in the 1990s.  Since then the world has moved on!  At that time the cutting edge technology in the Language classroom was the...

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ALL Literature Project

ALL Literature Project

The ALL literature project wiki aims to support language learning through literary texts.  Recent posts include songs (spring 2019) and culture (summer 2019). For autumn 2019, we have added Grammar emerging from authentic texts.  Here, you can find ideas for...

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Celebrating the European Day of Languages 2018

Celebrating the European Day of Languages 2018

European Day of Languages 2018: a few ideas you may find useful! European Day of Languages takes place each year on 26 September. Activities: Council of Europe's official European Day of Languages site: Includes quizzes, trivia, materials and games. SCILT European Day...

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Focusing on the Primary French Project

Focusing on the Primary French Project

Guest blog by Catherine Cheater, language consultant, author and ALL Fellow. What is the Primary French Project? The Primary French Project provides free materials that aim to support those who teach French in Key Stage 2.  The materials have been created...

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Talking about Key Stage 2-3 Transition in MFL

Talking about Key Stage 2-3 Transition in MFL

Ease into transition with a complete set of resources to help support your pupils as they leave Key Stage 2 and make the transition into Key Stage 3. ALL Connect is ALL's CPD programme for teachers of languages at KS2 and KS3, which was introduced in September 2014,...

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#poundlandpedagogy – 10 of the best

#poundlandpedagogy – 10 of the best

Guest blog by Rebecca Harwood At Christmas time our Teaching & Learning team give us all a #poundlandpedagogy present to use in a lesson and report back on. My first thought was a reluctant one - “great, more work” but this was quickly followed by a light bulb...

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ALL encourages language teachers to ‘keep on reading’!

ALL encourages language teachers to ‘keep on reading’!

The Association for Language Learning (ALL) wants to encourage all language teachers to keep on reading. To this end ALL has published a number of article collections to pique your interest and give you a burst of inspiration. Our articles and publications are written...

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International Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day takes place on 21 February.  It was created by UNESCO to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism: “Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage....

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La Chandeleur

La Chandeleur

The festival ‘La Chandeleur’ takes place in France on 2 February. Here is what you need to know: La Chandeleur, la fête des chandelles or la fête de la lumière is a religious festival in France  - a day when people get to eat a lot of crêpes!  There are various...

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