The environment
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Using audio-visual description in the MFL Classroom to support mediation
Find out about using Audio-description in the languages classroom.
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Pictograms in the MFL classroom: Using a visual stimulus
Dorota Polatyńska, a Polish teacher, describes how she uses visual stimulus cards to encourage students to use the target language and also to improve oral communicative competencies.
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Using Newspapers in the Languages Classroom
Local, regional and national newspapers give students another insight into the culture of the target country. The following resource has been developed for teachers to show how you could use reading material from the target language culture in the classroom.
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Culture boxes
What do you see in a culture?
It’s all a question of perspective… “Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar’ and ‘making the general specific’ are two intercultural education strategies.
Culture boxes can be used as a starting point for intercultural reflection in the languages classroom. They also support the teaching and learning of the socio-cultural knowledge and intercultural awareness.
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TY Japanese module: group project
Get your students working in teams to complete a group project!
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TY Japanese portfolio
Use this booklet to help your students complete the Japanese section of their TY portfolio
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Japanese Lesson Plan: Newspapers
Use this lesson plan to help you teach reading and writing skills in Japanese
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TY Project: Trip to Japan
Get your TYs working together with this project topic “A trip to Japan”
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Japanese festivals
Use this powerpoint to help you teach your TYs about Japanese festivals
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Live Fluent (Website) – A community of language learners for language learners
A fantastic website that deals with language learner from a learner’s perspective. Essentially a blogging platform, this website acts combines actual didactic material, with language learning experiences and reflection. This helps the user to understand the more informal grammar and vocabulary explanations as they are highly personalised to different learner contexts.
Click here to access the website.
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Japanese reading practice: Moomin’s diary
This reading comprehension is useful to practice daily routine vocabulary
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