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"The Authentic Materials Guide, created by Donna Brinton and Andrea Wong, provides an introduction to Authentic Materials, annotated bibliographies on teaching methodology, and links to online resources for creating lessons. The Guide offers sample lesson plans, which you are welcome to adapt for your own use."

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.

Watch the Keith Kelly at IATEFL 2008 (1) - Materials for CLIL Video from YouTube :: Videos by MacmillanELT on Mefeedia.com

Watch the Keith Kelly at IATEFL 2008 (2) - Materials for CLIL Video from YouTube :: Videos by MacmillanELT on Mefeedia.com

links to all of materials included in the printed book at the Google Teacher Academy

on-line bibliographic database of teaching and learning materials for over 150 Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). F

Folk music in many European languages http://folkdc.eu/ The Digital Children's Folksongs for Language and Cultural Learning (Folk DC) project is a European Union project designed to motivate young language learners to engage with language learning through using Folk songs, and activities around the songs. The songs are in 10 European languages (Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish). The project will be producing a complete package for schools (Autonomous Teacher Training Tool kit - ATTT) so that schools all over Europe can take part in the project. The project culminates in a simultaneous, live concert in 5 countries, streamed over the Internet to audiences all over Europe. School choirs will sing folk songs in non-native languages that will be streamed to the other concert venues and also made available to an Internet audience. Schools can take part in this project by: Using the resources produced by the project Suggesting your own language, culture and music activities, inspired by the project Watching the live concert (at the venue or online) - see how you can join Adding folk songs of your language - see the project Wiki You can ask more information about how you can take part here. The project will introduce an understanding of the number, richness and culture of other languages when children start to learn a foreign language and begin to understand the meaning of additional languages. It will engage children in fascinating and engaging activities that will resonate in to the future and answer the need for materials that can directly engage and motivate children to enjoy their learning.

TED talks into animated lessons with materials and options to use as a flipped classroom.

Pequeño repositorio de espacios donde encontrar material audiovisual relacionado con el cine para la enseñanza de idiomas.

These topics involved different cultural traditions, common European history, comparable cultural processes, European citizenship and multiplicity of perspective: - Migration - causes and consequences for Europe - Urban development in the 19th Century - The Treaty of Versailles - The European Community: life and working space for citizens The partners promised to exchange suitable materials on these topics, to develop teaching units, and to test, document and evaluate these units

Primary Spanish and French materials

Idiomatic French phrases having origins in the garden. Nice pre-starter food for thought material.

Strategies and techniques for autonomous recording activities in (or outside of) language classes with portable mp3 recorders, including sample materials, and guidelines for evaluation\n

Teachers download materials to make and share internationally, songs of peace

Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.