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Talking to the World was led by the Open University in partnership with local secondary schools.Activites focused on language in different contexts, such as work, the environment, international events, careers, and the arts.

17 students from a variety of schools in Central and North London took part in this pilot activity. Languages offerend were: French, german and Spanish.

The workshop enabled participants with varying experience in use of ICT to create a range of teaching materials using Powerpoint and interactive whiteboard.

The Arsenal Double Club Portuguese contains classroom as well as PE activities in Portuguese. Students who take part in this project report increased motivation and initiative.

When you sign up for the project, you will received:

• Student Workbooks
• A Teacher's handbook
• Coach games and vocabulary

You can run the Double Club as an after-school club, as part of the curriculum or at half-terms.

After your students complete the Double Club, you will be invited to a tour of the Emirates.

Please see attached a sample lesson for your information.

To register, go to: http://www.arsenaldoubleclub.co.uk

This activity aims to harness the enthusiasm surrounding the Brazil 2014 World Cup and provide an ideal opportunity for your students to:

• learn more about Brazil and the Brazilian World Cup
• pick up some basic Portuguese
• develop their team work and creativity whilst drawing on a range of skills across ICT, Geography, Languages, Numeracy, Art and Design and PE.

Overview of the tasks

The Challenge involves 6 tasks which build on materials from the 6 lessons in the Arsenal Double Club Portuguese course. These are described in more detail on the Teacher Explanation Sheet attached.

Rules of the Game

• Students must enter in teams of 4-10 players.
• Every student in the team must contribute to the Challenge but tasks can be divided up to play to different individuals’ strengths.
• The Challenge is open to all students in Years 7, 8 and 9 and a team can include players from more than one year group.
• Schools can enter as many teams as they like but individual students are not allowed to participate in more than 1 team.
• Each task must be completed using a different format (eg. if Task 1 is a PowerPoint presentation then Task 6 cannot also be a PowerPoint presentation).
• Completed Challenges must be returned to Capital L no later than Thursday 1 May 2014.

The winners will be invited to a World Cup Day at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium!

This event has already closed. We will be anouncing the winners soon.

Win a chance to perform in the L Factor Festival* and take part in a unique music workshop!

Between September 2013 and July 2014, Capital L will be holding a languages and music competition aimed at London’s secondary school students aged between 14 and 19 years old: “The Language Factor Song Competition”.

Visit our YouTube page to see past entries and testimonials: http://www.youtube.com/user/routessoas

Entries should:

• consist of an original song written by the young performers in any language other than English.
• be submitted as a DVD video of the young people performing the song. The quality of the video will not be judged.
• last no longer than two minutes.
• be accompanied by a sheet with the full lyrics in the original language and translated into English.
• be submitted by post by 11th April 2014. Please see the competition guidelines for submission details. For a copy of the submission form, see below.

There will be two age categories for the competition: 

a. 14-16 years old (years 9-11)
b. 17-19 years old (years 12 & 13)

We strongly encourage schools to make this a cross-curricular activity between music and languages departments. For more information on the competition rules, please see the document 'L Factor Competition Guidelines', which will be uploaded in September 2013. 

• Registration must take place via schools.
• Teachers and pupils will be offered the s  upport of Music Mentors   to help with the various aspects of the activity, including song composition and performance techniques.

Please register here to receive the teacher pack, and for further information about the support available. To request copies of the poster, please contact: routes.admin@soas.ac.uk

*The L Factor Festival will take place in July 2014 at SOAS Brunei Gallery Theatre. Teachers, parents and classmates will be welcome. All shortlisted songs will be uploaded onto a private YouTube page.
 

Turkish Immersion Academy
SOAS, University of London

Wednesday 19 April 2017 10am – 3pm

Thursday 20 April 2017 10am – 3pm

Friday 21 April 2017 10am – 3pm
 

The Turkish Immersion Academy is a project which is being offered for students who have entered for GCSE Turkish (Year 9-11).

Each session will consist of two language lessons as well as a chance to meet current SOAS students and find out more about higher education. Students will also receive information about studying languages at university and other language qualifications.

The aims of the project are to help prepare students for their Turkish examinations (particularly by improving their written skills), to give students the opportunity to experience a university environment and to raise the profile of world languages in general.

Eligibility criteria:

The students should be Turkish speakers, who have been entered for Turkish GCSE. Priority will be given to those who are first generation in their family to attend university and are taking exams this year.

The closing date for applications is Friday 10^th March 2017.

To apply please email routes@soas.ac.uk.

This is an interactive mini-lecture (in PowerPoint) El Ave: la modernización del transporte ferroviario (The Spanish high speed train: modernisation of rail transport) that includes illustrations and maps. It is written in simple Spanish and, in order to cater for the different levels of ability, can be delivered either in Spanish, with some spoken English explanations to re-cap on different sections in the lecture, or in Spanish with a spoken English translation of each point, as well as some recapping and questions.

The session is planned to be accessible at the same time as giving an insight into what it would be like to study Spanish in first year undergraduate program. It hopes to encourage students and consider the beneifts of continuing to study languages.

It is a particularly good opportunity to engage with the language for beginners of Spanish, such as Year 12 IB Ab Initio students. However, it is also an effective exercise for GCSE and A-level students in terms of reading and listening language skills.

For more information about the workshop please refer to the pdf below. To register or for more questions, you can also write to us at routes@soas.ac.uk.