Active learning - Pair and group work

Children learn in many different ways and have different learning styles. Opportunities for children to experience language through song and rhyme, storytelling and games offer children ways to interact with the new language and with one another in a dynamic and social environment.

Through active methods and physical response children feel safe to explore and experiment with the new sounds. For those who prefer to listen and observe, they absorb the new language by watching others and gradually increase in confidence, until they too are joining in, responding to what they hear and see and engaging with others in short conversations and role-play.

Reading

A visiting teacher first of all speaks to camera, outlining the value of participation and follow-up work by the class teacher.

In the extract, children work in groups to link picture and text cards containing several pieces of information about places around the world. However, on the text cards there are some factual mistakes which children must spot and correct.