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INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
Crossword Activity 2
Key competences in activity 2 Competence in linguistic communication. Competence in knowledge of and interaction with the physical world. Competence in processing information and use of ICT. Competence in social skills and citizenship. Artistic competence. International Mother Language Day was launched by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999 and has been observed on February 21st every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. UNESCO believes that countries should encourage the use of mother tongues. It also aims to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla (also called Bengali), as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the day is an official holiday. Each year has a special theme, for example, Braille and sign languages, Languages and cyberspace. This year the theme is the Book. In this activity, the children are going to complete a multilingual crossword.
In activity 2, the following key competences are developed: Competence in linguistic communication as they develop their knowledge of foreign languages and use the knowledge to complete the crossword and to discuss similarities between languages and the concept of false friends, competence in knowledge of and interaction with the physical world as they become aware of the variety of languages
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spoken in the world and realize how knowledge of languages can increase their possibilities of interacting with other people, competence in processing information and use of ICT as they must decide which words to put into the crossword and then use the Internet to discover the pronunciation of words, competence in social skills and citizenship as they learn respect for speakers of other languages and cultural identity and artistic competence as language is a major part of one’s cultural identity. You will need: • • • • •
one copy of Worksheet 1 for each child one copy of Worksheet 2 for each child one (enlarged) copy of Worksheet 3 (optional) one copy of Worksheet 4 for each child coloured pens, pencils or markers
Instructions: 1.
Tell the children about International Mother Language Day and ask them what languages they can speak. Tell them that they may know words from languages they do not speak, for example, German: Wir leben autos (from a car advert) or Italian: ciao (used as a greeting).
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Distribute Worksheets 1 and 2. Tell the children that it is a picture dictionary in six languages. Ask them to identify the country outlines and flags and to colour them in. You can use Worksheet 3 to remind them of the colours or, if you have an interactive whiteboard, use a link such as: http://www.photius.com/flags/alphabetic_list.html. Key: 1 United Kingdom, 2 France, 3 Germany, 4 Spain, 5 Italy, 6 Portugal.
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Ask them to write the name of the language under each flag. You can use the wordcards. Talk about the different translations. Which word is most similar in the different languages? Which language uses capital letters for the nouns? Which words could be considered ‘false friends’?
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Distribute Worksheet 4. Explain that they should use the picture dictionary to solve the clues. Key: Across - 1 treno, 2 Brot, 3 restaurante, 4 bibliothèque, 5 portachiavi, 6 Flugzeug. Down - 7 tarjeta postal, 8 carpete, 9 cartella, 10 soleil
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Optional extension activity: Use the Internet to discover how to pronounce each of the words using, for example, the following link: http://de.forvo.com.
Letʼs compare! In this section, we suggest you make the children aware of similarities and differences between the customs in their own country and those of other parts of the world. The main language spoken in the United Kingdom is English but there are six officially recognized minority languages: Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Cornish, Irish and British Sign Language. The main foreign languages learnt are French (23%), German (9%) and Spanish (8%). What languages are spoken in Spain? What foreign languages are taught? Which languages can you speak?
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folder
carpeta
classeur
Schnellhefter
cartella
pasta
bread
pan
pain
Brot
pane
pão
postcard
tarjeta postal
carte postale
Ansichtskarten
cartolina
cartão-postal
sun
sol
soleil
Sonne
sole
sol
key-ring
llavero
porte-clefs
Schlüsselring
portachiavi
chaveiro
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train
tren
train
Eisenbahn
treno
comboio
restaurant
restaurante
restaurant
Restaurant
ristorante
Restaurant
(aereo) plane
avión
avion
Flugzeug
aeroplano
aviao
library
biblioteca
bibliothèque
Bibliothek
biblioteca
biblioteca
carpet
alfombra/ moqueta
tapis/ moquette
Teppich
tappeto/ moquette
carpete
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Key Across
Down
1. Train in Italian
7. Postcard in Spanish
2. Bread in German
8. Carpet in Portuguese
3. Restaurant in Spanish
9. Folder in Italian
4. Library in French
10. Sun in French
5. Key-ring in Italian 6. (Aero)plane in German
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