Primary Sampler Module Teacher's Notes ISL - Flipbook - Page 6
Say
Yes to Languages
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My Linguist Portrait
Suggested activities
• Tutor presents her/his linguistic portrait and explains the diferent roles of
Before we start:
Guess how many
languages are used
in our school /
community
diferent languages in his/her life
• Pupils work on their own linguistic portraits (in their Language Passports or
on a single page)
• Tutor asks what languages are spoken by pupils in the classroom and
teaches the signs
• Signing their own name / creating their own unique sign name
• Pupils present their linguistic portraits to each other and make a multilingual chart/poster of all the languages from
their class, where the names of languages are written in the original language (e.g.: Polski for Polish) and possibly
including the pupils' names. They practice signing the names of the languages in their linguistic portrait
• Pupils can be asked to complete the activity on page 4 of the Language Passport:
