Suggestions for use: Possible uses: When students are familiar with vocab associated with a particular topic, the teacher could print and cut out a selection of key words. 1.Ask the students to place the keywords on the correct colour on the mat. 2. Ask the students to compose sentence(s) with those words. 3. Do the students notice that they keep starting the sentence with the word from the same colour? (again this would be the blue (verb) in Gaeilge). 4. Now that you have your sentence, can you change the tense of the verb? - Enter the verb cards to help! 5. With the grammar mats in use in all of our language classes, the students may notice that the order of the colours are different in each language and needs to be taken into account for translation. (Google translate doesn't always work!) Differentiation and development to more senior classes: 1.Using a piece of text, can the students pick out the grammatical elements, write the verbs etc on a post-it (different colours if you like!) and stick them to correct colour on the mat? Pulling the text apart like this will draw the students' attention to syntax. If they are looking for a verb, for example, they will soon figure out where it should be in the sentence, advancing their understanding and increasing their comprehension. 2. Like point 2 above, using a marker, the students may like to write the words under the title directly on to the mat. 3. Using a piece of written text (comprehension etc) can the students underline the appropriate word with the appropriate colour (Blue pen, red pen, green pen)? This could be done in a carousel fashion, each group of students given a particular grammatical element, find it, underline it and pass it on. Repeating the process will help to embed the process. The teacher can assign the easier/most obvious terms to the weaker students while providing a challenge to the more able. All of the above can be used for picture sequences also.

Suggestions for use: Possible uses: When students are familiar with vocab associated with a particular topic, the teacher could print and cut out a selection of key words. 1.Ask the students to place the keywords on the correct colour on the mat. 2. Ask the students to compose sentence(s) with those words. 3. Do the students notice that they keep starting the sentence with the word from the same colour? (again this would be the blue (verb) in Gaeilge). 4. Now that you have your sentence, can you change the tense of the verb? - Enter the verb cards to help! 5. With the grammar mats in use in all of our language classes, the students may notice that the order of the colours are different in each language and needs to be taken into account for translation. (Google translate doesn't always work!) Differentiation and development to more senior classes: 1.Using a piece of text, can the students pick out the grammatical elements, write the verbs etc on a post-it (different colours if you like!) and stick them to correct colour on the mat? Pulling the text apart like this will draw the students' attention to syntax. If they are looking for a verb, for example, they will soon figure out where it should be in the sentence, advancing their understanding and increasing their comprehension. 2. Like point 2 above, using a marker, the students may like to write the words under the title directly on to the mat. 3. Using a piece of written text (comprehension etc) can the students underline the appropriate word with the appropriate colour (Blue pen, red pen, green pen)? This could be done in a carousel fashion, each group of students given a particular grammatical element, find it, underline it and pass it on. Repeating the process will help to embed the process. The teacher can assign the easier/most obvious terms to the weaker students while providing a challenge to the more able. All of the above can be used for picture sequences also.