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Title: Article and Online Activities about the Eruption of Vesuvius
Body: From http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/vesuvius/vesuvius.html The September 2007 issue of National Geographic Online features an article about the eruption of Vesuvius and its potential for erupting again. The website also includes extra features including an interactive map of potential damage from the next eruption. The article and extra features are available at http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/vesuvius/vesuvius.html .
Source: National Geographic
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Title: Article and Online Activities about the Eruption of Vesuvius
Body: From http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/vesuvius/vesuvius.html The September 2007 issue of National Geographic Online features an article about the eruption of Vesuvius and its potential for erupting again. The website also includes extra features including an interactive map of potential damage from the next eruption. The article and extra features are available at http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/vesuvius/vesuvius.html .
Source: National Geographic
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Title: Online Authentic French Texts at Chapô
Body: This website includes news-related articles and activities for young people, all in French. It is available at http://chapo.dna.fr .
Source: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
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Title: Online Authentic French Texts at Chapô
Body: This website includes news-related articles and activities for young people, all in French. It is available at http://chapo.dna.fr .
Source: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
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Title: French SpongeBob Squarepants Website
Body: From http://patrickstar.free.fr/index.php Looking for a way to integrate popular culture in your French class? PatrickStar is a French-language website dedicated to SpongeBob Squarepants. It includes a blog, the theme song in French, episode summaries (sequenced pictures with simple French narration), and more. The website is available at http://patrickstar.free.fr .
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Title: French SpongeBob Squarepants Website
Body: From http://patrickstar.free.fr/index.php Looking for a way to integrate popular culture in your French class? PatrickStar is a French-language website dedicated to SpongeBob Squarepants. It includes a blog, the theme song in French, episode summaries (sequenced pictures with simple French narration), and more. The website is available at http://patrickstar.free.fr .
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Title: Talk by French Author Arno Bertina in Chicago
Body: From http://www.afusa.org/bull_bd.html#agossi Arno Bertina, born in 1975, is the prolific and critically acclaimed author of several novels, including Anima Motrix (2006), Appoggio (2003), and Le Dehors ou la migration des truites (2001). Bertina currently lives and works in Paris and is a contributor to literary journals and critical reviews, such as Matricule des Anges, NRF, and Esprit. He has also written short studies on the authorsNicolas Bouvier, Jim Harrison and François Bon. Bertina will discuss his own work and the state of the contemporary novel in France: the trends, the history, the major figures, the future, and comparisons with American fiction. WHEN: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 TIMES: Doors Open at 5:45 p.m., lecture at 6:15 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Française de Chicago, please enter at 54 West Chicago Avenue For more information, go to http://www.afusa.org/bull_bd.html#agossi .
Source: Alliance Française
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Title: Talk by French Author Arno Bertina in Chicago
Body: From http://www.afusa.org/bull_bd.html#agossi Arno Bertina, born in 1975, is the prolific and critically acclaimed author of several novels, including Anima Motrix (2006), Appoggio (2003), and Le Dehors ou la migration des truites (2001). Bertina currently lives and works in Paris and is a contributor to literary journals and critical reviews, such as Matricule des Anges, NRF, and Esprit. He has also written short studies on the authorsNicolas Bouvier, Jim Harrison and François Bon. Bertina will discuss his own work and the state of the contemporary novel in France: the trends, the history, the major figures, the future, and comparisons with American fiction. WHEN: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 TIMES: Doors Open at 5:45 p.m., lecture at 6:15 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Française de Chicago, please enter at 54 West Chicago Avenue For more information, go to http://www.afusa.org/bull_bd.html#agossi .
Source: Alliance Française
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Title: Website: Cultures of the Andes
Body: This website is dedicated to Andean cultures. It includes jokes, nursery rhymes, videos of dances, basic Quechua lessons, and bilingual Spanish/English stories about life in the Andes. The website is available at http://www.andes.org .
Source: Cultures of the Andes
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Title: Website: Cultures of the Andes
Body: This website is dedicated to Andean cultures. It includes jokes, nursery rhymes, videos of dances, basic Quechua lessons, and bilingual Spanish/English stories about life in the Andes. The website is available at http://www.andes.org .
Source: Cultures of the Andes
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Title: Online Grammar Explanations: English the Easy Way
Body: This website offers topically organized grammar explanations. Topics include tenses, nouns, adjectives, common writing errors, and writing resumes. The website is available at http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/index.htm .
Source: English the Easy Way
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Title: Online Grammar Explanations: English the Easy Way
Body: This website offers topically organized grammar explanations. Topics include tenses, nouns, adjectives, common writing errors, and writing resumes. The website is available at http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/index.htm .
