I’ve just had a go at sub titling one of my favourite Spanish kiddies song – La Vaca Lola.
What do you think?
I used a tool called Universal Subtitles that allows you to subtitle videos in a variety of formats. Looks rather interesting – and useful!
I can’t seem to make it embed in WordPress so here’s the link!
30 minutes later – I’ve done another one – here’s Juguemos en el bosque.
I am a great fan of IKEA.
As I have shared before, I find it a goldmine for teaching resources.
On my latest visit, I made a couple of purchases-
Great for speaking tasks to encourage reluctant speakers, to encourage imagination and to ‘distract’ from repetitious or disliked activities. This set add to my already large collection of animals, fairytale characters, sea creatures and other random puppets I’ve gleaned from parties, charity shops and toyboxes!
These were my favourite find this time. Soft fruit – banana, grapes, kiwi, orange, apple and watermelon – and vegetables – leek, carrots, cucumber, mushrooms, garlic, tomatoes and lettuce- in a punnet / basket.
Just the thing for -
and I’m sure there are more things that could be done with them given more than 10 seconds thought! If you’ve got any ideas, leave a comment below!
This evening I was very excited to be interviewed by David Noble aka @parslad as part of his PhD Edonis project – ‘an interpretivist study of the social web and PLNs’
Along with many others (there’s a list of my illustrious company here), I volunteered a while away to answer questions on my online learning and use of social media to help David with his research. One of the things we all agreed is that we would be interviewed individually at some point during the two year process, and today it was my go. I had the added ‘bonus’ of having my conversation broadcast live via iPadio.
I hope I answered David’s questions properly – I certainly talked a lot! We talked about my online presence in various forms, especially Twitter, MFLResources Yahoo mail group and my blog, ¡Vámonos!, how my PLN was quite varied, and how sometimes it’s easier to ‘get on’ with people online although it’s good to meet face to face at times as well.
You can listen to the interview here
It seems that some people are just incapable of getting *completely* into holiday mode and just can’t stop themselves from working!
Jo Rhys Jones is one of these mad people and over the last week or so she’s been populating her wonderful Talkabout Primary MFL NING with resources that she’s developed for a project to celebrate National Children’s Book Week.
So far she’s shared resources for the books
Je m’habille et je te croque…!
Lots of stuff there that can be used straight away or translated into Spanish, French, German or whatever other language you fancy. You can also take the ideas and use in English literacy.
I like Jo’s idea that this type of thing can be used as a transition project with KS3 working on materials to present to KS2 and KS1.
Feel free to add to Jo’s ideas – I know she’d be really pleased if you did – and share them back again.
And if you’re involved in ANY way in language learning with primary aged kids and aren’t a member of Talkabout Primary MFL, make sure you join. You’re missing out on so much!!
Here are some short clips of British children’s programmes in Spanish. A familiar context is useful in language learning, and it’s always fun to see what the familiar sounds like in another language!
First of all, here’s Pat, el Cartero.
And then there’s Noddy!
And finally from El jardín de los sueños, Makka Pakka.
A thought provoking video from José Picardo posing the question of the title, and reflecting on the changing needs of our students.
Thanks to Jess for making me watch it again!
This is the sort of teacher I aim to be.
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I want to be remembered. Not with cuddly teddy bears and keyrings (although they’re lovely!)
And I want to be the teacher who leads her pupils to that ‘true delight’.
Following the #ukedchat on Thursday, I felt that this image was very apposite.
You can join in #ukedchat every Thursday between 8pm and 9pm (UK time) Find out more here.
Image – nicklphotography2008
Another magnificent clip from Youtube -- this time intended to explain the useage of SER and ESTAR -- both meaning ‘to be’ in Spanish.
The rap made me smile -- important when you’re feeling all bunged up with cold!
See what you think! (The rap starts at 55 seconds.)
They’ve made another rap called POR vs PARA -- I think this one is better though!
I was speaking in Brighton about the wonders of Youtube several weeks ago, and showed one of my favourite videos -- Conjugations Back. if you haven’t seen it, you’ve missed a treat! Check it out NOW!
Then there was Cry me a verb Some great dancing in this one!
Well, today I think I found another gem.
SrMara strikes again -- this time with reflexive verbs.
Great punchline! And the hair!
