Implementing classroom activities by EUN Partnership aisbl

Silvia, Romania

munteanusilvia2000 — 2021-09-27 10:46:14 UTC

Other examples could be:
- naming the colours in different languages and finding similarities
- switching on the language of your phone apps for a day
- learning the sign alphabet
- listening to a song in a foreign language and guessing what its message is

Olivia, Austria

2021-09-27 13:08:59 UTC

I've tried the counting activity and so far the students always enjoyed it.
Last year around Christmas time, I did a lesson on the song 'Oh Christmas tree' and taught the students how to sing it in sign language; they loved it so, so much. Most of the students remembered how to sign it and showed me at the beginning of this years' first term.
I've also done small A5 labels for the classroom and its objects - in English, German and some of the native languages. I get the students to help me with the labels, which they enjoy because they are in charge of the correct spelling ;) (I usually still google it afterwards to make sure the word are spelled correctly).

Visnja, Croatia

2021-09-27 13:11:22 UTC

As I already said- I did have similar experiences in biology. I try to leave some words in different language than Croatian in my presentation. The pupils loved it. The idea of singing birthday songs in another language sounds also great to me, I will definitelly try to incorporate it. When we encounter some latin word i allways try to point out not only the translation on Croatina but another languages- Italian, Spanish or French which I speak. And then I ask the pupils about the same word on Geman as they learn it in school and I don't speak it- so it is a process of learning for me as well.

Roxana, Castilla y León (Spain)

letrarevuelta — 2021-09-27 14:41:21 UTC

I find creative activities ,such as writing poems mixing languages, very interesting.

Fernanda, Portugal

ferfreitasrbe — 2021-09-27 14:42:44 UTC

In the classes, history of Portugal, I intend to explore the world map, with various activities, in Portuguese and translate into English:
- mark the names of European countries, continents and oceans;
- identify the products marketed in the 15th - 18th centuries, from different continents.
Using the padlet as an aggregating tool.

Daniela Russo, Italy

2021-09-27 14:48:33 UTC

An activity that I have used in the field of linguistic diversity concerns the local recurrences present in their respective countries of origin.

Karen, Germany

2021-09-27 15:20:34 UTC

I my music lessons I often sing songs from different countries in the respective languages. The students enjoy teaching me the pronunciation of the songs of their mother tongues.

Caterina Fantini - Italy

caterina_fantini1 — 2021-09-27 15:31:30 UTC

Etwinning Projects are very useful because have many activities that allow students to use our own language and knowing he other languages.

Konstantina, Greece

2021-09-27 15:41:55 UTC

I have not implement any way of Nelly's in my classroom but I would try to use it a literature lesson with a game of expressing feelings as a way of feeling the text and exress the sentimentes on board wrighting down the words in different languages and showing the meaning to the others pupils.

Verónica, Spain

2021-09-27 16:00:30 UTC

Once, I was teaching English and I let 4 moroccan students to talk between them so they could explain to each other what I was saying.

Dimitra G, Greece

2021-09-27 16:03:22 UTC

Some other examples are to tell the date in different languages or the weather.

VA, Portugal

2021-09-27 16:19:49 UTC

I am a science teacher. For exemple, I use to ask my students to features a natural enviroment. They select a natural habitat, near home or one that they had visited. Take photos and show in class. In English, they have to classify the type of environment, and identify two plants and two animal foud there.

Manuel, Spain

2021-09-27 17:09:37 UTC

Other examples could be:
- The teacher previously writes the theory he wants to explain in his own mother langue.
- He then uses Google Translator to translate the document into the mother language of the student.

I did this with a couple of turkish students, and I wans't able to tell if the translation was correct or not. It worked surprinsingly well. They appreciated the effort and were able to keep up with the lessons.

Konstantina Eirini Koufou, Greece

2021-09-27 17:51:58 UTC

we use many languages when in class we do tasks about tourism [terms useful], birthdays and national holidays [greetings], idioms when we talk about terms not fully translated

Gülbahar,Turkey

2021-09-27 19:45:45 UTC

We did a quiz show in differents languages with our students ıt was amazing and they enjoyed a lot:)

Carla Dias, Portugal

2021-09-27 21:44:00 UTC

As an English teacher, I use mostly the English language in my classes. Sometimes we use other languages to help translating new vocabulary, we sing different versions of a song (for example "Happy Birthday"), counting numbers, saying the ABC, among others.

