CULTURE CLUB

OR what about these brilliant MFL cultural suggestions?

Exchange students - compare your activities with your French and Spanish partners. How is life for them over there?

SPANISH

#quedateencasa

a. Why not try cooking, dancing or exercising, but with Spanish youtube.es:

• Cocina conmigo
• Ejercítate conmigo
• Baila conmigo

b. Language stretch and challenge for Spanish GCSE students:

Read articles for teenagers and pick out new vocabulary and expressions for yourself:

c. Museum Visits for Quarantine

• Museo del Prado (Instagram @museoprado)
• Picasso’s Guernica exhibition:
  • https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/#bombardeo
• Frida Kahlo Museum
  • https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/es/el-museo/multimedia/
• Guggenheim
  • https://www.guggenheim.org/plan-your-visit/guggenheim-from-home

d. Learn some new songs and practise the lyrics on www.lyricstraining.com.

e. Watch a play with Spanish subtitles: Día internacional del teatro:

• http://teatroteca.teatro.es/opac/#index

f. Try out some apps and podcasts:

• Linguistica for news in slow Spanish
• Duolingo – improve your language skills
• Hoyhablamos.com podcast

g. Challenge yourself with some mini research projects:

• #8M Día internacional de la mujer - look at the protests in Chile
• The Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship
• Bullfighting in Spain - create a for and against leaflet / poster
• Who were the Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo and what are they fighting for?
• Che Guevara - was he a hero or a villain?
• Racism in Spanish La Liga football.
• Who was Victor Jara?
• Read, copy and illustrate a Pablo Neruda poem and research him and his life.
• Research some Spanish music using #yomequedoencasa (the quarantine music festival)

h. Try watching some Spanish films:

• Ocho Apellidos Vascos
• Roma
• El Laberinto del Fauno

FRENCH

a. Fun things to try at home, whilst improving your French:

• Découvrir des nouvelles recettes (discover some new recipes):

• Song for pronunciation: (challenge yourself to learn this fun song! You can film yourself and send it to your French teacher!)
  • « Ta Katie t’a quitté » – Bobby Lapointe https://greatsong.net/PAROLES-BOBY-LAPOINTE,TA-KATIE-TA-QUITTE,22314.html
• Faire du sport avec la famille:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJJYXUDghM

b. Challenge your language skills:

• Listen to these animated podcasts:

• Okapi magazine - Ma vie d’ado podcasts – challenge yourself to pick out new language and vocabulary:

• Okapi – advice on how to survive quarantine:

  • https://blog.okapi.fr/serieux/10-astuces-pour-survivre-au-confinement-en-famille-7858.html#_ga=2.39453611.922254051.1585316493-324752045.1585316493

• TV5 – Parlons Français: meet the characters and practise your French!

c. Read these newspapers for French teens:

d. Visit these famous museums in Paris, virtually of course:

• Le Louvre:
  • https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
• Le Musée d’Orsay :

  • https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris

e. Improve your language skills with

• Duolingo
• Linguistica (news in slow French)
• www.lyricstraining.com.

f. Research a famous character from French history - ask your teacher for suggestions.

g. Ask your teacher to recommend some French film titles.

h. Discover some new French music:

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3. The brilliant Kathryn Evans is really keen to get Brighton Girls involved in her OUR CORONA DIARY - perhaps you could VLOG? Find out more here: https://bhhs.fireflycloud.net/student-booc-dashboard/ourcoronadiarygram-