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Bilingual learning / ESOL
This page is for all of our bilingual learners (learners who speak more than one language) and anyone else who is curious about languages!
It is a work in progress. Please email mmckinlay@onehungaprimary.school.nz if you can suggest any further bilingual resources for this page. Malo aupito - thank you!
Links to stories and resources in individual languages
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Niuean
Portuguese
Sāmoan
Tagalog/ Filipino
Tamil
Tokelauan
Tongan
Urdu
This section is under development!
Please email me if you can help.
Six Pasifika bilingual video stories.pdfClick on a book cover to open the video story link in your preferred language.
The Long Journey video story.mp4The Long Journey Vocabulary Parts 1, 2.pdfVideo story: The Long Journey (English)
This is a story from the Cook Islands.
Listen and read!
Work through the activities in the first task sheet:
Initial questions
Vocabulary (word) puzzles 1 and 2
Share your responses on Seesaw (write 'to Ms McKinlay') or email them to me:
mmckinlay@onehungaprimary.school.nz
'Unite for Literacy'
Multilingual digital picture books
text in English or Spanish
narration languages include, but are not limited to the languages on this list.
Did you know that these languages, and more, are spoken by children at OPS?!
More bilingual stories - listen, read and enjoy!
The First Well
पहले अच्छी तरह से
Pahale achchhee tarah se
Hindi-English
text and audio
The First Well
முதல் கிணறு
Mutal kiṇaṟu
Tamil text, English subtitles
Tamil audio
The First Well
Der erste Brunnen
German - English
text and audio
The First Well
Mandarin text, English subtitles
Mandarin audio
Ang Alamat ng Palay
The Legend of Rice
Tagalog-English text
Tagalog audio
Gajapati Kulupati
Gujarati text
+ add English subtitles
Gujarati audio
Avneet Aunty's mobile phone
Hindi-English
text and audio
My favourite gift
मेरा पसंदीदा तोहफा
Mera pasandeda Tohfa
Hindi-English
text and audio
The Little Pianist
De kleine pianist
Dutch text
+ English subtitles
Dutch audio
The Little Pianist
नन्हा पियानोवादक
Nanha piyaanovaadak
Hindi, English
text and audio
The Little Pianist
O pequeno pianista
Portuguese text
+ English subtitles
Portuguese audio
The Whispering Palms
O Sussurro das Palmas
Portuguese text
+ English subtitles
Portuguese audio
Turtle's Flute
Mandarin text + Eng subtitles
Mandarin audio
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Mandarin, Arabic text
English subtitles
Mandarin audio