Our Further Learning Recommendations
We have shared additional curriculum resources to help your child excel in their learning.
Doing
Duolingo, Quizlet, Memrise, Babbel.
https://www.duolingo.com
https://quizlet.com/en-gb
https://www.memrise.com/
https://uk.babbel.com/
Create a resource that teaches a tense or a topic.
Research a French/Spanish-speaking country and make a fact file, podcast or video.
Play Scrabble or other word games but in French or Spanish
Listening
Spotify has foreign charts + lyrics – create your own playlists and share. Write a poem or the
lyrics of a song.
Reading
French:
Bonjour tristesse Françoise Sagan
Candide Voltaire
Kiffe kiffe demain Faïza Guène
Le Tartuffe Molière
Boule de Suif et autres contes de la guerre Guy de Maupassant
L’étranger Albert Camus
No et moi Delphine de Vigan
ou la vraie vie Claire Etcherelli Elise
Un sac de billes Joseph Joffo
Un secret Philippe Grimbert
Spanish:
Crónica de una muerte anunciada Gabriel García Márquez
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Gabriel García Márquez
Réquiem por un campesino español Ramón J. Sender
Bécquer Rimas Gustavo Adolfo
Como agua para chocolate Laura Esquivel
El lunes nos querrán Najat El Hachmi
El otro árbol de Guernica Luis de Castresana
El viento conoce mi nombre Isabel Allende
Espana no es solo blanca Afropoderossa
Hija del Camino Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio
Huaco Retrato Gabriela Wiener
La Búsqueda Pío Barola
La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca
La casa de los espíritus Isabel Allende
La casa en Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
La hija extranjera Najat El Hachmi
La Ley del amor Laura Esquivel
La sombra del viento Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Las bicicletas son para el verano Fernando Fernán-Gómez
Las inquietudes de Shanti Andía Pío Baroja
Las luces de septiembre Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Malinche Laura Esquivel
Ponte a punto para el antirracismo Desirée Bela-Lobedde
Senales que precederán al fin del mundo Yuri Herrera
Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana Erika L Sánchez
Doing
These organisations offer a range of activities for linguists including holiday classes, films and
cultural workshops:
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/
http://londres.cervantes.es/en/default.shtm
Watching
Netflix or Walter Presents for foreign language bases programmes with subtitles.
The BBC has a guide to watching TV in:
French http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/tv/
Spanish http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/tv/
Watch one (or more) of these films:
– Elle s’appelait Sarah
– La rafle
– Intouchables
– A la folie, pas du tout
– Amélie
– Un long dimanche de fiançailles
– L’auberge espagnol
Watch the daily news online
https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/
http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/
www.canalsur.es
Listen to the free content Podcasts at Coffeebreak
https://radiolingua.com/category/coffee-break-french/
https://radiolingua.com/category/coffee-break-spanish/
Site for song activities in many languages using the text. Make sure you find French songs!
http://lyricstraining.com/
A great resource for new daily content from RFI (Radio France International) for all who are
learning French:
http://www.rfi.fr
Spanish Radio on-line:
www.rtve.es/rne/envivo.htm
www.topradio.es/
Listen to news and current affairs in Spanish:
www.euronews.net
www.20minutos.es
Reading
El príncipe de la Niebla Carlos Ruiz Zafón Fiction
La noche más oscura Ana Alcolea Fiction
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes Adaptación de Eduardo Alonso Ficton
Parco Jordi Sierra y Fabra Fiction
Platero y yo Juan Ramón Jímenez Fiction
Tú está loco, Papá Juan Madrid Fiction
French short stories: Nouvelles Francaises
(New Penguin Parallel Text Series) Several (Edited by Richard Coward) Fiction
Le Petit Nicolas René Goscinny Fiction
French
https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/
http://www.tv5monde.com/cms/chaine-francophone/info/p-1914-7-jours-sur-la-planete.htm
Spanish
http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/
http://www.bbc.com/mundo
Subscribe to the Mary Glasgow magazines
http://maryglasgowplus.com/