North West

Monday, 4th February 2013:  French with Isabelle Vanderschelden

1.30-4.30 pm

£4 per student with free places for accompanying teachers

Film: La Haine

These half-day events are offered in French, Spanish, German and Italian, and will focus on a popular film studied by A2

students. The workshop will include the following elements: structuring an essay, arguing and illustrating

a point, focusing on characters, themes and director’s style, building a phrase-bank to discuss films, learning

film terminology.

Please note that this is a repeat of the event held on 28th November 2012.

Broaden Your Horizons: Study Abroad Event

Wednesday 12th November 2014.  1pm – 3pm

Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Open to First Year Students across all disciplines

Broaden Your Horizons, is the awe inspiring event that opens you up to the possibility of studying or working abroad during your time at MMU.

You are invited to come along and find out just how much studying abroad can help you develop personally and professionally.

You can hear about the amazing experiences of studying abroad from our guest speakers from The BBC, Siemens, Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP) and The European Commission and how it helped them go on to be successful, or you can come along and talk to the recently returned students who have just been on a whirlwind adventure across Europe and the World.

Get all the information from MMU International on how to apply and find out where you can go, how you go, but more importantly, why you should go!

The event is designed to provide students with the inspiration, information and support they need to go out and study or volunteer abroad.

An exchange programme is one of the greatest opportunities available at university and our aim is to make our students see how it can benefit them. Students will discover what exchange programmes are available to them, how to apply, what financial support they could be entitled to, and most importantly, how the experience can change their lives.

There will be guest speakers from a range of different backgrounds who all have one thing in common: the year abroad. These speakers have partaken in the year abroad during university, and proceeded to utilize the skills and experience they gained to reach their current positions in their desired careers. There will also be representatives from volunteering organizations to talk about volunteering opportunities available to students, should they wish to partake in a different type of experience abroad. At the end of the talk there will be a panel question and answer session where students will have the opportunity to ask all speakers any questions and obtain further information.

Following the talk, there will be an information fair with refreshments where students have the opportunity to find out further information about the different countries available for study abroad, and talk to Erasmus and World Wide Exchange students who are currently studying at Manchester Metropolitan University on their exchange. This is a fantastic way for students to find out exactly what a study abroad experience can be like!

The benefits of attending the event are simple – students will discover opportunities that they might not have known were available to them. They will receive specific information about the going abroad process, as well as inspirational stories of how studying abroad has affected the lives of so many others. It is commonly thought that only students studying a language at university can go and study abroad, and we are here to show students that this is not always the case.

The Film and Culture Event for Languages (FACE) Day is open to language students in Years 10-11 and will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University. It is designed to highlight the benefits of learning languages through a Careers and Languages talk, and the fun way in which languages can be taught, with a Languages and Film session. Activities will also include a language taster, to show how languages can be taught at university and highlighting the diverse range of language study options available at a higher level.

The event is hoped to boost students’ enthusiasm for language learning so that they continue with their languages to A Level and beyond. This is an excellent opportunity to show language students the variety of languages on offer; and the variety of fun ways students can learn languages.

This event has a small charge and we are asking for a nominal fee of £4 per pupil to cover some of the costs.

To book: please complete and return the attached booking form.

This event will be repeated on Thursday, 14th February and Monday, 4th March 2013.

It’s Back!  Bigger, Better and Bolder than Before! The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has announced that the Mother Tongue Other Tongue Competition will continue to be her Laureate Education Project.

An idea originally developed by the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Routes into Languages North West, this national multilingual poetry competition aims to celebrate cultural diversity and the many languages currently spoken in schools across the UK.

Mother Tongue Other Tongue is a free to enter competition open to pupils aged between 8 and 18.

Mother Tongue asks pupils, who do not have English as a first language, to write about what a lullaby, poem or song in their native language means to them.

Other Tongue asks pupils to create an original poem in a second language they are learning at school (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Urdu and Mandarin). 

Entries need to be submitted by Tuesday 10th June 2014.

The winners for the Regional (North West) and National competition will be announced at a special celebration event, which will be held on Friday 27th June 2014 at Manchester Metropolitan University 12.00 – 4.30 supported by the Poet Laureate.

See www.mtot.org.uk  for further details and to download promotional materials, workshop ideas and resources.

This one-day training event is designed for Language Teachers who use film for A Level teaching and assessment. The aims are to work together around a given topic (this year it is the representation of French/Spanish history in film) and to share good practice and ideas about using film in the language classroom. The INSET will focus on discussing different narratives and genres to find out more about war and the memory, legacy and unsaid discourses.

The INSET is open to anyone teaching French or Spanish A Level. We welcome newly qualified teachers, teachers in training and language assistants.

Organiser: Department of Languages, Information and Communications (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Film in Language Teaching Association (www.filta.org.uk)

£60 per teacher, £30 for PGCE students, School Direct trainees and Language Assistants. Lunch and refreshments are included.

For further information, please contact :

Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden (French) i.vanderschelden@mmu.ac.uk

Dr Carmen Herrero (Spanish) c.herrero@mmu.ac.uk

To book: please complete and return the booking form below.

Please make sure that you book a place early as places are limited.

The ever popular Language Enrichment Events are back for summer 2014. Aimed at year 8 pupils, the events are designed to motivate language learners and encourage them to carry on with their languages to GCSE level. Our research shows that the events improve uptake at GCSE by 24%.

The events use language tasters and cultural activities in less widely taught languages to encourage the learning of languages generally.

Cost per pupil: £4

The events are only open to schools where languages are not compulsory. Priority will be given to schools who have not attended a Language Enrichment Event in previous years.

Places will be allocated after the closing date of Friday 9th May 2014.

The ever popular Language Enrichment Events are back for summer 2014. Aimed at year 8 pupils, the events are designed to motivate language learners and encourage them to carry on with their languages to GCSE level. Our research shows that the events improve uptake at GCSE by 24%.

The events use language tasters and cultural activities in less widely taught languages to encourage the learning of languages generally.

Cost per pupil: £4

The events are only open to schools where languages are not compulsory. Priority will be given to schools who have not attended a Language Enrichment Event in previous years.

Places will be allocated after the closing date of Friday 9th May 2014.

The ever popular Language Enrichment Events are back for summer 2014. Aimed at year 8 pupils, the events are designed to motivate language learners and encourage them to carry on with their languages to GCSE level. Our research shows that the events improve uptake at GCSE by 24%.

The events use language tasters and cultural activities in less widely taught languages to encourage the learning of languages generally.

Cost per pupil: £4

The events are only open to schools where languages are not compulsory. Priority will be given to schools who have not attended a Language Enrichment Event in previous years.

Places will be allocated after the closing date of Friday 9th May 2014.

The ever popular Language Enrichment Events are back for summer 2014. Aimed at year 8 pupils, the events are designed to motivate language learners and encourage them to carry on with their languages to GCSE level. Our research shows that the events improve uptake at GCSE by 24%.

The events use language tasters and cultural activities in less widely taught languages to encourage the learning of languages generally.

Cost per pupil: £4

The events are only open to schools where languages are not compulsory. Priority will be given to schools who have not attended a Language Enrichment Event in previous years.

Places will be allocated after the closing date of Friday 9th May 2014.