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Site
Description
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Features
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- Brief overview
of the Pilot Project
- Current work and
small-scale pilot projects described
- Links provided
to relevant publications
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Draft
Curriculum Guidelines (1999)
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- All you ever wanted
to know about what's in the curriculum, but were afraid to ask
- 96 pages of distilled
wisdom in PDF format
- Describes the 3
strands of Communicative Competence, Language Awareness
and Cultural Awareness
- Clarifies what
we're supposed to be doing in the 4 strand units of Listening,
Speaking, Reading and Writing
- Gives useful
guidance in the areas of ICT, Language Topics, Language Functions
and Classroom Language
- Suggests approaches
and methodologies
- Caters for all
four modern languages
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- You need Adobe
Acrobat Reader
- Broadband recommended
- You may end up
by leaving the site feeling inadequate and anxious about your teaching
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- All of the Draft
Curriculum - and more!
- School planning
and classroom planning guidelines
- Exemplar lessons
presented in concise, easy-to-print format
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- Dwarfs the Argos
catalogue: how about 232 pages?
- Be careful
when printing an exemplar lesson: you might have a nasty surprise if
you wander off and find you hadn't clicked on 'current page' in the
printer properties
- Exemplar lessons
are in exemplary mother tongue: can be intimidating
- Adobe and broadband
necessary
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- All the background
rationale for including modern languages in the curriculum
- General information
on visiting language teachers (p. 50), Comenius language assistants
(p. 56) etc.
- Questionnaire completed
by teachers (p.17)
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- Not recommended
bedside reading
- Adobe and broadband
necessary
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- Lists exemplars
on twelve topics ('units'), eg Myself, Family, Animals, Clothing,
which we should endeavour to cover over the two years
- Lists and sequences
necessary activities
- Lists objectives
to MFL teaching (useful for cogging if you have to do notes)
- Suggests activities
for attainment targets of Listening and Responding, Speaking, Reading
and Writing. Hmm..., these sound familiar. Now who's
been cogging?
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- These are based
on the British system, but are similar to our curriculum
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- The examplars given
are in French, German and Spanish: ma che ca*** hanno fatto con l'italiano?
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