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Language and Languages in the Primary School Some guidelines for teachers by David Little and Déirdre Kirwan
Creative writing
Already in Third and Fourth class, pupils often write for their own enjoyment. They may:
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decide to translate the words of a Christmas carol or poem into their HL or write a new Christmas poem in English
and Irish (Figure 25);
Figure 25: Translation of Christmas poem from English to Tagalog
(Fourth Class)
Figure 26: Stories in which characters speak different languages (English and
Romanian) – first of six pages (Fourth Class)
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write stories in which the characters speak different languages (Figure 26);
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a picture-dictionary of words and phrases associated with Christmas in Irish, English and their HL;
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write in English and Spanish after spending a holiday in Spain;
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write a story about how a pupil who spoke only Irish might feel if he found himself in a country where no one
knew the language (Figure 27).
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write a dialogue in Irish about buying something in a shop;
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write a letter in Irish and English to an uncle in Australia thanking him for the money he sent at Christmas and
saying how it has been spent;
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