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T.Y. Gaeilge

  • 04-09-2009 7:02am
    #1
    gaeilgegrinds
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    Up since 6 trying to come up with ideas to inspire my T.Y.s. So far...not getting too far. I'll explain. I've had T.Y. before, loved it! Have a lovely group again this year but rather than just the creme de la creme doing it many week students are doing it. I've been asked not to just teach the language, a lot of English will have to be encorporated. I've a few ideas but not too many...kind of cultural ideas, national anthem, surnames, placenames, national sports, cooking Irish food...I want something inspirational today though!


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  • #2
    TheDriver
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    projects are great, the kids love them and allow them to work in pairs or groups, especially if one is not good at Irish but can do others things quite well.


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    rainbowtrout
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    The Irish teacher in my school got a set dancing/ceili dancing teacher in for a day last year, I think it was for Seachtain na Gaeilge and it ended up being a whole school thing, the classes were taken in year groups to gym and had about 2 hours of dancing. They all loved it.


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    Namlub
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    TheDriver wrote: »
    projects are great, the kids love them and allow them to work in pairs or groups, especially if one is not good at Irish but can do others things quite well.
    Lies.


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    TheDriver
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    Namlub wrote: »
    Lies.

    MY students love them. Sorry for expressing my opinion.:confused:


  • #6
    spurious
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    TheDriver wrote: »
    MY students love them. Sorry for expressing my opinion.:confused:

    My students love them too.
    Projects are one of those things those that don't do them think are really difficult to organise.

    Re TY...is your school a promoter of cross-curricular activities?
    My street/town/village when my granny/grandad was young (as gaeilge). Lots of photos, both now and then, old adverts from papers and trade directories (the local library will have these). Old accounts of gaelic matches, stories from old people in the area. Go even further back and check out the 1911 census. How many of their relatives listed in 1911 stated they could speak Irish? I could go on - endless possibilities.


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  • #7
    pjtb
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    spurious wrote: »
    Go even further back and check out the 1911 census. How many of their relatives listed in 1911 stated they could speak Irish? I could go on - endless possibilities.

    This is a really good idea. I'm not much older than someone in TY would be...so would have similar interests... spent ages looking at documents from the 1911 census this morning. Seeing who spoke Irish is a good one. A link to Peig Sayers' census entry is on the homepage at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/.


  • #8
    gunbarrel
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    How about involving them in a project about their area. They could be required to inform people about their town and could use Vicipeid (Wikipedia as Gaeilge), Youtube or even have a presentation of some sort where they bring the language into the community.


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