Author: Ann McDaid, Coffee Break Languages
Lockdown has had a huge impact on teaching and learning across Scotland, with teachers and parents having to quickly adapt to a new way of working. Coffee Break Languages has produced a comprehensive bank of free resources for parents, teachers and pupils. Specifically for primary pupils, we have made our primary video resources, High Five French and High Five Spanish, freely available until the summer. The content follows two young Scottish learners in their language journey with their French and Spanish friends. The short, self-contained lessons require little subject knowledge from the teacher, parent or carer. Check out all the resources on the Coffee Break Languages website.
For primary teachers who would like to improve their own language skills, there are free podcasts to suit each level of learner, in French, Spanish, Italian and German, with new material updated regularly. On our social media channels, teachers will find many useful teaching and learning opportunities, like Verb of the Week, and regular Facebook “Lives”; real-time, online lessons with native speakers.
In these difficult times, we brought together language learners from all over the world to be united in music. Listen to our Coffee Break Choir performing their multilingual version of Nat King Cole’s classic L-O-V-E. We hope this celebration of music and language-learning can provide some inspiration for our young language learners working remotely!
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