Engagement and Motivation-handout
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The document provides resources for engaging language learning, including music videos, podcasts, websites with word origins, idioms, tongue twisters, jokes and more. It also lists tools for creating word clouds, recording audio, script writing, subtitling and using social media to support foreign language learning. The document aims to share ideas and materials for motivating students to improve language skills outside the classroom.
Engagement and Motivation-handout
- 1. More than words-Engagement and Motivation Friday 4th July 2014, Merseyside Languages Conference 2014. Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, Alderley Edge School for Girls icpjones@yahoo.co.uk @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones A downloadable copy of the presentation slides for this training session will be available from: My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com Paroles, Jacques Pr辿vert & Spectacle, Jacques Pr辿vert Music resources: Ana Tijoux: Las horas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnRywV8Hh-U Grand Corps Malade: Un verbe, aimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FFtxl18ck Le blues de linstituteur http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1bL9yIdAOw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVtL8Uv22D8 Kevin, Karla y la banda (Spanish coverof wrecking ball and many more pop songs) Origin of words http://www.etymonline.com/index.php Set phrases and expressions http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/lf/p-11171-Les-expressions-imagees-d-Archibald.htm http://enseigner.tv5monde.com/fle/les-expressions-francaises-le-corps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHtmKLIAnY (mind mistakes and slang) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8V0UTuTWo http://blabberize.com (animate pictures and make them speak) Podcasts and translation of English idioms http://www.frenchbyrepetition.co.uk/ Tongue-twisters, puns and jokes http://trabalenguasenespanol.com/ http://michel.buze.perso.neuf.fr/lavache/virelangues.htm http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/publication/publi-39-Les_virelangues.htm http://blague.carambar.free.fr/blagues/blague.html http://www.1000chistes.com/chistes-de-lepe Rhyming dictionaries and apps http://www.dicodesrimes.com/ http://dictionnaire-des-rimes.fr/ http://buscapalabras.com.ar/rimas.php
- 2. https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/pocket-rhymer/id338095684?mt=8 (fr-sp-Gr-it-En) Word Clouds and Word Art http://www.wordle.net http://www.tagxedo.com Text-to-speech software http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ Audacity free sound editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Decide Now! App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/decide-now!/id383718755?mt=8 Storybird http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirds Script-writing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPWLxhu_ETc&list=PL35B8F0E6427AC3BC (Morph) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHvZjiDANg&list=TLU8HG-nMoQ6N8VB_TRUU6HiRpQTqHVB1Y (Simons cat) Oktapodi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badHUNl2HXU http://www.amara.org/en/ (subtitling software) School Tweeter Feed http://twitter.com/AESG_MFL Reading support Lingro http://lingro.com/ Pinterest for grammar http://www.pinterest.com/icpjones/frenchgrammar/ http://www.pinterest.com/icpjones/spanishgrammar/