Use gesture or mime to show they understand |
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- Make up a mime to go with classroom instructions, e.g. hand to ear for listen, finger on lips for quiet, raise head to look.
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Recognise words which the teacher mouths silently |
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- Play a team game in which members must guess what the teacher, or another child, is mouthing; use body language to help understanding
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Ask someone to clarify or repeat |
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- Learn to ask someone to repeat and to say that they do not understand.
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Look at the face of the person speaking and listen attentively |
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- Try to understand someone when looking at their face and then when they have turned away.
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Use grammatical knowledge to help understand someone speaking |
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- Recognise a personal pronoun to help understand who someone is talking about; recognising a tense in a story helps distinguish past, present and future actions.
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Pick out key words when listening |
For example:
- Count how many times they hear a particular word or phrase in a song.
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