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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

Thursday, 22 May 2014

The Miracle of Bern - studying a German film

My year 9 German students have been studying Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern). It's a film about football, specifically the 1...

Saturday, 3 May 2014

German words that sound rude in English.

I teach German. German has some words which my students (and probably yours) find hilarious. Dick (fat) and Vater (father) are two ob...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Eurovision 2014 links

It's that time of the year again. Eurovision. Loathe it or hate it, it seems like Eurovision is here to stay. For those who don...

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Boule et Bill - great literature for KS2 French

There has been a lot of discussion on various MFL fora about introducing literature to KS2 pupils of MFL in England and Wales. I don'...

Friday, 4 April 2014

Girl stuck in storm drain helps students improve their German

Schadenfreude. This news story helped my year 10 class to improve their German today. If you haven't seen it, a 16 year old f...

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

SOS Femmes - an authentic French resource for A Level students.

Today while searching for something else I discovered a site called Lost in France . It's primarily designed for British ex-pats livin...

Monday, 31 March 2014

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