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Toki Pona Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about the constructed language Toki Pona. It includes activities for discussing why children and adults invent languages and the advantages of invented languages over natural languages. Students watch a video about Esperanto and discuss why it was invented and its advantages. They then do a jigsaw reading activity to learn about Toki Pona, created by Paul Walsh. After summarizing their readings, students are asked if they would like to learn an invented language and which one they would choose. Follow up tasks suggest further research on the Toki Pona website and learning experience.

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Toki Pona Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan for teaching students about the constructed language Toki Pona. It includes activities for discussing why children and adults invent languages and the advantages of invented languages over natural languages. Students watch a video about Esperanto and discuss why it was invented and its advantages. They then do a jigsaw reading activity to learn about Toki Pona, created by Paul Walsh. After summarizing their readings, students are asked if they would like to learn an invented language and which one they would choose. Follow up tasks suggest further research on the Toki Pona website and learning experience.

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TokiPona

byPaulWalsh

LessonTopic
:Inventedlanguages
Level
:B2+
Time
:4560minutes+
Activities/Tasks
:Discussion,watchingvideo,jigsawreading
Materials
:Projector/laptop
Language
:Languagefordiscussion,expressingopinions,agreement/disagreement

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Preparation

Downloadthefilm
TheUniversalLanguage
orthe
excerptfromthefilm
onYouTube.

Procedure

1)WriteontheWBordictatethesethreequestions:

Whydochildreninventlanguages?
Whydoadultsinventlanguages?
Can you think of advantages that invented languages have over 'ordinary'
languages?

2)Inpairslearnersdiscussthequestions.Thefinalquestionismeanttobetricky!

3) Watch the film '


The Universal Language
' or the excerpt from the film given at the
beginningofthispost.

4)Asklearnersthefollowingquestions:

WhywasEsperantoinvented,inyouropinion?
WhydopeoplewanttolearnEsperanto?
WhataretheadvantagesofEsperanto?

5)Feedback.Exampleanswersmightinclude:

Esperantowasinventedtopreventconflictbetweenpeople
Tocommunicatewithotherpeoplearoundtheworld
Esperantoiseasierthanotherlanguages

6) Tell the learners "You're goingto read about another person whoinventedtheirown
language. First, you're going to read two different texts then
after, I want youtowork
togethertosummarisewhatyouread".

7)
JigsawReading
learnersreaddifferentpartsofanarticleoninventedlanguages:

GroupA

Babel'smodernarchitectsPage1
Group B
Babel'smodernarchitectsPage2
(preteachtheword
Conlang
anabbreviation
ofconstructedlanguage)

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8)PairlearnersfromGroupAwithlearnersfromGroupB.

Learners discuss what theyhavewrittenandtogethercomposeabriefsummaryoftheir


twotexts.Thesummaryshouldcontaininformationon:

WhatyoulearntaboutTokiPona
Whatyoulearntaboutinventedlanguages

9)Conclusion.Askthelearnersthefollowingquestions:

Wouldyouliketolearnaninventedlanguage?
Ifsowhichlanguagewouldyouchoose?

Followuptasks

Asaproject, learnerscouldgototheofficial
TokiPonawebsiteandfindoutmoreabout
thisinventedlanguageanditsauthor.

Sendlearnersto

this

sitewhathappenedwhenthispersontriedtolearnTokiPonain
48hours?

Images

TokiPonalogo,courtesyofWikipedia.License:
CreativeCommons
AttributionShareAlike3.0.

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