Mohamed OMRI,Tunisia

omrimed20 — 2021-09-27 22:37:28 UTC

students can play kahoot game to give some traduction to some words. we can work in a etwinning project to present themselves or their traditions in their own language .

Christos T., Greece

christsapan — 2021-09-28 06:11:24 UTC

In my school, we have implemented some of Nell's ideas in a project about multilingualism in Europe. Student's groups from 5 European countries created a multilingual dictionary. In that way, students took the power to shape their own learning.

Mihaela Epure

2021-09-28 06:47:46 UTC

I think singing birthday wishes in native languages is a great idea!
Other than that, on a high school level two other ideas could work:
1. Each student, in turn, presents for 3 minutes at the beginning of every class their favourite word/food/activity, using their native language; they can associate drawings to their presentations. At the end of the semester, students can create an album called ”Our Group's Favourite Things”.
2. Students could create a bilingual 'Reading Journal' of their favourite book, presenting the title, details, quotes in both languages, creating a poster, etc.

Aphrodite, Greece

2021-09-28 09:21:13 UTC

It would be a good idea in an english class to present and teach ways of presenting oneself in English and then have students from other countries present themselves in their mother tongue. The rest of the students will have to find the equivalent of 'I am' in the other languages for instance. Or we could be teaching simple everyday conversations in english ('Hello, how are you', etc) and then ask two students have this conversation in their mother tongue.

Ivana M., Croatia

2021-09-28 12:58:48 UTC

There are numerous activities to do in classrooms. When studying about a certain country, in Geography class, students from that country could speak in their language and explain cultural differences. When studying about a writer from a foreign country, students from the same country coud read the text speaking the language the text was originally written in. Students find it interesting.

MARIA, P. Greece

mpapado66 — 2021-09-28 16:28:54 UTC

Each student could present their favorite band with a poster from their country

Monica, Romania

monicaiordache — 2021-09-28 20:24:20 UTC

Students can present some particularities of their countries in terms of culture, traditional food, customs, art, using power point presentations or even personal videos made by themselves.

Maria Rita, Italy

mariarita_pepe — 2021-09-29 07:11:52 UTC

Building together a sort of multilingual class dictionary, listing examples of class language (functions) needed for our daily interactions.

Ebru, Turkey

ebruozcam — 2021-09-29 08:32:47 UTC

Neil's ideas are nice and workable, but I think they are more suitable for extracurricular activities.

María José, Spain

maestramariajosegarcia — 2021-09-29 16:04:32 UTC

Other activities could be:

*Sing familiar songs in the various languages present in the classroom, for example "happy birthday"

*Find basic short sentences and translate them into all the languages of the children in the classroom: "What time is it? How to get to ...?"

*Students with other languages can make a variety of videos in their mother tongue and include subtitles in the common language of the class, so that the rest of the students can become familiar and thus give prominence and motivation to these students.

Paco, Spain

pacoarroyo84 — 2021-09-29 17:22:02 UTC

Well, one thing I did: while learning the different parts of the body (once again), and noticing that that wasn´t going anywhere, I told my Bulgarian speaking student to teach us the same words in Bulgarian, that was a real challenge. After that, they found much easier to learn in English

Sandrine, France

2021-09-29 17:59:08 UTC

- sing songs in various languages
- listen to African relaxing music during quiet time after lunch for young children

Ida, Croatia

2021-09-29 19:19:18 UTC

- use of picture cards

use of word cards

Students accept them well and love working with them.
- letters on a magnet (arranging simple words to more complex ones) to create a new word in native and foreign language

- global reading (reading with pictures) so that the student first says the sentence in his native language, and then I translate it and than he repeats it

transliterate letters / short words
rewrite words first in capital letters, later learn written letters
ICT tools, games (wordwall)

Pupils love games in general, computer games in particular.
- listening to songs, rhymes… and repeating a foreign language

kinesthetic games

Children love to sing and engage in physical activities.

Ksenija, Croatia

2021-09-29 21:27:33 UTC

I used this in my classroom: we learned isolated words or expressions from my multilingual students. The proposed seems particularly suited for CLIL lessons. I will try that.

