Appendix: Areas of experience and suggested topics
Possible areas of experience and related topics are listed here for teachers to consider.
It is not an exhaustive list – teachers and students will have further ideas for organising language learning programmes. Students should be encouraged to explore their own interests within a particular focus, and to make creative links with other areas of the curriculum.
Many of the ideas in this list overlap. However, most can be used at any level and, over the learning period, can be organised to provide a spiral curriculum. Vocabulary and structures can be revised, reinforced, and extended as more complex activities are introduced to match the language competence of students.
Open-ended activities within individual topics enable students to work at their own ability level, and thus cater for multi-level teaching in the classroom.
Areas of experience – suggested |
Topics – suggested |
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| Personal and social life – such as relations with other people, social attitudes, institutions |
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| Everyday activities |
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| World around us |
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| World of work |
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| Communications and technology |
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| International world |
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| Imagination and creativity |
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| Cross-curricular content – areas and topics related to studies in other subjects |
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