Resources+and+Activities

__General resources__

 * [|The World Digital Library] an online cultural library in multilingual format.
 * [|Euronews] in many languages.Latest world news (streaming video too) from a European perspective.
 * [|MFL Sunderland Resources] - One of the best resources websites available complete with powerpoints, worksheets, games and fillers for French, German and Spanish. It also has a general section for non-specific language ideas. Covers KS2 all the way to A Level.
 * [|Audio Lingua - mp3 en anglais, allemand, espagnol, italien, russe et français]:podcast resources
 * [|TES]:Resource site from the UK. Lots of free resources, lessons, etc. for all levels of language. Sign up first. Free.
 * [|Languages Work]-poster, factsheets-free
 * Languages Work-Use it or Lose it:[[file:Languages Work-Use it or lose it.pdf]] Great resource to make posters for beginning of year.
 * [|Love-Language:] Boys and Language Learning: Look at the program the EU is launching: in many languages
 * Teaching Strategy Cards-some great general classroom strategies from the San Antonio, Texas School District: [[file:teachingstrategycards texas(2).pdf]]
 * [|How to stimulate creativity? Live abroad] (Quote from article-“There’s a very strong, robust association between foreign language aptitude and creativity. So bi-lingual and tri-lingual people are more creative in general. And I think that the language is part of the adaptation.”)
 * Videos that encourage language study
 * [|Lots of French, German and Spanish resources]
 * **[|Languages Online]: Free resources for language teachers and students.**Over 220 engaging **interactive tasks and games** and 190 **printable worksheets** that introduce, reinforce and recycle vocabulary. Activites are self-paced and self-correcting. They are presented in 35 topic-based sections, and include recordings by native speakers.
 * [|Free Technology for Teachers]A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education
 * [|Study Stack electronic flashcards]
 * [|BeelineTV]: Free Online Television Channels from around the world.
 * Free Text-to-Voice translation demo by SitePal – Virtual talking people
 * [|World Languages Homework help]
 * Webtools4U2Use: Vaste resource
 * Web 2.0 worl**d**
 * [|Web 2.0 resources-Web 2.0 guru]
 * [|700 reasons for studying languages]
 * [|Increase vocabulary digitally]:excellent blog entry explaining and linking ways to increase vocabulary
 * [|Copyright Free Media for Educational Projects]
 * [|Word Reference]
 * [|Text to Voice Translator-fun]
 * Modern Foreign Language Storybirds for Teachers and Learners:wiki with a collection of stories using Storybird tool.
 * [|Audio-Lingua] offers mp3 recordings in several languages at 6 levels according to the Common European Framework
 * [|Wildlife clipart-free from British museum]
 * [|Royalty-free stock video]
 * [|39 games & templates for the World Language classroom from Senor Ruiz]
 * [|International Children's Digital Library]: kid's books in many languages
 * [|Free Foreign Language Lessons]
 * [|Foreign Language News and Newspapers]
 * [|100 Free Foreign Language Classes Online]
 * Web 2.0 tool for the MFL clasroom
 * [|Foreign Service Institute]
 * [|Panoramio]: geolocation pictures: great for new IB exams
 * [|Languages online]
 * [|Edsitement]: series of interesting activities and lessons plans for many languages

