This document provides information about a workshop on teaching primary languages. The workshop objectives are to discuss expectations for languages in key stage 2 and consider cross-curricular ideas. The program includes welcoming remarks, an activity where students greet each other in different languages, and a discussion of challenges with teaching languages. It then outlines sample classroom activities that integrate languages with other subjects like literacy, art, and drama through tasks like describing colors, doing role-plays, and writing poems. The document encourages linking language activities to speaking, listening, vocabulary and creativity standards.

1. STARTING OUTSTARTING OUT
WITH PRIMARYWITH PRIMARY
LANGUAGESLANGUAGES KEVI Camp Hill
School for Girls
March 2015

2. PROGRAMME
•1.30 -1.40 Welcome and
introductions
•1.40 – 2.15 Getting going:
starting from where
we are!
•2.30 – 2.40 Coffee
•2.40 - 3.30 Practical ways to take
language forward
and stay sane!

3. OBJECTIVES
•To discuss what the expectations are
for languages in KS2 – and to see how
easy it can be!
•To consider cross-curricular ideas that
allow pupils to be creative with small
amounts of language
•To link activities to the National
Curriculum programme of study

4. LET’S SAY HELLO!
Tope-là!
Salut!
Bonjour,
monsieur/madame/mademoiselle
Bonjour, votre altesse

5. WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT
LANGUAGES IN KS2?
Some common responses
Difficult
Hard to find the time
A great opportunity
I’m worried about my accent
I don’t know what the
expectation is
There’s no help or support

6. USING PLAYING
CARDS OR
NUMBER CARDS
CAN BLEND MFL
WITH SPEAKING
AND LISTENING IN
LITERACY,
DRAMA AND
SMSC

7. •Thinking back to the first
activity…
•do we recognise this?
•“Pupils should be taught
to listen and respond
appropriately to adults and
their peers.”

8. 1.Pupils go round the class greeting
each other or this could be done as a
circle activity.
2.They then try to line themselves up
from most important to least.
• Which aspects of the programme of
study could this address?
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

9. SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
•Colours
[Literacy/Art/Numeracy[shape]]
•Role-plays [Literacy, drama]

10. LES
COU
LEU
RS
•Rouge
•Vert
•Bleu
•Jaune
•Orange
•Noir
•Blanc

11. LES
COU
LEU
RS
•Rouge
•Vert
•Bleu
•Jaune
•Orange
•Noir
•Blanc

12. COLOURS
•Introduce colour adjectives
•Match up with adjective cards
•Can they add any others they wish
to using dictionaries?

13. MATISSE

14. GAUGIN

15. JACQUESJACQUES
VILLONVILLON

16. SIMPLE SENTENCESIMPLE SENTENCE
STRUCTURESSTRUCTURES
colour verb adjective
Le bleu est calme.
Le vert est naturel.

17. ROLE-PLAYROLE-PLAY
•Any
conversation
will do!
•Let’s try a
conversation
in a café.

18. AU CAFÉAU CAFÉ
•Bonjour, Madame!
•Bonjour Monsieur!
•Bien sur! Voici le coca…et la
limonade.
Désolé! Voici l’addition.
•Bonjour. Je voudrais un coca.
•Pour moi, une limonade.
•Le coca est horrible!
•Oh là là là! C’est trop cher!

19. AS PUPILS ARE WORKING OFFER THEMAS PUPILS ARE WORKING OFFER THEM
THE FOLLOWING CARDSTHE FOLLOWING CARDS
•timide
•aggressif
•calme
•rapide
•froid
•robotique
•violent
•rapide
•fatigué
•assuré
“Pupils
should…
.
acquire
a
wide
vocabulary…
.”

20. •As pupils perform, the rest of the class
guess the adjective being expressed
•How is this a creative activity?
Which skills does it demand of
students?
SAMPLE ACTIVITIESSAMPLE ACTIVITIES

21. WRITING ACTIVITIES
•Year 3-4
•Dictionary skills
•School items
•Likes and dislikes

22. BONJOUR, AU REVOIRBONJOUR, AU REVOIR
•Read the poem and then try to
create some stanzas of your own

23. BONJOUR, AU REVOIRBONJOUR, AU REVOIR
•Bonjour la pluie
•Au revoir la plage
•Bonjour la neige
•Au revoir les fleurs
•Bonjour le soleil
•Au revoir la télé
•Bonjour le vent
•Au revoir le chapeau
•Bonjour le brouillard
•Au revoir le jardin
Bonjour les vacances
Au revoir le soleil
Bonjour la souris
Au revoir le fromage
Bonjour le chat
Au revoir la souris
Bonjour le chien
Au revoir le chat
Bonjour le lion
Au revoir le chien

24. WHICH OTHER SUBJECT AREASWHICH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS
CAN MATCH WITH LANGUAGES?CAN MATCH WITH LANGUAGES?
•Some ideas:
•Maths – shape, number, operations
•Science – planets, sound, materials and properties
•RE – festivals, different ways of seeing the world
•Music – song, rhythm, intercultural aspects of music
•Dance – instructions, counting, prepositions, parts of
body
•D and T – making displays to embed and celebrate
learning, following instructions
•I bet you will think of loads more before next time!