- devise collaborative tasks such as problem solving/information seeking activities
- support extended listening with tape and book or through Literacy Toolbox
- check pupils’ understanding by questioning and encourage them to ask questions
- provide activities to model and practice language for different settings and audiences e.g. interviews / enterprise tasks etc
- higher order thinking: elicit language for higher order thinking (explain, predict, hypothesise, evaluate). Provide language structures for these functions (e.g. I think; it might be; it could be … because, I disagree)
- enable contributions to presentations and demonstrations and give independent feedback at plenary
- engage pupil in informal conversation to develop fluency and confidence
- use role play and drama
- provide time for pupils to initiate talk and give thinking time for responses
- encourage partner talk and reporting back (think, pair, share) with good language model peers
- play games to practice positional & descriptive language including substitution tables
- provide keyword cards as aide memoirs for listening and retelling
- extend range of vocabulary through homework activities (in home language and English)
- teacher modelling
- guided questioning
- make language topic displays and word banks
- provide a range of thesauruses and dictionaries
- highlight and encourage the recording of keywords and sentence structures for all lessons
- topic specific barrier games to develop use of key vocabulary
- provide opportunities for pupils to rehearse and consolidate new language structures orally in pairs/groups
- use Dictogloss activities to promote careful listening