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At the Pet Park

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At the Pet Park

The Polyglots at the Pet Park is set at a pet day-care centre that looks and feels like a happy pet park. Children learn nouns and adjectives for various pets and responses to ‘What is it?’


Language learning features

  • Repetition: Words are repeated in meaningful contexts, providing many opportunities to hear the language.
  • Visual cues: Visual cues and gestures are aligned with spoken language to reinforce and emphasise meaning. The app uses the interactive functionality of the tablet.
  • Production: children have opportunities to produce the language. The learning experiences encourage children to mimic and play with sounds, words and short phrases. 

Cultural references

Language learning experts emphasise the importance of linking language to culture. To inspire children’s curiosity about Spanish-speaking cultures, the learning experiences feature cultural items and characters from Spanish-speaking countries. Some of the cultural items can be found in other apps.

Unique learning experiences

Each school community is unique. Teachers will find a variety of ways to apply the learning experiences in The Polyglots at the Pet Park to a particular child, group of children, school or community.

Links to the Australian Curriculum

Each of the learning experiences in The Polyglots Go Camping is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Languages, for Foundation to Year 2. 

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