modern languages resources?

Question

where can i find language resources to use in class

Answer 1

www.teachersdicovery.com has a lot of resources. It is a site that sells them. I have purchased from them, but I have also seen things in their magazine and thought "I can make that for myself and for very little money."

I have also done a search from time to time on a particular grammar topic. If you are doing prepositions in Spanish for example, just do a search on spanish prepositions and you can usually get some ideas.

Answer 2

It would be helpful to know what language and what kind of resources you are looking for.

Are you looking for activities or practice activities, or other suggestions?

Answer 3

Buying them will cost you a lot of money. It depends what kind of resources you need. Technically, if you are working in a school , your H.o.D. will have been sent various catalogues from which to choose what you need, and the cost would be born by Per Capita departmental allowance from the Headteacher.
If you are a student, or working solo, the cheapest way is to make your own material.
I used to raid Tourist Information offices in the countries that I visited asking them for their old posters, brochures etc...I also used the colour sheets advertising the weekly products on offer from supermarkets. I cut up old unwanted textbooks with black and white illustrations, glued these on cards and used them for prompts either as flash cards, or drawing bubbles for students to fill in. I used photographs, postcards, or greeting cards such as birthday cards, Christmas cards. All you need is sugar paper, glue and thick felt pens. You are allowed to photocopy a small proportion of printed material, and provided you do not abuse this, you can use cartoons and drawings to make worksheets. I made recordings from the radio, for audio stimuli, and videoed relevant TV programes.
Incidentally you can ask your own local Tourist Information office for their surplus material from the previous season and use that with your students to tackle the topic of "Ma ville/ mein stadt/ la mia citta". I asked each student in the class to choose from a list a shop or a public building to draw and label it with its name and we made wonderful montages of a town. I also made a huge map of the country and we glued small pictures of main towns from travel brochures that come free with newspapers and added bits and bats like lace for le Puy, picture of pan for Villedieu, aeroplane for Toulouse etc..For the topics of clothing and furniture, I used superseeded catalogues.
I know it takes time, but you can build up quite a bank of resources that way which can be used subsequently. I went back to a school where I had taught twenty years ago and they were still using worksheets which I had designed then.
You can ask your local Oxfam bookshop for children or travel books in poor condition that they would throw away to cut up for your visual aids.They will give them to you free. It is simply a matter of thinking laterally...
Sorry to have gone on so long. It is a subject I am passionate about, and these tips are also environmentally friendly.