Alba, Spain

albitagj22 — 2021-09-30 07:22:36 UTC

It would great to celebrate a day about the gastronomy around the world, they can bring their ideas and some dishes that are typical from their hometown. Apart from that, they can explain some traditions that are common in their country and explain why they are key in their culture and their justification by presenting orally

Z.Elif Eser-Turkey

elifsozeri — 2021-09-30 10:22:16 UTC

it is easier with extracurricular activities. Once I organized a gastronomy day at school and the students brought some food from their hometowns and talked about them with a foreigner. Of course they switched into their mothet tongue but they enjoyed it

DrSuha Ababneh

islambabneh — 2021-09-30 11:01:07 UTC

Incoperate the students in globel activities and projects

Özge, Turkey

ozgekoc824 — 2021-09-30 13:26:50 UTC

I am working on being a certified NatGeo Educator, so I am trying to integrate different contents to my classes. However, I have not experienced and embedded any activity that addresses linguistic diversity. However, this year I will have students who are going to be international so I will read what my colleagues wrote and try to apply them. Thank u.

Antonella Z. Italy

antomakena — 2021-10-01 06:30:16 UTC

some of the activities Neil is suggesting I already do in the class... so I'm happy to see I'm going in the right direction... What I do every day is to greet each other in different languages (not only the ones of the children). I like the idea of poster vocabulary, the writing of names in Arabic when possible...

Angelika, Poland

2021-10-01 09:06:10 UTC

Thank you for all your ideas which are really great!
-my students read poems in their mother tongue;
-we discuss their favourite music bands/singers and listen to them;
-we investigate translations of the same literary work in different languages and identify if there are any differences in the context;
-we perform the same performance using different languages;
-when we read literary works in translation and if there are students from that very country (for example, Haruki Murakami's works - Japan; Margaret Atwood's works- Canada; Franz Kafka's works - Germany/Austria; Leo Tolstoy's works- Ukraine, Russia, Kazahstan; Zbignew Herbert's poems - Poland, etc) I ask my students read the work in the original (in the language of writing) and compare with the translation or explain some tricky phrases/words/cultural issues. It always work! Students are happy to share their knowledge with other students.

Raluca,Romania

raluska — 2021-10-01 16:12:56 UTC

I used this in my classroom:
Sing songs in various languages:
Listen relaxing music in varios languages

Graça Casimiro, Portugal

2021-10-01 19:53:10 UTC

I have already used some of the approaches Nell mentions and they work. For example singing birthday songs, counting.
The most relevant strategy that I have already used was poetry and also brainstorming with different words from different countries and students with different ancestry would help the others fill in a board. It was really funny.
When we work with students with 17/18 it is even more interesting since they have a different level of understanding and they can go to other level by comparing gastronomy, customs, which elevates the the lesson itself and seduces learners to go the extra mile in relation to other languages.

Brigitta, Romania

2021-10-02 06:31:37 UTC

Listening to songs in different languages, interactive language games, Kahoot and other online games.

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2021-10-02 07:47:27 UTC

Creating collaborative activities to share customs, traditions, words, songs of all the students of the class (Italians, foreigners) by using English language, too (a common language). These activities are very easy to implement in eTwinning projects and I always do!

2021-10-02 20:32:52 UTC

For the World Championship four years ago, I created with my students an audio and a list in Farsi, in Dari, in Arabic and in German with useful words and expressions for football. They liked the way to teach me the phonetic basics of their mother tongues.

Gabriela, Romania

gabrriellaa2x — 2021-10-03 06:23:42 UTC

In my school we do not have so many students that speak a different language, but during our extracurricular activities we tried to offer a variety of activities( collaborative acrosticc poems, word clouds with different translations of words)
https://ro.padlet.com/gabrriellaa2x/se53k7e38nutcgk4

Carole, France

2021-10-03 09:00:01 UTC

Very interesting, especially for all the Routines activities.
For me, it is a great way to make citizens of the world.

Ana, Portugal

2021-10-03 09:18:43 UTC

we can involve students in:
- Etwinning and Erasmus projects
- Theatre and language clubs
- Real interactions in class (present words, greet... in different languages)
- Share songs in different languages
- Share worldwide famous people ...

I find Nell's ideas innovative and adecuate for her students´plurilingual context. I also like many of the ones everyone has posted. I particularly like( because I see them more plausible for my students' context) the ones related to the translation of words or short sentences, in songs-as MªJosé, Sandrine or Raluca said-or using Google translator-as Manuel said-or even in the creation of a mini-dictionary- as Christos mentioned. I guess my students would find it very difficult to engage in plurilingual projects or more complex activities such as poems or subtitling videos. I would like to do an activity which can be included in one of the units this term so as to be more meaningful for them. It is going to be related to "Looking after Pets", using three instructions which they can translate in Arabic and Romanian.

