There is a growing range of resources that can be used on the Internet, from guides to using the interactive whiteboard, to ready-made resources and authentic materials. A selection is given below.

Software

Channel 4 Extra CD-ROM
Aimed at KS4 pupils, there are three CD-Rom Extr@ CD-Roms each in French, Spanish and German, which complement the Channel Four TV series in which four 19–22 year olds are thrown together to play out their romances and crises in a sitcom setting similar to 'Friends'. A fundamental complication in their relationship is that one of the four, Sam, is an American visitor with only a very basic grasp of the featured language. Sam's efforts to get to grips with the language provide the central dynamic for the language learning content. Extr@ has been written so that the language is simple and accessible at all levels and can be used alongside all KS4 published resources. Features include work sheets which are integrated into the CD-Roms, video footage dramatises the key learning points, interactive transcripts with links to audio/text glossary and the option of subtitles. http://www.4learningshop.co.uk/

Task Magic
Task Magic is authoring software for creating interactive lesson content. It is a really quick and easy way for teachers to create a whole range of presentation and practice activities in just a few minutes. After putting in a list of vocabulary and sentences the software create 15 different games such as table football, aliens, pool as well as more traditional drag and drop activities. These games are very motivating, and have the advantage that they are not language-specific and the teacher can use it to practise the particular language that is being covered.

Guides and research

• Modern Foreign Languages Environment, Scotland
• The Review Project
• Use of Interactive Whiteboards in Modern Foreign Languages
• Languages-ICT
• Becta 2003: What the research says about interactive whiteboards
• Futurelab 2007: Interactive whiteboards in the classroom
  

Interactive whiteboard resources

• Kent NGFL
• MFL Sunderland
  

Materials available on the Internet which can be used on an interactive whiteboard

• Teacher Resource Exchange TRE: Download ready made resources.
• BBC Languages: Audio reports with an A level topic focus, with ready-made activities, updated monthly.
• TV5 Teaching French activities: Infos d’Europe

Online quizzes on Education, Economie, Environnement, Santé, Justice, Transports which change frequently at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. Also in the 'Jeunes Reporters' section, watch sections of video and put the phrases in the correct order.

• TV5: In the 'enseigner' section for teachers, Paroles de clip: pop songs and their words with suggested teaching activities.
• Video à la carte
• Téléjournal de TF1
• M6 
• INA Institut National de l’Audiovisuel: The French equivalent of the BBC has just put its archives online, and, even better, catalogued them. Go to 'Thèmes' and search for the theme you want, for example 'Environnement'. You will find short news broadcasts. You can watch them for free online or download them for 1 euro each.
• INA Place aux chansons: Watch and download videos of French songs from the 1950s to the present.
• MFL Sunderland: French A level resources
• Au point online
• Interactive A level German activities
• Ard de: This website keeps 3-4 weeks worth of news programmes online. Go to Nachrichten then select programme/Archiv. Each week create a worksheet like the one attached and use it for gap fill, listening comp then discussion.
• Tageschau.de: Short news videos which can be downloaded.
• Brennpunkt
• El País: The online version of the Spanish newspaper, now with videos, such as adverts against taking drugs.
• BBC Languages Audio reports: An A level topic focus, with ready-made activities, updated monthly.
• Oxfam International: Pages in Spanish and French