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We can arrange school visits to partner Higher Education Institutions. Visits include workshops and/or master-classes,  presentations by university students, a tour of facilities and Q&As (time permitting). This activity is aimed at pupils currently in Years 7 to 13.

For more information or to book a place/date, please do not hesitate to contact us on the e-mail below.

Schools are offered the opportunity to have a Manga Illustrator and writer visit and deliver one of 2 workshops: "Writing a story in Manga" workshop (50 minutes) or "An introduction to Manga" (100 minutes). Six week projects are also available.

For more information or to book a place/date, please do not hesitate to contact us on the e-mail below.

Please note that in the case of no-shows or late cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school for the costs we have incurred.

The project will support individual bilingual pupils from Years 8 to 13 who wish to develop their skill in a language of which they already have some knowledge but which they are not learning in a mainstream class. They may have no formal lessons or may be taught it in an extra-curricular or supplementary class. It is envisaged that participating pupils will apply for a qualification exam in the language studied.

For more information, please contact Terry King on: terry.king@ucl.ac.uk

In the case of no-shows or late cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school for the costs we have incurred.

Please note that this event is now FULLY BOOKED

Universities in the Routes into Languages Capital L London Consortium have put together a range of special thematic days for London school students.

On the 15th of July, we will be holding opur Business and Chinese Day at the London School of Economics. We welcome all pupils, no matter what your Mandarin level is. There will be a designed class for you.

The key learning outcomes of the day are as follows:

• to get involved in activities that show an insight into Chinese culture and how Chinese Mandarin is used in the real-life working world
• to participate in a range of new language taster sessions suited with your Mandarin level
• to interact with staff and students from universities and enjoy the facilities available in higher education institutions
   

Target Group: Year 9 Students, others are welcome
 

Registration: Please complete the application form and email it to Dr. Hong Lu H.Lu1@lse.ac.uk or Ms. Huan HE yuhudielegend@gmail.com
 

For more information, please call Ms Huan HE on 07576573710.
 

Are you interested in science or technology? Wondering how languages may help you in the future? From combined degrees to optional subjects, languages are a great tool for a truly global career. Join us for a day of talks and workshops linking languages and sciences: play with languages, explore foreign cultures and meet Imperial College students and alumni who have used their language skills for work & study. Discover all the opportunities that mixing a language with a scientific or technical career may offer.

What languages will we work with?
The day will be English but expect to work with a variety of languages such as Chinese, French, German or Spanish.

Who should attend?
Students in Year 10. Parents are welcome to attend the final round table.

A light finger lunch will be served. Please note that there are limited places. In the case of no-shows or cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school and ask that you contribute to costs incurred.

Contact for enrolment & queries
Iria González-Becerra i.gonzalez-becerra@imperial.ac.uk

Please see Global Scientist Day advert attached.
 

This event is now FULLY BOOKED.

A day for Year 11-12 learners of French to demonstrate the wider links between language, culture and history; based at SOAS. The programme will consist of two main sessions – the first will look at the history of the French empire in North Africa, and the
second will discuss some of the cultural ramifications of this period. Some language work will be embedded in these sessions.

Please note that in the case of no-shows or cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school and ask that you contribute to costs incurred. 

Do you watch films in the foreign language(s) that you are studying? If so, you’ll know it’s a way of seeing some great films, improving your listening skills and learning more about the culture of another country.

And what about the subtitles? Have you ever thought about how these are created for the cinema and DVDs?

In this workshop we’ll look at what makes subtitling different from other types of translation, the challenges and rewards, and we’ll be creating some subtitles of our own.

 The workshop will run from 12.30 to 3.30 pm. There are 25 places for Y12 pupils and a light finger lunch will be served.

This project, hosted and organised by SOAS, would make use of the institution’s specific language focus, expertise and media facilities. Community languages would be used to make an advert which would advertise London to prospective visitors, as a tie-in with the 2012 games.

In this advert, schoolchildren who speak Bengali could make an advert (with a script substantially in Bengali) for visitors from Bangladesh. An academic from SOAS would be involved in helping to script the advert on the first day of the event, and the second day would consist of filming in the SOAS media suite.

This scheme will involve Ambassadors acting as tutors, supporting language teachers during class. Secondary schools will be able to apply to receive up to a maximum of 4 tutors and discuss a delivery plan with our Capital L Project Manager. Schools will allocate a coordinator to liaise with Capital L, to supervise tutors, to provide monthly reports on attendance and to help with evaluation.

The delivery plan will include information on whether tutors will, for example, support pupils to develop specific skills (oral skills, essay writing, grammar), and/or work with pupils on a one-to-one basis, with groups or the whole class.

The overall aims and objectives are:
• To increase pupils’ confidence in their language skills
• To increase pupils’ motivation for studying languages
• To raise achievement in languages
• To raise the profile of languages at secondary schools
• To raise secondary school pupils’ awareness for language studying at university
• Ambassadors will develop a range of employability skills including coaching, motivating, and leadership skills

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SOAS Language alumni ambassadors who now employ languages in their workplaces can come to your school and speak to your students about their experiences of learning languages and the additional benefits this has brought to their professional lives.