Presentation delivered to PSB MFL meeting on 8th February 2024 Theme - there's more to languages learning than lists of words

1. 8th February 2024
Lisa Stevens
lisibo.com
@lisibo

2. Westlife wisdom
“It’s more than words
And it’s more than what you say
It’s the things you do.”

3. Words are important

4. The 3
pillars

5. So is something to stick them
together.

6. The 3
pillars

7. Auntie Susan

8. However, it takes more than bricks
and mortar to make a wall.

9. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
GRAM-ATE
CAPITALIS
E
WORD
GROUPS
WORD
ORDER
STRING IT
Laura Riley-Genton
SANDWICHE
S

11. The 3
pillars

12. Marie-Odile Guillou
Rachel Hawkes
Sue Cave Noémie Neighbour
- Italian
Leigh
McClelland
- German

13. L1 L2
©️ Jolly Phonics ©️Brilliant Publications

14. mirrors – look at your
mouth
missing letters
find a word that…
colours/numbers/months
sort by sound (venn
colours)
Bingo
pa pe pi po pu
4 patas para un banco

15. Madame Birtwistle

16. The 3
pillars
INTENT
3 pillars of
vocabulary grammar
and phonics
IMPLEMENTATION
4 modalities (L S R W)
LLS
KAL
Culture
IMPACT
assessment

17. What do you need?
 Context
 Consolidation
 Confidence
 Communication
 Culture
 Celebration
 Connections

18. Context
“When you are eating with so-and-so, whose bowl
do you fill first?”

19. Jack Herbert

21. Too much of a good thing…

22. • Secret sentence
• Trapdoor
• Last One Standing
• En mi pueblo hay…
• Mi ciudad

23. Eleanor Chettle Culley
Clare Seccombe / LightBulbLanguages
Primary French Project

24. Simo Na
Simo Na
Catherine Cantin
Things to do with sentence builders
Clare Seccombe

25. 1. Knowledge of Argentina – count the provinces, name them,
pronounce them. Countries that border Argentina.
2. Compass points / prepositions – Santa Cruz está en el sur de
Argentina. Jujuy está en el norte de Argentina en la frontera con
Bolivia. Entre Ríos está en el este al norte de Buenos Aires.
3. Colour – giving the name of a place and requiring the colour(s)
response, either in a single word, a phrase or a sentence. Soy de
¿de qué color es mi poncho? or ¿De qué color es el poncho típico
Luis? – blanco y naranja/Es blanco y naranja/El poncho típico de
es blanco y naranja.
4. Pattern – ¿Cómo es el poncho de Salta? Es rojo con una
en el cuello y en el borde. This site gives a description of some in
as well as historical information about ponchos. And here is a
extensive article in Spanish.
5. Combining all the above. Soy de Neuquen. Está en el oeste de
Argentina, en la frontera con Chile, al norte de Río Negro, al sur de
Mendoza y al oeste de La Pampa. El poncho típico de Neuquén es
con puntos azules.
6. Using the above, design your own poncho using traditional
and patterns:
Mi poncho es …… El rojo significa ….. Tiene estampa…… Es como el
poncho de ….

26. Communication

28. "One of the hardest
things in life is having
words in your heart that
you can't utter."
—James Earl Jones

29. Confidence
If in doubt, make it up!

30. How do we deal with mistakes?

33. Are we teaching the words
children want and/or need?

34. Not just
words.

36. Hands of the World

37. World Book Day 2019
Querido Zoo in Spanish
and Makaton

38. Connections

42. Included looking at the beauty of words

44. Etymology

46. https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources-language-links.htm

47. https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resou
rces/PrimarySpanish/days.pdf
* patterns * relationships * links to history/geography
* Not just languages

48. CULUL CHUCLATI ROSAS CULUL SALMON CULUL ABU CULUL UBI
NTSUNDU PINKI ORENJI NGWEVU MFUSA
COKLAT MERAH MUDA ORANYE ABU ABU UNGU
KHAVE RENGI PEMBE TURUNCU GRI MOR
BRUN ROSA ORANSJE GRÅ LILLA
KAPAMPANGAN
XHOSA
MALTESE
INDONESIAN
TURKISH
NORWEGIAN

49. Celebration

50. Celebrating languages
inviting children
to share their
languages
spontaneous poetry

51. LANGUAGES
There are so many languages; I can't count there's so much.
There's Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, African and Dutch.
There are so many languages
In this world
But very few of them have I been told.
There's Spanish and French
I'm sure,
And Dutch, Maori and many more.
There are so many languages, every one is unique.
There are so many languages about which we can all speak.

54. Culture

59. A whistlestop tour of our international
journey
2006-7 2007-9
2011-14

60. Why?
• comparing and contrasting culture has led to greater awareness of our own
• a purpose for learning – languages as well as the wider curriculum including handwriting!
• changed the school ethos and attitudes
• encouraged ALL to feel valued
• challenged stereotypes
• offered so many WOW moments of awe and wonder
• increased knowledge of the world and broadened world view
• we’ve had exciting post
• languages have gained prestige and are less likely to be ‘forgotten’ or curtailed
• greater understanding and appreciation of language skills
• confidence to share cultural heritage
• openness to curiosity – it’s not rude to ask questions!
• appreciation of our community
• children ‘seeing’ themselves
• empowering our school community - staff upskilling in Barcelona, visits, including community members
• other staff leading initiatives and coming up with ideas
• being given time for report writing etc
• prestigious awards
• being held up as a model

61. This year our projects include…

62. widening world
view
challenging
stereotypes
Spectre - Diá de los Muertos

63. Virtual Let’s Go Cultural!
Conference
Whitehouse Common hosted the
Virtual Let’s Go Cultural! conference in
January.
Children loved meeting their peers via
Teams, sharing songs and stories, finding
out about culture and playing games!

65. Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street
In assembly, we read the
story Lunch at 10
Pomegranate Street
which is about a building
in which everyone is
cooking lunch, each with
a recipe from their own
heritage or culture.
https://www.loom.com/s
hare/ba199c2f0c0d401f

66. The Great
WCPS
Recipe Book
Inspired by the story, we are creating
our own Whitehouse Common
Primary School recipe book filled with
our favourite recipes.

68. Around the World in 80
Books.
https://padlet.com/MrsWoodDHT/zfwygb46bn62jf6u
For World Book Day (March
3rd) the whole school decided
to travel around the world in
80 (mostly story) books.
Classes explored the
geography, customs and
people of the stories they
read.
They also explored the
language of at least one of
the countries in their books.
Their learning was marked on
this Padlet map.

69. Children also brought in books that meant something to them – in
their language, from their heritage or from a country they visited.

71. Current
affairs

72. "For me, words are a form of action, capable
of influencing change. Their articulation
represents a complete, lived experience."
—Ingrid Bengis

73. Let’s get practical!

74. from LightBulbLanguages
Unit 16
cognates
identifying
gender
discuss
English/Spanish
false friends
reinforcing
English
vocabulary
do children know
words that are
borrowed?

76. Example…
then make your own!
Links to
Maths,
English and
Computing!
left – by gender
right – by phoneme

77. Numbers

78. 10 wins… or loses!
BOLÍGRAFOS
2+2=?
PHONICS
UNO, DOS, CUATRO,
CINCO
GRUPOS DE ….

79. W HEN WAS I BORN?
DÍAS HASTA …. LA
NAVIDAD
ESTADÍSTICAS
VALLADOLID 0 –
ZARAGOZA 2
¿CUÁNTO ES? £ € $
shared by BetsyBelle
¿MÁS, MENOS O
IGUAL? ><=

81. https://youtu.be/PYfaN
zQgFrk
https://youtu.be/tOj4hEk2CtU
https://youtu.be/yW9
zLWBkkqk
from Lightbulb
Languages
Unit 10

83. http://lisibo.com/2021/09/hipopotama-
feliz-pato-enojado/
question form
estar + adjective
emotions
masc/fem
muy (bastante)
-ito/a
Two presentations
(books available in other
languages!)
http://lisibo.com/2020/11/take-
one-book-phorum-presentation/
http://lisibo.com/2021/03/take-
one-book-v2-lw2021/

84. Play with language
Rewrite stories
Apply grammatical
knowledge
Models to new versions
Adding ‘bells and whistles’

86. Spanish - Spring 1
At the end of Mi pueblo we made comic strips using the verb IR, transport and
places in town. We challenged ourselves to extend our writing using time

87. Spanish - Spring 1
We’ve been using our scientific knowledge to help us in our Spanish unit Los Planetas.
To celebrate our learning we’ve made concertina books describing the planets.
Mercurio es un
planeta pequeño y
rápido muy cerca del
Sol.
Saturno
es un
planeta
rojo y
bastante
grande
que tiene
anillos.
Plutón es un planeta
minúsculo y frío muy
lejos del Sol.
La Tierra es un
planeta azul y verde
bastante cerca del
Sol.

88. Link to La Selva
EL CARNVAL
DE LOS
ANIMALES
shared by
Angela Smith
Ce n’est pas une
giraffe.
Ce n’est pas un poisson
C’est une giraffon!
Is it un or une? How do
we decide?
A favourite
with Y2

90. Thanks to CharlotteB-f for
sharing
https://youtu.be/X_b4O6Ko_3g
from LightBulbLanguages

91. http://lisibo.com/2
017/05/veo-veo-
a-rubio-y-o-villan/
http://lisibo.com/2
020/01/using-a-
game-for-
learning-
prepositions-
teachprimary-
issue-14-1/
https://www.slideshare.net/lisibo/yea
r-3-spanish-story-making
https://www.slideshare.net/lisib
o/senor-cabeza-naranja-mod

93. Doña Pito Piturra
Tiene unos guantes,
Doña Pito Piturra
Muy elegantes
.
Doña Pito Piturra
Tiene un sombrero,
http://lisibo.com/2011/07/dona-pito-piturra/

94. http://lisibo.com/2021/02/un-paisaje-para-que-
los-pintes-gloria-fuertes/
http://lisibo.com/2021/02/en-un-pais-magico-
gloria-fuertes/

95. • Outdoor learning
• Recycling previous vocabulary in new
contexts
• Providing a core of vocabulary plus choices
• An opportunity to be original
http://lisibo.com/2014/06/seasonal-poems/
LOS COLORES DE
LAS ESTACIONES

96. Takeaways

98. Lisa Stevens
Twitter @lisibo
lisibo@me.com
Website: www.lisibo.com
Pinterest -
www.pinterest.co.uk/lisibo/
Languages in
Primary Schools
(Facebook)

99. "By words we learn thoughts, and by
thoughts we learn life." —Jean Baptiste
Girard