2021-10-03 10:39:38 UTC

Stavriana Soubassi, Athens

ssoubassi — 2021-10-03 14:06:25 UTC

I teach English as a foreign language at a high school in Athens, Greece. My classes are becoming all the more multilingual with about 4 in 10 pupils speaking Albanian alongside Greek and 1 in 10 with refugee backgrounds speaking Arabic, Farsi and Dari.
Because I am both an English and a German teacher as well as deeply fond of all languages in general, I have always encouraged pupils to collaboratively create multi-modal texts in several languages (playscripts, songs, posters etc).
In order to promote inclusion and global active citizenship, I run CLIL projects for students to develop research skills across their languages and create presentation products in English, Greek and their home language.

Kimie, Portugal

2021-10-03 16:26:31 UTC

Elicit naming the exercises being executed in Physical Education lessons. Use as many languages as possible.

Maria, Portugal

2021-10-03 18:16:46 UTC

A great way to prepare students for what is expected in a XII citizen.

Ayşen, Turkey

AysenCalisir — 2021-10-03 21:28:44 UTC

Exposure to language affects learning more. For this, eTwinning and Erasmus projects are very valuable. Gamification is important, especially young children feel more comfortable playing. As I mentioned before, the activities produced based on visual images such as symbols and graphics will be very useful. It was very helpful for my colleagues to share their great ideas and experiences here, thank you

Chrisitna,Greece

2021-10-04 11:51:46 UTC

Find the same song in different languages, share recipes or traditions and celebrations.
Initiate projects with multicultural context.

Tania - Spain

2021-10-04 14:03:56 UTC

We could share songs in different languages, recipes, customes, costumes, clothing, dancing, famous people ...

Diana, Italy

2021-10-04 17:03:32 UTC

Playing board game like Guess who, learning to sing familiar song but in other language like Silent night, telling fable in different languages, finding words from different languages that rhyme

Izaskun, Basque countries

2021-10-04 17:51:09 UTC

My students have to transform a traditional fairy taile, then read it and record it to share it in a blog.
They could up load the fairy tailes in different languages: Spanish(subject language), and tongue language: Basque, Romanian, Arabic,

Inés. Spain

2021-10-04 17:58:11 UTC

One lesson I often do with studets from different language backgrounds is to explain a recipe from their countries in English. Explain the ingredients ( they normally bring them physically or can show a photo). The method in their own language, showing it by demonstration and finally bringing it the fina result to the classroom. The real final product or a photo if is not possible to actually bring it into the classroom. They feel proud of showing a famous dish from their culture and love sharing it with their class!

Monica Arotaritei

arotariteimonica — 2021-10-04 18:14:35 UTC

I teach English so I strongly believe that exposure to authentic materials and to real language experience can lead to a great outcome.

Maria João Marques, Portugal

mjvmarques — 2021-10-04 20:38:45 UTC

Well, as I said before, creating a routine with words or sentences that are meaningful for the students and are related to the topic that are learning in English is always the easiest way. On special occasions, as festivities, it is also possible to refer to objects or traditions, even food that is special and these could be the centrepieces of the learning process through their own languages, being the target always the learning of English as a second language.

Manuela. Spain

2021-10-04 23:58:39 UTC

It is very easy to hace access to films and news in different languages and use The min The classroom

Constantine, Canada

cjioannou — 2021-10-05 00:54:00 UTC

I have always found dual language books to be very effective. In one highly multicultural school in the Ottawa area years ago we started a program called Hawthorne Writes. This meant that every person in the school was to write a non fiction story for a book compilation (staff included) and then there were many reading nights organized in different languages plus copies of stories on websites and relatives and friends around the world were invited to read online. It was great and was an expansion of the regular dual language writing. I think also having students compare the words of songs in more than one language based on a common theme is a good idea. Most important for me is to demonstrate the languages that are present in the school via bulletin boards etc - make it important looking as it really is!!

Beatriz Sousa, Portugal

2021-10-05 14:06:51 UTC

The first activity that came to mind was doing a "Show and Tell" about a certain topic (for example, their house). The students could do a presentation in their mother tongue and then in english (which is the language that I teach).
I think it could be very interesting!

