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3 Bring your Mum/Dad/Carer to university held during this academic year and perhaps a fourth for those not able to attend previous sessions. Dates are as follows:

• 21/11/2009
• 21/01/2010
• 18/02/2010

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

Do you enjoy playing computer games? Are you studying languages? If so, this workshop on video games localisation might be right up your street.

To find out more about what it means to be a games localiser, come to our half-day workshop. There are 25 places for Y12 pupils ONLY and a light finger lunch will be served.
 

Interested in finding out about translation and interpreting as professions?

If you are studying a language for AS or A Level, this is for you.

Come and discover the latest translation technology. Find out about film subtitling software. Experience what it is like to be a conference interpreter in our Interpreting Suite. Have a chat with a conference interpreter working for the EU parliament.

Deadline for registration: 9 December 09

Capital L has a team of trained ambassadors available for presentations on the progression routes for Year 9 and Year 11 pupils considering what options to take on the next stage of their studies.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us on the e-mail below.

Students will be able to meet with Capital L ambassadors on a monthly basis who will support them in running projects and activities in the school. This is a team project which begins with a day long session at SOAS. Language leaders will receive training in planning and delivering activities, organising events and how to give presentations.

This event is aimed at students in Years 7 to 13 and is open for 10-15 students per school. Schools are to nominate someone to coordinate the scheme and liaise with Capital L through the academic year.

For more information, please contact Sarah Tucker at st47@soas.ac.uk or 020 7898 4043

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 Chinese Art, Language and Culture workshops are to be delivered through the University of Westminster's unique Chinese Poster Collection which holds hundreds of posters from China. The material will be selected to teach children in KS3 and KS4 about   Chinese culture and the Chinese language (Mandarin). The children will be able to see real Chinese posters and memorabilia dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, to learn some elements of culture in modern China and to apply some rudimentary Chinese language skills such as speaking a phrase or learning to write some characters. They will also be introduced to the recent extraordinary transformation of China through talking about exciting recent events such as the Olympics.
 

Overall, skills can be developed in cultural understanding and knowledge, language and culture, and heightened awareness of Chinese language learning through visual culture.

These workshops are aimed at Key Stage 3/4 students.

A series of 3 days for learners to gain a greater insight into one of the regions covered at SOAS (Africa, China & Inner Asia, Japan & Korea, Near & Middle East, South Asia, and South East Asia). Each day will focus on one region, their growing influence on Europe & America, and the consequent importance of understanding their languages and cultures.

The programme will consist of three sessions; one language taster and then one session on the development, economics or politics of the region, and one session on the history, anthropology, archaeology, music or religion of the region.
 

The aims of these events are:

• To place language learning as an integral part of understanding culture
• De-mystify the study of languages demonstrating that it is not just about learning a language
• Provide a spark of interest in languages by exposing students to a language substantially different from those commonly taught in school. For example, an Arabic session may focus on calligraphy and how different the script is from the Western alphabet

The Employability strand of Capital L will be working with London Aimhigher partnerships to deliver 5 events (1 based on each of the designated Strand themes) for Year 9 students over the academic year so that there is at least 1 event delivered in each Aimhigher Partnership.

These events are aimed at:

• deliver confidence-building workshops in either spoken or studied languages based on the concept of ‘the linguist as professional communicator’ (to retain the languages in action/employability focus) followed by a taster in a new language; this emphasises transferable language skills and language learning skills;
• establish within the programme of each AimHigher Partnership in London a calendar of language activities which includes employability skills; employer engagement; language tasters; contact with student ambassadors, information on going to university/taking languages degrees and combined degrees with languages; careers opportunities.
   

In addition to themed event days, a series of short ‘stand-alone’ workshops will be developed from them that can be presented at existing AimHigher events in order to ensure still wider coverage for languages.

A competition for language specialist secondary and supplementary schools in London to create an on-line front-page “poster” and then, either four additional pages, or a video, on welcoming young Olympic visitors to London.

Materials may be in any language taught in the school. and submitted in PowerPoint or a similar programme.

Entry is free

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.

Students will also work with Ambassadors to discuss their thoughts about issues raised throughout the day, and what implications these have on the importance of languages.