by cristahazell | Sep 18, 2020 | Languages Today extended content
Let me begin this article with a confession: before taking up my current post as a PGCE tutor in MFL at the University of Bristol, I was a full time classroom teacher with middle management departmental and pastoral responsibilities. No, that’s not the confession. The...
by cristahazell | Sep 18, 2020 | Languages Today extended content
Who would have thought it? The 19th March was my last “normal” day of the school year! It was also the first of many incredible webinars supported by ALL London, and one in which Joe Dale presented a 12-page-document full of ideas and IT resources to support MFL...
by cristahazell | Sep 18, 2020 | Languages Today extended content
During the lockdown, many companies offered extended free trials of their language learning websites and apps. Ones I used with my pupils include: Education Perfect, Yabla, LanguageNut, TheEverLearner, ImmerseMe, uTalk and ThisIsLanguage. All of them were great in...
by cristahazell | Sep 18, 2020 | Languages Today extended content
At the Stephen Spender Trust we have been busy thinking anew about creative translation: how can this activity, which for a number of years has focused on in-person translation workshops in schools and universities, be adapted for the ‘new normal’? We felt fortunate...
by cristahazell | Sep 18, 2020 | German Reviews
The new Übungskiste für Deutsch, recently published by the ALL Action Group for German is a set of resources aimed at KS3 Germanists and remodelled and updated from a set of activities originally produced in the ‘90s by Harriette Lanzer. They are now available...