Teaching Mabinogion | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: To learn how to pronounce the Welsh names in the text To learn about the setting of the text

1) 1. The teacher writes the following list of words on the board: gwyddbwyll, Llyr, Llefelys, Culhwch, Ysbaddaden, Gwalchmei, Pwyll. In small groups, the students should attempt to pronounce these. Each group should appoint a spokesperson to report the group's best attempt back to the whole class.
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