Learn French and Spanish

Modern Foreign Languages are big in primary schools at the moment and the BBC have two excellent micro sites to support your planning or lessons.  Primary French and Primary Spanish both have similar resources on them.  For teachers there are phrasebooks, guides to the units and worksheets to support the lessons.  For beginners (like me!) the best option is to choose start here and work your way through.  With clear pronunciation it gives the children a chance to quickly learn simple words.   More advanced sentences and phrases can be  covered using the learn more link.   

Comments

[Christopher Byrnes]

I am glad to see a blog up and running that mentions teaching languages at primary school. I plan to start one myself quite soon, time permitting. Where does it all go, I wonder!

Whether we like it or not, the future of primary school language teaching is going to be but on the shoulders of the class/form teacher, and it is up to the teacher whether he or she sees this as a burden, or as an opportunity for greater growth.

The good news is, I have found, that it is entirely possible for a form teacher to introduce a foreign language to his or her class effectively, but all that's missing is the right approach.

For a couple for years now I have been putting together a complete method that will enable any teacher with the will to do so to teach ANY foreign language to a class of primary school children. I have come up with an easy, step-by-step method that I planned to release for publication last year. It didn't materialise.

I am very interested in helping form teachers become proficient enough to teach foreign languages at primary school, and carry out highly effective lessons without having to sweat too much over it. Imagine of planning were virtually automatic, and delivery set to an optimum pattern that I have found works virtually every time!

Let me assure you of one thing - you can do it, and do it easily without all the hoo-ha that has come about of what to teach, in the way of languages, and how to teach it.

Can I ask any teachers here something - what would YOU like to be able to do as far as learning foreign languages goes. What are the problems that you are facing? If I can get an idea of these things, maybe I can help you solve them.

[Joe Dale]

Hi,

I've been writing about quite a few Primary Languages resources recently. Check out some of these posts:

Supporting Primary Languages
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/07/supporting_prim.html

Are you sitting comfortably?
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/07/are_you_sitting.html

And now for the weather
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/07/and_now_for_the.html

Languages on the move
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/07/languages_on_th.html

Language matters for all
http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2006/06/language_matter.html

Best wishes

Joe

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom - www.joedale.typepad.com