1. + Piara Waters Primary School - Our Language Community Orientation Lesson 1

2. + Lessons 1 & 2 WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

3. + Complete the following sentence starters as a team… 1 Australia is a country …. 2 The main language of Australia is… 3 Other languages spoken in Australia are… 4 Australian’s speak many languages because… 5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak… You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

4. + Success Criteria All will: work collaboratively as teams and identify known places on a school map Most will: Talk about your school language community and understand there are other language communities beyond their own Some will: understand the links that those other languages have with other places in the world

5. + Maps from memory – starter activity In groups of 3 or 4 redraw this map from memory

6. print this map

7. + Our Beautiful World In your groups look at the world map. What 3 main physical features does the world have?

8. + Where in the world will you see… Mountains Desserts Fires Rivers Tornados Tsunamis Earthquakes Forests Cliffs

16. + Who in the world speaks… German Spanish French Italian Chinese Hindi Arabic

18. + Starter Heads Together… We live in Australia. What language is mostly spoken across Australia? What is language? Where else is this language spoken? How did this language come to be spoken in Australia? What other languages are spoken in Australia? What languages do you know of or have heard? Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board

19. + Object Modeling our Language Community Look at the map of Piara Waters Primary School  Locate the main entrance  Locate the Library  Locate your classroom  Build a model of the school and label your classroom with as many languages as you can remember Recall: How many languages are known of or spoken in this classroom? Which are they? Who speaks them? Question: How many other languages might be spoken in other classrooms? How will we find out?

20. + Complete the following sentence starters as a team… 1 Australia is a country …. 2 The main language of Australia is… 3 Other languages spoken in Australia are… 4 Australian’s speak many languages because… 5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak… Challenge. Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each.

21. + Our Beautiful World In your groups look at the world map. What 3 main physical features does the world have?

22. + Answer It is map of oceans, continents and countries? Complete the sentences What is an ocean? An ocean is… What is a continent? A continent is… How many continents are there in the world? There are… What is a country? A country is…

23. + Piara Waters Primary School - Our Language Community Orientation Lesson 1

24. + Lessons 1 & 2 WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

25. + Complete the following sentence starters as a team… 1 Australia is a country …. 2 The main language of Australia is… 3 Other languages spoken in Australia are… 4 Australian’s speak many languages because… 5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak… You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

26. + Success Criteria All will: work collaboratively as teams and identify known places on a school map Most will: Talk about your school language community and understand there are other language communities beyond their own Some will: understand the links that those other languages have with other places in the world

27. + Maps from memory – starter activity In groups of 3 or 4 redraw this map from memory

28. print this map

29. + Back to Back…Re Orientation I am an ocean between Africa and Australia? Which ocean am I? I am an imaginary line through the centre of the Earth? What’s my name? I am a continent in the Northern Hemisphere with countries such as the UK, Germany and Hungry. Which c0ontinenet am I? I am an ocean between North American and Asia. What ocean am I? I am a continent with countries such as Zimbabwe, Somalia and Nigeria. Which continent am I? I am an ocean between Europe and America. Which ocean am I? I am a continent between in the Northern Hemisphere joining Europe. Which continent am I? I am a large continent of ice in the southern Hemisphere. Which continent am I?

30. + 3 Physical Features of Our World Oceans, continents and countries? Complete the sentences What is an ocean? An ocean is… What is a continent? A continent is… How many continents are there in the world? There are… What is a country? A country is…

32. + Who in the world speaks… German Spanish French Italian Chinese Hindi Arabic

33. + Starter Heads Together… We live in Australia. What language is mostly spoken across Australia? What is language? Where else is this language spoken? How did this language come to be spoken in Australia? What other languages are spoken in Australia? What languages do you know of or have heard? Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board

34. + Our Language Community Piara Waters Primary School Lesson 3

35. + Lessons 1 & 2 WALT: That our school and our classroom has its own language community WILF: As language teams identify the different languages in our class community and complete the 5 sentence starters as a team at the end of the lesson

36. + Complete the following sentence starters as a team… 1 Australia is a country …. 2 The main language of Australia is… 3 Other languages spoken in Australia are… 4 Australian’s speak many languages because… 5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak… You will be challenged when: Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each independently.

37. + Starter Heads Together… We live in Australia. What language is mostly spoken across Australia? What is language? Where else is this language spoken? How did this language come to be spoken in Australia? What other languages are spoken in Australia? What languages do you know of or have heard? Do you or your family speak another language at home? Write them on a sticky note for the board. How many? How many across our school?

40. Home LanguageNo of Students Chinese/ Mandarin/Cantonese25 Malayalam (India)11 Gujarati9 Hindi (India)7 Telugu (India)3 Tamil (India)7 Punjabi (India)8 Marathi (India)3 Amharic (India)1 Nepali (Nepal)1 Malay (Malaysia)2 Russian2 Serbian- (Serbia, Bosnia)7 Sinhala/ Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)6 Afrikaans (South Africa)5 Bengali (Bangladesh)4 Filipino/Tagalog (Philippines)7 Korean5 Thai1 Burmese2 Indonesian2 Japanese3 Spanish5 Creole (French)2 Polish (Poland)1 German2 Portuguese1 Maori (New Zealand)3 Bemba (Zambia)1 Shona (Zimbabwe)4 Ndebele (Zimbabwe)3 Swahili (Tanzania-Africa)2 Kannada (India)1 Hungarian (Hungary)2 Lebanese (Lebanon)1 Arabic2

41. + Where in the World did all this language come from?

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45. + Lesson 4

46. + Warm up Spelling Bee Knowledge

47. + Complete the following sentence starters as a team… 1 Australia is a country …. 2 The main language of Australia is… 3 Other languages spoken in Australia are… 4 Australian’s speak many languages because… 5 In our class at Piara Waters Primary School we speak… Challenge. Expand each sentence starter to complete 5 sentences for each.

49. + Object Modeling our Language History Look at the map of how language spread across the world Which continent has the oldest known languages? Where are the newest languages of the world spoken? How old are the traditional languages of Australia?  Recall: How many languages are known of or spoken in this classroom? Which are they? How many languages are spoken across the school? Can you remember any that are different from the class?

50. + Lesson 4 WALT: To know and identify some of the languages spoken across Africa WILF: Locate African languages on a map of Africa & begin to explore Zulu as one of the Official languages of Africa Success Criteria: All students will participate and support each others’ learning Most students will be able to identify the official languages of Africa on a map of Africa Some will be able to present what they have learnt about Zulu as an official African language

52. + African Language Facts Some of the oldest surviving human languages 4 language groups - Afro Asiatic, Nilo – Saharian, Niger Saharian & Khoisan 11 Official languages – English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi/Swahili, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu 1500-2000 languages across Africa Zulu is an official language of southern Africa

54. + Where do they speak…