Grade 6: Interpersonal Communication

Prescribed Learning Outcomes

It is expected that students will:

• exchange information about likes, dislikes, and interests
• make and respond to simple requests
• respond to and give basic instructions
• demonstrate an understanding of classroom routines conducted in Punjabi
• use formal and informal forms of address as appropriate

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Suggested Instructional Strategies

Small-group activities give students opportunities to practise a relatively limited vocabulary with new topics and new situations.

• A Find Someone Whoactivity can help students learn the question form. In this activity, students survey their classmates and the teacher about personal likes and dislikes. Using a preset list of questions prepared by the teacher, students circulate among their classmates asking questions such as:
  

• Bring samples of common, familiar foods to class (e.g., fruits, vegetables, sweets). Have students describe each food sample using one or more categories (e.g., shape, colour, type, food group, smell, taste). Ask students to classify the foods under appropriate categories.

Suggested Assessment Strategies

Focussed assessment, feedback, and reflection can help students develop the confidence to take risks in exploring and practising their language skills. Students need to be certain that their errors will be accepted as evidence they are working on their language skills. At this level, assessment focusses on the amount of language and meaning students are able to produce.

• As students talk about their likes and dislikes, participate in role plays, and engage in classroom routines, note and provide feedback on the extent to which they are able to:
  • make themselves understood
  • ask questions
  • respond to simple and familiar questions
  • show increasing comfort and confidence
  • perform introductions and offer simple greetings
• To practise skills and provide peer assessment and feedback, have students work in pairs to create word cubes (a cube made of paper or cards that has a different word on each of six sides). Encourage them to choose words they think are especially interesting or useful. Students can use the cubes in groups of four to create a variety of activities. For example, one pair can throw another's cube, then make a sentence using the word that turns up. The pair who originally selected the word checks the sentence and provides feedback. Teachers can observe groups to gather evidence about emerging language skills.

Recommended Learning Resources

Print Material

• Amardeep Punjabi Sulekh Mala, 2
• Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Punjabi
• Panjabi Book 1, 2, 3
• The Panjabi Guide (Work Book)
• Panjabi Made Easy
• Panjabi Workbook
• A Pictorial Panjabi-English Dictionary
• Punjabi Posters
• Punjabi Rachna
• Star Children's Picture Dictionary
• Sunder Sulekh Pustak
• Tamak Toon

• Anandpursahib Lippi Fonts
• GurbaniLippi/Amrit Lippi Fonts
• Matra Primer
• Panjabi Kaida

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