Nettsider med emneord «Intercultural competence»

Themes: Cross-curricular, Factual text, Intercultural competence, Music 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This colourful and expressive picture book encourages students to explore different cultural forms of expression: in this case, jazz music. 

Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Health and Life skills, Identity, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book motivates for talk about different ways of living, culture and traditions and thus, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence. 

Themes: Amusement, Intercultural competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This amusing story set in Scotland provides young learners with knowledge about the tradition of playing bagpipes. 

Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Friendship, Identity, Intercultural competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a young Korean girl encourages talk about different ways of living and traditions in different societies and thus, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence. 

Themes: Amusement, Fairy tales, Intercultural competence

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This legend brings child culture into the English classroom by giving the background of this traditional and universal game. 

Themes: Factual text, Intercultural competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book helps students to gain experience of reading factual texts and to talk and write about the content. Furthermore, this Scottish tale gives students knowledge about Scottish history and, hence, contributes to developing their intercultural competence.  

Themes: Family, Intercultural competence

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is an inspiration to investigate ways of living and traditions in different societies in the English-speaking world and reflect on identity and cultural belonging.  

Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Factual text, Intercultural competence, Racism 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about Malala can inspire students to explore diversity and describe different ways of living and thinking and hence, contributes to developing their intercultural competence. Furthermore, this book can be used to work with interdisciplinary topics.   

Themes: Intercultural competence, Seasons

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book tells the Christmas story in an amusing way and, hence, provides young learners with knowledge about culture.  

Themes: Environment, Intercultural competence, Seasons 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book tells the unusual tradition of a young boy and his family making the readers reflect on the environment and the traditions of Christmas trees.

Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Friendship, Intercultural competence, Racism

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can contribute to developing students’ insight into different societies and help prevent prejudices. It also encourages reflection on friendship and barriers that keep people apart.  

Themes: Amusement, Intercultural competence, Factual text 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can provide an exploratory approach to language, communication patterns, lifestyles, ways of thinking and social conditions open for new perspectives on the world and ourselves. The book can develop the pupils’ understanding that their views of the world are culture-dependent. 

Themes: Fairy tale, Intercultural competence, 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish folk tale gives insight into traditions and cultural forms in the English-speaking world. 

Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Diversity, Identity, Intercultural competence, Language work 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book contributes to reflection on similarities and differences between children with different cultural background. The sentence structure is repetitive and simple and can serve as a model for the youngest learners to start writing simple sentences.

Themes: Fairy tale, Intercultural competence 

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Scottish folk tale gives insight into traditions and cultural forms of expression. 

Themes: Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship

Connections to the Curriculum in English: The book investigates ways of living and traditions in different societies and encourages reflection on identity and cultural belonging.    

Themes: Animals, Intercultural competence

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is well suited for reading and presenting content from various types of text and can be used as a model text for writing stories. In addition, it is an excellent starting point for talking about pets and their needs. The book has also the cultural aspect of sheep farming and training sheep dogs.  

Themes:  Fairy tales, Intercultural competence

Connections to the Curriculum in English:    This book encourages young children to learn words and phrases and acquire cultural knowledge.

Themes: Fairy tales, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence

Connections to the Curriculum in English:   By reflecting on, interpreting and critically assessing different types of texts in English, the pupils shall acquire language and knowledge of culture and society. 

Themes: Cross-curricular, Intercultural competence, Music

Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book allows for teaching music and English in combination which will help children experience the rhythm of English through different senses. In addition, it brings an iconic song into the classroom and can be used as an introduction to the Beatles and their music.