Ideas for teaching T.Y. Irish?

halfmoon123

I couldn't find any relevant thread on this so apologies if it's been asked before - I'm sure it has!

I have a TY Irish group this year and I'm just wondering what stuff could I do with them to get them active, engaged, enthused but still learning...

Anything that incorporates even basic grammar like tenses, etc.? I'm going to some games involving county names as Gaeilge... Anything else?

dory

Go to teg.ie and find the activity sheets. Takes a while to find the good stuff and find things at the correct level, but i've found sheets with, say, picturs decribing where, when and how someone wants to go on holiday, and then the other sheet will be for the hotel owner with rates and dates available. You know they've done it all correctly when they get the correct amount for the bill (and can say it all of course). That's just one example. I know educationposts.ie had a thread on their forum about TY Irish last year.

aaabbbb

Maybe you could get them to write / perform their own play as gaeilge ?

I just remember from when I was in TY(4 years ago) being the year that was in it wanting more to be up about doing things than sitting down learning things I didn't see as relevant/ thought was pointless to engage with at the time .The same was noticeable among my peers in our year group too. If a teacher managed to keep a classes attention for more than a few minutes they were doing really well ! :pac:

An Coilean

I would suggest that you introduce an element of extra cruicular activity, tell the class that 15 - 20% of their overall grade for the year will be based on their extracruicular engagememt with Irish. The oppertunities for doing so will depend on where in the country you are, pupils can be set the task of comming up with ideas of how to do this which can then be discused in class in irish. Thinbs that could be done include membership of an Irish language youth club, attendance of a ciorcal comhrá, a pupil run Irish club in school could be set up and the class could organise activities througe Irish. This can be assesed on the basis of a pupil generated portfolio showing evidence of what they have done during the year.

NoelleTh

An idea I have for my TYs (not sure how successful its going to be!) is for them to make a play out of one of the LC stories and preform it for the 5th years...it say in the guidelines for TY that you can cover material from the LC once its done in 'an original and stimulating way'. I think it will benefit both year groups all going well!

halfmoon123

I think I might get some picture sequences (a la the LC) of Simpsons or some TV show like Friends or something, and get them to come up with the scenario using Irish phrases/etc... Something to make it relevant and up to date, but also strategically incorporating some LC prep

CookieMonster.x

What about getting them to do the Fáinne? When I was in TY we were told we would be doing it and I really looked forward to it. We never actually did even when promised that we'd do it the following year. In TY we did nothing for Irish which I think is a shame because we ended up forgetting a good bit of what we had. Plus we had very boring classes!
You could also try learning songs in Irish. I think Lurgan have the lyrics up to some of their songs as well. You could maybe do a project based on known Irish people or bands or just anything really through Irish. You could do some Irish dancing if you know how :P Cáca Milis might be good to watch as well as Aifric on the TG4 player.
I can't think of anything else at the moment but I would really advise you to do the fainne! It would also be great preparation for the actual LC orals as well as achieving something and adding it to a CV.

mick kk

The fiseán focal are great on that coláíste lurgan website and on youtube/vimeo...You can use them for grammar and spelling [literacy and numeracy box ticked!] an get students to sing along - you can record them singing along on your phone and play it back through computer speakers. I'm going to try and make a lip-sync video in class using one of those songs in the coming weeks
They have great videos up on youtube in past 2 weeks of popular songs that are out there at the moment.

Short stories by Micheál O Ruairc [from the book Na Lucha ag Rince] and Ré O laighléis [Bolgchaint - 4 euro each off moinin.ie if you buy a class set] are also very good for fourth years.

Fluent dysphasia is a good short movie on youtube you can show them.
Oral work using pictures from news websites is good for giving them something to talk about [beem them up to the class on projector]

whiteandlight

I'm not an Irish teacher but we've introduced a 'bribe' to TY maths students that their copy being in order , well kept and corrected will get them up to 20% of each test. It's turning out to be a surprising motivator