Radio Lingua Network Podcasts
Radio Lingua produce a variety of podcasts which are brilliant for those of us who are not entirely confident in our pronunciation. Having learnt french through school, I found the coffee break Spanish podcast brilliant for updating my own subject knowledge prior to lessons. Most of the podcasts come in 20 minute sessions targeted at improving your language skills. Plus the main podcasts are free :)
Coffee Break French Podcast
Coffee Break Spanish Podcast
Pearson Primary Youtube Channel
This youtube channel offers a variety of videos for use in the primary school across the curriculum. I've used this video (Basic Greetings Video) as a way to reinforce a unit of work on basic greetings and numbers in french. The children loved it.
Primary Resources
Primary resources offer so many useful resources for teaching languages in the primary school. I once used the colour flashcards to help me introduce the french colours to the children. Having put a variety of coloured objects into a feely bag, the children in turn pulled out an object and put it with the correct flashcard. Each time I reinforced the vocabulary for the colour and encouraged the children to repeat. I did a similar activity with children with SEN, using fewer colours. This worked really well and the children were able to repeat and remember up to 4 colours.
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/mfl/mfl_french.htm
Dot to Dot Activity
When introducing children to numbers in a language, i found that using a dot to dot activity was a great way to reinforce learning. I used the simple 1-5 and 1-10 dot to dots from here, printed them out, covered the numbers with little pieces of paper and wrote the french or Spanish numbers over the top. Once photocopied, these looked great and the children really enjoyed the activity (how often do KS2 get to do dot to dots at school?) Plus it was a lot quicker than trying to find a ready made one or trying to edit it on the computer! To extend this activity, I told children who had finished to colour their picture using certain colours. This revised the work they had done previously.
Colouring Activities
I found these colouring pages for lower ability or really young children which can be printed off to create their own french colouring book. This could be used to reinforce teaching of colours as children are encouraged to colour the page in the correct colour. These pages give the children the colour in English and french.
The same site also has 6 colour by numbers in french which can be used with higher ability or older children. These are ready to print and only give you the colour in french which is great as a way of assessing their progress in the topic. available here
French Songs
There are a lot of french songs available from here. The only problem is that the majority of the site is in french.
Planning MFL
If you are really stuck for ideas on what to teach I have found some suggested schemes of work. These schemes include assessment sheets and flashcards and are well worth a quick look.
Primary Spanish Scheme of Work here
Primary French Scheme of Work here
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