Alina Bogdan, Romania

2021-10-05 14:30:58 UTC

In a multilingual class, with small children, we can count, say poems or songs in different languages, even the surrounding objects can serve us as teaching material. we can greet you on arrival or departure in several foreign languages.

Regina, Italy

regina_marrazzo — 2021-10-05 18:14:14 UTC

Many multilingual activities could be done:
- learning the colors, the numbers and the classroom objects
- writing the daily routines in different languages
- creating PPTs on common topics but translated in different languages

Michael, Germany

Erz — 2021-10-07 18:38:51 UTC

To my mind these ideas are more suitable for extracurricular topics in our classes. This does not mean, that this is not important. So using the multilingual ressources means not only to integrate our students mother tongue into our lessons but also to reflect cultural diversity. .... meaning to integrate the topics documented in our curricula with their everyday relevance, using the variety of languages...

Bojan, Croatia

labojan — 2021-10-07 20:54:40 UTC

I liked when Nell talked about singing birthday songs and counting in different languages. I find out that there are lots of opportunities for learning native songs in different languages and that would be, as I assume, very interesting to students.

Thomas, France "awareness" as a precondition to successful learning

2021-10-08 05:43:43 UTC

All the activities proposed and suggested by fellow teachers here are valuable, but I'm still wondering what exactly is "trained" in this "language awareness" approach to multilingualism.

In the context of a foreign language class, apparently it's not the target language that is "trained" but another type skill.

Obviously, these language diversity activities won't be enough to develop real language competences in each one the language the students come into contact with during the class.

So, through these "contacts with alterity" and "language awareness" insights, what seems to be trained is more about language attitudes and learning motivation more than just one language skills training. This work on representations the students have can be crucial as well, since without proper attitude and motivation there cannot be any successful learning or teaching.

Yue, China

2021-10-08 06:02:08 UTC

It would be possible to use online education games to introduce students to language diversity.

I already use it a lot as to give the students a push, a stimulation or a recreation during the class, so they don't get sleepy or bored along the way.

Until now they always respond positively to this kind of activities. They have grown up with those numeric tools and are quite fond of it.

Andrijana, Croatia

Shipwreck1 — 2021-10-08 09:14:11 UTC

Possible activites:
1. making a picture dictionar which includes words in the students' home language and the mother tongue;
2. learning how to say ''hello'' in different languages;
3. learning a sign language for some of the world's languages, etc.

I have some experience with counting to 10 in different languages (English, German, Italian) and my students liked it a lot.

Federica Carminati, Italy

2021-10-09 15:18:06 UTC

- Glossaries of the more useful words
- Posters (always visible in the classroom) with photos of "Me, my favourite places, my favourite things" using words in every language
- Create short stories in native language, school language and english and share them on the school website in a dedicated area
- Learn the basic things, such as NUMBERS, COLOURS, SHAPES
- Create a "class language" in which apply routines (greetings, going to the toilet, asking something to the teachers)

Emma, Spain

2021-10-09 18:01:35 UTC

One of the activities we could carry out in a multilingual class is create an infographics with important information at school such as fire exits, how to perform first aid, classroom rules, school rules. Information that the whole educational community should know.

A Modified Version of the Language Passport

2021-10-10 05:58:54 UTC

If I had to plan classroom activities that incorporates linguistic diversity, making use of the concept of a language passport—as shown in the attached video—would be my first step, where knowing where each student is with their level of language awareness would help me with planning possible activities that can foster their curiosity with other languages. From there, whatever languages they know the best or whatever language(s) they want to improve on can be used in games and other active activities, where they will be able to add their progress onto their language passports and look at what they have accomplished throughout the semester. Examples of activities that can make use of a language passport include virtual field trips to World Heritage Sites as part of a history lesson, along with a multilingual re-enactment of a historical event based on what students have recently learned during their virtual field trip as apart of an arts-based curriculum.

—Austin Nicholas Dragoș [United States of America]

Mirela, Croatia

klaricmi — 2021-10-10 09:24:11 UTC

I practice saying "thank you" in all languages I know when students bring some materials to my table - it wasn't seen as positive from the parents who complained abput that practice because "I teach Croatian after all". I still do it anyway. I think ideas in the video are excellent and I would surely use them all if I had a bilingual student in my classroom. One more way of making other languages welcomed is, for example, making classroom news board where students can write what happened in school or class today in simple sentences in their own languages. Or cu articles from newspaper in various languages (same headlines, different languages).

