My Polish Teacher's Tie - Unit of Work<br /> <br /> (61-slide PowerPoint, 5 worksheets and unit of work overview)<br /> <br /> English Teaching Resources: My Polish Teacher's Tie (Helen Dunmore) is a 61-slide, fully editable PowerPoint presentation designed to teach Helen Dunmore's popular short story. My Polish Teacher's Tie is included in the AQA GCSE English Anthology Sunlight on the Grass and is the first story in the collection. Resources include a variety of lessons and activities ideal for helping pupils understand the plot, characters, themes, and the author's use of language. My Polish Teacher's Tie also contains 5 worksheets that can be used alongside the PowerPoint presentation. Activities include:<br /> <br /> Group discussion work about plot, character and themes.<br /> <br /> Comprehension and consolidation - Speaking &amp; Listening and written tasks.<br /> <br /> Exploring characters - archetypes<br /> <br /> Analyzing the changing character of Carla Carter in detail - extended writing.<br /> <br /> Exploring how characters develop.<br /> <br /> Helen Dunmore's use of symbolism in My Polish Teacher's Tie.<br /> <br /> Hot seating the main characters.<br /> <br /> Discussing themes - identity and immigration.<br /> <br /> 61-slide PowerPoint presentation.<br /> <br /> 5 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint.<br /> <br /> Unit of work overview<br /> <br /> To preview English Teaching Resources: My Polish Teacher's Tie click on the PowerPoint lessons.

<p>An extend list of different questions, useful for general conversation.</p>

Includes questions about key quotations and character analysis.

<p>To become familiar with Polish folk-art design, technique, history and use<br /> To recognise the Polish folk art stylistic elements<br /> To combine elements of Polish folk art into your own paper cut out design</p> <p>Tools: Coloured paper, scissors</p>

<p>This is a range of activities which help students</p> <p>Tidy their books<br /> Respond to marking<br /> Reflect on progress.</p> <p>You will have to change the pen colours according to your school’s marking policy.</p>

Originally used to support chn in correctly using their Purple Polishing Pens in line with the Talk for Writing scheme.<br /> Thanks for looking!

Video tutorial to learn the colours in Polish

<p>A simple mat for the describing a photo at Polish speaking GCSE containing main points worth mentioning.</p> <p>The document is available as a Microsoft Word document to enable edition and as pdf to maintain the format and font.</p>

<p>This is a lesson plan and resources for a beginner’s Polish lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a first Polish lesson, as it involves children learning the most basic vocabulary (4 Polish words/phrases).</p> <p>The plan gives details of a group starter, how to teach the ‘greetings’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking and listening activity, a simple writing activity and plenary whole class game. It is <strong>highly interactive</strong> and allows children to practise a range of language skills.</p> <p>All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are:</p> <ul> <li>Detailed Lesson Plan (4 PDF pages)</li> <li>Animated PowerPoint presentation. This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images only appear when the presentation is played with the animations. (6 Slides)</li> <li>Starter activity (1 PDF page)</li> <li>Speaking activity labels (1 PDF page)</li> <li>Reading activity. There is a colour and black &amp; white version of the worksheet. (2 PDF pages)</li> </ul> <p>No further preparation needed.</p>

<p>This is a <strong>Christmas</strong> lesson plan and resources for a beginner’s <strong>Polish</strong> lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for ‘Happy Christmas,’ as well as six decorations in Polish.</p> <p>The plan gives details of a whole class game to use as a starter, how to teach the vocabulary (including how to pronounce trickier words), a paired reading activity, whole class listening activity, a writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.</p> <p>All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are:</p> <ul> <li>Lesson Plan (4 page PDF)</li> <li>An 11 page animated PowerPoint presentation - This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.</li> <li>Sheets for the paired reading activity (4 pages PDF) - A colour and black &amp; white version are included</li> <li>Written activity (3 pages PDF) - A colour and black &amp; white version and answers are included<br /> You might be interested in:<br /> <a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11688153">Polish lesson and resources - Greetings</a></li> </ul>

<p>A selection of basic words and phrases to help you make children with a Polish heritage feel welcome in your class, or to help support topic work on Poland.<br /> ~ Mike :0)</p>

<p>Example questions for Polish GCSE</p>

Art specific key words for Polish EAL students.

<p>This comprehensive educational resource includes <strong>10 printable worksheets</strong> designed to help students learn and reinforce Polish vocabulary by matching words to pictures. Each worksheet covers a different category, essential for building foundational vocabulary. The topics included are <strong>parts of the face, parts of the body, countries, zoo animals, farm animals, pets, fruit, colours, numbers, and hobbies.</strong></p> <p>Each worksheet presents clear images and the corresponding vocabulary words in Polish, encouraging students to actively engage by matching each word to its picture. This hands-on approach helps solidify vocabulary recognition and pronunciation.</p> <p><strong>Answers are included</strong> for each worksheet, making it easy for students to self-check or for teachers to use in classroom settings.</p> <p>This resource is ideal for beginner-level students or anyone looking to practice and expand their Polish vocabulary in an enjoyable, visually supportive format.</p>

Plik zawiera wyjaśnienia i kilka zadań na temat podstawowych kolorów i podawania godziny.

<p>This is a mat with translated key words to improve paragraphs. Useful for EAL students and for differentiation.</p>

<p>Purple Polishing Pencil, designed to encourage pupils to proof-read and edit their work. These can be laminated to enable children to use whiteboard pens and tick off each criteria, during the writing process. Downloadable as as PDF.</p>

<p>A language dictionary for EAL children to use in the classroom.</p>

This resource originated with another source - I with a Polish parent fixed some spelling mistakes. I think made the notes I little nicer to share - sorry I don't know who created the original but I am sure they would want them shared. The first page of each document is a contents page.