Teaching & Learning Resource based on #thinklanguages - Flipbook - Page 9
The amazing outcomes of language learning
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Additional suggested activities (for the students):
1.
Based on what you have seen in the video, work with a partner and allocate the following
statements a place in the following diamond nine activity:
a. “When you learn a language, you are able to access another culture!”
b. “Language learners should take risks when speaking!”
c. “Learning languages opens opportunities you had not thought of before for your career!”
d. “If I want to travel or work overseas, speaking a foreign language will open doors for me!”
e. “The ability to speak another language helps you to make new friends!”
Add your own statements
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Look at the following stair steps
graphic organiser and focus on one of
the participants from the opening
ceremony. Imagine that the lowest
step on the stairs is the beginning
point in their career/studies, and that
the top step is where they are now:
try to fill in the steps you believe they
took between the beginning and the
top to get to where they are now in
their careers with languages!
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