The document provides information on various online tools and websites that can be used for language teaching. It describes Delicious for bookmarking websites, Wordle for creating word clouds, iTunes and its Genius feature for finding music in other languages, and Jog the Web for creating online "tracks" to guide students through grammar lessons. Several foreign language websites are listed as examples for students to explore. Options for creating online exercises and wikis are also mentioned.
5. Wordle www.wordle.net www.wordle.net allows you to create word clouds from copying and pasting text. Once you’ve created your cloud you can play around with colour and style. Wordle clouds are good on board at the start of lesson to provoke discussion or to highlight important points or for anything you want them to be! Use wordle for poems, stories, websites – even criteria for success.
11. iTunes iTunes is invaluable for finding music in other languages Latest version of iTunes features Genius – it looks at what you already have and recommends similar choices
14. Jog the web www.jogtheweb.com Create “tracks” to take your pupils through grammar points Fantastic for treasure hunts – saves pupils wasting time trawling all over the web and you can put the questions straight onto the track.
19. “Real” Sites www.ritz.com Booking into hotels, start with a bit of luxury www.amnesty.fr Amnesty have sites in different languages http://www.mrmen.com/fr/ Fantastic fun site if teaching adjectives http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/fr/index.shtml Good for interdisciplinary task on slavery 24 heures dans la vie d’un enfant Compare your daily routine to a child in a different country
22. Make your own http://classtools.net/ http://www.what2learn.com/ Use thes free sites to create your own exercises.
23. Wikis www.wikispaces.com Wikispaces are free spaces which allow you to collorate and share work – mine are still at the toddle stage, but please have a look to see the potential.
37. Bringing Conjugation Back and Cry Me a Verb – fantastic resource for Spanish verbs French orals – Ade Edmundson and Graham Norton (and others) – give pupils speaking criteria and get them to grade the performances,get them to give them 2 stars and a wish, what can they learn from these performances? Search for specific grammar points in the appropriate language ie Prepositions Introduce classes to the classics ie Edith Piaf in French Or look for something more modern ie Girls Aloud Je ne parle pas français in French or look for songs relevant to particular topics ie Diam’s Ma France à moi or Marly Gaumont by Kamini both good for talking about where you live, classes could then do Mon Ecosse à moi How about the more unusual ? Schlag mich Baby noch einmal by the Wise Guys or Stefan Remmler’s Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei In French sing along to Dansez avec Igor , les cornichons and Jean Petit qui danse Look out for star turns – try looking for interviews with Mika in French Other useful things – the Torres Nike ad , “ Ken Lee ” – surely a skills lesson in there somewhere!
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