Donation

If you are a regular user of Light Bulb Languages, you may have seen that this week a "Donate" button has been added to the home page.

I have been considering for some time now the continued financial viability of the website.  The only income that it receives is that which is generated by the Google Ads.  This covers the web hosting and domain name costs but not much more.

It's in the site's best interests to continue to have new resources, but of course these resources take time to create.  Each of the Spanish-speaking country factfiles, for example, has taken an hour to research and create.

I have to consider my own financial future, and how best to generate income for that future.  At the moment I am spending many hours (many happy hours, I have to say) creating new resources, but am not receiving an income for that activity.

Many previously-free resource websites have introduced a subscription or are requesting payment for resources.  Light Bulb Languages will remain free.  Not all the resources on the site are mine, after all.

Therefore I have decided to add a "Donate" button so that you can, if you wish, make a contribution to the future of the website.

Merci, gracias, grazie and danke.

27 new resources today

Today I have uploaded 27 new resources for French, Spanish and German.

• More KS3 German resources to go with Stimmt 1
• The importance of written accents in French - display and handout
• The importance of written accents in Spanish - display and handout
• More Spanish-speaking countries factfiles (only 4 countries left now!)
• More KS3 Spanish resources to go with Mira 1

Please respect our copyright

Light Bulb Languages offers all its resources to all users completely free of charge.  The website and all its resources are, though, subject to copyright.

This morning I have had to report 3 resources to TES Resources.  The user was asking for payment for Light Bulb Languages resources.  The resources were not created by them and they have no right to make money from our resources which we make available for free.

Please please please do not upload any of our resources to TES Resources or to any other 3rd party website, whether the resources contained there are free or not.

For your reference, our copyright statement:

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
1  Light Bulb Languages is a UK-based resource website for teachers of Languages.  The resources available on Light Bulb Languages are free to all users, but are still subject to copyright.
2  You may download, save and print any of the resources contained at this website and use them for non-commercial purposes in a teaching or training environment.
3  If you are using the resources for CPD training purposes, you must give appropriate credit to Light Bulb Languages, provide a link to the website and indicate if any changes have been made to the resources.
4  You must not use the resources on this site for commercial purposes.
5  You must not submit or upload any of the resources on this site or copies of any of the resources on this site to the site of a third party. This applies equally to sites that provide free resources and those for which users have to pay.
6 If you edit, translate or build upon any of the resources contained at this website, you should show your appreciation of the free original by submitting the new, modified resource to Light Bulb Languages instead of uploading it to the site of a third party.
7  If you would like to include any of the materials from this website on your own website, blog or wiki, please contact us.
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10 If you submit some of your own resources for inclusion on Light Bulb Languages, you will agree to sharing copyright with Light Bulb Languages. The copyright statement will include your name, thus: "© Light Bulb Languages/A.N.Other 2017". 

Grammar mats and country factfiles

I've just uploaded the next 5 Spanish-speaking country factfiles and grammar mats (based on SPaG / GPS terminology) for French and Spanish.

11 new resources today

11 new resources for you this evening:

• the first worksheets to accompany Mira 1
• the next worksheets to accompany Stimmt 1
• more worksheets to accompany Studio 1 
• 5 new reading texts for KS4 French

Enjoy!

12 new resources today

12 new resources for you today:

• The first Spanish-speaking country fact files, following a request from LiPS (French to come also!)
• More resources to accompany Studio 1

20 new resources for the new term

20 new resources for you today, including:

• More resources to accompany Studio 1
• The first resources to accompany Stimmt 1
• Some German puzzles
• Some texts for Reyes, to keep in mind for next year.  Particularly thought-provoking is the one about what grandparents used to receive for Reyes.

20 new resources

I've uploaded 20 new resources this evening.  Among them:

• 3 French Christmas activities for KS3/4
• Some new French Christmas interactives
• Following the results of our recent survey, some French translation activities to go with Studio 1.  I have the Studio books and will work through them first as they seem to be the text books that most people use.

Survey results: Resources for KS3 and KS4

Many thanks to everyone who has responded over the last week to our survey about resources that you would like for Key Stages 3 and 4.  There were 51 responses altogether.

Here are the results:

We asked which language(s) the respondent teaches.  Many respondents named more than one language.

French	96%
Spanish	53%
German	31%
Other	10%

Respondents were asked to select the type of resources that they would like to see more of on Light Bulb Languages.

Grammar drills	61%
KS3 Translation activities, English into the new language	80%
KS3 Translation activities, new language into English	77%
KS4 Translation activities, English into the new language	80%
KS4 Translation activities, new language into English	73%
Tarsia puzzles	33%
Crosswords and wordsearches to practise grammar	22%
Crosswords and wordsearches to practise vocabulary	22%
KS3 reading texts	80%
KS4 reading texts	77%
Worksheets based on text book topics	65%
Pair speaking activities such as Trapdoor and 5 in a row	73%
PowerPoints to explain grammar	33%
Other	10%

This tells us that 

1. users are not so interested in Tarsia puzzles, crosswords, wordsearches and PowerPoints
2. users are looking for grammar drills, worksheets based on text book topics, speaking activities and especially translation activities and reading texts.

We also asked which text books people are using.

FRENCH		SPANISH		GERMAN
Studio	24	Mira	13	Stimmt	9
Expo	16	Viva	11	Echo	6
AQA for GCSE	9	AQA for GCSE	5	AQA for GCSE	3
Allez	3	Listos	2	Edexcel for GCSE	1
Metro	2	Amigos	1
Edexcel for GCSE	1	None	1
Equipe	1	Caminos	1
None	1	iGCSE	1
Tricolore total	1

This gives a good indication of where to focus our efforts, so thanks again to everyone.  Watch out for resources coming soon.

37 new resources today

I've uploaded 37 new resources:

• Primary German
• German display
• KS3 German grammar
• Tarsia puzzles for French, Spanish and German

I'm just starting out with German, so please let me know if you find any errors, and I'll correct them right away!