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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 19: Information translation Laura Toro – Italy Age: 7+ 30 minutes Large classes? Yes Mixed level? No Materials: Pieces of paper with questions written in the children’s first language. Organisation: Pair work, whole class. Aim: To practise asking and answering questions. To translate from L1 to English. Description: In this activity the children translate questions from their own language into English to get information they need. Preparation: You will need to prepare folded strips of paper with questions in the children’s first language. You will need one set of questions for each pair. Procedure 1. Choose a set of questions, written in the children’s first language, on a particular theme. These might be personal questions the children can ask to find out information about each other, such as What’s your favourite food? What sports do you play? and so on. Questions can also be more challenging and be about general knowledge or about a particular subject, such as science. 2. Give each pair a set of questions. The children take turns to open a strip of paper and read the question. They then have to translate the question into English to ask their partner. 3. The second child answers the question in English. He or she then picks a question to ask and so on, until all the questions have been answered. 4. You can extend the activity by asking the children to write a paragraph with the information they have learned from their questions. For example: This is Paolo. He’s from Verona and he has two sisters. He likes playing football. He has a cat called Blue. Notes Although translation is not much used in many current approaches to language teaching, it can support language learning in a number of ways. Here, for example, children are encouraged to make links between their first language and English and to understand that English can be used to communicate ideas successfully. 44 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Alternatives • If you teach other subjects through English, this activity can be a good way of revising units you have studied in, for example, science, geography, history and so on. • You can ask the children to think of three of their own questions in their first language and write them on pieces of paper. These are then put in a hat and each child takes out three questions they have to translate and then ask their partner. • If you have a small class, you can either do the activity as a whole class, or pairs can take it in turns. No resources? You can write the questions on the board instead of using strips of paper. What’s your favourite food? ¿Cuál es tu comida favorita? Qual’è il tuo piatto preferito? Hvad er din yndlingsmad? © British Council 2012 45
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