As a teacher who isn't confident in Welsh, it can be difficult to decide where to start with planning your welsh lessons and creating resources. Having attended sessions with Prifysgol Caerdydd, I was able to collate ideas from teachers across various schools and place them in one place for teachers to access. These can be adapted and changed to suit your lesson.
Grandewch ac Ysgrifennu’r Rhifau
In this activity, children will listen to the teacher reading out a sentence in Welsh. Children will need to right what number the sentence refers to.
Children can complete this in partner work, where by their partners can read the sentences in specific orders, the other will then write the numbers in what they think is the correct sequence.
Task A
Using the codes, children will write sentences from the grid. This allows for children to learn the sentence patterns through repetition.
Task B
Task A can then be extended where by children can translate the sentences into English. This enables you to see if they fully understand what they are reading.
Task C
Using the sentences provided, children will need to write the codes for the sentence pattern. This can be developed by children creating coding patterns for their partners.
In this simple task, children can fill the gaps of the Welsh sentences and they challenge themselves further by translating their sentences to show clear understanding.
This task is fantastic for developing listening and interpretation skills. Understanding what has been said can be difficult with the Welsh language, but this task allows opportunities to develop this skill. During this task, the teacher will read a sentence aloud. The pupils will then arrange the sentences into the correct order.
The children choose a character like a normal game of Guess Who.
Children will ask questions such as ‘Oes gwallt oren ‘da ti?’
Oes and Nac oes would be needed for a response. This would help practice children’s questions and response using the correct form verb.