5.1 Facilitators – Activity 1

My language picture

You will need to prepare:

• materials for drawing
• space for drawing (table or floor)
• a template or a few examples for the language pictures
• an example of your own personal language picture.

1. Ask learners to describe the languages they speak, understand, listen to, read and write.

2. Ask learners when, where and why they use these different languages. This can include family, school, social media, books, advertising, etc.

3. Ask them which languages they are more and less confident to use, and why.

4. Show learners your own language picture and describe it to them.

5. Give learners drawing materials. Invite them to make a picture of themselves and their languages. They can do this in any way they like, such as:

7. Compare the similarities and differences amongst learners.