Polyglot Press
Staying Connected to World Language Teaching Resources
November 26, 2012
Here’s hoping that you have just enjoyed a restful Thanksgiving. I
am very grateful for your dedication, intelligence, language skills, world
knowledge and love of teaching. This digital newsletter is archived online atwww.polyglotpress.blogspot.com What you share is very helpful to all of us.
BRAVO
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Congratulations to Paul
Cummings and his wife on the birth of their first child. Their daughter was born Monday, November 12. Paul
teaches Spanish at Union County Early College.
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Congratulations to Alice Shrader, Spanish teacher at
Marvin Ridge High, who recently renewed her National Board Certification.
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Here is what Lingyu Liao has worked on. This year at
Cuthbertson Middle, the 7th grade and 8th grade students of Mandarin
Chinese recently created skits that they performed in 'the pit' on October 26,
2012. In the skits, students pretended to go to a Chinese restaurant and order
food in Chinese. They also made menus and created props. Parents were invited
to watch the students' performance.
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Parkwood High School students enjoyed National French Week - The school cafeteria served French dishes
all week long, including ham and cheese croissants and French onion soup. Jean Patterson’s students researched
fun facts and presented them on our school announcements daily. French I and II classes had a speaker who had
worked as a Bible translator for JAARS and had lived in Mali for over 10
years. He presented artifacts, videos, and photos highlighting their
daily lives there. Another day classes viewed the movie "Les
Choristes" which is their favorite! Another day, they rotated in centers
in order to review past vocabluary. Jean made Belgian waffles for her classes
and for the faculty. On laptops, students researched sports and games in Francophone
countries as well as cuisine. They are highlighting the Tour de France
2013 (100 year anniversary) and the Lance Armstrong scandal.
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New Spanish teacher, Laura Nicholson, at Piedmont High is
learning very quickly about the games that can be made with SmartNotebook 11 templates.
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The finalists for ACTFL
Teacher of the Year, representing the five geographic regions of the U.S.
are: Jill Woerner, teacher of Spanish at Pendleton Heights Middle School,
Pendleton, IN; Leslie L Boaz, a teacher of French and Spanish at
Wheatland High School, Wheatland, WY; Lucy Lee, a Chinese teacher at
Livingston High School in Livingston, NJ; Noah Geisel, teacher of Spanish
at Denver East High School in Denver, CO; and Thomas Soth, a Spanish teacher at Northwest
Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC.
Professional Development
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There are funds for in-state conferences. If
you know of a relevant conference that you would like to attend, please email
me donna.podgorny@ucps.k12.nc.us
Include the name of the conference, date, location, sponsoring agency, and the
prices for registration, meals, hotel.
Tech Tools
For
presentational speaking or for interpersonal speaking simulation with two
people… try Blabberize. Blabberize
lets you find a face, play with the mouth on the face and then add a recording.
One new feature is that now two faces (animals, etc.) can appear to talk to
each other. See a Podgorny Thanksgiving
sample at http://blabberize.com/view?share=874842
NC Department of Public
Instruction
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Report Cards are Out on
North Carolina Public Schools - Parents and
interested citizens looking for a one-stop information source on their local
public schools need look no further than the NC School Report Cards website – www.ncreportcards.org – which has just been updated to reflect 2011-12 school-year
data. To read more about this year’s data release, please visit www.ncpublicschools.org and click on the appropriate link under “News.”
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With many changes occurring in the NC Standard Course of Study,
along with new assessments, a new educator evaluation system and more, the NCDPI has produced a number of podcasts
for teachers, principals, parents and others. All the podcasts may be accessed
at the NCDPI READY iTunesU site at https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ready/id415314572.
