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13 February 2010 1 Comment

Times Ed article

Times Ed article

I’m really pleased with an article which appeared in yesterday’s Times Educational Supplement about the work I’ve been doing in a North Ayrshire primary school. Pupils in Glebe Primary have been using our One Minute Mandarin lessons to learn Mandarin Chinese and then I ran an animation workshop with them during which they used the [...]

2 February 2010 0 Comments

Language lessons for the Winter Olympics

Language lessons for the Winter Olympics

I’ve just finished working on a series of podcasts for Gavinburn Primary in West Dunbartonshire. They’re doing some fantastic work with Games Based Learning and the p3 and p4 pupils are currently doing a major project on the Winter Olympics. The project is a brilliant example of interdisciplinary learning with the pupils looking at the [...]

13 January 2010 2 Comments

Apple Leadership Conference Presentation

This afternoon I’m running three workshops at the Apple Leadership Conference at the Cumberland which is running alongside BETT and involves educationalists from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I’ve been asked to focus on creating resources for the languages classroom, and I’ve created a video version of my presentation. There are a few blips [...]

24 November 2008 0 Comments

What it’s all about…

This past week I've had the privilege of spending six days in Strasbourg in the company of a fantastic group of young people from schools in East Dunbartonshire. The students were taking part in a Euroscola activity, a day of debate and discussion organised by the European Parliament. Throughout the day the students were mixing [...]

5 September 2008 0 Comments

El Repte, day 6

Bon vespre. Aquesta nit estic molt cansat i no puc escriure molt. També no tinc diccionari ni llibre de verbs aixi que aquest és el meu primer missatge en catalá del meu cap! (head?) ja no treballo al meu ordenador i escric aquest bloc del meu iPhone.
Bé ja és molt tarde aixi que us [...]

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3 September 2008 2 Comments

我在学普通话 wǒ zài xué pǔ tōng huà!

Taking a break from el català, I’ve spent the day working with 玲玲, Líng Líng, our Mandarin developer. We’re currently working on a number of projects, and the first of these – a short course in Mandarin (no prizes for guessing the name of that particular course!) – will be launched along with our Catalan [...]

3 September 2008 4 Comments

Una reposta per a na Lisa

Una resposta per a na Lisa
Bon vespre, jo sóc en Mark, i com na Lisa jo també estic intentant de millorar el meu català. Sóc també professor, o sigui sóc antic professor de castellà i francès i ara tinc la meva pròpia companyia que produeix materials per a l’ensenyament de les llengües. Visc a Escocia [...]

3 September 2008 0 Comments

De mica en mica s’omple la pica

Malauradament no tinc temps suficient per a escriure aquest bloc cada dia. No obstant això, no vull dir que no estic pensant cada dia al català! Per exemple, el diumenge vaig escoltar alguns podcasts en català; ahir vaig parlar amb la Lisa Stevens que també està intentant de millorar el seu català (o més ben [...]

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30 August 2008 2 Comments

Catalan challenge: day 2

Abans de tot, ja cal donar les gràcies a Ana per la seva ajuda amb el meu post d’ahir. Gràcies també per la gravació qu’em vas enviar per a ajudar-me amb la meva pronunciació.
Avui només he fet una mica de català: no he tingut molt temp perquè ahir celebràvem l’aniversari del meu fill i avui [...]

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29 August 2008 2 Comments

My first post in Catalan

Em dic Mark. Visc en Escòcia i sóc director d’una companyia que ofereix materials per a la gent que vol aprendre altres idiomes. Sóc antic professor d’idiomes i parlo castellà, francès, italià, i una mica d’alemany, i de noruec. M’agrada aprendre altres idiomes perquè m’agrada comunicar amb altra gent. Per això, vull aprendre el català: [...]

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