Goethe's poem Das Rosenband performed by Christian Wewerka in German, with text and synchronised translation. From the Goethe Podcasts web site, by Dr. Sean Allan of the University of Warwick. http://go.warwick.ac.uk/goethe

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.

A simple quiz for beginners regarding colours in Punjabi.

A few sentences about fruit, with some simple questions for children to answer. Ideal for beginners.

PPT of methodolgy session run by Liz Lord & Jackie Berry with Community Language tutors in Southampton 22.2.2011. This was created for the Community Cafe project. It gives a range of advice and guidance for teaching languages in the classroom.

These flashcards can be used to practice vocabulary for sports and music.

This handout is a compendium of ideas for games and kinaesthetic Activities for Primary Languages teachers. There are lots of excellent ideas here.

This worksheet is an information gap activity which requires students to play the part of celebrity and journalist (in this example, Rafa Nadal and Katy Perry) to ask questions and talk about their daily routine. The worksheet could be repurposed to show any celebrity and for any kinds activity and language.

This sheet gives some tips for using Powerpoint for language teaching. It is part of the workshop pack created under the JISC-funded Community Cafe project.

This resource is based on the game 'dominoes'. The teacher should cut out the dominoes and get students to make sentences using them.

This is a game to practice vocabulary for food and drink. It involves teams of students making sentences about food and competing to finish first. This handout can be printed and copied to use in class. The idea is repurposable and the same game could be created for any vocabulary you wish to focus on.

This is a reusable worksheet which practises talking about sports, at a basic level. It is in French, but can be adapted for any language. Activities featured are: jumbled-up sentences and images which provide impetus for writing sentences.

This worksheet can be used with any musical tune or rhythm, to get beginner-level, or young students to practice vocabulary for different sports. It can be adapted to show any sport required, and it can be translated easily into other languages.

This is a song to use to practice talking about family members. It is for use with beginner students. It can be repurposed for any language.

This worksheet enables students to practice talking about daily routine. Students must read a pictorial diary and then make true/false sentences about the activities in the diary.

This document gives a list of useful links for language teachers with school-age students. It includes websites which offer resources and also file-sharing and file-creation sites. The information included in it was part of a session run by the Community Cafe project www.llas.ac.uk/communitycafe

A collection of worksheets and ideas for classroom activities for young language learners. This collection forms part of the Community Café workshop pack. The resources are mainly in English but can be adapted for any language.

This guide was produced as part of the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. It describes how to download the freeware 'Hot Potatoes' and create a basic, interactive matching exercise with it. Hot Potatoes creates simple online, interactive exercises. There is a planning sheet to go with it, to help you plan your activity on paper.

This guide was produced as part of the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. It describes how to download the freeware 'Hot Potatoes' and create a basic, interactive quiz, and a gapfill exercise with it. Hot Potatoes creates simple online, interactive exercises. There is a planning sheet to go with it, to help you plan your gapfill activity on paper.

This is a guide to creating an account on LanguageBox and uploading your first resource. It is part of the workshop pack created under the JISC-funded Community Cafe project.

This calendar, for the month of December 2011, in Polish, 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 fourth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. A printed 'Why study..?' calendar for 2012 is now available from www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar. It is FREE, with 3.50 P+P.

This calendar, for the month of January 2012, in Icelandic, 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 fifth of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. A printed 'Why study..?' calendar for 2012 is now available from www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar. It is FREE, with £3.50 p+p.

This calendar, for the month of November 2011, in Gujarati, 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 third of a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012.

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.

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This guide gives advice on how to find copyright-friendly images from the internet, and how to re-use them without infringing copyright. It was produced as part of the JISC-funded Community Cafe project workshop pack.

These materials form module one of the Community Cafe workshop pack. 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.

These materials form cafe session two of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of planning and presenting a topic. 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.

These materials form cafe session three of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of presenting new language. 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.

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.

These materials form cafe session five of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of putting a group of resources together. 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.

