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TASK: Create the comix (makebelievscomix) ITC suite

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TASK: Create the comix (makebelievscomix) ITC suite

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TASK- speaking & writing
PAST SIMPLE (grammar structure)
-I was...
-You were...
-Were you...?
-Was he...?
-I saw...
-I didn`t see...
-Did you saw...?

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Tier 3 vocabulary teaching can be incorporated into any lesson - whatever the subject. Here, we share tips for:

Assessing learners' understanding of subject-specific terminology

Setting engaging, multimodal tasks

Igniting social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL)

Encouraging learners to reflect on how they learn new words (meta-cognitive learning)

Why do learners struggle to grapple with subject-specific terminology?

Recent research by the Education Endowment Foundation into improving literacy in schools confirms how crucial subject-specific vocabulary teaching is:
"Literacy in secondary school must not simply be seen as a basket of general skills. Instead, it must be grounded in the specifics of each subject. Crucially, by attending to the literacy demands of their subjects, teachers increase their students' chance of success in their subjects. Secondary school teachers should ask not what they can do for literacy, but what literacy can do for them."
However, many learners may struggle with Tier 3 vocabulary as it is often unfamiliar. A Year 8 student, for example, will rarely see 'chromosome' or 'tributary' in their wider reading.

When learners can't understand subject-specific terminology, they can't access the content being taught. Luckily, content and vocabulary don't have to be taught separately.

Our ten methods for incorporating teaching new terms into lesson plans across the curriculum can be shared with teachers of any subject. They can also help you develop a whole-school literacy strategy. Our Tier 3 vocabulary curriculum tool, Bedrock Mapper, can easily enable teachers across your school to teach and assess their own subject-specific vocabulary.

Find out more about Bedrock Mapper

Bedrock Mapper enables schools to deliver quality teaching and learning of subject-specific vocabulary.

10 top tips for teaching subject-specific terminology

1. Preselect key terms

To avoid wasting time teaching terms learners already know, preselect the words you're going to focus on. Look ahead to the next lesson, think about which terms are going to prove tricky, and then assess learners' understanding beforehand.

To do this, you can use a grid like this one.

Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Scale

Alternatively, try making a continuum. Place a word on the board and ask learners to place themselves along the continuum depending on how well they understand it. It may take a few minutes to plan, but it'll save you lots of time in the long run.

2. Present terms in context

Context is essential when we try to understand new words. Don't start your lesson with a confusing terms-and-definitions match up. Instead, give the class a piece of text that uses the terms in context. Once they've seen the new words as part of a whole, you can start to explain what they mean on their own.

3. Break words down into their morphology

Teaching morphology - breaking words into prefixes, suffixes and roots - is a really effective way to help students make links with a familiar language. So many terms that seem intimidating at first actually contain parts that students already know.

For example, they will know that 'biology' is the study of living things. Breaking this down and looking at the prefix 'bio' - life - will help them define what the new word 'biography' means.
Find out more about using root words in our blog on providing literacy CPD.

4. Create terminology trading cards

As you move through a unit and come across new key terms, get your learners to design trading cards to represent the new concepts. On the front, they should write the term and draw a related image. On the back, they write a description plus two key points. Making the cards helps learners to remember the new terminology, and there are also lots of games you can play with them.

For example, you could split learners into two teams. Team A can only look at the term and picture side. Team B can only look at the description side. Learners from Team B might ask: "Who has a type of energy that comes from the Earth?" Team A might ask: "Who has a description of geothermal energy?" Once everyone has found their partner, learners can swap trading cards.

5. Make justified lists

Often learners understand what they're being taught, but aren't sure how to explain it. Asking learners to justify or classify something can be a great way to encourage learners to expand on their reasoning, strengthening their oracy.

For example:

When asked to pick the odd one out from this list, many learners might find this easy - however, when asked to explain why it is different, few learners might use the word organism. When learners give the explanation, "Well, a lorry isn't a living thing," you can take an additional step and encourage them to come up with their own definition for the Tier 3 word organism.

6. Try charades

The great thing about Tier 3 terms is that they're often very difficult to act out. Getting your learners to try and represent the term tectonic is a challenge, but one that will really encourage your class to explore their understanding of new Tier 3 language.

Split your class into two groups and have learners take it in terms to act out Tier 3 terms, while other learners guess the meaning.

Transform tier 3 vocabulary with Bedrock Mapper

Mapper makes targeted subject-specific vocabulary instruction that is personalised to every learner, easy.

7. Play taboo

Write your new Tier 3 term on a piece of paper, and pick five of the most obvious terms to describe it. These descriptors are now taboo - learners must try and explain the Tier 3 term to their class without using those five obvious words.

By encouraging learners to use new words to describe Tier 3 language, their understanding of the new term's context deepens - and you might even be able to encourage them to use ambitious Tier 2 vocabulary to describe the term!

8. Make bingo cards

Give each learner a card with nine new Tier 3 words in a square. From there, you tell the learners the words and they cross them out, just like normal bingo - except instead of giving your learners the word, give them a mixture of clues, such as definitions, images, metaphors and more.

What is to learners a fun game of bingo is actually a fantastic dual-coding exercise, deepening their knowledge of subject-specific contexts.

Vocab Bingo

9. Try a game of jeopardy

Flip the structure - instead of you offering a definition and learners replying with a term, give your learners an answer and let them come up with a question.

For example, if you say equilateral triangle, possible answers from learners might be, "Which type of triangle has three equal sides?" or "Which type of triangle has a 60° angle on every corner?"

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Find 10 top tips for teaching Tier 3 vocabulary and boosting disciplinary literacy for your learners.

