Languages for 4th Class

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Languages for 4th Class this year.

In class

30 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard. 8 interactive activities across the course.
Try the first lesson: Who Is in This Room, and Where Are They From?

On paper

Pupil Activity Book Modern Foreign Languages

Teacher Resource Book Modern Foreign Languages

Student Activity BookA page for every lesson, for each pupil to work in.
The sample lesson's page
Teacher Resource BookThe whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson, ready to print.
The sample lesson's pages

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

For planning

Yearly plan See the first two pages
Fortnightly schemes See the first two pages
Curriculum coverage See the first two pages
Programme progression See the first two pages

Included with the course. Teachers find them in their class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 10 of the 11 outcomes for this class.

Primary Language Curriculum (MFL)

Building An Awareness Of Languages And Cultures 10 of 11 outcomes

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Building An Awareness Of Languages And Cultures

Exploring languages

S3.EL.1 S3.EL.2

Understanding myself as a language learner

S3.UL.1 S3.UL.2

Developing intercultural awareness

S3.IA.1 S3.IA.2 S3.IA.3 S3.IA.4 S3.IA.5 S3.IA.6 S3.IA.7

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

30 lessons in 5 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 The Language Map of the World 6 lessons · about 6 hours

Pupils map the languages in their own classroom and country, then follow how languages travel across oceans, sit across borders, and leave a legal footprint in the Gaeltacht. Noticing shape throughout: three new words per lesson, compared across languages.

Languages in This Room and Country
1 Who Is in This Room, and Where Are They From? Sample lesson
2 Home Languages Beyond English and Irish
3 How a Language Crosses an Ocean
Families, Borders and the Gaeltacht
4 Discover Word Families
5 A Language Is Not a Country
6 Find the Gaeltacht on the Map

2 Deeper Into Names and Places 6 lessons · about 6 hours

Investigation shape throughout. Pupils open Irish placenames for churches and forts, meet words that began as people's names, see that naming records power, unpick Ulster's layered names, and trace surnames through real historical sources.

3 Patterns, Sounds and False Friends 6 lessons · about 6 hours

Noticing shape throughout. Pupils take long German words apart, meet languages that work by endings, hunt false friends, build a method for checking guesses, compare word order, and decode a whole sentence they were never taught.

How Words Are Built and Bent
13 Long Words Are Short Words Joined
14 The Ends of Words Do the Work
15 Hunt the False Friends
Checking Guesses and Reading Whole Sentences
16 Learn How to Check a Guess
17 Explore How Word Order Changes
18 Read a Sentence You Were Never Taught

4 Strategies That Travel 6 lessons · about 6 hours

Reflection shape throughout. No new vocabulary. Pupils face language loss, look at Irish as a language that nearly stopped, match memory strategies to word types, see code-switching as skill, use Irish and English to break into a third language, and set a checkable target for Stage 4.

Languages That Stop and Ways That Work
19 When a Language Stops
20 Our Own Language, Two Hundred Years Ago
21 Which Way Works for Which Word?
Mixing, Helping and Looking Ahead
22 Mixing Languages on Purpose
23 One Language Helping Another
24 What Next, and How Will I Know?

5 Cultures, Compared with Care 6 lessons · about 6 hours

Story shape throughout. No new vocabulary. Pupils learn to describe a culture without flattening it, meet tales older than their writing, meet collectors who made choices, read values out of sayings, compare music passed by ear with music fixed on a page, and close two years of Stage 3 noticing.

What pupils learn

A second year of multilingual awareness for 4th Class. Pupils return to every Stage 3 outcome with a harder question: not only which languages and names are around them, but why they are shaped that way, who named them, and what is lost when a language stops being spoken.

4th Class · Languages Languages for 4th Class

Pricing & ordering Try a sample lesson

30 lessons in 5 modules
About 30 hours of lessons
Student Activity Book
Teacher Resource Book
Mapped to the NCCA curriculum

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