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Multilingual Sites
-
Alien
Language - cool interactive games
for practicing body
parts, prepositions and other vocabulary in English, French, German and
Spanish.
- Net TVBD and BeeLine TV - Watch free online TV
channels from around the world. Both sites provide a selection of
broadband internet television channels with news, TV shows, movies,
music, entertainment and sports.
- Childtopia.com - a
large collection of educational games, tales, listening and reading
comprehension activities and even arts and crafts project videos in
English, Spanish, French, Catalan and Euskera
- Hello-World - games
and activities in English, Spanish,
French, German, Russian, and Indonesian
- Idiomatic
Expressions - a database of idiomatic expressions in
English, French and Spanish. Choose an expression from a drop-down menu
and find its closest equivalent in another language.
- International Children's
Digital Library - an amazing resource for online
children's picturebooks in many languages. You can search for
books by country of origin, title, author and even theme!
- Kindersite
Project - this site has links to games, songs and stories in
Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish and Swahili!
- LangMedia - a
collection of video clips of interviews, scenes, and conversations from
a huge list of countries; an AMAZING resource for the teaching of
language in an
authentic cultural context!
- Languages
Online - games, songs and vocabulary practice in
French, German, Indonesian and Italian
- National Library of
Virtual Manipulatives - Math manipulatives
and graphic organizers (i.e., bar graphs, pie charts, number lines,
spinner and math games) in English, French and
Spanish.
- Panwapa - from Sesame Workshop, this interactive site
in Arabic, Chinese, English, Japanese, and Spanish allows students to
create an online persona and safely "visit" Panwapa kids all over the
world.
- PowerPoints - downloadable PowerPoint presentations in Spanish and German including
stories and games; and more PowerPoints
(tons!) in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch.
- UCLA Language Materials Project
- this site offers materials (textbooks, picture dictionaries, audio,
realia, maps, etc.) for over 150 less commonly taught languages on all
levels.
Spanish
- Adivina, Adivinanza - a
collection of adivinanzas (guessing
games) organized by topics/themes
- ¿A
qué juegas
tú?
- detailed directions in Spanish for over 40 children's
rhyming,
jumprope
and street games from Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina
- BLAA Digital -
Solo Para Niños - this excellent site from Colombia
houses a
collection of short stories, biographies of indigenous
children, games and links to museums like the Museo Botero.
- Burbujas Mágicas
-
a site from Chile for kids with music, games, stories and activities
- BrainPop Español - 100s of animated cartoon/video clips about
Science, Math, Technology, Health, Art and Music (note: after signing
up for a free 5-day
trial, you will want to subscribe!)
- España
de cerca -
a site from MIT with video interviews of Spaniards of all ages
answering questions on topics like: mujer,
familia, educación, tradiciones, and estereotípos.
- Historias
en español - this site contains a HUGE collection of
student-created PowerPoint shows in Spanish. Topics range from alphabet
books to short stories. Great to show students what other kids are
doing in their Spanish classes!
- Kokone.com -
a huge collection of games, homework help and information for kids in
Mexico. Kokone means "kids" in Nahuatl, one of the many indigenous
languages of Mexico - very fun!
- Las tres mellizas -
for Karaoke in Spanish: click on the "¿Quién
quiere jugar a...?" image and follow the links to "canta con las tres mellizas"
(cartoon video clips with the text highlighted on the screen)
- Live
Radio and Periodicals
Online - media
from the
Caribbean,
Central and South America
- México para
Niños - a fantastic interactive site with information
about
Mexican history, government, biodiversity, songs, stories, recipes and
games.
- Música
en español and Canciones para
la clase - both sites contain lists of popular songs
in Spanish organized by grammatical point or theme, including
cloze activity printables with lyrics from the songs and links to music
videos!
- Planeta Visual - an
interesting site with examples of Spanish Sign Language (LSE: Lengua de
señas española) arranged by topic; also has games and
activities for children in Spanish
- Spanish Language
and Culture - Barbara K.
Nelson's site contains fantastic
cultural and music-based study modules like Juan Luis Guerra's
"Ojalá que llueva café" and
hundreds of practice pages of
grammar and vocabulary
- Ver-taal.com -
a site with vocabulary practice and authentic listening activities with
TVE reports
French
- Africa
Remix - fantastic video clips
of African artists answering questions about l'art, la multiplicité des
pratiques, l'africanité, la mondialisation, l'héritage;
transcripts are provided for each interview
- Africains
de la Chanson Francophone -
a very fun and interactive site about African
music
- Bonjour
les amis! - animated stories plus listening , reading, writing and
speaking activities - a very nicely done site from Canada, especially
well-suited for French FLES and beginning students
- Caillou-
the PBS show online, fun activities for beggining
students
- Calendrier
de l'Avent - 27 holiday songs sung
by French Canadian students; each song is presented with nice graphics
and the lyrics on the screen (karaoke style!)