Source: English the Easy Way
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Title: Website Resource for English: Visual Thesaurus
Body: From http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/links/showLink.cfm?linkID=364 English and language-arts teachers who want to engage students in the language and its many nuances can subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus, an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. With a database of more than 145,000 English words and 115,000 meanings, the Visual Thesaurus displays words and meanings that are related to a search term, but here's the catch: Its visual interface displays the search term at the center of the screen, with a web of spokes connecting this term and all other related words--giving users a graphic depiction of how words and meanings are interrelated. Through the tool bar, users can search for words, view word suggestions, see a search history, and change their preferences. Clicking on a word in the display brings it to the center, and users can hear the word spoken out loud by clicking on the speaker icon. Rolling the mouse over a related word lets users learn more about it, and clicking it will bring it to the center of the display. For example, typing in the word "happy" will bring up related words, such as "cheerful" and "euphoric." Users can explore each related word, searching until they find the term they're looking for. The site also features a Word of the Day and an SAT vocabulary lesson. While some resources are free, the majority of the Visual Thesaurus is subscription-based. The Visual Thesaurus is available at http://www.visualthesaurus.com .
Source: eSchool News
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Title: Website Resource for English: Visual Thesaurus
Body: From http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/links/showLink.cfm?linkID=364 English and language-arts teachers who want to engage students in the language and its many nuances can subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus, an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. With a database of more than 145,000 English words and 115,000 meanings, the Visual Thesaurus displays words and meanings that are related to a search term, but here's the catch: Its visual interface displays the search term at the center of the screen, with a web of spokes connecting this term and all other related words--giving users a graphic depiction of how words and meanings are interrelated. Through the tool bar, users can search for words, view word suggestions, see a search history, and change their preferences. Clicking on a word in the display brings it to the center, and users can hear the word spoken out loud by clicking on the speaker icon. Rolling the mouse over a related word lets users learn more about it, and clicking it will bring it to the center of the display. For example, typing in the word "happy" will bring up related words, such as "cheerful" and "euphoric." Users can explore each related word, searching until they find the term they're looking for. The site also features a Word of the Day and an SAT vocabulary lesson. While some resources are free, the majority of the Visual Thesaurus is subscription-based. The Visual Thesaurus is available at http://www.visualthesaurus.com .
Source: eSchool News
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Title: Improvements to UCLA’s Language Materials Project
Body: Language Materials Project now citing K-12 resources: LMP releases the first phase of a three-year enhancement to its authoritative resource for foreign language materials. The recent increase of federal interest in foreign languages has kindled a language renaissance in K-12 schools across the nation. The number of classes for less-commonly taught languages such as Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, even in the primary grades, has increased substantially. Since receiving Department of Education funding last summer, the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) has augmented its offerings for K-12 teachers. The first new tool, the Audience pull-down menu, allows website visitors to search for materials based on their target audience (e.g., elementary, secondary, post-secondary or heritage learners.) The Audience pull-down menu joins three other menus on the Project’s search panel: - Language (over 150 to choose from) - Material (textbook, dictionary, audio, maps, etc., 26 categories in all), and - Level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, and beyond) The LMP has also added detailed citations of several hundred items for younger audiences. For example, visitors seeking materials in Arabic for elementary school pupils will find sixty-one references to bilingual readers, a picture dictionary, vocabulary games, and authentic materials from Arabic-speaking countries. Due to the lack of published U.S. textbooks on Arabic for this age group, the materials identified on the Project’s website are of particular value to teachers at that level. You can try out the new Audience menu at http://www.lmp.ucla.edu . Watch for other new K-12 features in the coming year.
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Title: Improvements to UCLA’s Language Materials Project
Body: Language Materials Project now citing K-12 resources: LMP releases the first phase of a three-year enhancement to its authoritative resource for foreign language materials. The recent increase of federal interest in foreign languages has kindled a language renaissance in K-12 schools across the nation. The number of classes for less-commonly taught languages such as Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, even in the primary grades, has increased substantially. Since receiving Department of Education funding last summer, the UCLA Language Materials Project (LMP) has augmented its offerings for K-12 teachers. The first new tool, the Audience pull-down menu, allows website visitors to search for materials based on their target audience (e.g., elementary, secondary, post-secondary or heritage learners.) The Audience pull-down menu joins three other menus on the Project’s search panel: - Language (over 150 to choose from) - Material (textbook, dictionary, audio, maps, etc., 26 categories in all), and - Level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, and beyond) The LMP has also added detailed citations of several hundred items for younger audiences. For example, visitors seeking materials in Arabic for elementary school pupils will find sixty-one references to bilingual readers, a picture dictionary, vocabulary games, and authentic materials from Arabic-speaking countries. Due to the lack of published U.S. textbooks on Arabic for this age group, the materials identified on the Project’s website are of particular value to teachers at that level. You can try out the new Audience menu at http://www.lmp.ucla.edu . Watch for other new K-12 features in the coming year.
