Presentation delivered at Inspiration for Motivation, the Linguascope Conference 2010 at the Thistle Hotel, Brighton, on tips for successful Primary Language teaching

1. Top tips for Primary
Language Learning.
Lisa Stevens
Inspiration for motivation June 25th 2010
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2. essential kit?
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4. Get active!
Juguemos en el bosque
Baile Olimpico
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5. Take Ten
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6. getting kids
talking
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7. What to do with it.
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8. enhanced podcasts
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9. ICT
Maya y
UpToTen
Miguel
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10. One example -
written oral
differentiation cross curricular
focus on e.g. adjectival endings
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11. Network!
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12. site
wikispace
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13. storytelling
sharing
whole class involvement
French slideshare
Spanish slideshare
independence
cross phase
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14. Appearing near you...
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15. Embed it!
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16. lots with little
lego colour bricks by 713Avenue
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17. increase confidence
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Splat! Pic
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20. Rhyme
Uno dos tres, CHO
Uno dos tres, CO
Uno dos tres, LA
Uno dos tres, TE
Bate bate chocolate
Bate bate chocolate
song and text clip song
phonics literacy oracy ICU
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21. Silly songs!
Mi barba tiene tres pelos.
Tres pelos tiene mi barba.
Si no tuviera tres pelos,
Ya no sería mi barba.
Next verse miss out barba, then tres, then
pelos, replacing them with actions.
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22. Silly songs!
Mi ….. tiene tres pelos.
Tres pelos tiene mi …….
Si no tuviera tres pelos,
Ya no sería mi …...
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23. Silly songs!
Mi …… tiene …. pelos.
…… pelos tiene mi …….
Si no tuviera ….. pelos,
Ya no sería mi ……...
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24. Silly songs!
Mi ………… tiene ………… ……….
…………. pelos tiene mi ………...
Si no tuviera ……… …………,
Ya no sería mi ………...
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25. Adapt a song!
Mi perro tiene diez dientes.
Mi conejo tiene dos orejas.
And Mi pez tiene muchas burbujas.
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26. Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal.
(r and rr)
Debajo de la puente de Guadalajara había un
conejo debajo de la agua.
(g and j)
Tres pollos bolos peludos.
Tres peludos pollos bolos.
(l and ll)
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27. Cinq chiens chassent six chats.
(c and ch)
Chouette chassures.
(ch)
Fruits frais, fruits frits
Fruits cuits, fruits crus
(‘ui’ and fr/cr)
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28. Can you work out the English equivalents
of these tongue twisters?
Pepe Pecas pica papas con un pico.
photo from
Trippography on Flickr Con un pico pica papas Pepe Pecas.
Camarón, caramelo,
camarón, caramelo,
camarón, caramelo,
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29. sounds and phonics
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31. creativity
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32. Voicethread
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33. Make links
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34. ICU
from Flickr by San Jose Library
from Flickr by Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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35. Top tips for PLL.
use what’s around you.
get active
get the kids talking
use ICT to enhance
use stories
embed it
don’t reinvent the wheel
use games, rhymes, songs
be creative
make links
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36. have fun
but most of all....
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37. Lisa Stevens
http://lisibo.co.uk
lisibo@me.com
Ltd
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