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World Languages

FRENCH
RESOURCES
American Association of Teachers of French

Chez Renee

eTools for Language Teachers- site caters to beginner French

French Newspapers and Magazines- from ipl2

Le Figaro- online news, sports, French culture

Le Monde- newspaper

Nice Matin- daily news of the French Riveria, Cote D'Azur, Var and Corse

Radio France

TV5Monde- grammar and vocabulary

LESSON PLANS / GAMES / PUZZLES
Digital Dialects: French Language- interactive games include these subject areas: colors, clothing, food, verbs, numbers, animals and much more

French Bingo Games- Hello,World lets you choose from many different categories, including clothing, animals, food, birds, school, home

French Lesson Plans- from TeAchnology; nice listing

French Lesson Plans- from ShareMyLesson

French Lesson Plans and Resources

French Lesson Plans for Secondary Grades 6-12- from BigHub Education

French Teacher Resources- from Lesson Planet

French Word Searches

Fun Learning French Games

Interactive French Lessons- from the BBC; students learn primary French

Les Chevaliers du Château des Champions- French teacher shares students' work; shares lessons and resource link

Step-by-Step French Lessons - for younger learners

ITALIAN
RESOURCES
American Association of Teachers of Italian

Inspiring Italy- Mr. Donn's site covers games, activities, resources and a large section for kids on Ancient Rome

World Studies Class (Italian)- Pinterest board by teacher Rebecca Shane

LESSON PLANS
il Tavolo italiano- beginner's Italian free worksheets

iLuss- free Italian language learning resources; all different levels

iMendi- students can practice online

Italian Artists- Livebinder covers artists and painters

Italian Lesson Plans and Quizzes- includes worksheets

Italian Lesson Plans for Secondary Grades 9-12

Teacher Planet- lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, videos

Online English-Italian Vocabulary Quizzes- students work online

Various Downloads-some as editable; includes word mat, matching cards, Italy's flag

MEDIA
Barilla- recipes

Donna Moderna- fashion

Images of Italy

Internazionale- international news

Kataweb TvZap- Italian TV listings

La Repubblica- covers news and politics

La Stampa- news and politics

l'Espresso

Panorama

RaiRadio1- radio station

Starbene-health

JAPANESE
RESOURCES

About Japan-from the Japan Society; from Haiku to Japanese architecture

American Association of Teachers of Japanese

Basics of Japanese Culture

The Japan Foundation- featured Websites and resources

Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese- covers the east coast of the United States

LESSON PLANS / ACTIVITIES / VIDEOS
Basic Phrases in Japanese- mp3 files for students to listen

Complete Guide to Japanese

Japanese Foreign Language Worksheets and Printables for Kids- from Education.com; beginners

Japanese Grammar/Expressions Lessons- many resources from About.com

Japanese Grammar Guide

Japanese Lesson Plans- from TeAchnology- worksheets, puzzles all about Japan

JapanesePod101- large video collection on their youtube channel

Learn Japanese- flash cards, activities, videos






Lesson Plans on Japan- covers art, culture, education, geography, history, literature, politics, religion


SPANISH
RESOURCES 
Casa Notes- teachers can create typical notes which are given to students or sent home to parents; templates allow for customization

EspañOlé!"THE On-line Resource for Students and Teachers of Spanish!"

Internet Activities for Foreign Language Classes

Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign Language Instruction

Spanish Artists- from Artcyclopedia


Spanish Flash Cards

Yahoo! Espana

Yahoo! Mexico

GAMES
17 Fun Games to Play in Spanish Class

Free Printables and Games for the Spanish Classroom-  for grades 2-6

Free Spanish Language Games- from Don Quixote

Games and Activities for Spanish Class- Pinterest board

Games to Learn Spanish- hangman, word search, memory

Spanish Class Games- nice Pinterest board

Word Play- Spanish vocabulary game

Yamada Language Guides- this site covers 140 languages and 112 fonts for 40 languages; this is one of the very best guides to language teaching resources on the Web!

ACTIVITIES
NOTE: This list can be modified (except item #4) to work with any language. I created this list because we have a large Hispanic population in my school.

1. Create a comic strip in Spanish- list of choices HERE

2. Create a Menu for a Restaurant- it doesn't matter what type of restaurant, the menu is all in Spanish; MS Word templates can be found HERE or HERE for Google Docs.

3. Create a Newspaper- students can make it a local newspaper or one from their native country; MS Word templates can be found HERE or HERE for Google Docs.

4. C.S.I.: The Experience-Web Adventures- students solve forensic cases in Spanish









5. Fakebook- recently redesigned, this looks just like Facebook; students create accounts about famous Hispanic people

Fakebook: 90 second tutorial from History Teacher on Vimeo.



6. Glogster- create a poster in Spanish about their native country

7. Pinterest- create a board of links to information about their native country

LESSON PLANS 
Grades 6-12- from Bright Hub Education

Hello-World- lessons, activities, games

iMendi- language flash cards

The Internet Picture Dictionary

More Spanish- lesson plans and technology for the Spanish classroom

Spanish4Teachers-includes worksheets and fifteen categories, including alphabet, vocabulary, grammar

Spanish Irregular Verbs Quiz 

Spanish is Your Amigo- beginner video lessons

Spanish Lesson Plans- Pinterest board filled with resources

Spanish Regular Verbs Quiz

The Spanish Teachers- covers Spanish I,II,III,IV

Spanish Templates- games, quizzes

Spanish Verb Drills

Spanish Vocabulary Quizzes

TeAchnology- many lessons and activities here

Verbs Online- Spanish verb conjugation trainer