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PRIMARY FLAs

Lesson plan blank
(MS Word 34 KB)

Accessing the Sunderland materials on the VLE
(PDF 608 KB)

Using images
(PDF 1.7 MB)

Creating effective worksheets
(PDF 925 MB)

How to make PowerPoint presentations
(PDF 348 MB)

ICT training PowerPoint presentation
(MS PowerPoint 433 KB)

Primary FLA lesson plans

Primary resources French and Spanish

   
             

FLA training resources and links

 

FLA training 17.11.09:
Here are the resources that the assistants made during the training session.
Use them in your lessons or borrow the ideas !

School subjects worksheet (German)
(MS Word 147 KB)

Où habites-tu? worksheet
(MS Word 63 KB)

Countries worksheet
(MS Word 32 KB)

Sandwiches worksheet (Spanish)
(MS Word 25 KB)

Dans la salle de classe worksheet
(MS Word 163 KB)

Les animaux worksheet
(MS Word 239 KB)

Où habites-tu?
(MS PowerPoint 239 KB)

Dans la salle de classe
(MS PowerPoint 221 KB)

Countries
(MS PowerPoint 587 KB)

Les animaux
(MS PowerPoint 599 KB)

Ma famille
(MS PowerPoint 843 KB)

Les Sports
(MS PowerPoint 265 KB)

School Subjects (German)
(MS PowerPoint 431 KB)

Sandwiches (Spanish)
(MS PowerPoint 1.3 MB)

Weather
(MS PowerPoint 564 KB)

FLA training session 19.10.09
(MS PowerPoint 2.03 MB)

Primary FLA training session
(MS PowerPoint 2.4 MB)

Right-click on the link and download the presentation to view it. Rather than playing the slideshow, look at each slide individually and read the notes underneath it.

"What's your name?" cards
(MS Word 455 KB)

"What's your name?" cards II
(PDF 855 KB)

Number Cards
(MS Word 28 KB)

Noughts and crosses board
(MS Word 26 KB)

Snakes and Ladders board
(PDF 273 KB)

Number bingo cards x12
(PDF 114 KB)

French flashcard template
(MS Publisher 44 KB)

Numbers 1-10 flashcards
(PDF 33 KB)

Ideas for using flashcards

These activities are popular with primary-age children and have worked well:

  • games with flashcards
  • noughts and crosses
  • Simon Says
  • Lotto
  • Hangman
  • matching cards / Pelmanism
  • songs
  • storytelling
  • reading Big Books
  • cooking and eating
  • colouring, drawing and labelling in the target language
  • crosswords
  • worksheets with pictures to support the text
 

Make your own bingo cards

Tarsia Formulator - make your own puzzles

Puzzle-making website

BBC Weather website

Good website for maps

Good website for flags

A lesson plan for English speaking countries around the world

Most widely spoken world languages

British Council lesson plan for English speaking countries

List of English speaking countries

Numbers of English speakers


Some other resources and websites that you might find useful:

National Advisory Centre for Early Language Learning (Nacell)

National Centre for Languages (CILT)

FLAs online

National Languages Strategy

KS2 Framework for Languages

QCA Schemes of Work for KS2 - updated schemes are due to be published Spring 2007

Websites for children:

French

German

Italian

Spanish

The Young Pathfinder series of books is published by CILT specifically for Primary school teachers. Some useful titles include:
YP12 - Working together: Native speaker assistants in the primary school
YP9 - The literacy link
YP3 - Are you sitting comfortably ?: Telling stories to young language learners
YP7 - Making the link: Relating languages to other work in the school
YP6 - Let's join in ! Rhymes poems and songs

The Pathfinder series of books is for Secondary teachers. A useful book is
Pathfinder 32 - Foreign Language Assistants: a guide to good practice

French links

Spanish links

Language Resources