Resources for secondary teachers
We hope the following articles provide some inspiration to try new ideas or look at a topic from a fresh perspective. If you are a secondary languages teacher and have some resources or an approach to share with others, then we are keen to hear from members with recommendations about other resources they use to good effect on a regular basis. Please contact [email protected]
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NALA Resource for Grammar (Primary and Secondary)
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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...
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...
Home Learning Help: Pearson
Free access to Pearson's digital resources *Brand new and available across a range of languages* Vocabulary remote learning tasks Translation and Literary Texts Conversational Practice MFL Picture based tasks available here To support continued teaching, learning...
Home Learning Help: TeachIt Languages
TeachIt Languages are making many resources free until the end of April 2020 so have a look here for French, German and Spanish resources. There is still time to have a look through what they have on offer.
Home Learning Help from our Corporate Members – This is Language
This is Language are offering extended free-trial access to any school who wish to continue supporting their learners in home learning and continuous distance learning building in all that they have learned in the classroom through use of their fantastic array of...
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...
Resources to support residential visits
For teachers planning a residential or cultural visit to Berlin, Eva Lamb from ALL Yorkshire shares a treasure hunt she has put together for her regular visits there, along with the answers. Stadterkundungsspiel – BERLIN Stadterkundungsspiel – BERLIN – answers
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...
Strategies for teaching the new MFL GCSE
Please find below a range of resources shared very kindly by contributors at two events which took place at the ALL London and Northeast Branches in 2018 GCSE writing moderation ALLNE GCSE writing moderation booklet The writing moderation booklet includes...
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...
Help your students’ grammar with new resources from BBC Teach
Do your GCSE/Higher French students know their adverbs from their adjectives? Or their pronouns from their prepositions? Help is at hand! BBC Teach has launched a new series of ten short films to support GCSE/Higher French grammar teaching (mapped to the 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,...
#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...
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...
World Book Day – a great excuse to explore a foreign language book
World Book Day, on 01 March, presents a wonderful opportunity to explore foreign language books! Why not plan ahead and use some of the following ideas and resources? Need a lesson idea? Why not try some of these: get your thinking cap on and dress up as a...
Keeping cool in the summer 2018 MFL GCSEs
Guest blog by Rebecca Harwood, Head of Languages. From the positive attention my recent “Keep Cool” display board generated on my departmental Twitter account, I am sure I am not the only teacher feeling ever so slightly anxious about her cohort’s summer 2018 MFL exam...
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....
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...
Top tips for setting up your MFL classroom
Guest blog by Jonathan Robinson As we begin a new academic year, it is time to think afresh about how we utilise the classroom itself to maximise learning and student engagement in acquiring Modern Foreign Languages. A quick Google search will reveal many articles and...
Sharing GCSE expertise!
Please find below a range of fantastic resources shared very kindly by contributors at the two recent GCSE events which took place at the London and NE Branches. Resources include: AQA Paper 2: Speaking conduct of the tests AQA specification Speaking the target...
MFL GCSE 9-1: Sharing Expertise
Download materials from the ALL London Branch session on GCSE - Note these materials are hosted on the ALL London branch microsite GCSE 9-1: Sharing ideas. Part 1. View the recording here. GCSE 9-1 Part 1 uneditedTranscripts. (16 sides!) GCSE 9-1: Sharing Ideas. ...
MFL GCSE 9-1: Sharing Expertise
Download materials from the recent session on GCSE transition covering the following topics:- Speaking, and preparation for the exam – photo task, role-play task, and general conversation Preparing for the writing exam – unprepared writing, translation into the target...
Education Perfect Listening Comprehension Activities
Available for FREE to ALL Group Members Education Perfect have developed resources with over 300 extended listening comprehension activities across French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, Chinese and Maori, and want to offer ALL members complimentary...