LOTE – Vietnamese

Students in Foundation level, Year 1-6 will study Vietnamese one hour per week.

The Languages program will:

• Foster students’ awareness, understanding and appreciation of Vietnamese culture as well as their own.
• Improve students’ knowledge about the cultural aspects of the country of origin and the target language including customs, history, geography, literature and the arts.
• Give children an opportunity to access a language other than English.
• Enhance students’ skills in cross-cultural communication.
• Provide a developmental program in Listening& Speaking, Reading and Writing which endeavours to meet the child’s needs, interests and abilities.
• Build students’ self-expression and sense of achievement by studying another language.
• Broaden and enrich students’ knowledge of another culture.

Activities in Languages will be:                                  

• Engaging in songs, stories and rhymes.
• Role plays, dialogues.
• Matching labels with pictures.
• Watching cultural movies.
• Art activities, origami, cards, word find, bingo and language games.
• Using a variety of language educational software, iPad apps and languages websites.
• Students work samples.
• Incursions/excursions.

Through a variety of activities, the children will develop communication skills and an appreciation of linguistic and cultural diversity.

REQUIREMENT:

Children need to bring their pencil case when attending Languages class.

EXPECTATION:

Our motto is “Learn the behaviour first then learn the lesson”