Reflection: The legacy of Rome – Above
Students were asked to reflect on the legacy of ancient Rome for modern society, and write a response as part of an end-of-unit task. They were asked to make connections between the ancient and modern worlds, incorporate images in their texts, and to …
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Reflection: The legacy of Rome – At
Students were asked to reflect on the legacy of ancient Rome for modern society, and write a response as part of an end-of-unit task. They were asked to make connections between the ancient and modern worlds, incorporate images in their texts, and to …
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Roll call – AT
At the start of every Greek class, students participate in a group interaction. In this task, students were asked to respond to the roll call and morning greetings using a variety of responses and explaining reasons for absences. Students were to respond …
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Days of the week – AT
Students learnt the days of the week in Greek and discussed what they did on each day. Students participated in a series of activities including alphabet practice, listening to and singing songs, and using modelled language to reinforce learning. In …
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Λάμψε, Λάμψε, Μικρό Αστέρι – AT
Students learnt about nursery rhymes and how to sing some popular songs in Greek. In this task, students were asked to sing ‘twinkle, twinkle, little star’ in Greek with appropriate actions.
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το ελληνικό αλφάβητο – AT
Students new to Modern Greek learn how to read, write and pronounce the Greek alphabet and discuss similarities and differences to the English alphabet. In this task, students were asked to write the Greek alphabet in order using upper and lower cases. …
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των ζώων – AT
Students learnt about farm, wild and domestic animals within the unit ‘living things’. After building on animal vocabulary, students were introduced to articles and how to express likes. In this task, students were asked to make a poster by drawing and …
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Colour match – AT
Students learnt adjectives of colour and how to write simple sentences using pronouns and articles with adjectives of colour. In this task students made a vocabulary chart to match vocabulary with the appropriate colour and an illustrative image. They …
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Egg creatures – AT
Students learnt the vocabulary and structures to describe characters and objects. In this unit, students worked in Visual Arts and in Modern Greek to create and describe. In Visual Arts, students created an egg creature. They started with a background …
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φρούτα και λαχανικά – AT
Students learnt about the Greek diet and healthy eating. They learnt the names of popular Greek fruit and vegetables and how to describe them, discuss likes/dislikes and ask for them at a Greek greengrocer. The students learnt about gender and gender …
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Vowel and consonants combinations – AT
Students had learnt about aspects of spelling in Greek. In this task students were asked to identify words with particular features in a given text, then share pronunciation with a fellow student.
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Thanking people – AT
Students had learnt about formal and informal ways of thanking people, both in spoken and written texts, in the plural, as well as in the polite form. Students discussed various situations for thanking others. This task had two parts: Students were …
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Someone special to me – AT (5-6)
Students were asked to choose a person or character to write about. This person/character had to be someone special to them. They had to write a bilingual text in both Greek and English about the person/character, using a mode of their choice such as …
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Γεια σας! – AT
Students worked with a partner or in threes to script a conversation between young people who meet and exchange information about themselves. The conversation was based on a scaffold, but students had to adapt and modify the text to include a range of …
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My morning routine – AT
Students learnt about telling the time, and personal and school routines for various parts of the day. In this task, students annotated an analogue clock with the time in Greek and then completed a storyboard for activities that take place in the mo …
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Διάλογος μεταξύ νέων φίλων – AT
Students learnt about hobbies and interests, how to express preferences and how to invite using imperatives. In this task students presented a dialogue they had scripted between young people who meet and exchange information about themselves, and their …
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Τι κάνω το απόγευμα – AT
Students learnt personal and school routines for various parts of the day. In this task students wrote sentences and paragraphs in relation to the sequence of their afternoon routine, using a range of language features and functions and appropriate punctuation …
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Η γιορτή της γιαγιάς και του παππού – AT (F-10 Sequence)
In this mixed ability and mixed background class, the students study common themes and topics with content differentiated to reflect students’ abilities in Greek. Students studied their personal world, including family, self and relationships and the …
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Greek migrants - AT
Students studied the patterns of Greek migration from antiquity to modern times. They compared and contrasted the reasons (overpopulation, trade, war, economic conditions). They concluded the unit with the study of Greek migration to Australia. In this …
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Someone special to me – AT (9-10)
Students studied their personal world from the perspective of significant people and events, including family, friends and relationships, and how this is reflected in Greek culture. They learnt how to modify texts for audience, purpose and context. In …
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