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Engaging Activities and Games for Junior Secondary Language Classrooms
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Rules
MLTAVISH
Dive into the distinctive sounds of MLTAVISH.
Common in: English, French, and Chinese. Pronunciation rules vary greatly across languages
First activity:
Complex Pronunciation Patterns
sölar
vèntar
ócear
sölar
vèntar
ócear
Practice round
luníl
rösil
stàril
Practice round
Embark on a journey into the unique features of MLATVISH.
Featured in: Spanish, French, German. Accents can alter pronunciation and meaning.
Second activity:
Accents
sölar
vèntar
ócear
Practice round
luníl
rösil
stàril
Dive into the intriguing world of 'MLTAVISH' where the rise and fall of your voice reveals hidden meanings.
Third activity:
Tones
Key in: Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese. Tonal languages use pitch to distinguish word meaning.
sölar
sölar
sölar
sölar
rösil
vèntar
Practice round
rösil
vèntar
Practice round
Flowers are on the ground
The wind is rising
Fourth activity:
Discover the fun and challenge of navigating masculine and feminine words
Gendered Nouns
Used in: Spanish, German, Russian. Nouns have gender classifications affecting article and adjective use.
Zim sölar
Vil luníl
Zim flarar
Vil rösil
Zim vèntar
Vil stàril
Zim montar
Vil rivil
___ ócear
Practice round
Zim ócear
___ nuvil
Practice round
Vil nuvil
Fifth activity:
Embark on a linguistic twist where verbs take the final bow in our sentences.
Word order different from English
Examples: Japanese, Latin. Subject-object-verb (SOV) and other orders contrast with English's SVO.
Zim sölar
Vil luníl
The sun
The moon
Zim sölar brilok.
Vil luníl brilok.
The sun shines.
The moon shines.
Zim sölar clira brilok.
Vil luníl clira brilok.
The sun shines brightly.
The moon shines brightly.
___ _____ _____ ______.
___ _____ _____ ______.
The sun shines brightly.
The moon shines brightly.
___ ______ _____ ______..
Practice round
The star shines brightly.
Sixth activity:
Set sail into the dynamic seas of MLTAVISH verbs, where each subject and tense steers the verb into new forms.
Conjugations
Prominent in: Spanish, French, Arabic. Verb forms change to express tense, person, and number.
Vil stàris clira brilok.
Zim sölar clira brilok.
Zim sölar eta vil stàris clira brilokiru.
Vil stàris clira brilok.
Zim sölar clira brilok.
Zim sölar eta vil stàris clira brilokiru.
Tino nata.
Mino nata.
Noso natamos
Symbol changes depending on the verb.
Background colour changes depending on the subject pronoun.
Mino | Blue | Noso | Purple |
Tino | Red | Vinos | Grey |
Sino | Green | Elu | Yellow |
Practice round
Tino nata.
Tino nata.
Vinos natavi
Seventh activity:
Let's explore how adjectives in MLTAVISH elegantly dance and align with nouns, changing their forms to match in gender and number.
Adjectival agreement
Seen in: Spanish, French, Italian. Adjectives change form to match the gender and number of the nouns.
Vil stàril
Vil stàril blanquil
Vil stàril rojil
Zim flarar
Zim flarar blanquar
Zim flarar rojar
Zim flarar
est blanquar
eta rojar
Vil stàr
est blanqu
eta roj
il
il
il
Vil rös
est blanqu
eta roj
Practice round
Eighth activity:
Discover the enchanting dualities of MLTAVISH words, where a single phrase like opens a door to multiple meanings.
Polysemy
Universal concept. All languages have words with multiple related meanings depending on context.
Zim flarar blanquar
Zim flarar blanquar
rösil rojil
Practice round
luníl
luníl clira
sölar rojar
Discussion
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