V. TEACHING IDEAS, LESSONS AND CURRICULUM MATERIALS
Languages
Recommended:
*** Languages Other Than English
Teachers can link to all sorts of language resources from this page, from French and Spanish to Arabic and Chinese. Search by language or choose ‘general’ and access, for example, articles on rubrics or applied linguistics, lesson plans, and templates for making your own activities.
*** The Less Commonly Taught Languages Project
This is an unusual site that aims to offer resources to teachers of languages other than English, French, German and Spanish. As well as helping teachers develop materials, the project also helps teachers contact one another. Teaching materials are available for Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese classes, among many others.
Other Useful Sites:
NACELL Teaching Materials
The National Advisory Centre on Language Learning provides material primarily for teachers of pre-school and primary-age students. Refine your search by specifying language, level, skill focus and format of lesson.
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/ilovelanguages.com
This page connects to study materials for some 69 languages. A valuable resource for both students and teachers, there are also links to resources such as the BBC online language site, dictionaries and translation searches.
Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes
Link to lesson plans for online activities, as well as get advice on writing and reading strategies for Web-based lessons and access hundreds of other recommended sites containing authentic material for language classes.
Materials for Teaching and Learning
This site contains plans and resources for a wide range of less commonly taught languages (ie. languages other than English, French and Spanish). It includes Chinese and Arabic, along with European languages such as Albanian, Croation and Polish.
Project Gutenberg
This website contains millions of e-books, in over 40 languages. The copyright on these books has expired so they are freely available to those who wish to read them or use them for educational purposes.
Language Links
This website gives you links to a wide variety of useful sites in teaching languages (African, Asian, Classics, English, Germanic, Middle East, Romance, Scandinavian, Slavic) using ICT. The resources available include lesson plans, teaching materials, web activities, and self study resources.