Use it like a dictionary! Google translate can help improve Listening, Talking and Spelling skills.  Pupils who are literate in their own langauge can type in ONE WORD at a time and click on the  sound icon to hear what it sounds like in English.  Beware of using this tool as a way of translating texts…

Here is an example of how it translated a small passage from the Spanish newspaper EL Mundo about the cold snap in Feb 2012:

“Cold and windy alert over 43 Spanish provinces
Today begins a new wave of cold, very dry and continental character, which will bring minimum below ten degrees in the northeast Spanish.”  See what I mean?

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