Mrs Jones' Language Resources

Revising for The Speaking Test

2010-02-01T09:42:00.000-08:00

Use the fruit machine and support speaking to talk about the topic for 5 minutes!

Y10 Spanish Revision Materials for Mock GCSE

2009-05-18T14:10:00.000-07:00

Do try the following sites and leave a comment to let me know the ones you found the most useful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/spanish/

http://www.linguaryde.com/spanishgcse.html

http://www.espanol-extra.co.uk/

http://sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/modern_04/spanish/index.asp

More Sites to Help With Listening and Reading Revision

2009-05-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

Higher Reading and Listening Materials

http://www.teachnet-uk.org.uk/2006%20Projects/MFL-Higher_Reading_Listening/3HigherReadingListening/index.htm

Foundation Listening Materials

http://www.teachnet-uk.org.uk/2006%20Projects/MFL-Foundation_Listening/1FoundationListening/Index.htm

Y11 Revision Materials for Reading & Listening Papers

2009-04-29T16:26:00.000-07:00

To get a bilingual glossary of the words that may help you with your listening/ reading exam:
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/Current%20GCSE/GCSE%20in%20Applied%20French%20(Pilot)%20Bilingual%20Glossary.pdf

To look at past listening and reading papers:
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse-leg/lang/gcse-ap-french/Pages/default.aspx

To practice with online exercises by topic s (specific to the Applied GCSE):
http://www.appliedfrench.co.uk/topic_areas_index.htm

To do general revision on different topics:

http://www.suttonhighmfl.110mb.com/gcsefre.htm
http://gcsemg.pbworks.com/
http://www.wildfrench.co.uk/
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2007/05/revision-sites-for-french-and-spanish.html

Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life): Spanish Interactive Mystery Involving ... You

2009-02-24T13:48:00.000-08:00

Mi Vida Loca is an interactive mystery... and fun way to build up / revise your Spanish vocabulary.

Check it out on http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/

Y10 Lost Property

2009-02-24T13:03:00.000-08:00

Here are the links to the games we played in class to practise Lost Property vocabulary

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/esl-games/spanish/lostprop/jigword2.html

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/esl-games/spanish/lostprop/speedword2.html

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/esl-games/spanish/lostprop/wordweb.html

Thanks for leaving a comment after using the games.

Y10: Buying a train ticket

2009-01-20T06:09:00.000-08:00

Have a look at the videos about buying train tickets and do the corresponding exercises. Leave a comment once you have done it. This sections also includes a video on booking into a hotel that you may find useful at a later date.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/talk/hotel/

Y10: Directions homework

2009-01-12T08:17:00.000-08:00

Practise directions with these 3 videos from BBC Talk.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/talk/directions/

You can watch them with the transcript in Spanish only or with the transcript and the translation in English. There are also a few fill-in-the-gaps exercises to get you to focus on individual words. All exercises are corrected.

Conjugation's Back: Spanish

2008-12-01T12:26:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to a great video about Spanish verbs by an entertaining Justin Timberlake-lookalike.

http://www.teachertube.com/v.php?viewkey=de9da6da41723b5ab427

Food and Drink with videos and online exercises

2008-11-24T15:41:00.000-08:00

This a link to the BBC Food and Drink videos that we used in class. Do you remember it all? Have a try!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/talk/orderfood/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/talk/drinks/

Y7 Spanish Voki assessment

2008-11-12T02:47:00.000-08:00

Here are a few examples of Vokis done with Y7 Spanish (12 lessons)

Get a Voki now!

Get a Voki now!

Get a Voki now!

Y7 Quia Game to practise classroom items

2008-10-12T07:57:00.001-07:00

Dear Year7,

Have another try at the game we did in class!
You can also refer to the vocabulary sheet to learn extra items.

http://www.quia.com/jg/276241.html

Y7 Spanish-Practise your Spanish Alphabet with the Singing Sheep

2008-10-06T04:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome Back! For Y10 Spanish

2008-09-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

As I have mentioned in class, I will be posting additional resources for you to look at. So, let's start with the fantastic-and free- Asi se Hace Spanish website.

This is the page corresponding to what we will be doing over the next few weeks.

http://www.asisehace.net/?page_id=20

Have fun!

Dear Spanish Students

2007-11-21T06:50:00.000-08:00

Year 9 and Year 11 students, please check my list of sites at http://del.icio.us/icpj/student%2BSpanish and thank you for letting me know the ones you feel most useful to revise for your Asset or your GCSE exams.

Dear French students

2007-11-21T06:45:00.000-08:00

Whether in Year 7, Year 8 or in Year 10, there will be something for you in my long list of links. You will find videos, songs, young people's magazines and pages, online games and quizzes as well as more "serious" sites about vocabulary, grammar and GCSE.
http://del.icio.us/icpj/student+French

2007-11-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

Dear Students

Please check the box for more information about the Asset Languages scheme that 9r1, 9r2, 9r3 and 9s1 are going to start soon. If you are in Year 10 or Y11, you may be interested in attending our twilight to do one or more of these qualifications.

2007-11-12T07:01:00.001-08:00

Dear Student

Please have a look at the BOX if you want to download past French or Spanish GCSE papers.
I will be adding appropriate resources over the next few months.

How to use this site

2007-09-29T05:38:00.000-07:00

Click on the links on the left-hanside. Some are multi-lingual sites with downloadable activities and other sites with audio/ video.

Please note that although I use the site quite regularly, I cannot be held responsible for inappropriate/ broken links. Thanks for reporting these to me should you come across them.

Let me know what sort of sites/activities you prefer by leaving a comment. Use your first name only when leaving comments. Please also note that all comments are moderated.

Welcome!

2007-09-22T12:31:00.000-07:00

I hope this blog helps you with your languages studies. I will regularly review the resources I have saved in My del.icio.us and I would appreciate your comments on what resources you have used.

Learning a foreign language does not have to be a school-based only activity. There are lots of interesting and fun resources out there to help you with it. Just give them a try!