WAYS TO USE LANGUAGES IN PE LESSONS
A Hiding the language in sporting activities – Not changing the way you teach, just amending content.
A Hiding the language in sporting activities – Not changing the way you teach, just amending content.
- Numbers – Counting, Numbering players, Pairing students.
- Colours of bibs.
- Shapes – get into a circle.
- Equipment names.
- Activity names (verbs) – run, jump.
- Match Foreign word with sport word with fetching word in shuttle run or orienteering tasks.
- Matching picture with Foreign words.
- Match with what students are being taught in their Languages lesson – Imagine “What would the most important things to know if you were to play sport abroad.”
- Motivation – Give pupils reasons why speak another language.
- Foreign language used initially more in warm-up and small games rather than big sports.
- Targeting some groups before others.
- Grouping students – Sporty with Language to lead a session.
- Translations on sports hall walls on posters – numbers / shapes / equipment.
- Find the foreign word for sports word as Homework.
- Reflect on your progress (but write in a foreign language)
- Famous sports stars from different countries.
- Different sports played in different countries
- Disc Golf
- Bandura – Attention-Retention-Demonstration-Motivation
- Whole-Part-Whole – Student start immediately the sport, then stop and teach skill, then observe progress when students start sport again.