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 * [|LTS Spanish Languages]-a series of 17 short movies on what it means to be Latino in modern America. The episodes have been split into Intermediate and Advanced based on the complexity of the topic and language.The topics include Immigration, Aspirations, Family, Identity and Freetime.
 * [|Spanish resources for many levels](from United Kingdom)
 * [|Spanish Proficiency Exercises]:is a compilation of video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish. Videos are organized by language proficiency level and are accompanied by related vocabulary, phrases, and grammar.
 * [|Realidades I]:On this page you'll find a set of exercises that go with //Realidades I// Spanish program.
 * [|Realidades II]: On this page you'll find a set of exercises based on //Realidades II// Spanish program.
 * [|Video activities for Realidades I]
 * [|Video activities for Realidades II] (Documents to download)Teacher-created
 * [|Build a matador]
 * [|Sing with Juanes]-Upload your photo, and choose one on the site, play the song, and sing along via telephone or computer microphone.
 * [|Unmultimedia]: Get your own up-to-date authentic audio source similar to what will be on the AP Spanish exam
 * [|VideoELE]: The VideoELE website provides videos for learning Spanish, plus video transcripts, teaching guides, and activity keys. Videos are sorted into four levels.
 * Maestrastacy's Spanish wiki: AP Spanish resources
 * [|¡Bienvenidos a nuestro libro electrónico sobre literatura hispanoamericana!]
 * [|Zachary Jones-Spanish]
 * [|Spanish ads for shopping unit and lots more themes for Spanish.]
 * [|Lots of music with activities already prepared]
 * [|Using Spanish Idioms to Encourage Spontaneity]
 * [|Extensive list of Spanish language learning sites]
 * [|The Languages Resources Website: Spanish resources-check A level for more advanced thematic topics]
 * [|Antonio Gaudi video]
 * [|Barcelona videos] (youtube)
 * Spanish Language resources
 * [|Brainpop español]: series of animated lessons in many content areas.
 * [|Spanish 4 Literature Activities]
 * [|Encuentros Maravillosos lesson plans]
 * [|University of Arizona: Latin America units]
 * [|How to write letters in Spanish>]

__Elementary Spanish curriculum resources__

 * [|Nandutí]: Find information on real-life K-8 curricula, a selection of the best teacher-created materials for early foreign language learning, as well as other online resources
 * [|NNELL]-National Network for Early Language Learning
 * **[|Support for Elementary Educators through Distance Education in Spanish (SEEDS)]** SEEDS is a federally funded project located at the University of South Florida. It offers FLES teachers as well as those elementary teachers wishing to integrate Spanish into their classrooms over 300 activities, webquests, links to useful sites, readings and blackline masters with audio and video samples. SEEDS is divided into three modules: Spanish Enhancement, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and internationalising the Curriculum.
 * Thompson K-5Spanish Wiki- resources/curriculum for our program
 * [|Blog from elementary teacher in UK-Lots of great ideas and links]
 * Nadine Jacobsen's Elementary School Spanish Wiki (including curriculum maps)
 * [|Languages online]
 * [|Brainpop español]: series of animated lessons in many content areas.
 * [|Primary sources for Spanish]

