+ Piara Waters Primary School - Our Language Community Orientation Lesson 1

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Piara Waters Primary School - Our Language Community

Orientation Lesson 1

+Lessons 1 & 2

WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community

WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

+Complete the following sentence starters as a team…

1 Australia is a country ….

2 The main language of Australia is…

3 Other languages spoken in Australia are…

4 Australian’s speak many languages because…

5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak…

You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

+Success Criteria

All will: work collaboratively as teams and identify known places on a school map

Most will: Talk about your school language community and understand there are other language communities beyond their own

Some will: understand the links that those other languages have with other places in the world

+Maps from memory – starter activity

In groups of 3 or 4 redraw this map

from memory

print this map

+Our Beautiful World

In your groups look at the world map. What 3 main physical features does the world have?

+Where in the world will you see… Mountains

Desserts

Fires

Rivers

Tornados

Tsunamis

Earthquakes

Forests

Cliffs

+Who in the world speaks…

German

Spanish

French

Italian

Chinese

Hindi

Arabic

+Starter Heads Together…

We live in Australia.

What language is mostly spoken across Australia?

What is language?

Where else is this language spoken?

How did this language come to be spoken in Australia?

What other languages are spoken in Australia?

What languages do you know of or have heard?

Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board

+Object Modeling our Language Community

Look at the map of Piara Waters Primary School

Locate the main entrance

Locate the Library

Locate your classroom

Build a model of the school and label your classroom with as many languages as you can remember

Recall: How many languages are known of or spoken in this classroom? Which are they? Who speaks them?

Question: How many other languages might be spoken in other classrooms? How will we find out?

+Complete the following sentence starters as a team…

1 Australia is a country ….

2 The main language of Australia is…

3 Other languages spoken in Australia are…

4 Australian’s speak many languages because…

5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak…

Challenge. Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each.

+Our Beautiful World

In your groups look at the world map. What 3 main physical features does the world have?

+Answer

It is map of oceans, continents and countries?

Complete the sentences

What is an ocean? An ocean is…

What is a continent? A continent is…

How many continents are there in the world? There are…

What is a country? A country is…

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Piara Waters Primary School - Our Language Community

Orientation Lesson 1

+Lessons 1 & 2

WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community

WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

+Complete the following sentence starters as a team…

1 Australia is a country ….

2 The main language of Australia is…

3 Other languages spoken in Australia are…

4 Australian’s speak many languages because…

5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak…

You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

+Success Criteria

All will: work collaboratively as teams and identify known places on a school map

Most will: Talk about your school language community and understand there are other language communities beyond their own

Some will: understand the links that those other languages have with other places in the world

+Maps from memory – starter activity

In groups of 3 or 4 redraw this map

from memory

print this map

+Back to Back…Re Orientation

I am an ocean between Africa and Australia? Which ocean am I?

I am an imaginary line through the centre of the Earth? What’s my name?

I am a continent in the Northern Hemisphere with countries such as the UK, Germany and Hungry. Which c0ontinenet am I?

I am an ocean between North American and Asia. What ocean am I?

I am a continent with countries such as Zimbabwe , Somalia and Nigeria. Which continent am I?

I am an ocean between Europe and America. Which ocean am I?

I am a continent between in the Northern Hemisphere joining Europe. Which continent am I?

I am a large continent of ice in the southern Hemisphere. Which continent am I?

+ 3 Physical Features of Our World

Oceans, continents and countries?

Complete the sentences

What is an ocean? An ocean is…

What is a continent? A continent is…

How many continents are there in the world? There are…

What is a country? A country is…

+Who in the world speaks…

German

Spanish

French

Italian

Chinese

Hindi

Arabic

+Starter Heads Together…

We live in Australia.

What language is mostly spoken across Australia?

What is language?

Where else is this language spoken?

How did this language come to be spoken in Australia?

What other languages are spoken in Australia?

What languages do you know of or have heard?

Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board

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Our Language CommunityPiara Waters Primary School

Lesson 3

+Lessons 1 & 2

WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community

WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

+Complete the following sentence starters as a team…

1 Australia is a country ….

2 The main language of Australia is…

3 Other languages spoken in Australia are…

4 Australian’s speak many languages because…

5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak…

You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

+Starter Heads Together…

We live in Australia.

What language is mostly spoken across Australia?

What is language?

Where else is this language spoken?

How did this language come to be spoken in Australia?

What other languages are spoken in Australia?

What languages do you know of or have heard?

Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board. How many?

How many across our school?

Chine

se/ M

anda

rin/C

anto

nese

Gujar

ati

Telu

gu (I

ndia

)

Punj

abi (

Indi

a)

Amha

ric (I

ndia

)

Malay

(Mal

aysia

)

Serb

ian-

(Ser

bia,

Bos

nia)

Afrika

ans (

Sout

h Afri

ca)

Filip

ino/

Taga

log

(Phi

lippi

nes)

Thai

Indo

nesia

n

Span

ish

Polis

h (P

olan

d)

Portu

gues

e

Bemba

(Zam

bia)

Ndebe

le (Z

imba

bwe)

Kanna

da (I

ndia

)

Leba

nese

(Leb

anon

)0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Language Diversity at Piara Waters

No of Students

Home Language No of Students

Chinese/ Mandarin/Cantonese 25

Malayalam (India) 11

Gujarati 9

Hindi (India) 7

Telugu (India) 3

Tamil (India) 7

Punjabi (India) 8

Marathi (India) 3

Amharic (India) 1

Nepali (Nepal) 1

Malay (Malaysia) 2

Russian 2

Serbian- (Serbia, Bosnia) 7

Sinhala/ Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) 6

Afrikaans (South Africa) 5

Bengali (Bangladesh) 4

Filipino/Tagalog (Philippines) 7

Korean 5

Thai 1

Burmese 2

Indonesian 2

Japanese 3

Spanish 5

Creole (French) 2

Polish (Poland) 1

German 2

Portuguese 1

Maori (New Zealand) 3

Bemba (Zambia) 1

Shona (Zimbabwe) 4

Ndebele (Zimbabwe) 3

Swahili (Tanzania-Africa) 2

Kannada (India) 1

Hungarian (Hungary) 2

Lebanese (Lebanon) 1

Arabic 2

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Where in the World did all this language come from?

15,000

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Lesson 4

+Warm up

Spelling Bee

Knowledge

+Complete the following sentence starters as a team…

1 Australia is a country ….

2 The main language of Australia is…

3 Other languages spoken in Australia are…

4 Australian’s speak many languages because…

5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak…

Challenge. Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each.

+Object Modeling our Language History

Look at the map of how language spread across the world

Which continent has the oldest known languages?

Where are the newest languages of the world spoken?

How old are the traditional languages of Australia?

Recall: How many languages are known of or spoken in this classroom? Which are they? How many languages are spoken across the school? Can you remember any that are different from the class?

+Lesson 4

WALT: To know and identify some of the languages spoken across Africa

WILF: Locate African languages on a map of Africa & begin to explore Zulu as one of the Official languages of Africa

Success Criteria:

All students will participate and support each others’ learning

Most students will be able to identify the official languages of Africa on a map of Africa

Some will be able to present what they have learnt about Zulu as an official African language

+African Language Facts

Some of the oldest surviving human languages

4 language groups - Afro Asiatic, Nilo – Saharian, Niger Saharian & Khoisan

11 Official languages – English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi/Swahili, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu

1500-2000 languages across Africa

Zulu is an official language of southern Africa

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