- French
Flashcards -
a nice collection of printable flashcards for practicing French
vocabulary
- Galeries
Lafayette - the famous
French
department store, a virtual mannequin that you can dress up!
- Imagiers.net - a large collection of audiovisual materials
in French - check out the clip using African masks to teach parts of
the face (called "le visage - masque africain")
- Joël Guenoun
- for incredible animated wordplay videos,
click on "Les mot ont des visages"
- Kids
Playground
- a metasite with a collection of games and activities for immersion
French and French as a second language; activities are arranged by
level (beginning, intermediate and advanced)
- Mon JT Quotidien - an
excellent collection of current event and interesting videos appear
alongside the written transcript with options to take a quiz, give your
opinion and answer questions about the report - very nice layout too!
- Online
Intro French Course - part of Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning
Initiative, this 15 lesson French course contains video, audio and
interactive lessons for beginning learners of the language
- Point du FLE -
an endless supply of entertaining grammar, vocabulary and communication
activities
- TF1
and TV5
- French
television channels with news, sports, shopping, cinema, weather and
traffic; also included
are videoclips, music files, games and French learning activities -
both endless sources of fun and material for French
- Tintin.com
- a site about the famous cartoon
character and his adventures
ESL
- Activities
for ESL Students - interactive grammar and vocabulary games
and self-quizzes
- Colorin
Colorado
- a bilingual Spanish/English site for families and educators of
English Language Learners - excellent resources (webcasts, articles,
guides and toolkits) for teachers
- Dave's ESL Café -
"the
Internet's
meeting place for ESL/EFL students and teachers", includes a teacher
forum
and a student forum
- E.L. Easton English Online - pages
with topics such as pronunciation, listening activities, business
English,
grammar and etymology
- EnglishClub - an ESL
learning center, clubhouse, teachers' lounge and list of resources plus
a selection of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation online activities.
- English Banana -
English and drama resources for students and teachers; download
hundreds of worksheets for practicing vocabulary, grammar,
speaking, reading, listening
- ESLVideo.com -
links to free videos, quizzes, transcripts, lessons and other resources
for learning English through songs, videos, TV clips, interviews and
more - very cool!
- ESL Lesson Plans
and
Resources -
links to sites containing lesson plans and activities, clip-art
collections,
games and songs
- EverythingESL.net -
lesson
plans, teaching tips, downloads, discussion topics, and
resources
- Starfall.com
- What an incredible resource for ELLs! This site is
excellent for pre-literate students, absolute beginners and for more advanced learners; contains activites, games,
stories and printable materials for learning to read
- Teaching Tolerance -
wonderful site for multicultural folktales, information
and activities
- Train Your Accent -
provides audio clips
for accent correction; select
the lesson you want from the pull-down menu on the left
For Language Educators
- FLTeach
and Ñandutí
-
ListServs for language teachers. FL Teach is aimed at practitioners on
all levels, while Ñandutí
is geared for K-8 teachers, administrators (Note: sign
up for the digest on FLTeach; Nandu has fewer postings and is thus more
manageable!)
- Make Beliefs Comix
and Comiqs.com
- these
sites provide students with templates, charaters and speech bubbles to
help them create their own comic strips in the target language.
- Photo
Story 3 and Animoto
- create dynamic animated presentations using your own
photos or images; Photo Story 3 can include text, voice and background
music. Animoto just allows you to use photos and add background music
to create a very professional looking short video.
- Portfolio Assessment - a
"one-stop-shop" for excellent information and resources (i.e., ideas,
rubrics, checklists) for developing portfolio assessments for your
world language classroom
- Quia
- create, customize
and share
your own web-based educational games, review sheets, and quizzes
in over 40 subject areas
- RubiStar -
find rubrics for all kinds of assessments in all subject areas (foreign
languages and others), or create your own; requires registration, but
the materials are all free
- Teaching
Foreign Languages VIDEOS -
an excellent series of videos depicting master teachers and best
practices for teaching K-12 world languages
- Web
2.0 overview - a good site for learning about web 2.0 technologies
(i.e., VoiceThread, Second Life, Podacasts, etc.) for language
teaching
- WebQuest.org - search for exisiting webquests or
use a template and create your own
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