Language lessons for the Winter Olympics
I’ve just finished working on a series of podcasts for Gavinburn Primary in West Dunbartonshire. They’re doing some fantastic work with Games Based Learning and the p3 and p4 pupils are currently doing a major project on the Winter Olympics. The project is a brilliant example of interdisciplinary learning with the pupils looking at the Olympic games through many areas of the curriculum.
Gillian Penny – head teacher and fellow ADE – asked me to come into the school and do some work with the pupils and we identified together the kind of phrases they wanted to include in the course I would create for them. I then worked with some original recordings I had made for the One Minute Languages courses with Ann (Russian), Dag (Norwegian) and Yoshiko (Japanese) and created five lessons for each language. The full courses and lesson guides are now available over on the Radio Lingua Schools site. I hope they are useful to teachers and pupils in other schools too!
