Routes NW Newsletter
Region:
North West
Check out all the latest news from Routes NW, in our Autumn 2010 newsletter.
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FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association)
Date:
Wednesday, 1 September, 2010 - 01:00 to Sunday, 31 July, 2011 - 01:00
Region:
North West
Location:
Online
FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association) offers a collection of teaching resources that make it easy for language teachers and lecturers to use film as a language and culture resource.
You can contribute to the community site and download resources such as study guides, podcasts and vodcasts for Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), French, Spanish and Urdu. Resources for other languages will be added soon.
You can also find inform
ation about useful links, events, workshops and film sessions.
Become part of a growing network of language colleagues where sharing resources on film is free.
To find out more and to join our network, please visit the FILTA website.
Training course for Arabic and Mandarin Teachers
Date:
Wednesday, 13 October, 2010 - 01:00 to Wednesday, 22 December, 2010 - 00:00
Region:
North West
Location:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Develop your classroom expertise by joining our practical 20-hour course for Arabic teachers of Arabic and Chinese teachers of Mandarin Chinese.
The course is packed with practical ideas and suggestions for making your classes more motivating, more enjoyable and more memorable. All the ideas we will share with you are designed to make your classes more effective and to help you prepare and teach lessons that will help your students make rapid progress.
These ten week courses last for 20 hours in total and cost just £140.
For further details and a course outline please contact:
langcourses@mmu.ac.uk or call 0161-247-3945.
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"Why Study Languages" Talks
Date:
Wednesday, 20 October, 2010 - 01:00 to Friday, 1 April, 2011 - 01:00
Region:
North West
Location:
North West
We have a team of trained Student Ambassadors who can come into your school or college to deliver a 'Why Study Languages?' talk to your pupils. This can last between 20 minutes to 45 minutes and explains the personal and professional benefits that languages can bring. This can be pitched at any age group.
To cover our costs, there will be a fee of around £30 for each visit (it might be more depending on your location and associated travel costs).
If you would like to book a talk, please get in touch and let us know the date and time you would like a speaker, the age group and the number of pupils. Email us at routes@mmu.ac.uk.
National Spelling Bee
Date:
Sunday, 26 September, 2010 - 01:00 to Wednesday, 6 July, 2011 - 01:00
Region:
North West
Location:
England
To be launched on the European Day of Languages, the aim of the Spelling Bee is for students in Year 7 to practise and improve their vocabulary, spelling and memory skills in a foreign language (French, Spanish and German) and to raise the profile of language learning through a class, school and regional competition.
Due to its success last year in the East of England, Routes into Languages have decided to roll this out nationally. Each region will hold competitions, run by the Routes regional teams. The winners will meet in July 2011 for the National Final in Cambridge.
For more information, please click here to view the flyer. If you would like to take part, please complete and return the registration form.
Winners of the LAFTAs! World of Languages Category - BACON BUTTY
Region:
North West
We are pleased to announce that the North West entry "Bacon Butty" won the LAFTA Award for the category of World of Languages. The video clip was produced by students from Cumbria University and was praised for its quality of shooting, and its strong message that it is not cool to be monolingual.
You can view the winning clip through this link (it is clip number 21):
http://www.languageswork.org.uk/learner_zone/the_laftas/peoples_vote/shortlisted_videos.aspx
Summer Language Enrichment Events
Region:
North West
Congratulations to Jake McLaughlin from Irlam and Cadishead High School for his excellent account about the Language Enrichment Day held at the University of Manchester! His school awarded him with a £10 gift voucher, as well as presenting him with a certificate and medal for his achievement.
Please click here to see a copy of Jake's written account.
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Trainee Position in Portuguese Consulate General in Manchester
Region:
North West
The Portuguese Consulate General in Manchester is offering a work placement to a highly motivated individual, keen to work within a Portuguese environment that will provide the ideal opportunity to perfect his/her Portuguese language skills while gaining valuable work experience.
Job Purpose
To provide comprehensive support in the day-to-day operation of the Consulate.
Main duties
- To help maintain databases through data input of Consular registrations.
- To support the Consulate’s enquiry service by responding to email enquiries in Portuguese or in English, as appropriate.
- To translate into English or Portuguese specific documentation such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, criminal records, powers of attorney, etc.
- To research relevant information relating to local services that may be beneficial to the Portuguese community residing in the UK.
- To do mail-outs and deal with selected day-to-day correspondence in English or Portuguese, as appropriate.
- To undertake other relevant duties when required.
Personal attributes required
- Degree or equivalent qualification (Desirable)
- Excellent IT skills (Essential)
- Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills which would allow easy interaction with a variety of individuals at different levels, in person and on the phone (Essential)
- Advanced level in spoken and written Portuguese and English (Essential)
- Good translation skills (Desirable)
- Good time keeping skills (Essential)
Duration: min. 3 months. Full-time, ideally. Part-time will be considered.
Remuneration: unpaid.
Training and support provided: the trainee will be offered an introduction to Consular duties, and will receive in-job training in specific areas, including the translation of legal documentation. On completion of the placement, the trainee will receive a letter of reference with evaluation of performance.
For more information and to apply, please contact Christina Sousa from the Regional Language Network North West: cristina.sousa@rln-northwest.com
National Award for Heritage Languages: Winner - Abrar Aqil from Al Hijra Supplementary School
Region:
North West
We are pleased to announce that Abrar Aqil, a pupil from Al Hijra Supplementary School, won the joint silver award in the Community Languages category. Her award will be presented at the ‘Language Stars’ award ceremony, which takes place on 6th July 2010.
Al Hijra Supplementary School is one of our partner schools, so we are very pleased for this pupil. This award is further evidence of the COLT Project's success in raising the profile of world languages and building bridges with complementary
schools!
Winners of the European Award for Languages!
Region:
North West
We are pleased to announce that the Teacher Training strand of the COLT project has been awarded the European Award for Languages this year. The Award is a Europe-wide initiative supported by the European Commission.
We are delighted to have received this award which provides external ratification of the excellent work done by the COLT team and, in particular, the teacher training component of the project.
We have now developed a toolkit for this part of COLT, and the teacher training framework is going to be rolled out across the East and West Midlands, London and within the North West region through the Links project. The feedback from the course participants was excellent and it is clear that this project has the potential to make a real difference nationally in terms of building the UK capacity in world languages.
The MEN Asian News have published an article about this Award!
You can now follow us on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/COLTproject
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