This handout is part of the Community Cafe workshop pack. It gives advice on how to change the language in Windows and how to find example keyboard layouts to help you to type in other languages.

These materials form workshop one of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of using technologies. 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.

These materials form workshop two of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of creating a podcast. 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.

These materials form workshop three of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of using powerpoint. 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.

These materials form workshop four of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of creating a Hot Potatoes quiz. 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.

These materials form workshop five of the Community Cafe workshop pack, on the topic of putting your resources online. 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.

These files were all created for the Community Cafe project, and they illustrate some ways in which powerpoint can be used for teaching students in the classroom.

The items in this collection relate to a training session delivered by Jackie Berry and Liz Lord, primary languages consultants. The session was given for the Community Cafe project. Materials consist of a powerpoint file and useful handouts and worksheets to use in class. All material can be repurposed for use with any language being taught.

This calendar 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. Each month features a different language and includes a proverb and quiz questions. Quiz questions and answers are included in a separate word document. This will be a 16-month series lasting until Dec 2012. We are currently in production of our 2013 calendar, pre-order your copy at: https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/calendar

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Teach names of parts of the room and household items, rules of making singular plural, verb endings.

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Two online exercises created using the software Hot Potatoes. Both are in Bengali. One is a matching exercise and the other is a short quiz. Both are on the topic of 'food'.

This is a Hot Potato activity: an online matching activity for practising vocabulary in Bengali related to food. It is part of a complete lesson.

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An article taken from the LLAS magazine (Liaison Issue 3 2009) describing a podcasting model developed by Rose Clark and John Wrigglesworth at University of Portsmouth

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.

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.

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.

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.

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This collection contains some teaching ideas described by teachers of a range of community languages. They were developed as part of the Community Café Project funded by JISC and led by the University of Southampton UK. Read more about the project on the

Photos of French buildings/landmarks/statues

Language Cafés are a great way to encourage non-formal language learning for students and for community groups. They are self-managed groups who meet in a café, pub, bookshop, library or any community space open to them. Through the Language Café language skills can be used and developed in a relaxed, sociable and informal way. It is very easy to set up a Language Café and the materials in this handbook are designed to help individuals or groups to get started and more importantly to keep going

This resource includes a dice template which can be printed and cut out for use in language classes. It incorporates 6 common topics for language learning: family and friends, food, festivals, holidays, sports and school. It also includes some ideas for using the dice in class. All instructions and stimulus questions are written in English but it can be used for any language. The dice has been created to stimulate vocabulary learning and discussion in language classes. It is intended to provide teachers with a resource which will engage and motivate young learners (8 – 14 year olds) who are at the beginners/pre-intermediate stages of language learning.

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 resource is the product of a European-funded project which explored strategies for supporting independent language learning among adult learners in the community. It offers a range of short case studies and a series of recommendations and practical suggestions on how to promote language learning in the community. Find out more about the project and download the handbook in other languages at www.opendoor2languages,eu

This is an interactive online activity on the topic of using shared resources to create new LOC learning objects.

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.

Powerpoint presentation for the Portsmouth Community Language Teachers

The final report and evaluation of the Community Café project led by LLAS at the University of Southampton with funding from JISC

This collection contains examples of Hot Potatoes exercises created for language learning using the quiz, crossword and matching tools

This collection contains examples of podcasts for language learning and some of the ways that they can be incorporated into teaching.

This collection illustrates the range of learning activities which can be shared using the LanguageBox

This collection illustrates some of the commonly used formats for sharing learning materials through LanguageBox

Collection of resources for e-learning materials development group activity

Collection of resources for a group activity as part of an e-learning materials development course.

Collection of resources for a group work activity as part of an e-learning materials development course.

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Brief quiz about Diwali for GCSE level children (in English).

Audio description about Diwali in Punjabi for GCSE level children. There is also a text, English translation and a screenshot of the Punjabi text.

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In December, on our fourth school trip we visit the famous Children's Railway in Budapest, that operates a Santa train on the first weekend of December. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 2 podcasts and 4 hot potato quizzes.

