Primary Sampler Module Teacher's Notes MFL - Flipbook - Page 18
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A Typical Day in School
Suggested activities (continued):
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Images of different calendars, school journals and other items can be used to introduce the days of the week.
Practice how to say what day it is. Pupils can make multilingual cards for the days or a seven-day poster which they’ll
use every day from this point onwards.
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Numbers 1-7 can be introduced and associated with the days of the week (play basic memory games, matching,
sorting)
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Pupils can be encouraged to spot similarities in word formation across different languages, based on spelling and
sound of the days of the week
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Ask pupils to try to memorise the days of the week by using any strategy they prefer, before you play a game to see
how many they remember. Give them time, then check
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Ask them to note their preferred strategies on page 9 of the Language Passport
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Tutor introduces basic classroom routine expressions. Pupils can be given or make cards with expressions such as:
open your copy, raise your hand, stand up, etc.
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Various games can be played, based on the different routines, such as:
- Charades: tutor mimes, pupils guess by lifting the correct card and try to pronounce the expression
- Stand up if you do this every day: tutor says the expression, pupils respond
- Snap (clap once, clap twice): tutor says the expressions while showing visual representations in a random
order. When the two don’t match, pupils clap once, when they do, they clap twice
- What is missing: Tutor shows all the expressions (or days of the week) on the board, then takes away one
at a time and pupils will say which is missing
- Listen and respond: tutor gives the prompt, pupils respond by doing
the action (IE: open your copy, raise your hand)
Before we finish:
- Form a train of actions: each pupil is assigned an action. In a given
Are you able to follow
order, each says and mimes that action forming a chain (can be
instructions in a new language?
done faster, in reverse, or in random order)
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What most helped you to
learn new words?
Create one or more multilingual poster(s) for the classroom with
illustrations and routine instructions in all the languages used by the pupils
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