We're doing a detective ears test today: no peeping at spellings yet!
We meet a few number words in two ways:
Watch for sounds and letter patterns. At the end you will say which route helped you more, and name one real word plus what you noticed.
Ears only. Number words. Nothing written down yet.
Your teacher will say each number word twice. After the second time, show which language you heard:
Then finish this idea out loud (point if you like):
After that, a few quick mystery clips on the board: call out the language and one sound clue.
Trust your ear. We are hunting sounds, not meanings yet.
Now you can see the spellings. Same number ideas your ears just met.
True cousins = a real word family (they really go together). Lookalikes = share letters by chance only — English once and Spanish once (eleven) look alike but are not a number family.
Sort each pair the board shows. Say what letter pattern you notice first.
Open your copy.
Think about today's number words (for example trois, tres, trí, drei, deux, dos).
Write:
Sentence starters on the board:
Some children meet language with eyes and hands: deaf children in Ireland learn Irish Sign Language. It has its own grammar and is not English on the hands. That is another route, just as hearing and seeing were two routes for us today.
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