Language Day ideas
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ASSEMBLY to begin the day- MCs Senior language students
Students take on leadership roles- run workshops, MC assembly, judge poster competition, article
in newsletter etc
Parental involvement important
Get parents and staff on board early in the year
Students to write thank you notes to parents in TL
Prayer and Bible Readings to start the day – use the International students
Dressed in costume for the day – competition for best dressed
Invite former students to come back and share their experiences of being in a French-speaking
country
Overseas students- sharing their stories
French food on sale at canteen / made by parents / purchase croissant sin bulk
Divide students into groups for the day
Rotate around 3 activities for the morning x 12
Passports for each country(workshop).To be stamped or a sticker at completion of each workshop
Music (Indonesian instrument)
Dance workshop
French consulate to come and run something
Boules – ran by former students
Native speaker presentations about their lives – someone with an exotic story that no-one actually
never knew – a SS student or an International student
Must be prepared with a PPT/a visual stimulus to engage the audiences
French food tasting – not pain au chocolat / not croissant / things they haven’t ever tried b4. Ask
French mums to arrange this.
Workshop by a French person …. Art / music /
Roster to time the activities and changeovers – teachers who would normally teach the students at
that time are supervisors.
Although not French, you could ask the international students to promote their country with a
presentation of something – try to make it as close to something French, e.g. an Italian student
whose family is French, etc.
Each faculty could offer something –
PE: Boules, Cancan;
Music: songs in French
IT:
TAS:
Cheese tasting
Ask the French-learning parents to participate in running something on the day
“Pin Paris on France”
Badgemaking course – ABC 2000 sell them $500
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Language Day ideas
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Name badges
French Heroes – dress theme
Poster competition
Film festival / competition Fromage qui pue!
One class could do a French Choir pre-prepared before – good Song: Au Champs Elysées
Park their French cars at the entry points to the school
Lunchtime – pre-ordered food available
Students order lunch preference online using school portal
Soloists at lunch singing songs, dancing, artwork completed in morning sessions up on display
Michelin, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot sent freebies to raffle off on the day
Design a T-Shirt with text
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During the “fiesta” IT loop for students’ films to be viewed
Company sponsorships
Every faculty participating
Food tastings eg aromatic cheeses and other food students may not have tasted
Consulates very helpful eg providing ethnic dance companies; crafts people
Students from different ethnic backgrounds telling their stories and their perceptions during first encounters
with Australia
Visiting schools can see students at language schools and hear them engaged in the language
Religious readings that are a part of school assemblies can be delivered in other languages
Ask local businesses for sponsorship, donations eg baguettes form bakery
Include parents with language background and crafts to share
Tshirts ,posters, badges , bracelets that have logos, colours & expressions from different countries
Games eg boules; pin the city on the country (like pin the tail on the donkey)
Students learn to ask for a food item and variations from the shopkeeper supplying them
Use expertise from unexpected places eg if the secretary has another language…
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