This document provides suggestions for teaching foreign languages during a pandemic when travel is difficult. It proposes using online tools to virtually explore target language countries, cultures, and people. This includes using webcams, videos, and maps to learn about places and what is happening now. It also suggests challenging perceptions by comparing expectations to realities. Live exchanges and asynchronous audio/video can facilitate interaction with native speakers. The goal is to bring target language studies alive through digital means since physical travel is not possible.

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No Travel No
Problem !
Bringing Languages Alive during
a Pandemic
Isabelle Jones icpjones@yahoo.co.uk
Twitter: @icpjones Pinterest: @icpjones http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

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No Travel No problem !
■ Successful trips-opportunities to open horizons
■ Making memories
■ Languages are alive…

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No Travel No problem !
■ The countries
■ The culture
■ The people

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Tools to explore the TL
countries
● Differences with usual surroundings
● Challenging perceptions
● What is happening there NOW
● Content teaching to provide a window into the
country

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Differences with usual
surroundings
● A house?

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What is happening
there NOW
● https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/france.html
● https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/canada/quebec/qu
ebec-city-chateau-frontenac.html
● https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/spain.html
● https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/chile.html
● https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/mexico.html

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Challenging Perceptions
Spain:
all warm beaches? Paris ou Paris?

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Challenging Perceptions
C’est quoi, être français?
https://www.photo-de-classe.org
Le projet photo de classe
(CE2, Paris)
https://youtu.be/y9X7EXZYHhI

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A Window into the TL
Countries
La météo en Belgique
● https://www.lachainemeteo.be/meteo-
belgique/previsions-meteo-belgique-aujourdhui
TV5 Monde
● https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJsZHPR1jqKu-
soDmKNMBFg
La música popular
● https://los40.com/lista40/

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A Window into the TL
Countries
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZ2W7QOZOFAnLt8xrrqG
mXUyZ7IjaPFh/view
El menú del comedor del cole

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A Window into the TL
Countries
¿Qué ponen en la tele?
● https://www.rtve.es/
C’est quand les vacances?
● https://vacances-scolaires.education/

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Tools to explore the
culture of the TL countries
● What is culture anyway?
● Differences and points in common
● Places of interest and traditions
● Cultural events happening now

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What is culture anyway?
● Music : Juliette Gréco
● https://www.franceinter.fr/chanson-francaise
● Cinema: Le Netflix français (et gratuit)
● https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/
● Arts : musées en ligne
● https://artsandculture.google.com/search/asset/?p=musee-dorsay-
paris&em=m03xj1&hl=en&categoryid=art-movement
● Anything ! (shopping anyone?)
● https://www.galerieslafayette.com/
● https://www.printemps.com/fr/fr

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Differences and points in
common
● No positives and negatives : only differences
● Open minds to the unknown : Did you know that …?
● Share good experiences :
● Food : https://www.tripadvisor.es/Restaurant_Review-g187442-d1861906-Reviews-
Bar_Restaurante_Juan_Jose-Huelva_Province_of_Huelva_Andalucia.html
● Dance : Flamenco Lessons and Irish dancing
● Routines : different school and meal times
● Famous landmarks : https://www.toureiffel.paris/fr/le-
monument/illuminations Le 14 juillet https://youtu.be/PGWaqFsaseI

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Places of interest and
traditions
● Virtual tours : Museums, Google map streetview
● Virtual trips :
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qCWeAcGAMZ4gezIVA_cx2NWA0DhEFJ_BZC1SenxIk_E/m
obilepresent?slide=id.p
● Home videos of people celebrating different
festivals in the country (e.g. grapes for Spanish
new year, Epiphany day in France and Spain, Día
de los Muertos in Mexico …)

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Cultural events
happening NOW
● Compile your own calendar
● https://www.all-languages.org.uk/uncategorized/france-and-
the-french-speaking-world/
● Check these events in the press, on the internet and on YouTube
for authentic references in lessons

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Tools to understand and
interact with the people
from the TL countries
● Using some authentic spoken language in class
● Learning about accents
● Asynchronous exchanges: audio and video
● Live exchanges

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Using some authentic
spoken language in class
● Present
● Predict
● Focus on predicted key words-look for extra
clues
● What else did you notice?
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxl_vVYpOk

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Learning about accents
● Learning about accents
● https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query
=les+accents+en+France

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Asynchronous exchanges:
Using audio and video
● Asynchronous exchanges-recycle your school
links: audio and video
class work-authentic listening

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Live exchanges
● Live exchanges-Recycle your school links (Skype,
Zoom, WhatsApp, FaceBook) …
● Mini-presentations

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No Travel No problem !
■ The countries
■ The culture
■ The people

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No Travel No
Problem !
Bringing Languages Alive during
a Pandemic
Isabelle Jones icpjones@yahoo.co.uk
Twitter: @icpjones Pinterest: @icpjones http://isabellejones.blogspot.com