Bonjour and welcome to Sparkle Speak! Thousands of young children across the world are learning French with Sparkle Speak resources. Our animated adventures, songs and videos are designed to help primary teachers and pre-school co-ordinators give children a magical start to language-learning. We are best known for Bonjour Milo! Musical[…]
We have found that our pupils like to learn the names of other Under-the-Sea animals. So here you go… a PowerPoint with some additional animals for your Under-the-Sea topic. Visit the Sparkle Speak You Tube channel for word files: https://www.youtube.com/user/sparklespeak Under the sea adventure extra creatures
Here is a free PowerPoint with pictures of all the characters from Bonjour Milo! Under-the-Sea Adventure. Click on each character to hear a fun jingle introducing the character. This resource compliments the CDrom resource. If you like this resource look out for our Rainforest Quest character jingles. Under the sea adventure[…]
The perfect accompaniment to Milo’s Holiday Scrapbook and art activity available to download from the new Sparkle Speak website; excellent for boosting intercultural understanding and an easy start to the school year. Imagine the look on your pupils’ faces when they return in September to find a postcard from Milo. Sent[…]
Do you have football crazy pupils? If so, you may want to use a football theme in your French language lessons or weave some French into your football sessions. To support this, here is a free PowerPoint with some key nouns and verbs with soundfiles recorded by Romain Larrieu, Native[…]
I have always used a song to encourage my pupils to get tidying. I’m sure lots of you do too. I find the challenge of being on the carpet or at tables, ready, before the end of the song encourages speed and focus. I use my French tidy-up song at[…]
At the launch of the new Take Brittany resource it was the children who shone and showed how this way of working supports language learning and intercultural understanding. After completing some of the activities on the new Take Brittany disc, children from Diptford Primary School in Devon were invited aboard[…]
One popular way of using the Take Brittany resource is to collapse the timetable for a week and to take the whole school on an adventure ‘to Brittany’. I have seen this done in a few schools now with inspiring results. Getting the whole school to make passports and have[…]
If you are in charge of the leavers assembly at your school this year you will love this bilingual French and English leavers song. Sung beautifully by our very own Celine Dos Santos and written by Ruth Mills it is guaranteed to pull at the heart strings of all present. It is[…]
Learning some basic colours in French is extremely useful. Learn the colours of the rainbow with this fun IWB resource. This free IWB resource can be used independently or in conjunction with the Bonjour Milo! warm-up song available on any of the Bonjour Milo! musical story discs. Please note if[…]