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Data
on NC Institutes of Higher Ed http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/ihe/reports/2011-12/full/performance.pdf Admission test data for gpa and
SAT for NC universities - pages 20-21
Advocacy
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Study Abroad data - Open Doors shows that 273,996 U.S. students studied
abroad for academic credit during academic year 2010-2011. Notably,
U.S. students who study abroad are choosing increasingly diverse locations
overseas—including China, India and South Korea—in addition to the historically
“traditional” destinations in Europe. After studying abroad, American students
return home with new perspectives, skills, and relationships, which they use to
help strengthen their communities and advance their careers. “We all
must do more to encourage more U.S. students to study abroad and continue to
welcome international students to the United States. We applaud that
U.S. universities have invested in international education and opened their
doors to international students and encourage them to do more to make study
abroad a reality for their American students. Students with experience
overseas gain the international knowledge, skills, and self-reliance that are
needed to compete in today’s globalized economy.” International Education Week: (November 12 – 16)
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Australia pushes for multilingualism &
prioritize learning Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese "Language
learning, regardless of language, has a significant impact on general literacy,
cultural awareness, understanding and communication," Krishna Sen, president
of the arts deans, says in a letter to Asian century minister Craig Emerson. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/a-humanistic-pitch-for-languages/story-e6frgcjx-1226513951430
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The importance of learning Arabic – focus on five major
US cities: Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Philadelphia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vf_Y_o1p3I&feature=youtu.be
Teaching Resources
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90% Plus: How to Stay in the Target
Language ACTFL’s October 2012 magazine the Language
Educator share strategies on how to stay in the target language http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/TLE_pdf/TLE_Oct12_Article.pdf
Chinese Resources
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An online
guide for how to pronounce more than 10,000 words in Mandarin Chinese. http://www.forvo.com/languages/zh/
Users find the character/s that want to pronounce and click on it to hear the
pronounciation.
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Read
Chinese: Novice, Intermediate, High materials http://readchinese.nflc.org/?lang_id=1003&lev_id=1&page=1
French Resources
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An online
audio guide for how to
pronounce more than 50,000 words in French http://www.forvo.com/languages/fr/ If
you are your students are not sure how to say a word, look it up and listen to
it.
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Technology
terms in French – Quizlet flashcards http://quizlet.com/2621295/technology-french-vocabulary-words-flash-cards/
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Quizlet
– French 1 – Chapitre 3 http://quizlet.com/1898654/madame-leger-allez-viens-ch3-1-flash-cards/
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Quizlet
– French 1 – Chapitre 7 Premiere Etape http://quizlet.com/16343555/allez-viens-i-chapter-71-flash-cards/
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French
verb conjugation practice http://conjuguemos.com/list.php?type=verbs&division=verbs&language=french
German Resources
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Deutsch
Aktuell 1 - Online Workbook -
http://irc.emcp.com/ircfiles/DeutschAktuell6e/WBLevel1/German6e-WB1.html
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Deutsch
Aktuell 2 – Online
Workbook - http://irc.emcp.com/ircfiles/DeutschAktuell6e/WBLevel2/German6e-WB2.html
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Deutsch
Aktuell 1 – Online Text - http://irc.emcp.com/index.php?titleID=2640&title=Deutsch%20Aktuell%206e%20Level%201
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Deutsch
Aktuell 2 – Online
Text - http://irc.emcp.com/index.php?titleID=2641&title=Deutsch%20Aktuell%206e%20Level%202
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An online
audio guidefor how to
pronounce more than 100,000 words in German http://www.forvo.com/languages/de/ If
you are your students are not sure how to say a word, look it up and listen to
it.
Spanish Resources
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An online
audio guide for how to
pronounce more than 50,000 words in Spanish http://www.forvo.com/languages/es/ If
you are your students are not sure how to say a word, look it up and listen to
it.
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Test
YOUR level of Spanish according to AVE and the European model of
levels A, B and C. http://ave.cervantes.es/prueba_nivel/registro/test_de_clasificacion.php?origen=webAVE The Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages
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Practica Español Aprende con
noticias reales. Dispones de una variedad de contenidos con diferentes
temáticas: Espana, Mundo, Deportes, Entretenimiento, Viajes, Salud,
Negocios, Cultura, Cinecia y Gastronomía. Todos los contenidos tienen soporte
en Texto, Sonido, Imágenes (Video y Fotografía). Lo que te permite Leer,
Escuchar, Practicar, aprender y Participar a través de los ejercicios que te
proponemos. Para conocer el significado de una
palabra: puedes hacer doble click sobre ella y se abrirá un DICCIONARIO
INSTANTÁNEO que te mostrará además su traducción a los idiomas más extendidos.
Con los Videos de Canal EFE en You Tube oirás las voces de la música hispana.
Maestro Spot te ensenará con anuncios en español. Hay adivinanzas de la
Fundación de la Lengua Española. http://www.practicaespanol.com/
o
Estudia
español porque el mundo habla español –advocacy video on the importance of learning Spanish and the
usefulness of the Practica español website http://www.practicaespanol.com/es/didactica-proyecto-practica-espanol/art/17/
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Spanish
Videos online to learn Spanish: Beginner Level http://www.lingus.tv/category/learn-spanish-videos/beginner/
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