LINKS
- Acapela is a good website for helping students with pronunciation.
- À Tantôt! - a subscription site for resources in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. Esther Mercier also shares lots of fantastic ideas freely via social media.
- BBC GCSE Bitesize
- BBC Languages
- Babbel is a language learning app.
- Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to create beautiful visuals e.g. posters, certificates. Click here to read more.
- Changing Phase is Clare Seccombe's MFL ideas and resources site.
- Chatterpix app - make anything talk
- Chris Lowe MFL - resources and blogposts from Chris Lowe
- ClassTools has games, quizzes and countdown timers.
- El Mundo can be used for Spanish articles.
- Elvisrunner shares musings from her MFL classroom. Also check out her Twitter.
- Even Better If - blog by Jane Basnett. Check out her Sentence Builders blog in particular.
- Français Extra is a website for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners of French.
- Frenchteacher is a site by former head of MFL, Steve Smith. Lots of resources (including lots of freebies!) and more links here. Also check out his Twitter and his fantastic blog.
- Fun French Activities - classroom tested activities to teach at primary.
- Gap Fill Creator - does what it says on the tin!
- Headspace is a meditation app with free subscription for educators.
- Kahoot is one of my favourites. It allows you to make your own interactive quizzes which students answer on their phones, iPads or computers.
- My Languages - a blog from Isabelle Jones with resources for language teachers. Also check out her Twitter.
- The Language Gym by Dr Gianfranco Conti and his Twitter.
- Languages Online has lots of good online MFL exercises.
- The Languages Resources Blog by Samantha Broom. And her Twitter.
- Light Bulb Languages (previously MFL Sunderland) is a site with many great resources for the MFL classroom.
- Linguascope is a nice colourful website with games for learners of English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. Have a look at their blog too.
- MFL Classroom Magic is a site run by @EClaireMFL - lots of great ideas.
- MFL Chat - Rebecca Nobes collates all of the #MFLchat on her blog
- MFL Ideas Factory is a blog designed for those interested in language teaching.
- MFL Leader - blog by Kate Holtom
- Le Monde can be used for its French articles.
- MorganMFL is my old blog where I used to share ideas and resources. Also check out my Twitter.
- Memrise is my ultimate favourite vocabulary learning site.
- MFLTwitterati Podcast - celebrating the voices of the modern language teaching community. Do follow the legendary Joe Dale on Twitter too.
- Mr Gorse's YouTube - whacky videos in French great for listening practice.
- My French Teacher Toolkit is a blog run by Kayleigh Meyrick. She shares her innovative ideas for the MFL classroom. Follow her on Twitter too.
- OUP Education Blog
- Resources for the MFL Classroom is a blog by Michelle Cairns. She also has a student blog and a Twitter.
- Padlet is an online whiteboard.
- Pinterest is great if you need some teaching inspiration.
- QR Code Generator. Also see my previous post if you need help with this.
- Quia is a game site for all sorts of subjects.
- Quizdini is another website which allows you to make your own quizzes.
- Quizlet is another vocabulary learning site.
- Seneca has vocabulary tests and language courses for KS3 and GCSE, as well as Free CPD for educators.
- Scramblinator is great for scrambling sentences easily.
- Senorita Gris - a blog with lovely resources, including Spanish Scrabble!
- Slideshare allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations which you can then embed into a blog.
- Spanish and Umbrellas - lots of lovely resources for the Spanish classroom
- Sporcle generates quizzes which you can share with students.
- Staffroom Swop Shop is a blog by Rebecca Wylie where she shares lots of fantastic ideas. Also check out her incredible student blog on Weebly and her Twitter.
- TES has all sorts of resources shared by generous teachers. Ollie MFL shares some marvellous resources on there, in particular his GCSE Spanish Grammar booklet. Follow him on Twitter too.
- Tagxedo allows you to make word clouds.
- The Target Language Classroom is James Stubbs' blog looking at techniques for promoting TL use and spontaneous speaking.
- Teacher Catalina - beautiful Spanish resources and YouTube videos. Also follow her on Twitter.
- The Teacher's Corner is great for generating crossword puzzles.
- Teaching Ideas has some MFL resources.
- Tekhnologik Wordpress - download an editable Spinning Wheel
- Textivate creates interactive activities based on any text you copy into the box - a good one for reading skills.
- Transform MFL - a collection of blogs, resources and videos.
- Twitter join the #MFLtwitterati!
- Voki allows you to create speaking avatars.
- WordReference is an online dictionary.
