Make languages work Primary Teaching Resource

PADLET

PRIMARY TEACHING RESOURCE CAREERS EDUCATION WITH A LANGUAGES TWIST

TEACHING RESOURCE

Information about activities suitable for P5-P7 that combine pupil entitlements to careers education and language learning

Short activities:set the scene

Longer activities: languages

Longer activities: employability

Stories of community change

Build on the Jobs and contributing activities by exploring more stories of community change. Share any story of community change and encourage children to think about how knowing and using more than one language could contribute to the success of such initiatives in multilingual communities.

My World of Work

In these three activities, pupils can find out about skills and personality traits they have that complement their linguistic repertoire.

All About Your Skills

• Explore the skills learned through school, work and socialising that employers love to see.

Animal Me!

Skills Story

• Help Samara! Together, explore journeys over land and sea while learning about skills.

• Unleash your personality! Take the quiz and learn about the things you're good at and jobs which may suit you. 

More My World of Work - make it multilingual!

Check out any the job profiles on the My World of Work website.

What could I be? Job profiles

• Not all of these job profiles mention language skills specifically.
• Ask pupils how language and communication skills would be useful in each of the different jobs represented.

Job profiles

WATCH NUMRA 00:00 - 01:54 mins

Watch some short snippets of these 3 clips:

• What is the person’s name?
• What is their job?
• What languages do they use in their work?
• Name (one of) the ways they use their language skills in their job.

WATCH STEVE 00:00 - 01:16 mins

WATCH MARZENA 00:00 - 00:55 mins

There's a whole collection of job profiles of people that their languages in thier work. Check them out in full here on this

BBC Bitesize page

Multilingual brain break

Group or whole class activity The person leading the activity picks one item from each column in the table below to build an instruction for pupils to respond to if it’s true for them. e.g. Put your hands on your head if you know Arabic e.g. Star jump if you use a language written in an alphabet different to English

Adjust the actions and languages listed to those that relate to the languages and abilities of the children in your class.Once familiar with the activity, children can take turns to lead it.

Jobs and contributing

Work through the activities on this page of the BBC Bitesize website

Jobs and contributing

Encourage children to think about where communication and language skills do or could play a role in any of the scenarios presented.

Multilingual job match - Guess Who!

Multilingual job match. Guess who! presentation

Access the presentation to use with your class. Dip in to Part 1 and then Part 2 or complete all activities in Part in one go! From the clues, work out which person does which job. Everyone is different!

Lingo Flamingo links languages and wellbeing

Our friends at Lingo Flamingo think there are at least five benefits of language learning on our mental health and wellbeing. Check out their blog post for all the details:

Language Learning and wellbeing

• Can pupils predict any of the 5 benefits?
• Are there any benefits they would add or change?
• Pupils design an infographic or poster of their top 5 benefits of language learning for mental health.

Speedy digital survey

Use a digital wordcloud generator tool, such as mentimeter. Set the question: What languages do you know use and learn in your life at home and school? Set a time limit appropriate for your pupils. Discuss the data on display.

• How multilingual is your class?

• What implications does this level of multilingualism have for children and adults in - or visiting - your class?