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.

Sound game

This class is working on a cross-curricular project, involving work in English, Drama, History and languages about evacuees during World War 2.

The children have been learning how to pronounce en and an in French. Here they recall how the sounds are written and provide an example of a word containing the sound an. They then play a game of Noughts and Crosses in two teams. One child must choose a word card from a selection on the table, pronounce the word correctly and then place it on the OXO grid.