Notes for teachers
Language lab
These interactive materials are intended for use with pupils in KS3 who have at least one year of language learning. However, they are suitably challenging for other learners and could be used in KS4 or at early AS level. They are complemented by the Powerpoint presentation Why study languages? (also included on this CD), the first two parts of which are suitable for KS3/4 learners.
Notes for teachers:
Accessible / photocopiable versions
Word versions of each of the activities in the Language Lab are supplied below.
Mircosoft Word:
- Are you fit for languages? quiz
- Egghead or Braindead? - quiz and answers
- Facteroids references
- Talking heads - transcripts
Adobe pdf:
- Are you fit for languages? quiz
- Egghead or Braindead? - quiz and answers
- Facteroids references
- Talking heads - transcripts
Why study languages?
This is a collection of PowerPoint presentations and video clips that are intended to be used as a promotional tool for encouraging young learners to continue their language learning at school and beyond. They include a guide to the routes into Higher Education and video clips of interviews with students of Modern Languages. It is mainly aimed at student in post 16 education but much of the material can be used with learners in year 10 and 11.
Notes for teachers:
- Part one: Why study languages?
- Part two: Routes into language learning in higher education
- Part three: What students say - transcripts
Photocopiable materials:
- More than fifty languages spoken in Portsmouth Schools - article from the Daily Telegraph
- Languages of the wider world - quiz
- Languages of the wider world - answers
- Languages of the wider world - quiz
- Languages of the wider world - answers
Further resources - useful links
700 reasons for studying languages
www.llas.ac.uk/700reasons
Research by the Subject Centre has identified more than 700 reasons for study languages. This research will be particularly useful for marketing languages and should help educators to promote language study and design.
Languages Work
www.languageswork.org.uk
Online and hard copy resources showing the true value of languages in the workplace and beyond. Produced by CILT, the National Centre for Languages.
ATLAS (A Taste of Languages At School)
www.ucl.ac.uk/atlas
A number of 'taster' websites in languages to give a flavour of what it might be like to study a less widely used lesser taught language at university. Produced at University College London.
