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In this issue
Vocabulary and picture
prompts for language teaching
- book 1

Easter example package

Teacher's idea competition: 4 days left!
Apply for a Comenius grant

Send us a fun idea on how to teach vocabulary by e-mail to: until 31 March
office@thelanguagemenu.com by March 15 and add the subject : Teacher's Training for teachers of
idea competition. French

We will award the 10 best ideas 5 packs of flashcards each (you may choose Clip-art updates
several of one set or /all of the five packs we have available). The cards will be
shipped to the address you indicate in your e-mail. Get involved!

Coming soon...our
● Vocabulary cards. Mixed pictures downloadable e-book!
● Vocabulary cards. Animals (English)
● Grammar cards. Prepositions of place (in, on, at) (English)
● Grammar cards. Time prepositions (Swedish) - Svenska
grammatikkort. Tidsuttryck
● Grammar cards. Irregular verbs in past tense (Swedish) - Svenska
grammatikkort.
Oregelbundna verb i preteritum.

We will notify the winners by e-mail to confirm the address the prize will be
shipped to. The winner's name and country will be announced in our next
newsletter and on our website. Clip-art updates

Include your name, language you teach, name of institute, shipping address
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and choice of cardpacks in your e-mail. Check out our Clip-Art

You can e-mail us in English, Swedish, Finnish, French or Romanian. area for new pictures
and illustrations
More information under News or click here to see the flash cards. drawn by our artists.

In March we have
Material updates added over 40
pictures on Easter.

Vocabulary and picture prompts for language The clip-art now

teaching - book 1 includes 3 categories:
pictures, photos and
graphics.
This is the first booklet in a series of four, with pictures drawn by a native
Finnish artist, Petra Bergström and a native Canadian artist Annette Download and create
Hansen. exercises for class
using our exciting
resources!
The booklet contains 25 numbered picture worksheets and 25 A4 pictures
as well as other bonus worksheets: "Differences/similarities" worksheets
and "What is wrong" worksheets . Quick links...

All the worksheets are photocopiable to use in class. We hope you will find
Vocabulary and picture
the material useful; comments and feedback is always appreciated! prompts for language
teaching
You can download a sample from the book in PDF format from here. The Easter example package
book will soon be available in our online shop at the price of 5€ and on Phonetics example package
CD at the price of 15€ (shipped to your location). Students' tools in English
Danish material package
Contact us for more information: office@thelanguagemenu.com Norwegian material package
Swedish material package
Teacher's tools in Swedish

Easter example package Telephoning in English

Telephoning in Swedish
Téléphoner en français
Now available under our Downloads area, the Easter package includes: Telefonar em Português
Telephoning in Chinese
● Easter vocabulary word spiral (students' and teacher's worksheets) Telephoning in Russian
● a matching exercise on Easter flowers Telephoning in Japanese
● a colouring page with Easter eggs Telephoning in Norwegian
● a boardgame with Easter tongue-twisters (organize groups of 2-3 Telephoning in Italian
students or make a tongue-twisters competition with the whole class) Web version
● an A4 Easter drawing to be used in class as a basis for different
exercises. This drawing is included in our new book "Vocabulary and
picture prompts for language teaching" which contains over 25
photocopiable worksheets and A4 drawings for classroom use
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Website of the
month

www.inforteach.com

The inforteach website

is designed specifically
for teachers of English.
Inforteach are the World
Nº1 promoters of
Teacher training
courses and offer over
500 courses at different
locations and dates at
schools and universities
in England, Ireland,
Teacher training and students camps Scotland, Malta,
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Apply for a Comenius grant until 31 March
The website is intended
There is still time to apply for Comenius funding to attend a professional as a gateway for English
development course for teachers, trainers and other ELT professionals at one teachers, so that we can
of our Partner Schools! all access the enormous
resources that the World
If you are a teacher, teacher-trainer or other ELT professional in Europe, you Wide Web offers us.
can apply to the European Union for a grant of up to €1500 to attend a 2-week
training course. The grant is awarded under the Comenius initiative to cover The content is edited by
tuition, accommodation and travel. teachers for teachers so
you can be sure the
resources will be useful.
Please note that the next deadline for application is 31 March 2008 (for
activities starting between 1 July 2008 and 30 September 2008)

See the full range of specialist courses eligible for Comenius funding in 2007,
download the necessary forms and find out how you can apply for a grant in 5
Get involved!
easy steps by visiting our website.
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Training for teachers of French Learn foreign

language vocabulary
Socrates Comenius / Grundtvig III Funds in fun and rewarding
ways by using our
Among our range of educational courses and teacher training programs, interactive vocabulary
and grammar games
we recommand the trainning courses for teachers organized by ACCORD.
The program offers initial and continued training to both foreign and native
Make learning fun by
teachers of French as a foreign language / second language. creating class
material using our
Course Dates in 2008: tools

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Coming soon!
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...our downloadable e-
book "Fun with flash
cards; 150+ ideas on
how to use flash cards
in class" (275 pages,
includes
photocopiable
worksheets).

The Swedish version

will be available at the
end of March 2008 and
the English version at
the end of April 2008.

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