Bastille Day is July 14th. If you want to teach some French words, about the French Revolution or French culture, you could celebrate this holiday. You could create a fun "storm the bastille" event (of course they didn't have water guns, but it is summer in the US.) Here are some other lesson plans you can use for this holiday.
"August 15, 2011. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has begun a rulemaking to strengthen and expand their current TV closed captioning standards for both English TV and French TV broadcasts. However, they will not be looking at standards for digital and new media platforms in this process. The CRTC seeks input on:"
A useful site that allows users to dictate and generate text. A great resource for children with writing difficulties to get their ideas written quickly. It works with a range of languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and more. For mistakes, the site offers alternative words with similar pronunciation. Only works with Chrome.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
A panel of language teachers ranging from French, German, Spanish, Welsh, and more. You can click on their names on this list and download their lesson plans.
"This is a fab HTML5 language learning site which tests your language skills through a series of games with 1500 words. The site collects stats on your performance. The current 21 languages include English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japan, Italian, Russian, Polish and many more."
English language Idiomatic expresessions explained and illistrated. Check the cartoons in the "activities" section. French and Spanish expressions also.
Thx to Larry Ferlazzo for link
Wikispaces is hosting a free webinar. THe email to me today says:
"Wikispaces Education Webinar: Join us on August 6 for our Education
Webinar. We'll focus on features that teachers have found useful in
their classrooms and hear from Nicole Naditz, a French educator and
foreign language pedagogy trainer. Nicole has used wikis in her French
classrooms and as resource pools for her colleagues. Join us as she
shares her wikis including an e-pal exchange and a solar power project
with a school in Burkina Faso."
"Posted on August 1, 2011 by Claude Almansi
In 2006, Copiepresse, the rights managing society of Belgian publishers of French- and German-language daily newspapers, sued Google about the snippets shown in Google News and about the cached versions displayed in Google Search. On May 5, 2011, a decision of the Brussels appeal court slightly reworded but basically confirmed the 2007 judgment of the first instance court :
(...)
This decision of the Brussels Court of Appeals is therefore important for legal studies: not only because of the doubt about what it actually ordered, but also because its long and detailed initial considerations illustrate several differences between the US and European legal cultures. Until recently, this decision was only available as a photographic PDF on Scribd. This meant that it was inaccessible to blind people and awkward to study for everybody. Fortunately, the BJ Institute of Hyderabad, India, has now made it available as accessible PDF and DOC files. This is the version I used for the above quotation.
Thanks to the collaborators of the BJ Institute for their very accurate work."
A great way to learn 37 languages for free. Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Russian and much more. Why pay for Rosetta Stone when you can learn a new language for free.