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The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour.

While ‘blue’ is related to the words in its Germanic sister languages, such as German ‘blau’ and Swedish ‘blå’, it took a different route.

Its Germanic ancestor was loaned to French, where it became ‘bleu’, and then borrowed into English:

On the way home I listened to a convo on the r4 pm programme about AI. Why on earth are we recommending sources for homework that can give the wrong information?? AND casually mention in passing that the information could be wrong... I swear this world has gone mad.

One of the things I struggle with the most with the teaching day is not having the time and space to reflect

Brexit obvs

During the phse lesson this morning with my y7s, I mentioned Brezit. Quite a few had no idea what this was. I don't know why, but this surprised me

YouTube video by Little Talk in Slow French Pourquoi le système de santé en France est en crise ?

These could be recommended for Y13 (age 17-18). Long, but slow and clear. youtu.be/EY7nwE1yX60?...

I must have learned a new language!

Did an old- school " I went to market" type activity except with past activities and sequencing adverbs included. My kids really got into it. In this same class, they're also enjoying the TL challenge. It made my day. Sometimes teaching is good

That's a nice demo. Need to adapt to french and Spanish now

Just listened to this. Lots of great issues discussed - really enjoyed it. Gonna pass onto our student teacher

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Retrieval tasks, quizzes and hinge questions are useful tools, but when they dominate a lesson, they take time from the activities that actually build knowledge.

When no-one has a strong connection / understanding of languages, it just becomes a numbers game

No. The EBacc was the main motivation

It'll affect our school and I suspect quite a lot who created "pathways" that they put the majority on

Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report The conclusions and recommendations of the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England.

Here is the curriculum review. www.gov.uk/government/p...

An important study that really has some interesting questions & issues for us to grapple with

Things I've taught (apart from French) in my lessons today: 1. What couscous is. 2. How to spell couscous 3. Tunisia is not in Asia.

This rang true to me. I feel I've had more of a learning squiggle than a curve in my life as a teacher, and going against the flow can be exhausting and demoralising.

Why do Jewish schools need security? Adam opens up about antisemitism

NEW EPISODE

This one was quite hard for me to do, as we talk about antisemitism in England, and the security measures that the Jewish community has to take in schools and synagogues.

Tune in and share if you can!

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Thanks. I've seen it and saved it!

We do edexcel. Doing some training on the speaking exam next week, so we can compare woes. The thing with rote-learning is that only the super-driven kids seem to like it. Most just seem overwhelmed and give up before trying. Or learn the first 3 questions on the list and then give up

This sounds like the Brain Gym of olde

I'm trying again with bluesky. I find the fb groups infuriating and I miss the back & forth of the old twitterati days. Some ppl use insta but I never got on with it. Can't help you with AQA though! We're doing Edexcel

I will have to check that one out!

Prêt de la tapisserie de Bayeux : Emmanuel Macron, au nom de la raison d’Etat, a passé outre à deux études récentes déconseillant le déplacement de la broderie Deux rapports publiés en 2021 et en 2022, dont « Le Monde » a pris connaissance, alertent quant aux risques générés par le transport de l’œuvre millénaire qui doit être exposée à Londres, en septembre...

Macron s'est assis sur deux études récentes déconseillant le déplacement de la tapisserie de Bayeux pour la prêter aux Britanniques, révèle Le Monde. "On fait confiance aux experts pour trouver des solutions, on en trouve dans plein d’autres domaines", balaye l'Elysée www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

One prompt in the tourist office just says, say why you're there. Many wouldn't have a scooby with that one

I've looked at all the samples. The prompts are so broad e.g. ask a question about the menu. My big worry is that pupils will still struggle with ideas of what to say. I'm not as bothered about the shoe-horned "small talk" to fulfill criteria. No exam question is 100% realistic

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