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Mother Languages Day Lesson Plan Primary

This UNESCO lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about different languages through learning greetings such as "hello" and "thank you" in various languages. The plan includes starter, main teaching, development, and plenary activities. The starter activity is singing a song teaching greetings in 15 languages. The main teaching focuses on drilling vocabulary in the chosen language(s) through techniques like choral drilling. Development activities apply the vocabulary in games like "Who said hello?" The plenary has students share their favorite greeting and the homework assigns using it daily. The overall goals are improving listening, oral, and cultural awareness skills.

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Mother Languages Day Lesson Plan Primary

This UNESCO lesson plan aims to teach primary school students about different languages through learning greetings such as "hello" and "thank you" in various languages. The plan includes starter, main teaching, development, and plenary activities. The starter activity is singing a song teaching greetings in 15 languages. The main teaching focuses on drilling vocabulary in the chosen language(s) through techniques like choral drilling. Development activities apply the vocabulary in games like "Who said hello?" The plenary has students share their favorite greeting and the homework assigns using it daily. The overall goals are improving listening, oral, and cultural awareness skills.

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UNESCO Mother Languages Lesson Plan - Primary

Topic:
Mother Languages and Language Learning
Age Group:
Perfect for: Primary school kids
Suitable for: Lower ability secondary students
With a bit of imagination: A social care setting or low English
ability participants of any age.
Aim:
To increase global awareness and cultural understanding by
introducing different languages and improve both listening and oral
skills
Objective:
To improve cognitive listening skills and oral pronunciation and
fluency by hearing the sounds of different languages
To increase awareness of cultural diversity and other
languages
To reinforce the vocabulary learned through playing games
Improve Geographical understanding of where countries are
and what languages they speak
Success Criteria:
All will be able to enjoy hearing a new language and playing the
games in the lesson
Most will be able to remember some of the vocabulary taught
Some will be able to pronounce the vocabulary clearly and
remember it in the long-term
Potential Resources/ Preparation needed:
Ball of string
Something to play music on
Starter Activity:
Sing the Say Hello in 15 Languages Song , the lyrics for
which are given below
The audio file can be listened to here:
http://www.songsforteaching.com/happalmer/s/roundthewo
rldhello.mp3
Alternatively sing or play a song from the language that

Timing:
10
minute
s

you wish to focus on


Main Teaching:
There are two options for choosing the vocabulary for this
lesson:
1) Teach the different Hellos from the starter activity
song and Thank you in one other language
2) Teach Hello and Thank you in your chosen language.

Timing:
10-20
minute
s

However be flexible and creative in choosing additional/


other vocabulary to teach as the activities are highly
adaptable and the words used can be substituted easily.
Counting from 1-10 is a flexible option.
If there are other dialects of the local language that
participants know attempt to include this in your lesson
Spend some time using a variety of the following drilling
techniques to reinforce the vocabulary that you teach in
your chosen language before playing the activities.
Choral Drilling All repeating the words together
Modelling Speed- First saying the word very slowly to
practice pronunciation of each part, then the whole word,
then slowly building up to natural speed
Finger stressing- Getting everyone to count out the
syllables of the words on their fingers
Open Pairs Have two participants from other sides of the
room practice the vocabulary together while the others
listen
Closed Pairs - Have participants practice the vocabulary
privately in pairs and go around listening
Progressive- Have the participants practice the
vocabulary with each other one by one in a line, this could
be a greeting, a questions and answer or even just
counting up numbers
Development Activities: (Group or Individuals):
Each of these games could be played for 10 minutes or
more

Timing:
20-40
minute
s

*Who said hello


A child is chosen to sit on a chair with his/her back to the
class. The teacher then points to another child who says
hello in the target language to the child sitting on the chair,
e.g. Bonjour. The child on the chair then has to identify the
person who said the greeting. As the game goes on have
the children use silly voices to make it harder/ more fun.
When the child sitting on the chair has identified 5 children
they can be rewarded with a sticker.
*Hello again
The class sits in a circle in the hall. One child walks around
the circle and chooses another child by tapping him/her on
the shoulder. The two children shake hands and say hello 3
times using the target language. They then race in
opposite directions around the circle. When they meet
halfway they repeat their greetings and then continue
racing to the empty space left by the child who was tapped
on the shoulder. The first to sit in the empty space is the
winner. The other child walks around the circle and chooses
a new child to say hello to.

