Resources to extend learning opportunities for your students in either the language specialist classroom or the generalist learning spaces. Each resource contains learning activities and ideas that have an oracy, literacy or cross-curricular focus.
F-2 schools
Additional learning activities
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Maze
App 1: Encourage students to use the target language when meeting people.
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Phone
App 1: Encourage students to practise saying ‘hello’ in the target language.
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Playmat
App 1: Extend the concept of expressing likes and dislikes in the target language.
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Rocket ship
App 1: Encourage students to use the target language when introducing themselves to others.
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Sandpit
App 1: Encourage students to practise saying ‘hello’ in the target language.
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Colour and create
App 2: Extend the names of colours and types of sea creatures.
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Feed the fish
App 2: Encourage students to identify and say the names of coloured fish using the target language.
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Shell memory
App 2: Incorporate the language of colours into classroom activities and games.
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Submarine
App 2: Encourage students to practise using the target language for the colours of the fish.
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Balloons
App 3: Encourage students to use the target language when counting to ten.
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Egg and spoon
App 3: Encourage students to identify the numbers one to ten when counting in the target language.
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Hide and seek
App 3: Incorporate the language of numbers into classroom activities and games.
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Make a cake
App 3: Investigate how different cultures celebrate a birthday.
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Song tree
App 3: Explore the features of musical performances in the countries where the target language is spoken.
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Animal feeding time
App 4: Explore the different types of food preferences and habitats of zoo animals.
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Food puzzle
App 4: Encourage students to use the target language when making requests for fruits and drinks.
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Fruit sorter
App 4: Encourage students to use the target language when naming fruits.
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Juice bar
App 4: Encourage students to use the target language when describing and naming fruits.
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Picnic
App 4: Encourage students how to say ‘I’m hungry’/‘I’m thirsty’ using the target language.
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Clown trainer
App 5: Encourage students to say the name of various body parts using the target language.
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Face painter
App 5: Encourage your students to use adjectives in the target language.
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First aid helper
App 5: Explore how to express injuries using the target language.
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Flip a part
App 5: Investigate how to name and describe different parts of the body.
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Memory cards
App 5: Encourage students to memorise how to label different parts of the body.
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Follow the leader
App 6: Encourage your students to use positive phrases using the target language.
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Movie builder
App 6: Encourage students to sequence events to make a short movie in the target language.
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Obstacle maze
App 6: Incorporate the use of verbs when giving instructions in the target language.
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Ready, set go!
App 6: Encourage your students to follow instructions in the target language.
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Warm up trainer
App 6: Explore the use of verbs and adverbs using the target language.
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Building site
App 7: Encourage students to label 2D shapes using the target language.
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Library
App 7: Encourage students to read and create mini-books about the Polyglots time in town.
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Lift operator
App 7: Encourage students to reflect upon the language that they’ve learnt from the ELLA apps.
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Pizza cafe
App 7: Encourage students to use the target language when participating in various pizza-themed activities.
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Supermarket
App 7: Encourage students to use the target language when re-enacting the supermarket experience.
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About me
App 8: Encourage students to use the target language when introducing and sharing details about themselves.
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Label maker
App 8: Incorporate the use of the target language when labelling items in your classroom and learning environments.
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Pretend school
App 8: Encourage students to use the target language when giving and following classroom instructions.
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School bus
App 8: Encourage students to use the target language when greeting their peers and teachers.
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Bush collage
App 9: Encourage students to use the target language when naming and introducing family members.
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Camping cook-up
App 9: Incorporate the use of the target language when naming food items and who the food belongs to.
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Families card game
App 9: Encourage students to practise saying the names of their family members as they play.
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Spotlight
App 9: Incorporate the use of the target language when identifying family members.
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Stargazing
App 9: Extend your students’ knowledge of numbers in the target language by counting by twos, fives and tens.
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Animal scrambler
App 10: Encourage your students to use the target language when identifying different types of pets.
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Bird trainer
App 10: Extend your student’s knowledge of pet names, by learning how to respond to the question, ‘What is it?’ in the target language.
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Pet check-in
App 10: Encourage your students to use the target language when measuring the length and weight of items.
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Photo booth
App 10: Incorporate the use of the target language when describing emotions.
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Puppy trainer
App 10: Encourage your students to use the target language by learning to give and follow instructions for training pets.
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Design a poster
App 11: Extend your student's knowledge of days of the week and how to tell time.
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Perform a play
App 11: Encourage your students to use the target language when creating, writing and performing a play.
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Polyglot detective
App 11: Encourage your students to use the target language when describing where a person is located.
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Ticket booth
App 11: Encourage your students to use the target language when booking tickets.
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What's the time, Mr Wolf?
App 11: Incorporate the use of the target language when telling time.
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