In February we travel to Mohács, where we take part in the traditional fancy dress carnival, the Busójárás. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 1 podcast and 5 hot potato quizzes.

Our fifth school trip takes us to the famous caverns of Aggtelek, with their many stalactites and stalagmites. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 1 podcast, and 5 hot potato quizzes of graded difficulty.

In June, on our last school trip of the year, we travel to lake Balaton, the „Hungarian sea”. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 2 podcasts and 5 hot potato quizzes.

In May we are going on a boat trip on the Danube from Budapest to Visegrád. The castle on the mountain offers a breathtaking vista of the Danube bend. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 4 podcasts and 6 hot potato quizzes.

In March we travel to Pákozd, the scene of the first victorious battle in the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. This exercise is composed of 2 podcasts, and 4 hot potato quizzes.

This is the third of our monthly school trips. In November we travel to a famous Hungarian fortress-town, Eger. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet,2 podcasts, one animated powerpoint, one short story, and 2 hot potato quizzes.

This is the second of our monthly school trips. In October we travel to the famous wine region Tokaj, to discover fun facts about the grape harvest. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet, 3 podcasts, and 4 hot potato quizzes.

Welcome to the first of our monthly school trips. In September we will visit a famous part of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. This exercise is composed of this hypertext exercise sheet,2 podcasts, and 4 hot potato quizzes.

In April we travel to the small traditional village of Hollókő, to see the Easter festival. This exercise is composed of 1 podcast and 6 hot potato quizzes.

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This handout describes Christmas traditions in Poland.

Polskie stroje folklorystyczne sa stara i piekna tradycja, ktora staramy sie promowac wsrod dzieci w polskich szkolach/uczyc ich tanca "Krakowiaka"dzieci tancza w tych strojach.

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20 questions about Arabic and Arabic culture - with answers

Sheet for pupils to record their answers.

20 Questions

Quiz multiple choice answer sheet for students

45 min lesson plan for use with Powerpoint presentation - greetings & descriptions.

Picture resources to use with lesson plan and Powerpoint.

Powerpoint: How to greet someone and introduce yourself in Arabic; how to describe someone's physical appearance in Arabic.

Matching words & pictures worksheet

Worksheet to use with Powerpoint and lesson plan.

45 min lesson plan - greetings, fruit & vegetables

Powerpoint presentation to use with lesson plan - fruit & vegetables

45 min lesson plan: how to greet someone; how to introduce yourself; learn some pronouns; Ask & answer the question 'What do you do?'

Powerpoint presentation to use with lesson plan.

Worksheet to use with lesson plan and Powerpoint presentation.

Powerpoint Quiz - 10 questions

Multiple choice answer sheet to use with Powerpoint Quiz.

Colour pictures to cut out and use to play game (See Lesson Plan)

45 min lesson plan: how to say mum, dad, my name is..., I have a mum; aspects of Chinese culture. To use with Powerpoint presentation.

Instructions - how to play the Monster Mask game

Colour pictures to cut out and laminate

Powerpoint to use with lesson plan.

45 min lesson plan. Lesson objective: At the end of the session, students will be able to greet each other in Chinese, introduce their names and say their nationalities (British or Chinese). They will also learn numbers, be able to count from 1 to 20 in Mandarin and know the culture of numbers for Chinese people.

Powerpoint to use with Numbers Lesson Plan.

Worksheet to accompany Numbers lesson plan & Powerpoint.

Label the parts of the body. To be used in conjunction with the Chinese Taster Lesson Plan and Powerpoint.

45 min lesson plan. Lesson objective: By the end of the lesson pupils will have learnt some basic greetings in Chinese and will be able to name parts of the body

Powerpoint to use with Parts of the Body Lesson Plan.

Worksheet to accompany Parts of the Body lesson plan and Powerpoint.

Powerpoint to accompany playing the game - Italian numbers

30 colour bingo cards to laminate.

For the Bingo caller - cut out the call cards to cover the board.

