Approved by www.curriculumonline.gov.uk, the Language Factory offers fun materials for primary children, including audio tracks, support material for the teacher – flash cards, flip charts and other material for the interactive whiteboard – in French, German, English and Spanish. Components can be ordered for as little as £20.00, bundles of the whole package in any one language up to £239.99. The emphasis is on the children remembering their French because of the catchy tunes.
I can endorse this. Once I used a very nicely produced BBC course for some of my work. Aunty also produced a cassette (yes it was that long ago) with just the songs. I used to play them as background music whilst the students did pair work. It did work as muzak and kept the noise down beautifully as well as making them concentrate. But in addition, by the end of the year, all of the students knew and understood all of the words, even if we hadn’t covered them yet. I guess it’s something to do with the repeated rhythm. The brain, I think, carries on decoding, evn when it’s not listening any more.
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