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Title: Ideas for Practicing Numbers: Part 3
Body: Here are some more ideas, continued from the last two weeks, for practicing numbers: I went to the dollar store, bought a couple of "dot to dot" books for pre-schoolers/younger kids. Using the pictures that are not too obvious when it is just the dots, I make a copy of the page. I then white out the numbers and replace them with new numbers. But the key is, do not put those numbers in sequential order. For example, instead of the 1, 2, 3 that were once there, I might put 23, 17, 9. It is very important that as you put the new numbers next to the dots you write them down in sequence on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to label the picture in some way (I use letters, and call them puzzle A, B, C, etc.) I also write puzzle A on the list of numbers in sequence so they are matched up. Once this is done and you make copies, put students in pairs, give one student the blank dot to dot, the other the list of numbers. The student with the numbers has to read them in the target language to his/her partner. The person with the dot to dot has to find the numbers and draw the lines. Cordova, F. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 28 Aug 2007). --- One thing I recently did was to go to a gaming (like board games, Dungeons and Dragons, comics, etc.) store and purchase about thirty 10-sided dice. In small groups, I'll have the students roll the dice, first two-at-a-time. One die is the tens column and one is the ones column. The first student to say in Spanish whatever comes up wins the point and they play again. Once we learn the 100's, we just add a third die. Parker, A. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Aug 2007). --- GUESS THE NUMBER. I have a volunteer student choose a number between 1-100 and write it on scratch paper and show it only to me (I make a big deal about what a SECRET it is - I only use the target language here). Then I start with the first student in the first row and ask them to try to guess the number. I have written the number 1 and 100 on the board. After the first student guesses (let's say 30), I ask the "volunteer" in the TL - is your number BIGGER or SMALLER. If the original number is bigger then I erase the 1 on the board and change it to a 30 so the next student can SEE to guess between 30 - 100. I go around the room until someone gets it. Delzer, R. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Aug 2007). --- I have the kids get in groups of four and one student says "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100" (in the target language of course). The other members of the group take turns guessing. The student who has chosen the number says more or less. Barham, C. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 29 Aug 2007).
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Title: Ideas for Practicing Numbers: Part 3
Body: Here are some more ideas, continued from the last two weeks, for practicing numbers: I went to the dollar store, bought a couple of "dot to dot" books for pre-schoolers/younger kids. Using the pictures that are not too obvious when it is just the dots, I make a copy of the page. I then white out the numbers and replace them with new numbers. But the key is, do not put those numbers in sequential order. For example, instead of the 1, 2, 3 that were once there, I might put 23, 17, 9. It is very important that as you put the new numbers next to the dots you write them down in sequence on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to label the picture in some way (I use letters, and call them puzzle A, B, C, etc.) I also write puzzle A on the list of numbers in sequence so they are matched up. Once this is done and you make copies, put students in pairs, give one student the blank dot to dot, the other the list of numbers. The student with the numbers has to read them in the target language to his/her partner. The person with the dot to dot has to find the numbers and draw the lines. Cordova, F. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 28 Aug 2007). --- One thing I recently did was to go to a gaming (like board games, Dungeons and Dragons, comics, etc.) store and purchase about thirty 10-sided dice. In small groups, I'll have the students roll the dice, first two-at-a-time. One die is the tens column and one is the ones column. The first student to say in Spanish whatever comes up wins the point and they play again. Once we learn the 100's, we just add a third die. Parker, A. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Aug 2007). --- GUESS THE NUMBER. I have a volunteer student choose a number between 1-100 and write it on scratch paper and show it only to me (I make a big deal about what a SECRET it is - I only use the target language here). Then I start with the first student in the first row and ask them to try to guess the number. I have written the number 1 and 100 on the board. After the first student guesses (let's say 30), I ask the "volunteer" in the TL - is your number BIGGER or SMALLER. If the original number is bigger then I erase the 1 on the board and change it to a 30 so the next student can SEE to guess between 30 - 100. I go around the room until someone gets it. Delzer, R. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Aug 2007). --- I have the kids get in groups of four and one student says "I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100" (in the target language of course). The other members of the group take turns guessing. The student who has chosen the number says more or less. Barham, C. Re: Creative ways to practice numbers? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 29 Aug 2007).
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Title: Book: Developing Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages
Body: From http://www.carla.umn.edu/resources/working-papers Developing Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages by Bill Johnston with Louis Janus Published by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Summary: This book provides both principles and practical guidelines for LCTL teachers of all levels and languages to transform raw materials into activities for the language classroom. Grounded in research, the author lays out a series of principles that serve to remind teachers of the possibilities that exist when they consider using authentic materials in the classroom. Each principle in the book is accompanied by numerous practical examples in a wide variety of languages created by the author and by teachers who have participated in a summer institute led by Bill Johnston and Louis Janus at CARLA since 1999. For purchasing information, go to http://www.carla.umn.edu/resources/working-papers .
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Title: Book: Developing Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages
Body: From http://www.carla.umn.edu/resources/working-papers Developing Classroom Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages by Bill Johnston with Louis Janus Published by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Summary: This book provides both principles and practical guidelines for LCTL teachers of all levels and languages to transform raw materials into activities for the language classroom. Grounded in research, the author lays out a series of principles that serve to remind teachers of the possibilities that exist when they consider using authentic materials in the classroom. Each principle in the book is accompanied by numerous practical examples in a wide variety of languages created by the author and by teachers who have participated in a summer institute led by Bill Johnston and Louis Janus at CARLA since 1999. For purchasing information, go to http://www.carla.umn.edu/resources/working-papers .
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