The teachers that Emilie and I will be working with tomorrow are teachers who have basic skills in language learning and are looking to enhance their own knowledge of the language and ways to enhance the learning of the children.The activities below are about ...... and the blog post is intended as notes to the teachers:

sound patterns
looking for matching sound patterns
encoding text
reconstructing text
reading aloud a text

I love this simple days of the week and colours poem that I found on pinterest

Step One
What is the poem about?
Show the children this blanked out version of the poem:

By concealing any other language can the children identify that the poem is about days and colours?
What colour do they think that Sunday must be? Take suggestions and reasons why.

Step Two
Give out to pairs the cut up poem as below:

Can the children reconstruct the poem in the correct order of the days of the week .Can they decide whether the line........ :

"C'est la joie des enfants"

goes at the beginning or the end of the poem?

(Suggest that the poem rhymes so that this will help the children to decide where the line should go).

Which children guessed the correct colour for Sunday?

Step Three

Ask the children to look for sound patterns in the poem:

Send them on an "I" sound hunt and find the words where the words where the identical letter and sound or a matching sound to the "i" sound can be found

Send them on a similar hunt for "ou" and for "an"

Step Four

Ask the children to help you to understand the meaning of the poem and appoint class members as the class dictionary detectives. Give lout five dictionaries to five class detectives and make this a speed game to locate key words and fond the meaning:

My key words in the poem would be :

tout/clair/se reposer/ vient(venir)/tour/ suit (suivre )/ toujours/ la joie /enfants

Step Five

Can the class help you to read the poem out building to a happy crescendo on a Sunday because this is "la joie des enfants!"

Take a look at the image! It's a football player .....but who is the person on the inside ?

These are World Cup activities for our Year 4 ,5 and 6 learners in the target language.

Yesterday thanks to @vallesco I received a link to the Daily Telegraph and the football strips for the World Cup teams.

Here's the link

World Cup football strips

Here is the England team and their football strip ...........

......................................................................but what makes them who they are on the inside?

Select some football strips of the World Cup teams! Give each table or group of six children a football strip and a country.

Can the children investigate the countries and the famous buildings, foods,traditions and customs of the country and create a new football shirt of cultural graffiti for France .......

For Germany .......

For Spain...............

Here's my Spanish cultural graffiti shirt .I am certain our children will make them look far more authentic and creative!

The children can use this information to create an informative English presentation about the country and specific cultural aspects to share with the class with pictures etcetra.The t-shirt can act as their prompt as they hare their information with the class.

Now can they create what's on the inside . Ask child in the group to select a team player from the World Cup team for the specific country and on the reverse side of the cultural graffiti shirt

Can they record on the reverse side of their shirt a target language greeting , a name phrase, maybe the town/city the player comes from and characteristics that describe the player (e.g. strong, quick,powerful,fast,brave etcetra)?

Here's my simple example:

Now the challenge is to create a football team of real people not just players . Each member of the team needs to introduce themselves and say their characteristics using the t-shirt as a prompt if necessary.

The class is almost ready for football team presentations . Each group must now decide upon a chant for their country name.

The final presentation will have three parts:

the country and the culture in English / the players and their characteristics in the target language / a final team line up and of course a team chant of the name of the country!

Thanks to @vallesco for the French power point she has posted on light bulb languages to support teachers if they are investigating some of the participating teams in French and want to create their cultural graffiti t-shirts!

French Who is inside the tshirt? ppt

Seeking sound patterns in French and exploring a poem about days of the week and colours.

World Cup 2 Who is the person on the inside?