Saturday, April 28, 2007

Languages and Espresso video clips

I'm going to try to teach my class a few words in the language of each country we travel to. I'm starting next week with France, then Germany I think. Enchanted Learning has resources for French, Chinese, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. There's also lots of general geography and map stuff. Espresso provides videos and other resources on French, German and Spanish. There are also free resources on Schools Links for French, German and Spanish. This school website includes video footage of their children saying basic words in their language.

I'm also going to use lots of pictures and videos to give children an idea of what it is like in the countries we study. Espresso's geography passport section covers Scotland, Sudan, India, Australia, Madagascar and Chile. The geography news section includes videos about Icons of England, Find out about Germany, Changing China, Changing India, Arctic Explorers, The Queen in Australia, Drought in Kenya, Australian drought and Floods in Indonesia.

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