Adjust language in different social contexts

Description:

To use the appropriate type of language with different people

Section: Primary (5-11yrs) info; Secondary (11-16yrs) info

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Activity/strategy name and materials required	How to do the activity	Key principles for doing the activity and comments
What you would say Photos of familiar people e.g. adults leading the group, class teacher/s, head teacher, all children in the group, other children from the children's class/es, etc. Photos of unfamiliar people e.g. police officer, shopkeeper/ market stall holder, bus driver, person at ticket booth at station etc. - from Flash-pro or internet image search. Comment suggestion cards: comment cards can say things like: Hello Hi, mate How old are you? What's your name? How are you? What do you want? Please can you be quiet Shut up Get out of the way! Get lost! Can you help me, please? Good morning Excuse me Oi, you! Are you a boy or a girl? Alright?	1. Put the photos where the children can see them and check they can identify who every one is. 2. Have a child pick a comment card and decide which people they could say it to and which people they couldn't 3. children can suggest other comments

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