__**French resources**__
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 * [|Montquotidien]: News of the day in French for kids
 * Reading Resources 4 French Teachers-a collaborative wiki for **French literature**-use resources and you can also join and add resources, too.
 * [|2Learn.ca]: Resources from Canada: cool especially for learning French as a second languauge
 * [|French resources for many levels] (from the United Kingdom)
 * [|Français Interactif]Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real UT students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. Online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, diagnostic grammar quizzes (//testez-vous//), a workbook of classroom activities and homework assignments, online polls, and Internet writing activities.
 * [|LES CHANSONS DE KARAOKÉ] On y va! chanter! Oh là!!
 * [|Super French Website]: Many, many resources and activities.
 * [|Advanced level French-resources and tests]
 * [|Build an Arc de Triomphe]
 * [|Tous les publicités à la télé.]
 * Many useful powerpoints for class
 * [|Understand France-Intercultural perspectives]
 * [|20 minutes-les infos en continu]
 * Cajun culture
 * [|A set of short daily life videos of Maroc]
 * [|A set of activities from reading to games to activities in many content areas]
 * [|French music and exercises to practice]
 * [|Resources for French classes from New Zealand teachers]
 * [|Advanced french class resources]
 * [|Le Pointdufl]: songs, exams, reading resources, etc. French site, very useful for MYP, DP, AP.
 * [|La Vie est Belle]-blog with film, worksheet, games, Paris. This French teacher’s blog is dedicated to “films français avec leurs fiches et dossiers pédagogiques, activités pour la classe, pps, ppt, photos, contes, jeux, musique et et.
 * French Resources:many resources for students to practice French outside class including lots of verb activities.
 * [|Best French Resources]
 * [|Conte-moi la francophonie]: Ce centre de ressources du patrimoine oral francophone propose des contes collectés dans différents pays, enregistrés en français et en langue locale, accompagnés d'une fiche pédagogique.
 * [|French Realia source for class]
 * [|Authentic French Listening Resources]
 * [|French slang]-l'argot-great practice
 * [|Vikidia]: **Vikidia** est une [|encyclopédie] junior en français, en [|wiki], pour des **jeunes lecteurs âgés de 8 à 13 ans** et tous ceux qui veulent une présentation simple d'un sujet.
 * [|Send French e-cards compliments of Le Musée du Louvre!]
 * [|The Languages Resources Website: French resources-check A level for more advanced thematic topics]
 * [|Restaurants in France]:Restaurant information in French. There are videos for some restaurants.
 * [|FrenchTeachers]:Lots of resources
 * [|Many online tests, activities in French]
 * [|Cavilum-Vichy]-series of advanced level themes and activities
 * [|lafrancebis]: exercises, lire en ligne (modern topics)
 * [|E-Learning Africa photos for AP/IB]
 * [|Cavilaenligne-Plaisir d'apprendre-AP/IB type readings, viewing questions]
 * [|Such good resources for AP/IB]
 * [|Podibus] est un site internet qui a pour vocation de diffuser des contenus culturels nomades. Exemples: Podcasts et guides de châteaux. Good site for AP format with listening and reading-synthesize
 * [|Nations Illustrated]:download pix. Potential for dp task
 * [|Image Ban] great pix for dp task
 * [|French Language Guide]
 * [|Mme. Thomas French vocabulary photos on Flickr for French vocabulary-very complete and useful]
 * [|Language Media resources] for Francophone countries. Includes video and solid cultural information.
 * [|French Vintage ABC book set on Flickr]
 * [|FIFA-international socce]-Coupe du monde activities
 * [|FIFA.fr]-official site-coupe du monde
 * [|Languages online-]excellent online source-take kids to lab often
 * [|Using Photos to Teach Culture-Ann Williams text]
 * [|Languages at work]:national information resource on careers with languages
 * [|In-terre-Actif]: set of activities for many global challenges
 * [|France Live]: Click on any of the links below to access the printable PDF worksheet of your choice. All worksheets relate to chapters in our French culture book, France Live, but can also be used independently. Each one comprises an article in French, followed by activities.
 * [|École primaire de Martigny]:very creative strategies for simple, creative writing-lots based on comptimes
 * [|Brainpop.fr]:series of animated activities in many content areas.
 * [|Baudelaire, the cursed poet]: interesting lesson about Baudelaire's poetry-comparing it to Twilight, Vampire, etc. Interesting for high school students.
 * [|French music blog]
 * [|Series of voicethreads made by many with different topics in French.]
 * [|Free French Listening Resources Podcast]
 * [|CultureBox-Fr3-info culturelle en vidéo]
 * [|Les infos-20 minutes.fr]
 * [[http://www.gouvernement.fr/|Le gouvernement français officiel-readings, video

__**German resources**__
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 * [|Deutsch im Blick] (Focus on German) is a multimedia 1st-year German language program in development, based on videos of native speakers and the UT Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, online comparative polls, and Internet writing activities.
 * [|German resources for many levels] (from the United Kingdom)
 * [|Grimm Grammar]The grammar component, Grimm Grammar, is an online German grammar reference, featuring zany post-modern Grimm's fairy tale characters, authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises, online audio, and illustrations of the residents of Schloßallee 18 – the modern day fairy tale castle home.
 * [|Virtual Study Abroad Project] is based on authentic communication, captured on video, of unscripted everyday encounters during study abroad trips in German-speaking countries.
 * [|Lehrmaterialien]: German handouts and worksheets
 * [|List of reading strategies for English/German with samples of student work:]
 * [|A list of German adjectives for describing people's personality]
 * [|The online Beginners' German course]is designed by Paul Joyce of the University of Portsmouth. It currently contains twelve chapters of dialogue and exercises which have been designed to give the absolute beginner a grounding in the rudiments of the German language, as well as providing background information about life and culture in the German-speaking countries.
 * [|German Realia resources] for class-scroll down past the French.
 * [|Good German resources for vocabular]y, etc. Might be good site for students' individual resources
 * [|Genau Senior]-series of videos in German with/without subtitles
 * [|German grammar videos]
 * [|The Languages Resources Website: German resources-check A level for more advanced thematic topics]
 * [|Streaming German radio stations]
 * [|German Language Guide]
 * Vintage German Illustrations - a set on Flickr
 * [|Languages online]
 * [|NATG - Network of Australian Teachers of German - Fußball WM 2010]
 * [|Free German powerpoints for class]