Prado, Spain

pradodtoro — 2021-10-10 11:29:24 UTC

In my English class we listen and sing the same song in different languages. I also allowed my student to use their mother tongue language to express their feelings. And activity they like is to write their poems, they have to post them on Teams, in the class group, and they also have to read them aloud, in front of the class. Alter that the other students have to choose a partner´s poem to illustrate what they have understood with drawing.

Hana Haimour/Jordan

haymourhana — 2021-10-10 12:44:18 UTC

There are many educational activities that aim to learn new languages, such as chanting and publishing a unified song in the student’s original language. It is also possible to write certain words and ask each student to say it in a language other than the original language. It is also possible to write mail messages in a common language and another second language and exchange These messages are between students

Najoua Slatnia. Tunisia

NajouaSlatnia — 2021-10-10 16:55:42 UTC

There are several activities we can do in a multilingual class, I suggest for example:
- Translating verses from poems.
- Posters of famous sentences in different languages on a theme of the lesson.
- Word clouds in different languages.
- Creating a dictionary of words in a lexical field.
- Multilingual posters
etc.

Teresa, Spain

2021-10-10 19:29:56 UTC

These are some ideas that have come to my mind in relation to the activities that I could implement in my Technologies sessions:
- They prepare and present their own presentations, based on digital slides, containing terms related to the tools and materials used in the workshop in their mother tongue, English and Spanish (as I work in a bilingual high school).
- Game-based learning activities containing terms in different languages, so that they all need to cooperate and contribute with their own language to help the team win.
I have never applied this kind of activities to my classes but I will definitely do. This kind of initiatives are being such an eye opener to me!!!

Glyka, Greece

glyka350 — 2021-10-11 06:41:56 UTC

basic vocabulary can be helpful, as it maybe serve as a basis to build activities using similar words or phrases.

Miliana Marcu, Craiova, Romania

2021-10-11 12:03:33 UTC

Fun games like:
"Sesame says ..."
'' Good morning !, Hello !, ... in English, Bulgarian, French ...

Gabi Borza, Romania

gabymaria22977 — 2021-10-11 14:13:09 UTC

I teach in primary school. Activities suitable for 8-9 year old students would be to count, to say familiar words, to say colors in different languages.
It would also be nice to have a project in which those who speak have another mother tongue to present us with a game, as it is called in its language, but how it is played. Parents or grandparents could also be involved.
Light poems, proverbs or famous quotes can also be translated.

TERESA, SPAIN

2021-10-12 10:08:58 UTC

As I posted in the previous padlet. It may be interesting to work with short stories every student might know. And considering the content of the short stories is known, we can build up a series of activities in order to understand how other students' languages might work, in terms of vocabulary and grammar. This way, every student might feel integrated in class.

Dóra, Hungary

2021-10-12 18:33:15 UTC

Maybe translating into differenet languages of our famous songs or even the national anthem could help to get to know each others' culture.

Ifigenia, Greece

2021-10-12 20:12:52 UTC

Basic vocabulary areas can be approached in two or more languages (i.e. colours, numbers, days of week. months, school subjects etc).

Fernando, Spain

2021-10-13 07:59:13 UTC

Basic and classroom vocabulay in different languages is very important at the beginning.

Clara, Portugal

2021-10-14 14:39:21 UTC

Great ideas, and some, I hope to put them into practice. For example, to enhance Portuguese speaking, I sometimes simply ask students to repeat words after me, or themselves repeated students’ talk in a corrected form. Or I use images with legends in English and I ask the class to translate to Portuguese and repeat the words.

Mukadder, Turkey

2021-10-16 20:19:29 UTC

One of the best activities I tried in class is translating some well-known song lyrics into their L1. It's fun and when the content is common and well-known, the setudents will also feel comfortable when they think that the others will understand the things that they utter in the mother tongue.

Cathy (Aikaterini Sideri)

kate_sideri — 2021-10-17 14:41:14 UTC

What I usually do is to have the whole class make a presentation poster with classroom language in the different languages spoken by the pupils. It's fun and creative and we add their photos, videos and voice messages in the form of qr codes. We usually do that as an icebreaking activity at the beginning of the school year and it usually works.

deniz kaya eryılmaz

dnzkay9 — 2021-10-17 16:04:26 UTC

I really enjoyed these activities. I planned feeding times to bring traditional foods to class and talk about them.

Şermin/Turkey

ayansermin — 2021-10-18 15:15:46 UTC

Ifigenia, Greece

2021-10-18 19:56:40 UTC

Some of the multilingual activities I'm comfortable with are singing birthday or festive songs in more than one languages and saying sets of related words (i.e. colours, days of the week, months etc) in many languages

VOICU CORINA VALENTINA, ROMANIA

voicucorinavalentina — 2021-10-19 16:27:29 UTC

The multilingual activities we do is when we talk about traditions and customs and the Levites can choose to present the traditions using words from another language.

Hoffmann-Bronț Viorica, Romania

vigyorika477 — 2021-10-20 07:37:10 UTC

My lesson is a lesson in making materials, within the THE COLORFUL WORLD OF MATH Project, International eTwinning Project. The project is conducted in English, and we are learning Romanian here. This is how the English teacher comes to our aid.
We will read, we will gather materials about great mathematicians and their achievements, both Romanian mathematicians and great international mathematicians. We will read curiosities about their discoveries, famous quotes of these people.
We will use interactive games, we will make portfolios, related on these topics. At the beginning we will do it in Romanian, then we will translate using the google translate application and finally the English teacher will make the necessary corrections.

Natália Neves, Portugal

2021-10-21 00:01:07 UTC

I like to work with idioms and proverbs when there's an opportunity to bring some into the classroom. Idioms and proverbs are closely related to a country's own culture and way of living. The meaning can be similar but you cannot simply translate to understand them. For instance, the Portuguese idiom which in English means 'it's the last straw", in Portuguese is "é a última gota" (it's the last drop). Besides being a funny way of teaching new words, using native and foreign languages, while talking about habits and culture, it's great to show students that languages may be different but still we all have much in common.

Danijela C. , Croatia

2021-10-21 19:19:38 UTC

As a history teacher, I can put a historical source in a part of the class in another language that is not too demanding for students, since my students are not of a different mother tongue. In addition, I can play a video on youtube in English that talks about the topic in question in class. Also, it is possible to give a short text in a foreign language on a topic and ask questions in the native language.

Violeta, Ro

2021-10-22 19:24:28 UTC

ACTIVITIES in multilingual classes - singing, saying poems, using objects as teaching material, cpunting with letters and objectis, crosswords, etc.

Maria Portugal

2021-10-23 10:21:16 UTC

We can involve students in activities of Science, language clubs and we can use Google translator to translate the information into the language of the student.

Cristina, Spain

2021-10-24 11:52:55 UTC

Creating moments where the students are the main characters of the class and create different activities according to what their needs are in every moment

Zlata Hrženjak, Croatia

zhrzenjak1 — 2021-10-24 18:59:16 UTC

I regularly use eTwinning projects where students are involved in different creative online and offline activities related to the most various topics.

Claudya, Romania

claudia_neacsa — 2021-10-25 00:46:45 UTC

I teach both English and French, and I usually explain words using the word from the other language...

Francesca, Italy

furnarifrancesca1967 — 2021-10-25 15:34:42 UTC

I teach English in a secondary school and I tend to find connections between my mother tongue and English to help students acquire new vocabulary.

Daniela Eugenia Dinu/Romania

danielastoian80 — 2021-10-26 09:28:19 UTC

Karaoke, Kahoot and Qizzez games, Wordwall and livework sheets.

rasha

rashaalomari448 — 2021-10-26 18:27:20 UTC

Kahoot and Qizzez games, Wordwall and livework sheet

Enrique Labajos Sánchez

2021-10-26 23:56:58 UTC

Cultural diversity in the classroom is on the rise in Spain, mainly in the urban areas, but also in some rural areas. In the past years I had many students coming from Morocco at the secondary school of Las Navas del Marqués in Avila, Spain. I tried to help them speak the English language so difficult for them so that they could integrate. They loved doing projects dealing with their culture and traditions. In groups they worked hard and exchanged positive feedback.

Elena A., Romania

2021-11-08 18:33:32 UTC

Posters, singing in different languages, saying hello in different languages, trying to translate poems or songs, learning some basic vocabulary etc.

Derya

akelderya — 2021-12-19 19:09:54 UTC

I create groups in the classroom and ask questions that they can answer both in education and in themselves. It can be about any subject. Students then hang the papers on the classroom board to see someone's answers.