However, these videos – and others – are now listed on BBC Bitesize. If you scroll down to Spanish in the Primary section, there are lots of clips of programmes on a variety of subjects: The ‘repository’ of all the BBC videos used to be the Learning Zone Class clips, but they have moved to Bitesize (actually since I started writing this post!) The Learning Zone is still there in archive form and still works it just won’t be updated. I’ve signposted it to my colleagues as well as a way that they can ‘do their bit’ to reinforce Spanish learning non-threatening as it’s all there for them. The tunes are excellent – the composer did a good job of making the words fit in English Spanish French and Mandarin to the same tune! Sometimes they want to see the words and other times they want to watch without. I’ve used the site with Y2 recently and they love the songs – they listen as they work and have started singing along. And I sometimes wonder what happened to other ideas and resources that I saw and wrote that have never appeared on the site – including sentence building games, lesson plans. interactivity, ‘free’ writing, games beyond vocabulary recognition level etc. There were limitations to the things that could be done e.g. interesting tips and facts about Spanish/French/Mandarin.vocabulary with sound files to help pronunciation.This site was written to be accessible to KS2 pupils and is organized in topics. It was developed when languages were to be compulsory and the KS2 Framework was THE bible of primary language learning, but it still stands in my opinion. The ‘old’ Primary Languages website with ‘animales animados’ and Jhonny (sic) and co was great (and you can still access the archived version minus games here) but I was really excited to be involved in ‘revamping’ the site and rebranding it. Here’s an example of a song featuring Queso from Youtube, and the link to a counting song Current languages include Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German, Sinhala, French, Welsh, English, Italian, Urdu.

The website has fun activities as well as links to songs that feature. The Lingo Showįor younger learners (preschool onwards), The Lingo Show started out as a website featuring ‘language bugs’ who teach Lingo a few words in their language. As it was so popular, it became a TV series with episodes featuring Jargonaise (French), Wèi (Mandarin) and Queso who teaches Spanish, and then a second series featuring the German, Welsh and Urdu bugs was made and broadcast in May 2013. So I thought I’d share! NB I’ve focussed on Spanish but they all come in a variety of languages – see individual sections) 1. I’m making a list of useful links that parents might use with their children to practice and reinforce their Spanish, and was struck by how many ‘goodies’ there are provided by the BBC.

Cbeebies the big bug show game