LANGUAGES
We have added a range of apps that you may find useful for Languages. Feel free to browse them and find which ones you think you could upload or invest in.

Kahoot

This is one of the most popular apps among teachers and pupils alike. It is used to create interactive quizzes which pupils can play in the class. The students with the quickest and correct answers win.

This is a great way of ending a class and recapping learning and checking their understanding of vocabulary

Morfo Booth

This is your chance to create a 3D talking head.

Choose a famous person from the country - Spain; France; Ireland. Students can then  use their language skills to voice sentences and record them. This can be used to help students express language skills in third person

Quizlet

This is a very handy revision tool and is used superbly by Languages.

Create a variety of revision games using this easy to use app.

You can add phrases or vocabulary and try to match them with the correct words or meanings. The ability to record voice on this is superb for languages.


ShowMe

This is a great little app. Very simple in its concept. It allows pupils to make the iPad an interactive open pad to simply write or draw on. Simple as that

It can be used to test knowledge by asking pupils questions in the class

How can you use this with Languages?
  • You can test knowledge quickly by asking them to write down the answer to display.
  • They can record themselves writing answers to questions.
  • They can write phrases or ask a question in the language which the other person has to answer


Strip Designer

This is an excellent comic strip app. You can use it to design storyboards. Pupils can create a scene from a play or recreate scenes from a book themselves.



How can you use it in Languages ?
  • Pupils could be inspired to use it to create a story which is told using the language.

  • It could be set in Paris, Madrid or Galway with the characters using the language to set the scene.

Weebly

This is a fabulous, easy to use web design site. It has an education site which is free for teachers and can be used to create websites for the school. for subjects or for pupil projects. It is highly intuitive and very easy to produce a website in minutes!

How can you use it in Languages?
  • Use it to create online sections in which pupils can display their talent - their comics, homework, Morfo recordings, can all be effectively displayed online
  • Use it to create combine text, pictures, gallery and Youtube links on a page to enable students to research

Collins French/ English dictionary

World famous multi lingual dictionaries with over 80,000 words for easy reference

Duolingo

Highly praised and widely used app which allows you to learn a language in a fun and free way without ads or hidden charges

Sticky Notes

Interactive and fun app which allows pupils the ability to write and place 'sticky notes' on the iPad
  • Use this to ask questions and provide answers - Colour code questions and answers

7 jours sur la Planete

This is a superb resource from the French international channel TV5 MONDE.
  • It has 3 reports each week which you can watch, along with a transcription to help you understand pronunciation and vocabulary

Tres Bien

Award winning app with lots of lessons on real life situations. It also has game play available.
KEY FEATURES:
  • 102 lessons on real life language situations
  • 2,300 French vocabulary & phrases
  • Spoken audio clips provided by a native French speaker to help with pronunciation
  • Hang man and concentration games

Mosa Lingua

Award winning learning tool which encourages the learning of 5 minutes key vocabulary every day to build up the key elements of the language.
  • It is full of phrases and useful vocabulary.
  • It has over 3000 flashcards as well as a lot more

Collins Spanish Dictionary

World famous multi lingual dictionaries with over 80,000 words for easy reference

Exam Bust GCSE Spanish

GCSE revision site based on flashcards  - where you can answer flashcards and eliminate them when you have finished.

Has lots of puzzles and useful learning materials

Learn Spanish- Mind Snacks

KEY FEATURES:
  • 9 addictive and unique games
  • 1000+ Spanish words & phrases to study and master
  • Spoken audio clips by a native Spanish speaker to help with pronunciation
  • Hand-illustrated image library to help memorize words

EL PAIS

World famous Spanish language newspaper

TELEMUNDO

Spanish language entertainment app 

CRAMIT Spanish

Contains over 1000 words based on essential vocabulary lists 

Collins Irish English Dictionary

World famous multi lingual dictionaries with over 80,000 words for easy reference

Click for TG Lurgan

School site app presenting the best in Irish language videos

CULA 4 IRISH

Cúla4 is the young people’s service on TG4 (the national Irish Language broadcaster). 
  • This App brings you over 100 fun Irish language words and images for pre-school kids or learners. 
  • The words include Weather, Animals, Vehicles, and Parts of the Body. 
  • It includes the written & spoken version of each word. It also includes a drawing page, to scribble your own words! Enjoy!

Nemo Irish Gaelic

An excellent teaching app for Irish Gaelic.
◆ The most essential words and phrases of the language, each with native speaker audio. 
◆ Master your accent with the Speech Studio. Simply record yourself saying a phrase and then hear your voice next to the teacher’s. You’ll be AMAZED how quickly your foreign accent melts away.

Greann Clock

  • Greann Clock is a fun, easy, free way to learn a little Irish! It is an easy way to learn the numbers from 1 to 12 and how to tell time.
  • Open Greann Clock, and a live clock shows you the current hour and translation on the bottom. For example, at one o'clock (and any time before 2 o'clock), a "1" will appear, and "Tá sé a hAon a Chlog" ("It is one o'clock") will appear to the right.
  • Tap the "Abair é!" ("Say it!") button, and you will hear the Irish text spoken.

Enjoy Irish

This app is designed for the adult learner and is based on the book & CD of the same name. It is ideal for the person who wants to see and hear Irish spoken for the first time and for those who would like to refresh the Irish learned at school. The cartoon characters Seán and Gráinne get to know each other using simple and amusing role-plays.
Learn your first Irish phrases in minutes!
Refresh the Irish you learned at school
Ideal for practising your spoken Irish
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