Primary - Languages

Animating Learning with PowerPoint
Bring learning to life using the animation facility of PowerPoint to develop pupils' creativity and ICT skills. Have a look at the kind of animation that you will be able to create as a result of this tutorial

BBC - Digger and the Gang
Online activities to support English, mathematics and science. The site is divided into activities for three age groups: 5-7, 7-9 and 9-11-year-olds.

British Library - Learning
Learning website from the British Library contains wonderful multimedia resources for teachers and students to explore online. This website has interactive movies, discussion points and worksheets useful in many subject areas, from history and English to the sciences.

British Library - Turning the Pages
This online gallery contains some of the most significant books in history. It ranges from the oldest printed book, to the first atlas of Europe and the original 'Alice in Wonderland'. By clicking, holding and dragging the computer mouse, the reader is effectively able to turn the pages as if reading the original manuscript.

Burns Night
An online interactive guide to celebrating Burns Night, with performances of a couple of the poems, information about Robert Burns and menus for Burns Night, including modern recipes with Scottish ingredients.

Channel 4 modern languages - Chez Mimi and Hennings Haus
Link to Chez Mimi and Hennings Haus, interactive games and fun for learners. There are also teachers' notes and useful vocabulary lists.

Confucius Classrooms
An ‘online hub’ for the Confucius Classrooms programme with information, resources and examples of current practice in Scottish schools.

Digital Dialects Language Learning
This site contains interactive activities and games for learning languages and links to resources for study. Topics covered include numbers, food, colours, clothes, dates and animals. There are activities in 48 languages, including Chinese, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish and Estonian.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Part of the Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature website which has information, teachers' and librarians' resources and activities for pupils, all related to the novel 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson, the focus of the 2008 reading campaign.

Drama in the MFL classroom
Discusses how drama can be used in the classroom to encourage and develop pupils' knowledge of modern foreign languages. Contains a lesson pack and example plays that can be used.