Introduction - Greek program Activities
Schools close to shopping districts with shops/businesses where the community language is spoken can provide their students with the opportunity to conduct language-based activities in their local shopping area.
For example, student note-taking activities can include a stroll around the shopping district with the intention of 'discovering' text written in the community language (e.g. notices or price tags inside the shop or in shop windows) or listening for conversations in the community language spoken in the streets (e.g. by passers-by) or in shops (e.g. during sales transactions by sales assistants or customers).
Such shopping expeditions were organised and took place at two different schools which offer Greek and Chinese (Mandarin) in their school curriculum.