Lots of communication during L.O.T.E. lessons takes place as oral language. We hold conversations, sing songs, conduct oral surveys, read books, take part in role plays, play games and encourage talk in the target language during the whole lesson by both teachers and students. The children also learn to read and write in French and begin this process in Italian. Early writing in French is typically phonetic in nature. The students try to write how they hear and say the words much as they do when learning to write in English.
Students listen to, view and respond to many different texts.
The children progress at different rates in their learning, some being happy to copy and practise known words, sentence structure and language forms, whilst others are launching into their own attempts at using the language, experimenting with full sentence writing and speaking, transferring language structures learnt in one situation to use them in other situations. For a more in depth look at our L.O.T.E. programme, please refer to our L.O.T.E. policy by clicking on the flag icon.