Links page for teachers.

Zut.org.uk now has a free section for primary students and the link now takes you straight there instead of to the secondary section. This is really good and I had fun playing some of the games!

http://www.worldwideshoppingmall.co.uk/ Plastic euro coins in bags of 100, if you've been hunting for these elusive items, look no further! Connie bought 6 bags a year or so ago, they arrived quickly and she was happy with the quality. They may be more widely available now but back then they were like hen's teeth!

www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew Le Club Français is a French teaching club. Their games and activities site is now by subscription. They have upgraded their site (it's now looking very good) and provided a new link so if you have the old one in your records please amend it. Their materials follow the 24 new QCA Units for Primary Modern Foreign Languages and elementary K1 - K6 guidelines. They now offer a weeks free trial subscription so that you can try before you buy.

http://www.prescot-school.knowsley.sch.uk/prescot-language/mfl-site/primarySchool/FrenchPrimary.htm
This is the website of a language college just outside Liverpool, It has some excellent interactive games and learning activities designed for primary students. Some of these should go well on the interactive whiteboard. Take a little time to figure out how they work first, they're simple but on one or two it's not immediately obvious, nevertheless, this is good stuff that should hold your students' interest. Watch out for typos and spelling errors as these have been reported to us... we emailed the school and received no response.

http://www.eclipsebooks.com/PetitPont/   Petit Pont is an interactive CD rom "Virtual Reality" learning game for younger French students, their software is enabled for both Smartboard and Acitvboard. Now in partnership with Scholastic. They offer both home user and classroom licences.

http://www.heinemann.co.uk Tout le Monde is an online interactive e-learning program based on Flash Player. This is also suitable for interactive whiteboard use. Tout le Monde has different activities for school and home use; the home activities are suitable for use as homework, are marked by the website and the results sent to the teacher! Fairly expensive to get started with a school licence but therafter renewals are very affordable. This is very popular with Connie's students.

www.atantot.com    Designed to be interactive whiteboard friendly. £40 a year for a school licence but no samples that I could find.

http://www.littlelinguistshop.co.uk     Books and resources for young language learners, well worth browsing.

http://www.nacell.org.uk                   (British) National advisory centre on early language learning.

http://momes.net    French site for French speaking children. Of more use for improving a teacher's French than for primary students to use.

http://french.about.com       TEACHERS! Thorough site on French language and French teaching. Includes some primary on-line learning but many other useful resources. This site takes advertisements and the popups can be a bit of a nuisance.

http://www.quia.com         Make your own on-line games and quizzes. Free 30 day trial. I may be looking into this one myself for software to create more online games and puzzles for primaryfrench.net.

http://www.champs-elysees.com      Maintain fluency via French magazine and audio CD.

http://www.vokabel.com    Create one type of simple quiz. Students must type in correct answers. Free.
You may need to spend some time here to figure out how it works and if it's worth the effort. I haven't taken the time to do that yet.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked        Create 6 types of student quizzes for on-line use. Free to publically funded organisations or if your materials will be available to the public online at no cost. All our puzzles are made with the Hot Potatoes software. An excellent piece of kit! If you have a very basic knowledge of HTML you can make the puzzles dance and sing. I I liked this so much I bought a licence in order to support them.

http://desktoppub.about.com                             Free fonts for teachers

http://www.realfrench.net/vocab/index.php      Manchester Uni site. Mostly for secondary but they have a fair number of activities suitable for primary.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/french This site has a variety of worksheets, printable books etc avaliable to subscibers. Non subscribers can see the materials in reduced size format. The site covers multiple subjects and may well be worth a serious look. US$20 for a year's subscription isn't exactly going to break the national budget.

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/HotPotatoes/index.htm The Language College at the Royal Grammar School. High Wycombe has some more excellent Hot Potatoes puzzles and quizzes at primary level. Well worth a visit.

http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/index.htm The website of the Ashford School in Surrey. Lots of very useful links and info. Has some French quizzes but may be a little advanced for primary students. Has some reviews of resources and a few photos of shops and videos etc. I'll be checking this one out in more detail when I have time.

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/index.html The website of the Academie Francaise; the people who set the standards of the French language. Some people love them, others hate them and many ignore them but they are supposedly the 'final word' on what's 'correct' and what's not. Whatever you think of them some of the articles on their site are interesting.

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This page updated 18/05/08