Learn French Italian or Spanish on Twitter

Starting today a daily twitter lesson with link to minipodcast for pronunciation.

Follow @learnfrench @learnitalian @learnspanish from your twitter account, twitter.com

Minipodcast here for French, Italian, Spanish

Timeline

I used a neat online tool called timeglider to create this timeline. http://timeglider.com with free registration
You can make more important events bigger. Great for history lessons!
Click on an event for more information and weblink.
Related events are colour coded
Drag the green slider down to 25 years for a better view.
Click on the spanner to view full screen.

Online Reading List

Documents, reports etc Download .pdf if available. Don't print - they are long!
CFE MODERN LANGUAGES OUTCOMES 2007
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/outcomes/languages/modernforeignlanguages/index.asp

Citzens of a Multilingual World (aka the Mulgrew) Report 2000
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/education/rati-00.asp rationale
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/education/cmwr-00.asp recommendations
2005 progress report: http://www.hmie.gov.uk/documents/publication/hmiecoaml.html

5-14 Guidelines
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/guidelines/modernlanguages/index.asp

HMIE
http://www.hmie.gov.uk/Publications.aspx

• Developing the four capacities through modern languages: focusing on successful learners in primary schools. 22/8/2008 .pdf
• Modern Languages - A portrait of current practice in Scottish schools 06/02/2007 .pdf

Standards and Quality: Primary and Secondary Schools 1994-1998: in Modern Languages 01/01/2002

Paris widget photos

Wordle update

 Erin's wordle

It is now possible to embed wordles in blogs and wikis. I had such a job before pasting in screen grabs! Have made some changes to the wiki  

If anyone else still has the URL of their wordle please email me it as the search feature in the gallery is no longer available.

Another new feature is the ability to link words together. If you type in a tilde ~ between words they won't be treated separately eg un~chat  or un~poisson~rouge

Promenons-nous dans les bois

Just found this lovely karaoke version with vocab games http://www.jeuchanteenclasse.com/

Nasal vowels downloads

The 4 sets of nasal vowels rockets are avaiable to download from Sparklebox share zone

Get different sizes by printing 4 9 12 16 to a sheet. Print some blank ones on to card to add to as a new word crops up.