This document provides a list of resources for using rap music and literature to teach languages including: - Links to music videos that could be used - Websites listing the origins of words and common phrases - Rhyming dictionaries, word cloud generators, and text-to-speech software - Apps and websites for creative writing, script development, and subtitling - Links to Twitter feeds and Pinterest boards with additional teaching materials

1. More than words-From rap to literature
Saturday 17th
May 2014, Woodbridge School.
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, Alderley Edge School for Girls
@icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones
A downloadable copy of the presentation slides for this training session will be available from:
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Paroles, Jacques Prévert & Spectacle, Jacques Prévert
Music resources:
Ana Tijoux: Las horas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnRywV8Hh-U
Grand Corps Malade: Un verbe, aimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FFtxl18ck
Le blues de l’instituteur http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1bL9yIdAOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVtL8Uv22D8 Kevin, Karla y la banda (Spanish cover of “wrecking
ball” and many more pop songs
Origin of words http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
Set phrases and expressions
http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/lf/p-11171-Les-expressions-imagees-d-Archibald.htm
http://enseigner.tv5monde.com/fle/les-expressions-francaises-le-corps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHtmKLIAnY (mind mistakes and slang)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8V0UTuTWo
http://blabberize.com (animate pictures and make them speak)
Podcasts and translation of English idioms http://www.frenchbyrepetition.co.uk/
Tongue-twisters, puns and jokes http://trabalenguasenespanol.com/
http://michel.buze.perso.neuf.fr/lavache/virelangues.htm
http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/publication/publi-39-Les_virelangues.htm
http://blague.carambar.free.fr/blagues/blague.html
http://www.1000chistes.com/chistes-de-lepe
Rhyming dictionaries and apps
http://www.dicodesrimes.com/ http://dictionnaire-des-rimes.fr/
http://buscapalabras.com.ar/rimas.php

2. https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/pocket-rhymer/id338095684?mt=8 (fr-sp-Gr-it-En)
Word Clouds and Word Art http://www.wordle.net http://www.tagxedo.com
Text-to-speech software http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
Audacity free sound editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Decide Now! App https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/decide-now!/id383718755?mt=8
Storybird http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirds
Script-writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPWLxhu_ETc&list=PL35B8F0E6427AC3BC (Morph)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHvZjiDANg&list=TLU8HG-nMoQ6N8VB_TRUU6HiRpQTqHVB1Y
(Simon’s cat)
Oktapodi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badHUNl2HXU
http://www.amara.org/en/ (subtitling software)
School Tweeter Feed http://twitter.com/AESG_MFL
Reading support Lingro http://lingro.com/
Pinterest for grammar http://www.pinterest.com/icpjones/frenchgrammar/
http://www.pinterest.com/icpjones/spanishgrammar/