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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, 27 May 2013

Mon sandwich - using a dictionary

A task I set my low ability year 8 group recently was to describe, label and draw a sandwich in French. We had learned some basic food v...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Alibi - making speaking fun

This week is assessment week and some of my classes have been doing speaking exams. Some students were supposed to have a conversation wit...

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Les people et les stars - Reading for pleasure?

Loathe them or hate them, you can't switch on the TV or open a newspaper without seeing "celebrities". It seems that these d...

Friday, 17 May 2013

Le sac des filles - opportunities for thinking and speaking

Le sac des filles is a blog which publishes photos of the contents of girls' bags (and sometimes boys' pockets) and lists the co...

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Do you speak English?

I love this clip from the BBC's Big Train comedy programme. My year 9 students are made to watch this just before they choose their op...

Saturday, 4 May 2013

Studying a French film - Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec

One of my favourite French films of recent years is Luc Besson 's Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec . I rediscovere...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Le papier ne sera jamais mort.

Last week I went to the Teachmeet at Blakes on Grey Street in Newcastle. There were lots of incredible teacher types there and I managed t...

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