Teaching resources - Modern Languages
Here are some subject-specific websites which are great for using with the Interactive Whiteboard. These are reguarly updated, and please contact info@trainingforlearning.co.uk to suggest your own.
Many of the secondary sites are also suitable for primary, but here are some which are created specifically for primary languages or lend themselves particularly well to younger learners.
BBC
Primary
Interactive games from the BBC site, including topics such as numbers, colours,
family, pets, the time, dates, weather and holidays. The use of sound and
flash animation works particularly well for the IWB.
Lexique
An outstanding free site for French learners. Topics
cover le corps, la famille, les numéros, l’Europe, à
la gare, en ville, les heures, l’alphabet, les animaux
and le telephone. A great way of presenting new
vocabulary.
Alien Languuage (French, Spanish, German)
The aliens are on a mission to find out about human
beings. A very colourful and interactive way to learn
and practice parts of the body.
Prescott
School Primary French
Some very nice activities for the IWB, such as Spot the Animal, Who wants
to learn French? and Brothers and Sisters.
Prescott
Primary School Spanish
As above in Spanish
Prescott
Primary School German
As above in German
Momes
An excellent French children’s site, which include children’s
own film and book reviews, as well as poems and stories written by children
Belette
A great, visual French children’s site with a nice section on songs
and nursery rhymes which play and have animated pictures. For example, Use
song 'Dans la foret un grand cerf' to revise concept of masculine and feminine
words in French and practise new sounds
Bozo le Chat
A delightful site for practising personal identity and family relationships
with Bozo le Chat.
Poulet
Frites
Lots of interactive games, such as practising pronunciation of the alphabet
Die Blinde Kuh
Children's search engine. Discover pirates , Egypt , culture, children's
recipes for drinks, cakes, healthy eating and festivals around the year
in German
PequeNet
PequeNet has lots of stories and poems on it and lots of nice pictures
Don Quijote http://www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/games/
Simple Spanish games such as with animals, numbers and clothes
Linguaprime
One of the best French teaching sites for primary, written by a UK-based
languages teacher, it includes simple but effective exercises and is £39.99
per year to subscribe. Many of its activities lend themselves very well
to the IWB. For each topic there is a presentation and then practice activities
such as find the pairs, noughts and crosses, a memory game, wordsearch,
hangman and writing labels.