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TASK (speaking) DRAMA [in pairs]
Street interview
S 1. JOURNALIST:
- When Malta became a member of the EU?
S 2. It was in 2004.
S 1. JOURNALIST:
S 3: What happend in Malta in the year 1565?
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  Valletta Harbour - A drive round Valletta's harbour and the magnificent bastions. Valletta is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites and isone of the few surviving inhabited walled cities.

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  Valletta Harbour - A drive round Valletta's harbour and the magnificent bastions. Valletta is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites and isone of the few surviving inhabited walled cities.

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HOP ON-HOP OFF BUS- SOUTH RED TOUR -Get a flavour of the beautiful city of Malta with our City Sightseeing open-top bus tour.

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HOP ON-HOP OFF BUS- SOUTH RED TOUR -Get a flavour of the beautiful city of Malta with our City Sightseeing open-top bus tour.

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1.Hagar Qim & Mnajdra
2.Blue Grotto
3.Ghar Dalam Cave
4.Marsaxlokk fishing village
5.Esplora Science centre
6.Valletta Waterfront Terminus
7.Vittoriosa Waterfront
8.Valletta - Malta Experience/fort st elmo
9.Valletta City Centre
10.Opposite Bayview hotel
11.Sliema Ferries

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The Maltese Falcon  Is it the legend?

1. In 1539, the Knight Templars of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon.
2. The bird was encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels.
3. Pirates seized the galley carrying the priceless token and had eaten the falcon.

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Sliema - Sliema is Malta's main coastal resort. It is a centre for shopping, restaurants and café life. Sliema is also a major commercial and residential area and houses several of Malta's most recent hotels. The coastline promenade, which runs for several kilometres from St. Julian's to Gzira & Ta' Xbiex, is ideal for walkers and joggers.

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Sliema - Sliema is Malta's main coastal resort. It is a centre for shopping, restaurants and café life. Sliema is also a major commercial and residential area and houses several of Malta's most recent hotels. The coastline promenade, which runs for several kilometres from St. Julian's to Gzira & Ta' Xbiex, is ideal for walkers and joggers.

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 Limestone Heritage - A museum which explains the importance stone always had with the island. Exhibits include tools used in bygone eras to quarry and work

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 Limestone Heritage - A museum which explains the importance stone always had with the island. Exhibits include tools used in bygone eras to quarry and work

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Blue Grotto - A natural cave with crystal blue waters. A small fishing village from where you can take a short boat trip round this  natural wonder.

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Blue Grotto - A natural cave with crystal blue waters. A small fishing village from where you can take a short boat trip round this  natural wonder.

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Marsaxlokk Fishing Village - A typical Mediterranean fishing village with colourful boats, market and fish restaurants. Mix with the locals and enjoy the fresh and relaxed atmosphere.

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Marsaxlokk Fishing Village - A typical Mediterranean fishing village with colourful boats, market and fish restaurants. Mix with the locals and enjoy the fresh and relaxed atmosphere.

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 Valletta War Museum - Malta suffered greatly during the wars and this museum is a testimony to the hardship of those years. Exhibits include equipment, uniforms and photos.

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 Valletta War Museum - Malta suffered greatly during the wars and this museum is a testimony to the hardship of those years. Exhibits include equipment, uniforms and photos.

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TASK (DICTOGLOSS)                                            Malta is stunning in its beauty. Its charm lies in rocky coves, bays ,cliffs and a few sandy beaches. About a third of the island is arable land with ancient, cultivated terrases cut into the hillsides for crop growing. Wetlands attract scores of species of birds, and plants wildflowers are in abudance.  

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TASK (DICTOGLOSS)                                            Malta is stunning in its beauty. Its charm lies in rocky coves, bays ,cliffs and a few sandy beaches. About a third of the island is arable land with ancient, cultivated terrases cut into the hillsides for crop growing. Wetlands attract scores of species of birds, and plants wildflowers are in abudance.  

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TASK (listening &writing)
Dictogloss
Dictogloss is a type of supported dictation. The teacher reads a short, curriculum-related text several times and the learners try to produce their own version as close to the original as possible.
The ideal dictogloss text is at a language level slightly above that of the learners, but
with familiar subject content.
Students may not write/type when the teacher is talking. Variation: Reverse the order.
If you normally read texts from beginning to end, try reading them starting at the end.
RAINING

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The Upper Barrakka Gardens are a big attraction in Valetta, offering shade from the sun and tremendous views of the Grand Harbour

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The Upper Barrakka Gardens are a big attraction in Valetta, offering shade from the sun and tremendous views of the Grand Harbour

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TASK  (writing)                                                      Create the fairy tale "Magic falcon" in the capital city of Malta (use past simple time) 

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TASK  (writing)                                                      Create the fairy tale "Magic falcon" in the capital city of Malta (use past simple time) 

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VOCABULARY:                               sacrifice,friendship,adventure, antagonist, beautiful,brave ,character,conflict,curse,enchanting,enemy,evil,good,happy ending,hero,heroine,love,magical,protagonist,resolution ,romantic,wicked, witchcraft                                                     AT THE BEGINNING:                                                                   A land far far away… In a distant land… In a faraway land…Once upon a time… It all began… – Long, long ago… Once there was a… There was once a…                                            AT THE END:                                                                                  …happily ever after …but that’s another story! – …to be continued ...all’s well that ends well

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Wordwall - Twórz lepsze lekcje w krótszym czasie

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1) Yesterday I .... to work by bus. 2) What did you .... in the museum? 3) John .... the vase. 4) Two days ago my daughter .... a cat to our house.