Powerpoint to support speakers

45 min lesson. By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to introduce themselves in Italian, talk about the food and drinks they like, and be able to order food in an Italian restaurant

Cut out & laminate the cards - match the picture to the word.

Colour menus - pictures of food with prices

Powerpoint to use with Food & Drink Lesson Plan.

A4 flashcards - match the hobby with the Italian word

Lesson plan to accompany the Powerpoint

Match the Italian words with the pictures

Powerpoint to accompany the lesson plan

Worksheet to introduce yourself in Italian.

Lesson plan to use with Parts of the Body Powerpoint

Match the Italian word to the body part

Game cards to use with the 'Pesca' lesson plan and powerpoint

Game instructions: how to play 'Pesca'

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Quiz Multiple Choice Answer Sheet for students

20 Questions

Multiple choice answer sheet for students.

Colour pictures to cut out and laminate.

Basic introduction to the family lesson.

45 min lesson plan. At the end of this session the students will be able to name members of the family and be able to pronounce them correctly in Urdu.

Powerpoint to accompany the Family lesson plan.

Match the words & pictures; read the Urdu word and write the English word.

45 min lesson plan. Lesson objective: to introduce students to Urdu, focusing on greetings and ‘food and drink’

Powerpoint presentation to accompany the Food & Drink lesson plan.

Colour pictures of food to cut out and laminate.

Design a menu for the week in Urdu.

Colour pictures of parts of the body to cut out and laminate. To use with the Parts of the Body lesson plan.

Powerpoint to accompany the Parts of the Body lesson plan.

Label parts of the body using words from wordbank.

45 min lesson plan. At the end of this session the students will be able to name parts of the body and be able to pronounce them correctly in Urdu.

Names of body parts to cut out and laminate. To use with Parts of the Body lesson plan.

20 questions with answers at the end.

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.

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 demonstrates what a learning object should look like when you use the "HTML zip" tab to upload it. Note you may have to select a main file. If you click the "view" button beneath the preview you can use the learning object.

Some useful everyday phrases I use with pupils and have displayed in my teaching rooms

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Activity-based learning object focussing on how to create a video CV in Italian to maximise your employability.

Activity-based learning object introducing Italian specialised vocabulary for dealing with banking and general information concerning banks in Italy and their services

Activity-based learning object to help prepare students for job interviews in Italian and/or in an Italian business context.

Activity-based learning object on what a "summary" is and the conventions and skills for summarising in a second language.

activity based learning object exploring what is needed to open a bank account in Italy as a foreign citizen, and banking "jargon" and idiomatic expressions in Italian

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A handy add-on for the Open Source Firefox browser.

This publicly-funded bilingual project, coordinated by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, "aims to collect video slices of life and work in the Hebrides, primarily for language learners". This blog contains links to, and news about, video clips shot in the islands, inclu

Online resources in and for Scots Gaelic (Gàidhlig)

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These instructions were produced as part of a workshop on podcasting given by the JISC-funded Community Cafe project. They are part of the workshop pack created under the project.

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Audio description about Summer in Punjabi for intermediate level children. There is a text translation in English, and a screen shot of the Punjabi transcript.

A quiz about Summer in Punjabi for intermediate level children. If you click 'view' you can see the full activity.

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This exercise provides Chinese vocabularies for student to map them into English.

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Names of different basic colours in Urdu transcription on powerpoint slides

power point slides of different coloured objects. The name of the colours and objects are written in phonetic and meaning in English.The second half of the powerpoint is interactive and the teachers can test the students by asking "what is this?"

Story and comprehension exercises on weather. The story has been translated into Urdu from "the wind and the sun" story which I saw on children's programme. It is not the exact translation but my own version.

Theme Weather in Urdu consists of a story on Urdu, comprehension exercises and some vocabulary building exercises on weather.

power point slides of images of animals with urdu titles

to colour a flower by numbers. this will help to learn the basic colours and numbers in Urdu. suitable for children who can read basic urdu.

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