4 Activities for teachers

In these classroom activities you will ask students to explain the languages they use when, where and why. You will also organise students to discuss and debate the purposes of different languages.

These activities aim to:

• develop students’ appreciation of their languages
• encourage students to identify and consider the purposes of different languages in their lives
• enable students to practise language learning.

These activities are also opportunities for you to observe students’ language learning.

You can build on these activities, repeat them with variations for different subjects, adapt them, and share them with other teachers.

Section 5 ‘Activities for informal learning facilitators’ can also be adapted for your classroom.