FAVOR project Read into New China revision sentence level -making sentences and translation; lower advance level

This calendar, for the month of April 2012, in Spanish, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month! Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the eighth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. A printed 'Why study..?' calendar for 2012 is available from www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar. It is FREE, with 3.50 p+p.

Introductory presentation outlining the structure and characterstics of wikis, together with video resources and simple tasks for beginners. The presentation also gives a description of relevant learning environments, such as the use of scaffolding, and process-based and constructivist learning theories, and finishes with links to other wiki-related resources useful for teachers and learners, such as Wikimedia.

This PowerPoint presentation is intended to be used as a promotional tool for encouraging young learners to consider linguistics at university. It can be used for visits to schools or at university open days.

This calendar, for the month of October 2011, in Bengali, was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month! Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the second of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012.

This calendar, for the month of September 2011, in Mandarin Chinese was produced by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. It was created with help from teachers working on the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. Look out for another language next month! Quiz questions and answers are also included. This is the first of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012.

A collection of illustrated audio recordings in the Romanian language by students at the School of Languages and Area Studies, the University of Portsmouth. The recordings narrate the situation of contemporary Romania, and describe the city of Timişoara in Western Romania, the nation's second-largest city.

This text and translation into English accompanies the illustrated podcast in Romanian, created by Sabina Androne, a Masters student at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The audio summary reflects on the contemporary situation of the Romanian nation in the post-Ceausescu era. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion, aural comprehension or as a base for further research by students of the Romanian language.

This text and translation into English accompanies an illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

This illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

An interactive web-based cloze exercise in Hot Potatoes format testing the student's knowledge of the formal imperative or command form in Portuguese, conjugated in exactly the same way as the present subjunctive tense. This is embedded in a series of sentences giving advice on how to get on in the world of employment. This web page can be used for an independent learning activity: once they have mastered this particular grammar point, the students complete the sentences below by converting the infinitive form in brackets to the formal imperative.

An cloze exercise in Word format testing the student's knowledge of the formal imperative or command form in Portuguese, conjugated in exactly the same way as the present subjunctive tense. This is embedded in a series of sentences giving advice on how to get on in the world of employment. This document can be adapted for a class-based activity: once they have mastered this particular grammar point, the students complete the sentences below by converting the infinitive form in brackets to the formal imperative.

These materials form cafe session four of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of games and quizzes. This pack comprises a set of resources to support language teachers/trainers in running informal practice sharing/enhancement sessions complemented by learning technology workshops for novice users of e-tools to support language learning, e.g. Word, Powerpoint, Hot Potatoes, LanguageBox repository.

Interactive web-based exercise in Portuguese which requires the learner to convert nouns and adjectives linked with information technology and the internet in the singular form to the plural.

Matching exercise in Portuguese which requires the learner to match various professions with their places of employment.

Interactive web-based exercise requiring the learner to match well-known proverbs and sayings in Portuguese with their English equivalents.

Vocabulary and language exercise testing knowledge of irregular plurals in Portuguese, embedded in some sentences about contemporary Portugal and globalisation.

Vocabulary exercise which matches verbs in Portuguese with their corresponding nouns.

Language exercise which combines various perspectives on the nature of democracy offered by representatives of the Portguese parliament on the occasion of the anniversary of the Revolução dos Cravos on April 25 2001, with practice of the absolute superl

This text, together with a translation into English, accompanies the illustrated podcast in Romanian created by Valentina Moldovan, a Masters' student at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project e

This illustrated podcast in Romanian was created by Valentina Moldovan a Masters' student at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production i

This text in Portuguese accompanies the illustrated podcast 'O papel do sacrifício no Candomblé' and was created and researched by Emilia Kroprowska ,a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University

This text in Portuguese accompanies the podcast 'O papel dos orixás no Candomblé' and was created by Emilia Kropowska, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a

This illustrated podcast in Portuguese was created by Emilia Kropowska, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled 'The Role of Student Au

Interactive, web-based multiple-choice exercise testing knowledge of individual vocabulary items in Portuguese to do with food: meat, vegetables, fruit, herbs and shell-fish.

Interactive web-based exercise in European and Brazilian Portuguese matching vitamins and minerals with the foods containing these nutrients

Interactive web-based exercise matching synonyms of words associated with stress-busting tranquillity, relaxation and peace.

Are you interested in Dutch? Curious how Dutch sounds? Wondering how difficult, or easy it is? Perhaps you are thinking of studying Dutch? Then here is your opportunity to have a go at the language yourself and experience what it is like to learn Dutch fr

The PLIDA (Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri) site offers a variety of activities to test your competence in the Italian language at different levels

This PowerPoint presentation intruduces a range of idioms with the feminine 'la' and shows how they are used in Italian. The activity offers an opportunity to practise with these idioms.