jobs these resources can be used for cross-curricular topic work involving children’s different...

Jobs

These resources can be used for

•Cross-curricular topic work involving children’s different languages

•Language classes in the community

•MFL classesSee also resource sheet (link)

Jobs in the UK and other countries

• Take a walk around the local area and take pictures of workplaces

• Reflect on the walk and talk about jobs that people do here• Use photos from the walk, from Life in Bangladesh

teaching resource (see webpage – examples included below) and from internet for children to discuss in groups

• Children talk about jobs people are doing and collect words in different languages arising from the photos

• Feedback to the class: compare vocabulary, discuss working environments in different countries, products being made in other countries and bought in UK

Cowherds on the riverbank in Bangladesh: some are resting, some bathing whilst the cows graze

Planting rice shoots in paddy fields in Bangladesh

Tending to rice in Bangladesh

Rickshaw drivers in Bangladesh

Market stallholders in Bangladesh

Sentences written in Bengali class

• Children wrote comments on what they could see in each picture

• They began by using transliteration to help compose their ideas

A child comments on their learning in Bengali class