Active learning - Games

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.

Noughts and crosses game

This class is practising saying adjectives and colours in French by playing a ‘noughts and crosses’ game in 2 teams. One child must choose a colour and an adjective from the whiteboard and say both correctly to win the point.