*Pass the ball of string


The children sit in a circle. One child holds the end of a ball
of string, calls out a friends name and throws the ball of
string to that friend. The child who gets the ball of string
says thank you in the target language. The second child
then holds a piece of string and passes the ball to another
child, and so on. The children end up making a web pattern
with the string. The teacher then winds up the ball of string
saying thank you to each child.
*Placing Languages on the World Map. The aim of this
lesson is to discuss who speaks which language across the
world. Have a list of cut-outs (e.g. Russian) of the
languages from the Say hello in 15 Languages song and
ask them where in the world they think the language is
spoken. Use the map of major world languages provided
below and have the participants try to stick the cut outs to
the right country on the world map.
If possible have a sound snippet/audio recording of each
language that they can listen to and then ask them to stick

the cut-outs on the world map. Play the audio recordings so


the student becomes familiar with the sound of the
language.
Plenary:
Have participants say, write down and draw a picture of
their favourite hello in another language
Homework:
have participants greet you in the language of their
favourite hello each morning for the rest of the week

Timing:
5
minute
s
Timing:
n/a

Say Hello in 15 Languages


"Hello" in Different LanguagesVocabulary:
hola, hejsan, jambo, bonjour, privet, ni hao, shalom, salaam, annyong, konnichiwa,
sawubona, prijatno, namaste, dzien dobry, aloha.
Activity:
This is a call and response song about the ways people say "hello" in different languages.
Children listen to each word or phrase then sing it back like an echo. As a lead up activity, it
is helpful to break the words into syllables and slowly say each syllable one at a time. This is
an excellent activity for helping children develop phonemic awareness, or the ability to hear
the sounds of language.

Hola, hola, (OH-lah) says hello in Spanish


Hejsan, hejsan, (HEY-sun) that's the word in Swedish
Jambo, jambo, (JAHM-boh) says it in Swahili
'Round and 'round the world we go with ways to say hello
Bonjour, bonjour, (bohn-zhoor) says hello in French
Privet, privet, (preev-YET) that's the word in Russian
Ni hao, ni hao, (nee how) says it in Chinese
'Round and 'round the world we go with ways to say hello
There are oh, so, many friendly ways
Every language has a word or phrase
Shalom, shalom, (sha-lome) says hello in Hebrew
Salaam, salaam in (sah-lahm) Arabic and Persian
Annyong , annyong, (ahn-yohng) says it in Korean
'Round and 'round the world we go with ways to say hello
Konnichiwa, konnichiwa, (Ko-nee-chee-wa) says hello in Japanese
Sawubona, sawubona, (saw-oo-BOH-nah) that's the word in Zulu
Prijatno, prijatno, (pree-yat-no) says it in Macedonian
'Round and 'round the world we go with ways to say hello
There are oh, so, many friendly ways
Every language has a word or phrase
Namaste, namaste, (nah-MUS-stay) says hello in Hindi
Dzien dobry, dzien dobry, (JEEN-do-bri) that's the word in Polish

Aloha, aloha, says it in Hawaiian


'Round and 'round the world we go with ways to say hello

Follow up:
Sing this song using greetings from other languages. Here are some possibilities: Mingala ba
(Burmese) Bula (Fijian) Halito (Choctaw) Dobar dan (Croatian) Talofa (Samoan) Bawoni
(Yoruba) Guten Tag (German) Poolah (Setswana) Zdravo (Serbian).

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