Key Stage 2 Framework for languages

Learning opportunities

• Listen with care
• Identify phonemes which are the same as or different from English and other known languages
• Speak clearly and confidently

Knowledge about language

• Identify specific sounds, phonemes and words
• Imitate pronunciation

Language learning strategies

• Record themselves
• Repeat words rhythmically

Teaching activities

• Respond to a particular sound with a physical action.
• Count how many times a particular sound is heard in a phrase or sentence.
• Copy a sound spoken by the teacher, to practise pronunciation.
• Identify phonemes which are the same as or different from English.
• Identify words, e.g. listen for specific words in a song or poem.
• Notice words which sound similar to English – in a listening game, children echo any words spoken by the teacher which sound similar to English.
• Clap syllables in words and phrases, e.g. in songs and poems.
• Place objects in the order in which they hear them, using Lego bricks or multilink cubes to recreate a pattern such as red-red-blue-blue-yellow.
• Remember and repeat a sequence of words spoken by the teacher
• Respond to video/ICT powerpoint presentations of sound patterns and words in songs and poems.
• Listen for clues, intonation and familiar words and phrases.

NC English KS2 Listening: To identify and respond to sound patterns in language