SMARTboard to Support Modern Languages

Margaret VassICT Curriculum Support Officer

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Course Descriptor

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The use of a SMARTboard to support Modern Languages in the primary school, taking advantage of:

• freely available SMARTboard resources

• software installed on the primary network

• online resources.

http://classtools.net

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•This great free site does not require you to sign up•These 4 activities work particularly well with an Interactive Whiteboard

Classtools.net – The Arcade Game

Type in a title andFollow instructions

You need to include 10 lines of text

Press ‘Play’ .

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Classtools.net - Choosing The Game Format

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Simply click on one of the 5 game formats

Classtools.net – The Countdown clock

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There’s an option to select a soundtrack for your countdown

Type in the required time span

Select ‘countdown’

Classtools.net – Random Name Generator

This is a very versatile tool!

Simply copy and

paste from

Word

Now select

‘Fruit Machine’

The Jackpot!

The machine stops at a name

‘Used’ names can be removed

Words or phrases could be used instead of names

Word Magnets

http://www.xmleducation.co.uk/magnets.html

Enter a phrase in the box.

Then select the Next arrow

Word Magnets 2

The new ‘jumbled up’ phrase will appear in the next window

Word Magnets 3

There is an option to change the colour of some words. Click on the arrows to enlarge them

Transition Lesson Plans

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/primaryzone/transitions.asp

The LTS site has a good selection of short term plans for Primary 6 to 7 stage

Hangman - French

http://www.prescot-school.knowsley.sch.uk/prescot-language/mfl-site/primarySchool/PrimaryHangmanFRE.html

A good selection of ready made Hangman games for the Whiteboard

Translating Text - 1

http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt

Place text in the box.

Make language choice.

Hey presto!

Translating Text - 2

The Babblefish site also enables you to translate whole web pages!

French and Spanish Labelling

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

A good variety of ‘labelling’ activities on this website

Games and Activities for the IWB

http://www.trainingforlearning.co.uk/links/modern_languages.htm

‘Choose Your Language’ Game

http://www.alienlanguage.co.uk/alienlanguage/index.htm#

French Games from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/pf2/games_all.shtml

MFL IWB Resources

http://www.trainingforlearning.co.uk/resources.htm

Using Vokis in the MFL Classroom

http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=104

A great series of lessons on this blog inspired by http://www.voki.com/

Available Primary network Tools

Useful Websites

http://blogs.wsd1.org/iwb/tag/french/ http://blogs.wsd1.org/iwb/2008/11/19/french-cl

othing/ http://www.knowitall.org/instantreplay/content/

LanguageIndex.cfm http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/mfl/mfl.htm http://www.downs.kent.sch.uk/teachingresourc

es/default.shtml