Communicative Resources for Irish Class (2022)

Introduction

Important: In 2020 this course was called Gníomhaíochtaí Gasta Topics 6-10 of the Curriculum

This online summer course, which is worth 3 EPV days, is aimed at primary school teachers who are teaching classes 3–6 and is based on Gníomhaíochtaí Gasta, a book of communication activities for primary school teachers. It is suitable for teachers who want to learn more about the principles and structure of communicative lessons. Each module contains sample lessons based on themes 6–10 of the curriculum. In these lessons, there is a focus on the communicative approach to teaching, and activities for pre-communication, real communication and post-communication are included.

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The main objectives of the course are:

• to give teachers an understanding of the best methods to use when teaching the Irish curriculum, and of the principles and structure of communicative lessons;
• to give teachers new ideas for teaching Irish, to encourage their interest in the language and to help them improve their students’ ability to communicate;
• to add to the teachers’ teaching skills through Irish and to improve their confidence in using the language;
• to teach the vocabulary and core grammar relating to themes 6-10 of the curriculum through enjoyable interactive activities;
• to give teachers an opportunity to develop their comprehension and speaking skills by listening to audio files in which the focus is on the language used in communicative lessons, thus improving their teaching skills;
• to advise participants in regard to school self-evaluation and school improvement.

Module 1 - Shopping / In the Shopping Centre

1. Vocabulary, audio material, communication game, communication activity and main grammar points relating to the theme above.
2. Language functions: social interaction; giving and looking for information

Module 2 - Hobbies / The Weekend

1. Vocabulary, audio material, communication game and verbs relating to the theme above.
2. Language functions: giving and seeking opinions

Module 3 - Clothes / Lost Clothes

1. Vocabulary, audio material, communication game and nouns relating to the theme above.
2. Language functions: influencing other people

Module 4 - Weather Forecast

1. Vocabulary, audio material and grammar relating the theme above
2. Language functions: looking for clarification in conversation

Module 5 - Special Occasions / Giving Invitations

1. Vocabulary, audio material, communication games and grammar relating to the theme above.
2. Language functions: giving structure to a conversation

Course layout

There are five modules in this course and each module contains a mixture of grammatical explanation, useful vocabulary and exercises.

All the exercises are interactive. Once you’ve completed an exercise, you can then click on the ‘Seol’ (Send) button and receive feedback immediately. You’ll be told which answers were correct and which were incorrect, and you’ll be given the correct answers and a score.

At the beginning of each module, you’re told what the focus of that module is.

In order to move from one screen to another, simply click on the arrows which appear on the left-hand side (to go back) or on the right-hand side (to go forward), at the top and bottom of each screen. You can also click on any line of text under the words UNIT PLAN on the left-hand side of the screen in order to access another part of the module.

On the last page of each module, called the Closing page, you’re given an overview of the work that you’ve done in that module and your total score for the module. You’re given several choices as well: to continue to the next module, to redo the module you’ve just completed, or go back to the very beginning of the course.

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