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Welcome to the rambling thoughts of a 50 year old languages teacher with too much time on his hands, most of it spent in the kitchen. If you have any comments or questions about language learning or resources please email or follow me on twitter @dominic_mcg

Monday, 22 June 2009

A sad loss

Bernard Grogan died last week at the age of 81. I was fortunate enough to have been taught French by him at school. Had it not been for him,...

Friday, 19 June 2009

TMNE09 (Teach Meet North East)

Do you remember me blogging about Teach Meet a few weeks ago? Well, last night I attended the first TMNE09 . It was organised by Chris Harte...

Monday, 15 June 2009

A talking VW

For those of you who don't speak German, a talking VW. This one is from Mexico, which is why she speaks Spanish.

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Leo, the CrazyTalking pup.

Earlier this week, Joe Dale blogged about some students using CrazyTalk in their Languages work. I was fascinated and so decided to try it...

Thursday, 4 June 2009

GCSE MFL a University requirement?

The BBC news website reported today that the British Academy is recommending that a GCSE in modern foreign languages should be a requirem...

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Wordling - Meine Schuluniform

It finally happened. It has taken almost 5 weeks but I finally got some students to use wordle successfully in my class. This is my year 7 ...

Monday, 1 June 2009

New MFL KS3 NC level descriptors. Part 2

I've just had another thought about this and now I'm both annoyed and confused. (It's called multi-tasking!) Initially, some of ...

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