Get a pencil from the person beside you without speaking. Now show thanks without speaking. How did you do it?
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Notice how pictures and gestures carry meaning
- Hear polite phrases in five languages
- Find on a map where those languages are spoken
Watch each card on the board. Listen carefully, then say the English, Irish and French cards back together as a class.
When you hear German or Spanish, show thumbs up if it sounded a bit like English, and thumbs sideways if it sounded new. No need to say those back yet.
You each have a bingo card, on paper or copied onto your mini whiteboard. When you hear a polite phrase from today's languages, cross it off if it is on your card. Cards are all different, so not everyone has every phrase.
We will try one practice call first so everyone knows how to cross off. When every phrase on your card is crossed off, call Bingo, and we celebrate with our silent thank-you gesture.
Open your copy.
- Copy two thank-you phrases from the board strip (pick any two language forms you like).
- Then draw the gesture you would use if you had no words at all.
The board strip stays up so you can copy every letter and mark carefully. Choose a short form or a longer one, whatever you can write with care.
On the Europe map we will find where English, Irish, French, German and Spanish are spoken.
Hands up when you spot Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, or a place that uses more than one of them. A volunteer can come and point on the board.
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