dcf.cymru stimulus sheet · Humanities · Year 2
Real: Lesotho, its capital Maseru, the languages Sesotho and English, and the friendship link between Wales and Lesotho (since 1985). Invented for this lesson: Mountain Star School, Class 2, Mrs Mokoena, the email address and the class photo.
Show or print page 1 (the email) one between two, and read it aloud in Step 4. Page 2 has the sketch maps for Step 1 and the “How fast?” cards for Step 2. The school, the class and the email address are invented: the address ends in .example, which can never be a real email address, so nothing can be sent to it by mistake.
Say it like this: Lesotho, leh-SOO-too. Maseru, ma-SEH-roo. Sesotho, seh-SOO-too. Lumela means hello. In Sesotho an L before u is said like a D, so say doo-MEH-lah.
Answers for Task 3: Class 2 can see mountains from their window. They sent a photo of their class with the email.
Lumela, Year 2 in Wales!
We are Class 2 at Mountain Star School in Maseru. Maseru is the capital city of Lesotho. There are 30 children in our class.
Our country has lots of mountains. We can see mountains from our classroom window. In winter it can snow on the high mountains!
We speak Sesotho and English. Lumela means hello in Sesotho.
At break time we play football and skipping games.
We have sent you a photo of our class. What is it like where you live? Please write back to us!
From Class 2 and Mrs Mokoena
A drawing of the pretend class photo: some of Class 2 in front of their school, with mountains behind.
Simple sketch map, not to scale. Wales is in the north. Lesotho is far to the south, in southern Africa.
Close-up sketch. Lesotho (red) is a small country with South Africa all around it. The white dot is Maseru, the capital city.
Lesotho has lots of high mountains. Even its lowest land is higher than the top of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), the highest mountain in Wales.
letter
more than a week by post
phone call
talk and listen now, but no pictures
words and photos, there in seconds
video call
see faces and talk at the same time