Transition Year
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World of Work resources for TY students
This is the first resource of a new “World of Work” (WOW) series. This first resource is the “Great Language Apprentice Challenge” and is aimed at TY students who have studied French, German, Italian, or Spanish at Junior Cycle level.
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Let’s build a playlist for the classroom!
Last term we encouraged Foreign Language Assistants to get involved in the Let’s build a playlist for the classroom! competition. We will highlight some entries here.
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TY for Non-Beginners
We have a number of Modules and WebQuests designed for TY students who have already studied either French, German, Italian or Spanish.
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TY Modules for Beginners
We have a number of modules designed for TY students who are beginning to learn either Chinese, German, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.
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WebQuest – A trip to (Spanish)
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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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Spanish Language Challenge
We have a new resource available which would really suit all TY Spanish learners.
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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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CLIL Pilot: Training Materials
Training resources designed by the PPLI to train MFL teachers engaging with CLIL
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Writing a description of a painting
Dorota Połatyńska provides us with a very specific way in which we can use paintings and descriptions of them to help them to use adjectives, prepositions and nouns. This activity begins with a reception activity and develops into a production activity where students are writing their own descriptions of paintings.
It involves students (and teacher!) drawing descriptions of the paintings and comparison of the two to help reinforce their understanding of the target texts.
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CLIL: Exemplar Units of Learning (Password Protected)
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Flashcards to develop speaking skills
The idea is to develop students’ speaking skills but taking into account their ability. The cards are used as prompts and the students can start by making simple sentences to more complex ones with more able students.
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