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Capital L has a team of trained language ambassadors available to deliver presentations at your school/college. The presentations focus on the progression routes for pupils in years 7 to 13 who are considering what options to take on at the next stage of their studies. Presentations focus on the benefits of studying a language and different learning skills for language students. Ambassadors may also be able to deliver presentations on the professional benefits of language acquisition on career days, option evenings and similar events.

For more information contact us via email or register using the link below. 

Please note that in the case of no-shows or late cancellations, we reserve the right to invoice your school for the costs we have incurred.

A Level Language Workshops at the University of Westminster have successfully run for a number of years. They are taught by experienced native speakers and focus on improving essential skills (speaking, grammar and writing). Our workshops are not syllabus revision classes, but hope to increase your fluency, accuracy, confidence and learning skills.

We are offering workshops in French, German, and Spanish (see specific programmes) from 10-13 April 2012.

The courses are free of charge - but in order to reserve a place, you will be asked to send a refundable deposit. The cheque will be returned to you on completion of the course.

Registration for this activity will open in January 2012.

King' College will be carrying out their Languages and Careers taster afternoon on Thursday 3rd July. This event was run very successfully last year so we are making available 100 places for year 9 & 10 pupils from London state schools. The day is a chance for pupils to get a taste of language study at a top university as well as an opportunity to meet current students and alumni to find out where taking languages further could lead. There will be workshops in German, Portuguese, Spanish and French with sessions for complete beginners and those with language experience. 

LOVE LANGUAGES, MAKE MUSIC

25 September 2013 - 10 am to 3.30 pm

Target audience: years 7 to 10

A day of language and music activities aimed at encouraging students and teachers to use music in the language classroom to develop better listening and speaking skills.

The workshops will be delivered by University of Roehampton's leading academics from the Languages and the Education department.

Preference will be given to local schools.
 

You’ll learn how to describe a video-clip using the ClipFlair Studio platform. You’ll carry out an activity where you’ll be describing the images of a scene using your own voice. Audio description is within the field of audiovisual translation, and is a revoicing technique that aims to help people with visual impairments to understand video scenes. You’ll learn how to use the ClipFlair software platform to audio describe scenes, it’s been specifically designed for students who love learning languages while having fun!

ClipFlair is a European funded project that has a free access platform for foreign language learning.  The team’s currently developing activities whereby the learner is asked to flair a clip, i.e. to add speech or text to the clip. 

What languages will we work with?

The day will be in English and Spanish. The task will involve working from Spanish into English and vice versa. 

Who should attend?

Y8 students and their accompanying teachers will participate in the activity.

Suitable for students in years 10-13

This afternoon workshop offers students studying languages to GCSE, AS or A-level (or equivalent) the opportunity to explore the wide range of careers open to those with a degree in languages. Participants will work with academic staff and current undergraduates from the Languages Departments at King’s, as well as with experts from Careers and Employability. There will also be the opportunity to talk to former students, now successful in very different worlds of work, and to gain experience of further study in a subject-specific sample teaching session.

The workshop will be of interest to all those intending to take their study of languages to the next level, and who would like to find out more about why languages graduates have some of the highest employability rates.

Organized by the Departments of French, German and Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese Studies.

Visit our websites at:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/index.aspx

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/german/index.aspx

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/splas/index.aspx

The Chinese and Business Day aims to highlight the professional benefits of studying languages and encourage young people to continue to study languages at university.

Participants will take part in a Chinese language taster and also on a tour of LSE.

World Literature Series are one-hour university style lectures aimed at secondary school students. The focus of the seminars is on rendering another voice and worldview found in works written in foreign languages, such as African, Asian, Middle Eastern, European, Oceanian, and American - North and South.

The series provide an excellent opportunity to talk about literature beyond the classroom and expand the students' horizon in terms of ideas and languages that create wonderful and colorful worlds. Within that hour, the speaker typically uses the last ten minutes to discuss studying languages and literature at university.

For more information, you can contact us at routes@soas.ac.uk, or call us on 020 7898 4745.

Are your Y12/13 Language Students keen to spread the word about language learning?

Capital L is looking to train FE and 6th form college students to act as language ambassadors following the model used with university students. In this scheme, college students will promote languages at secondary feeder schools, through presentations, mentoring, etc.

Each school or college will appoint an in-house coordinator for the scheme, with training and support provided by Capital L.

If you're a teacher who is interested in inspiring your students to inspire school pupils, please get in touch with us for copies of our recruitment post-card.

If you are a Y12/13 student, please read the Language Ambassador Role Description and fill in the student application form. Both can can be downloaded from the links below. Please let your school/college know you are doing this.

The deadline for student applicationst is 15 October 2012. Please contact routes.admin@soas.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Interactive Media and Marketing Workshop

The University of Westminster and the University of London in Paris (ULIP), as part of the Routes into Languages Capital L London Consortium, have put together a special thematic workshop for London school students in Year 12. It will provide speaker/learners of French with an opportunity to engage with university staff, students and the HE environment, as well as giving them a unique chance to put their language skills into action by applying them to an interactive group task in a simulated professional media/marketing context.

Expressions of interest should be made via the link below by 13 May. A full registration form will then be emailed to you. On form should be completed for each student, and completed forms sent to: Saskia Huc-Hepher , by Friday 17 May.

Please note, registrations will only be accepted from schools. If you are a student, please ask your teacher to register your school. A full registration form will then be sent to your school for you to complete.