On February, 21 the whole world celebrated an International Mother Language Day. To mark this holiday the teachers organized different activities for pupils.
The main idea was to get acquainted with the beauty of different languages. So, the pupils of every class fulfilled various tasks. The pupils of the 5th-6th forms learnt how to say "Hello" and ''Good bye" in many languages. Children of the 7th forms played "Alphabet Games" in English and Ukrainian. Our 9th formers got some curious information about the English, German and Ukrainian languages. Also they tried to understand and find Ukrainian equvalents to the "Idioms of the world".
The pupils of the 10th form had to do different tasks with one text about the holiday (phrase match, reading
gap fill, choose the
correct word, multiple
choice, spelling,
put the text back together,
scrambled sentences).
It was interesting to have a cultural lesson. We learnt that there some words that sound equally in different languages but have another meaning ([rot] in Ukrainian means a part of the face but in German - red, [buk] in Ukrainian is a tree while in English is not).
Do you know what the palindromes are? Our pupil know now. These are the phrases we can read the same backwords, like "Madam,
I'm Adam".
It was interesting and unusual to read words of different languages using Latin letters. It was funny when children had heard the words previously but only that day learnt their meaning. It was amazing(espesially for the teacher) when the pupils could name the country looking on the flag. (How did they learn them???). It was great when we could hear how children say hello or bye on different languages on the breaks (but the rest of the school didn't know these words).
All the activities were funny but useful at the same time.
