Resources

Clock Face Starter Activity

Get them speaking!

A fantastically simple yet effective way to get students speaking in the classroom to practise particular topics following the traditional idea of speed dating but in a new and exciting way.

Using audio-visual description in the MFL Classroom to support mediation

Find out about using Audio-description in the languages classroom.

CLIL Pilot: Training Materials

Training resources designed by the PPLI to train MFL teachers engaging with CLIL

Writing a description of a painting

Dorota Połatyńska provides us with a very specific way in which we can use paintings and descriptions of them to help them to use adjectives, prepositions and nouns. This activity begins with a reception activity and develops into a production activity where students are writing their own descriptions of paintings.

It involves students (and teacher!) drawing descriptions of the paintings and comparison of the two to help reinforce their understanding of the target texts.

Resources of Interest – Learning Online

Now might be the time to highlight some of the resources and links we have available to you, many of which could possibly be adapted for home learning.

Digital Technologies – Tutorials

On this page we collect all the various tutorials that we have available for using Digital Technologies with your classes.

CLIL: Exemplar Units of Learning (Password Protected)

CLIL: Exemplar Units of Learning Sign Up

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.

Flashcards to develop speaking skills

The idea is to develop students’ speaking skills but taking into account their ability. The cards are used as prompts and the students can start by making simple sentences to more complex ones with more able students.

The Game Box

The Game box is a box of activities and tasks which children work from in groups, pairs or individually.

Recipes of Traditional Dishes in Portuguese

Food in Portuguese

My Family Tree (Portuguese)

Flash Cards: Portuguese Speaking Countries and Continents

A flash card file that can be printed and used in Portuguese class (and with TY Modules in Portuguese) to introduce global continents.

To download, click here.

A worksheet for students containing the flags and names of countries where they speak Portuguese around the world.

To download, click here.