North West

Routes NW is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Details of each session, together with registration links, is available below. This is the ideal opportunity to engage pupils in creative language production, whether they intend to enter MTOT or not. We hope to engage a wide range of teachers and pupils in these live events, but will ensure materials are shared with registered teachers after the event. Further details on MTOT and how to enter can be found here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/how-to-enter/noth-west-competition

All events are aimed at students (and their teachers!) currently in Years 7-9.

Routes into Languages NW Languages Week – Online Workshops

Routes NW is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Details of each session, together with registration links, is available below. This is the ideal opportunity to engage pupils in creative language production, whether they intend to enter MTOT or not. We hope to engage a wide range of teachers and pupils in these live events, but will ensure materials are shared with registered teachers after the event. Further details on MTOT and how to enter can be found here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/how-to-enter/noth-west-competition

All events are aimed at students (and their teachers!) currently in Years 7-9.

Routes into Languages NW Languages Week – Online Workshops

Routes NW is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Details of each session, together with registration links, is available below. This is the ideal opportunity to engage pupils in creative language production, whether they intend to enter MTOT or not. We hope to engage a wide range of teachers and pupils in these live events, but will ensure materials are shared with registered teachers after the event. Further details on MTOT and how to enter can be found here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/how-to-enter/noth-west-competition

All events are aimed at students (and their teachers!) currently in Years 7-9.

Routes into Languages NW Languages Week – Online Workshops

Routes NW is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Details of each session, together with registration links, is available below. This is the ideal opportunity to engage pupils in creative language production, whether they intend to enter MTOT or not. We hope to engage a wide range of teachers and pupils in these live events, but will ensure materials are shared with registered teachers after the event. Further details on MTOT and how to enter can be found here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/how-to-enter/noth-west-competition

All events are aimed at students (and their teachers!) currently in Years 7-9.

Join us online to celebrate European Day of Languages on 26 September 2023. This event, aimed at KS3-5, is organised by the Routes into Languages NW network, a collaboration between the Universities of Chester, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Register on behalf of your class and beam us into your classroom. Your students will hear from our staff and UG ambassadors about why languages are fun, rewarding and an amazing investment into their future.       

We will be running four identical sessions throughout the day, delivered via Zoom, and you can join as many as you like. The one-hour sessions will run at 9, 10:30, 12 and 13:30. Each session includes: 

• Why Study Languages? -  Motivational talk led by university languages staff   
• Languages can change you! - Panel with MFL student ambassadors
• Q&A session 

How to register: fill in the form here https://gck.fm/xsowb

This workshop will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University and will explore the relationship between poetry and music, look at poems turned to music, and allow students to create their own musical poems. There will be an introduction for all led by Laura Martin-Cisneros, with break-out sessions for Arabic, French, and Spanish.

Target audience: Years 7-9

Languages: Arabic, French, Spanish

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-and-music-tickets-570030315017

Please see the Word document below for further information on other free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition.

This workshop will be hosted by Lancaster University and will analyse protest songs from across the world: What do they have in common? How do they help understand the context in which they were composed? How do they bring their message across, and what makes them efficient? We will then break into language groups (Chinese, French, German, Italian & Spanish) in which we will look into specific examples in the relevant languages and give you the tools to create your own protest song.

Target age-range: Years 12-13

Languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/get-up-sing-up-protest-songs-across-the-world-tickets-570022270957

Please see the Word document below for further information on other free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition.