District Guide: Handsworth Secondary School: Modern Languages

General Resources for Teachers

BC Digital Classroom
BC Digital Classroom provides students and teachers with access to academic search engines. The directions for access and home use passwords can be found in the above document

Criterion on Demand
Criterion on Demand is a streaming service that provides access to movies the users can view from home until June 30th. The User name is: 91018 Password: Nvan 44

COD- movie list
This is a list of all of the movies available for teachers to use from Criterion on Demand with their students.

CBC Curio Curriculum
Within the CBC Curio program there are also resources organized by BC course. For all subject areas of our curriculum!
Cheneliere Education
This site provides French language textbooks for all grade levels and courses.

#CanadaPerforms
This link takes you to performances by Canadian musicians, singers, authors, actors, and comedians in English and French.
The Met Opera
The Met is streaming Operas nightly.
NAC Orchestra
The NAC Orchestra will be sharing music every Wednesday at 8pm.
National Theatre
The National Theatre is posting a play every 7 days for people to watch
NPR Music
Live streaming and virtual concerts- 24 hour programming
The Shows must go on- Andrew LLoyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber's site. He is streaming one of his productions every few days from his youtube channel.

Audible-French Resources
Audible has made a selection of their resources available. This link takes you to their collection of French resources. These are primarily cartoons and children's books.
Audible-Spanish Resources
There are 50 free Spanish texts available for students to download for free.
Radio Canada Livres Audio
This site provides access to some free French Language Audio books.

National Museum of Music-Virtual Tour
This simple website provides a lot of information and images about different musical instruments.
The Louvre-Virtual Tour
12 Museums providing virtual tours
This article provides information and access to 12 different museums providing virtual tours.
12 more museums and American National Parks offering Virtual Tours
This site provides more virtual tours of museums and galleries like MOMA, Guggenheim, and the Smithsonian.It also provides tours of American National Parks like Yellowstone National Park for example.

Mexican Textbooks
National Emergency Library
The National Emergency Library Provides many free books for readers in multiple languages.
Tumblebooks
This site provides books for young people in Spanish and English

Article listing TEDTalks in French
This online article summarizes and provides links to 5 top TEDTalks in French
Article Listing TEDtalks in Spanish
This article summarizes and lists the Top 5 TEDTalks in Spanish
CBC Curio- in French
CBC has made CBC Curio free for people to use. This is a great resource with a lot of streaming resources for classes. It includes archival content, documentaries, and audio content. There is also access to all of Canada a People's History with new episodes!
National Film Board of Canada-in French
The National Film Board of Canada provides a lot of Canadian-Made Content