Transition Year
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MFL Projects in The Classroom and Online Booklet
A new booklet is available where you will find a selection of ideas, activities and resources for your TY language classes. Each suggestion can be used in a face-to-face context or online.
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20 Ways to Reflect in the Languages Classroom
Do you want to find out how to get your students to reflect more? The new Junior Cycle curriculum requires students to reflect more on their language learning processes. This document produced by the PPLI gives you 20 quick ways in which you can get reflection into your classroom. Accompanied by photocopiable sheets, these will help you and your students to become increasingly familiar with the language of reflection.
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Clock Face Starter Activity
Get them speaking!
A fantastically simple yet effective way to get students speaking in the classroom to practise particular topics following the traditional idea of speed dating but in a new and exciting way.
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Culture boxes
What do you see in a culture?
It’s all a question of perspective… “Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar’ and ‘making the general specific’ are two intercultural education strategies.
Culture boxes can be used as a starting point for intercultural reflection in the languages classroom. They also support the teaching and learning of the socio-cultural knowledge and intercultural awareness.
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#ILoveMFL Conference
#ILoveMFL which took place on the 21st September 2019 at UCC, Cork, a collaborative event between PPLI and JCT.
This link will take you to the powerpoint presentations, keynote videos, photos and other resources from the day. These will be uploaded to the site periodically as they become available.
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Sentence Creation using Authentic Texts
This activity uses authentic texts to practise key vocabulary in them before dealing with the text as a whole.
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Japanese TY module: Christmas Test
Use this test to assess your students’ knowledge after the first term of Japanese
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TY Japanese module: group project
Get your students working in teams to complete a group project!
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TY Japanese portfolio
Use this booklet to help your students complete the Japanese section of their TY portfolio
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Lesson plan: Japanese Stereotypes
Use this lesson plan to have a discussion class with your class about stereotypes in Japan
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Japanese movie: Spirited Away Worksheet
Use this worksheet after watching “Spirited Away” with your class
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Japanese TY module: Clothes and Colours
Practice clothing and colour vocabulary with this worksheet
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