Languages Week Scotland

**1st week in February

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What's your favourite French word & why?

Draw it or make a talking picture like this one.

Use Chatterpix to create yours & share it.

Learn words with Mr Innes.

Challenge - Did you know that French & English words that sound and look the same / similar are called cognates. How many can you work out from this list?

Check out this list of words in Scots that are similar to French words. How many do you know?

Languages All Around You - a resource for P6 & 7 learners with lots of activities.

What's your favourite word in Gaelic?

What Gaelic words do you know?

draw a picture of your favourite word and write the word below it

Take a photo or video and tweet it!

Why not try using the Apps Chatterpix or POSE: Talking Pictures & record yourself saying your word?

Virtual Classrooms

French Music & Songs

Tune for Tuesday

Develop your Language skills by Listening to songs in French & other languages from around the world. Plus hear different music styles. How many words can you recognise?

Click the keyboard to Hear some traditional French songs. Which one do you like the most? Why? Share your thoughts with others.

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Listen to some traditional and modern Gaelic music

Do you know a Gaelic tune and can you play it on a musical instrument? Record it and let us hear it!

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Gaelic Music / Songs

Why not video the performance?

Try to sing a verse or a chorus of a Gaelic song you know...

Post it onto the blog or tweet it.

A traditional Story

Time to listen to a story - follow the adventures of Petit Poisson Blanc. Try & join in. How many colours and sea creatures can you remember? Did you like the story?
Want a challenge? Create your own story using the same storyline & repeated phrases. Change the colours & add new animals - here's an example by French children.
Need help with new words? Use an online dictionary.

Animated Stories

French Stories & Poems

Poetry

Ever tried bi-lingual books? A great way to learn a language. Listen to native speakers read you a story on BookBox. Read the English subtitles to develop your language. Start with Level 1. What words do you recognise? Try to learn 3 new words.

Watch these short animations to see some short French poems. Use the clues - pictures & cognates to work out the theme of each one. Choose one poetry technique & have a go at writing one yourself.

Use Powtoon to animate your story or poem.

Toontastic 3d.mp4

Toontastic - create a short story in Gaelic. Keep it simple!

Find toontastic in your Chromebook App Store

In Toontastic- create a short online story in Gaelic in 3 or 5 parts. Choose the setting & characters. Record yourself speaking in Gaelic. Keep it simple!

Use a Gaelic song as a poem - Can you draw a picture to go with each verse or can you make up the next verse?

Gaelic Stories and Poems

Who's your favourite character from any book? Can you describe them in Gaelic?

France In Images

What do you think of when you hear the word France?

Croissants, Bonjour, red-white-blue, Eiffel Tower, Skiing... - Maya, age 8

Tour the country with this video - how many images do you recognise? How similar are they to the things you link to France?

Over to you....Create your own visual representation of France with 1+ images - draw, paint, use PPT, make a collage online using PicCollage or create a video. Present it as a simple poster or link to the geography of the country in a map.

Challenge - put all your ideas together & use French & English to write an acrostic poem for the word FRANCE. Voice/video record yourself presenting your poem & share it.