The prospect of Modern Languages becoming a compulsory part of the Primary Curriculum in 2011 represents both an exciting opportunity and a huge challenge to all trainee and practising teachers. Integrating MFL into the Primary Curriculum: A Practical Guide provides sensible advice, combined with tried and tested methods grounded in theory. The chapters combine to provide a clear picture of primary languages and the issue of progression. Each stage of implementation from the beginnings to ensuring progression and the transition to secondary school are covered by each chapter, providing real case studies and practical means of moving policy forward in school. The authors move away from simplistic ideas of introducing nouns using simple activities to show how primary languages may look in real terms in a primary classroom and how language can be integrated into everyday classroom work, providing age appropriate language for real purpose. Primary language learning can be difficult to initiate without clear direction, direction that is embedded in good theory and realistic experience. As experienced primary language teachers the authors have a clear sense of what schools need, and more importantly know how to provide good examples of what should be taught in the primary language curriculum. This book will show schools how to get started in MFL, how they can sustain and maintain their provision and how they can take primary languages forward. This indispensable book: Applies a coherent programme of CLIL (content language integrated learning) to Primary school contexts Integrates MFL into core and foundation curriculum subjects Illustrated throughout with case studies and practical examples of best practice Offers practical advice on planning for progression throughout Focuse