9 new resources

9 new resources this morning. 

I've been at a new school since September, teaching Spanish to children who did French before.  Most of my existing beginners resources are for lower KS2, so I have been making different versions of some resources for Year 5 and Year 6 to take account of their linguistic experience, literacy level and age.  Therefore these new resources would also suit lower KS3 beginners.

• Primary Spanish: new resources for age, colours (worksheets), phonics
• Primary French: new resources for age

14 new resources

Today I have uploaded 14 new resources:

• Spanish display resources (I have my first display space at school!!)
• An interview with Gareth Bale that will be useful for KS4 Spanish
• Some new resources for KS2 Spanish phonics (Would also suit KS3 beginners!)
• the latest Studio 1 activities

I have also rearranged the Spanish Display page and the French Display page so that it's easier for you to see what's there.

If you'd like to share your resources via Light Bulb Languages, please email them to admin@lightbulblanguages.co.uk.  I'm afraid that we can't pay you for your resources, but the languages community will be very grateful and you'll get your name on the Thanks page.

16 new resources today

For your downloading pleasure there are 16 new resources today:

• French phonics: the 'i' sound and more on the 'ou' sound
• Gender in French - some of the resources have a "how to use" explanation with them.  If you'd like more detail on how I teach gender, please say.  It's an integral part of the new KS2 curriculum now.
• More French school equipment
• Some differentiated French weather sheets
• Some Spanish number activities - thanks Marie!

French phonics

For several reasons, the children in the school where I teach French have not done any explicit learning of phonics or any in-depth grammar.  Therefore I am going to begin with Year 5 this week with some nouns work and some phonics.

I am using 10 school equipment words as the basis for this:

1. un crayon
2. un stylo
3. une règle
4. un taille-crayon
5. une gomme
6. une trousse
7. un papier
8. un cahier
9. un livre
10. un feutre

These will the words that I use to explain what a noun is and what gender is, and that will lead us into dictionary work.  They also offer opportunities for working on specific phonemes.  We are going to start off with the 'ou' sound like in trousse.

If you would like to use the resources, I have just uploaded them, and you will find the phonics 'ou' sound ones here (I've included an .mp3 to help the non-specialists) and the school equipment ones here.