South East

The University of Sussex Centre for Language Studies invites Year 9/10 students studying Modern Languages to an Advertising workshop day on campus on Thursday 18th June.

This activity aims to introduce students to the principles of advertising and marketing through the creative use of a modern language.

After an initial group welcome and introductory talk from an employer, students will work in target language workshops with University language tutors to analyse target language adverts before producing their own advert. The adverts may be created in different formats, such as poster, packaging, webpage, radio or film clip etc.

Following a bring-your-own picnic lunch - outside if the weather permits - students will work on the group presentation of their morning activity. These will then be displayed digitally during a plenary session in a lecture theatre before departure.

The finished adverts will be available for display on campus, in schools and on the Routes into Languages website.

Six languages are offered:

• French - non-beginners
• German - non-beginners
• Italian - beginners/non-beginners
• Spanish - non-beginners
• Arabic - beginners
• Chinese - beginners/non-beginners
• Japanese - beginners/non-beginners

Places, split across the different language groups, will initially be limited to 12 per school.

If you are interested in taking part in this event, please complete the registration form stating the number of places you require and the target language or languages your students will work in.

Please note that a cancellation policy applies to this event. A charge of £5 per place booked will be charged if there are any no-shows on the day or if places are not cancelled within two weeks of the event (i.e. by 4th June 2015).

Sixth form students are invited to the University of Sussex during their One World Week celebrations to use their target language skills to report on the various events and activities happening on campus. One World Week celebrates the varied international student life at Sussex and aims to expose students to a globalised world and diversity of cultures.

Sixth formers will be paired with languages and/or media students and will work with them to create a written or spoken report on the day's activities. They will also take part in a a journalism workshop led by a media tutor. Completed TL reports will be made available on the Routes into Languages website.

For more information about One World Week, please click here.

Returning for another year, the Oxford German Network offers a new Olympiad theme of Pop und Poesie (Pop & Poetry) for students in years 5-13. This competition encourages students of German to find out about music and poetry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The competition tasks are as follows:

Years 5 & 6

Write out and illustrate a short German-language poem or nursery rhyme

Write an acrostic poem in German

Years 7-9

Design a poster for a composer, musician or pop group

Recreate a German poem or song as a comic strip

Write a brochure about the music and/or literary history and/or current activities of a city or region

Years 10 & 11

Write a story in response to a German song or poem

Write a review of a performance by a musician, group or poet

Make a short film in response to a German song or poem

Years 12 & 13

Make a short film in response to a German song or poem

Write a newspaper review of a concert by a musician or group

Translate a poem into English

Open competition for groups or classes (4+ participants)

Design a game with instructions to help players learn about German music

Write and perform a rap which teaches an aspect of German grammar

Re-write a German song

Entries must be submitted by 12 noon on Monday 2nd March 2015. Full competition and entry guidelines can be found here. PLEASE READ BEFORE SUBMITTING OR YOUR ENTRY MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Please contact the Oxford German Network on ogn@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk if you have any queries.

As part of the www.inspiringthefuture.org Inspiring Languages week, Routes South will be heading over to Bexhill High School for a languages and careers talk. This will also include activities such as looking at how a French C.V. is laid out, learning new C.V.-related vocabulary and discussing career possibilities abroad.

The School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS) at the University of Portsmouth is looking for budding writers and poets to show their hidden talents at writing in a foreign language that they are studying.

To enter the competition, post-16 AS/A2 students are asked to submit either a story or a poem in a foreign language of their choosing. The topic that you should write on is “‘What I like most about (France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc.’)”.

Stories should be no more than 500 words in length. Poems may have considerably fewer words. A maximum of three entries per language per school or college can be accepted.

Individual prizes will be awarded for imagination, originality, structure, vocabulary and grammatical accuracy.

In addition, a special prize will be awarded for the best submission from a school as a whole, with all entries from the institution being taken into account.

The best works will be featured in an online anthology hosted by the University of Portsmouth.

For further information, please contact: creativo@port.ac.uk or visit our website:

http://www.port.ac.uk/creative-writing-in-a-foreign-language/creativo/

The Gold Award for Languages is an exciting, multi strand scheme for language learners in year 9 and above. Combining a work experience challenge, a personal challenge and a community challenge, it encourages students to think creatively and use their language skills in a variety of different settings.

The following documents explain the scheme in more detail:

How could this work in my school?

Getting started

The work experience challenge

The personal challenge

The community challenge

Please contact Clare Forder at the University of Brighton if you'd like to register your students for the award.

Teacher CPD session run by University of Portsmouth.

Content and session outline will be updated by 1st October.

This workshop is free and will frun from 4-6pm.

Teacher CPD session run by University of Portsmouth.

Content and session outline will be updated by 1st October.

This workshop is free and will frun from 4-6pm.