North West

Mandarin GCSE Study Session

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WILL HAVE A NEW DATE. CHECK THIS WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS.

Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level Mandarin

£5 per student, 158 places

Screening: Springtime in a Small Town  (Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun) PG

Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang, China, 2003, 116 mins.

In Mandarin with English subtitles

Springtime in a Small Town is a romantic take of unfulfilled love set at the end of China's war against Japan. Dr. Zhang Zhichen (Xin Baiqing) returns to his hometown to visit an old family friend, Dai Liyan (Wu Ju), who is unwell and is now married to the doctor's childhood sweetheart. Tension rises as the former sweethearts rediscover their feelings for each other.

Led by Dr. Qi Zhang, Chinese Lector, Manchester Metropolitan University and Robert Hamilton, Senior Lecturer Film and Media studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Learn how to publish and share your teaching resources on the internet!

This free workshop is designed specifically for teachers of community languages and is part of the Community Café project, led by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and supported by Routes North West.

The objectives of the workshop are to:

• learn how to use an innovative resource-sharing site called LanguageBox
• learn how to publish your teaching resources online for students and other teachers to use
• consider some of the issues around publishing your teaching online and discover where to find free resources
• join a group of community language teachers sharing their resources online
• share ideas and teaching materials with other teachers of your language across the UK

Join us and become part of a project which is connecting community languages teachers across the UK, and part of a community which is creating a pool of resources and information for language teachers to use in their everyday work.

The workshop is free to attend and refreshments will be provided.

If you wish to find out more about the project, please read about our café meetings and workshop sessions on our blog
 

URDU GCSE Study Session
Baghban PG
Wed 2 March 2011, 10.30 – 15.00
 

Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level Urdu
 

£6 per student, 158 places
 

Screening: Baghban PG
Director: Ravi Chopra, India, 2003, 182 mins.
Urdu/Hindi with English subtitles
 

An elderly couple’s wish is for their four sons’ care for them in old age. However, the sons have their own lives to lead, they have settled down professionally, are independent and do not want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. Do the son’s learn the folly of their ways and turn over a new leaf?

Led by Samina Butt, Secondary School Urdu Teacher, Haywood Engineering College, Stoke-on-Trent.

ARABIC GCSE Study Session
Messages From Paradise (cert TBC)
Sat 5 February 2011, 10.00 – 13.00

Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level Arabic

£5 per student, 158 places

Screening: From Aleppo to Hollywood (cert TBC)
Director: Mohammed Belhaj, Qatar, 2009, 75 mins
In Arabic with English subtitles and English with Arabic subtitles

From Aleppo to Hollywood is a documentary made by the Al Jazeera news network TV channel focusing on the life of the world famous film producer and director Moustapha al-Akkad. Most famous for his Halloween horror film series this documentary charts the director's life from a young boy growing up in Aleppo to his journey to Hollywood and focuses on the 1976 film The Message, about the prophet Mohammad.
 

Led by Dr. Muntasir Al-Hamad, Lecturer of Arabic, Manchester Metropolitan University and Mohamad Aljarrah, Language Tutor, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Links into Languages, in partnership with the Routes into Languages COLT project, present a Day Conference for community languages teachers on Wednesday 24th November, 09.30am ‑ 3.30pm.

Registration is via the Links North West website: £75 for teachers in full time employment, £20 for colleagues from supplementary schools or non‑mainstream settings.

Producers of resources for community languages are invited to exhibit.
 

MANDARIN GCSE Study Session
Springtime in a Small Town PG
Sat 20 November 2010, 10.00 – 13.00
 

Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level Mandarin students

£5 per student, 158 places available.
 

Springtime in a Small Town PG
Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang, China, 2003, 116 mins.
In Mandarin with English subtitles
 

Springtime in a Small Town is a romantic tale of unfulfilled love set at the end of China’s war against Japan. Dr. Zhang Zhichen (Xin Baiqing) returns to his hometown to visit an old family friend, Dai Liyan (Wu Jun), who is unwell and is now married to the doctor’s childhood sweetheart. Tension rises as the former sweethearts rediscover their feelings for each other.

Springtime in a Small Town is a remake of Fei Mu’s classic Spring in a Small Town made in 1948.

Led by Qi Zhang, Chinese Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University and Dr Robert Hamilton, Senior Lecturer Film and Media studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.

The MMU Language Enrichment Event will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language.

The events are open to any year 8 or 9 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!
 

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.

The MMU Language Enrichment Event will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language.

The events are open to any year 8 or 9 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!
 

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.

The UCLAN Language Enrichment Event will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language.

The events are open to any year 8 or 9 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!
 

Our Language Enrichment Events are interactive, exciting events that encourage pupils to continue with their language studies at school and to think about the advantages of learning a new language or gaining a qualification in a language they may speak at home. These events have proved extremely popular with pupils and language teachers over the past two years.

The MMU Language Enrichment Event will include a talk entitled “Why Study Languages?”, two taster sessions in a new language (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Urdu or Italian) and a multi-cultural market where pupils will learn more about different cultures. Student ambassadors from our partner institutions will talk to pupils about life at university and the advantages of studying a foreign language.

The events are open to any year 8 or 9 pupils who have not yet chosen to study languages at GCSE, from schools where languages are not compulsory. We are trying to achieve as much impact as possible so would suggest that you bring pupils who are less interested in languages, so that we can do our very best to change their minds!