Our ninth grade French students tried the exercises made and shared by the students in Gymnasium Georg Ernst. The students liked most of the exercises and considered them useful, interesting and challenging.
Two students and two teachers took part in SEN confidence building workshop in UK in March 2018. This part of our Erasmus+ project included various confidence building activities as well as visits to both Ounsdale and Pershore High School.
Just before our summer holiday started we had time to watch the English Slang -video with a couple of classes. One could clearly see that especially the language-oriented students were interested in studying these words and some even started to use them right away. It was a great idea to add the word list. Perhaps the students can use it in the autumn to create a memory game in order to test each other's knowledge of these words.
As a part of Finnish schools on the Move, a national action programme to establish a physically active culture in Finnish schools, our language teachers organized an Outdoors Language and Culture Quiz. The students had to walk along the jogging path around our school to find the ten check points with three questions about language or culture on each. Most of the questions were in Finnish to ensure that all the students had an equal chance to succeed. The students were allowed to use their mobile phones to search for the right answer on the net, simultaneously learning new cultural facts. A couple of the language teachers also practiced the usage of QR codes while inventing the questions for the quiz. The quiz was carried out during language lessons on three consecutive days to ensure that as many students as possible could participate. The weather was warm and sunny and the students enjoyed the walk outside.
Our SEN students thought that the students in the primary school seemed interested in our our project, were eager to take part in everything, smiled and looked happy. It seemed to our students that the younger students also learned something and had fun. All our SEN students felt good about being involved in the project and enjoyed themselves too. To sum up, our project was very succesful.
Our seventh grade SEN students went to the nearest primary school to promote MFL to a group of fifth graders. After all the primary school students had tried to introduce themselves in Swedish and done some counting 1-10, they practiced the days of the week. The words were written on pieces of paper. The Finnish ones were on the blackboard face up and the Swedish ones face down. The students then had to come and turn over one of the face-down papers, read it and guess its meaning and put it on the blackboard next to the right Finnish word. Our students also taught them some animal names which they then had to act out for the class to guess. As you can see from the pictures below all the students had a great time. Two groups of our seventh grade students visited the nearest primary school to teach the fifth graders some Swedish. The first group taught some verbs like sing, swim and jump. First our students showed the verb written on a piece of paper and said it in Swedish and the primary school students had to guess its meaning. Then everybody had to act it out. After all the verbs had been acted out, our students said the verbs in random order and the students had to act it out. They also used the game-based learning platform Kahoot to teach some animal names. The primary school students were eager to participate Only one of them acknowledged having studied Swedish before. The second group started right after the first one. They began by asking if any of the students already knew Swedish and about five students raised their hand, which proves that the first group did successful work. The second group of our seventh graders used colourful sheets of paper with the name of each colour on it to teach the colours in Swedish. First the students had to guess the colors and repeat them. The words were put up on the blackboard and the students had a few minutes to try to memorize them. Then the words were turned over and the students had to come to the blackboard to write the names of the colours under each colour. The students were quick to learn and it seemed that everyone enjoyed themselves. Two students, Emilia Luimula and Mikael Passi, and one teacher, Susanne Nuttunen, from Liedon Keskuskoulu participated in an Erasmus+ project in Köping, Sweden.
. English has intentionally been used in short activities in some PE lessons. However, the ongoing usage of MFL has usually been a spur-of-the-moment decision. The teachers have also taught the new sports and games they learned during the PE week to most of our students. They have also had many discussions about internationalism and international cooperation during the PE lessons, especially with the 7th graders. In the video below the students are counting in different languages. |
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