Here are the words for three in six languages:
Put them into groups without being told the rule. Trust what your ear and eye notice. When your teacher asks, suggest two words that belong together and why.
Your teacher opens a number card on the board. Listen across English, Irish, French, German and Spanish, then say the word back together.
Listen for pairs that sound almost the same, and pairs that only look related.
Now hunt the number pairs. Decide with the class which pairs are close cousins (shared family sound) and which only look a bit alike. You will draw your groups in your copy next.
Open your copy. Draw two groups and put four languages into them, with the word that made you decide.
Example: Group A: French and Spanish (sept / siete). Group B: English and German (seven / sieben). Irish can sit on its own branch with sé, seacht or ocht (sounds that do not sit inside the Romance or Germanic pairs). Another strong deciding pair is German acht with Irish ocht beside French huit, which only looks a bit alike. Write four languages in two groups and the number word that made you decide. You may place Irish alone if that is what your ear heard.
First take a printed bingo card from your teacher. Listen for today's number words across the languages you have just compared. Mark each one on your card as you hear it. First full line calls out.
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