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La Cucina d'Inferno
A project teaching Italian in the work environment of a professional training kitchen under the direction of a celebrity chef, Franco Taruschio. NVQ language units were used for assessment.
- Theme: Work-related learning
- Keywords: Alternative accreditation/new GCSE, Assessment, Employer engagement, Food, Italian, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary/FE
Making primary languages our business
A community of schools collaborated to engage reluctant and more committed language learners who designed language resources for primary, learned about methodology, planned lessons, and trialled them in partner primary schools. As a transition project this also provided opportunities for further language skills acquisition for primary languages teachers.
New GCSE Speaking Forum
A forum for teachers preparing students for the controlled speaking assessment of the new AQA GCSE in French, German, Spanish and Italian. The forum contains podcasts and learning materials in various formats to help teachers encourage students and increase their confidence in preparing for the speaking test, by using modern media.
Handing Over!
Language acquisition, modelling and collaborative planning sessions helped teachers of Years three and four to gain confidence in delivering stimulating teaching of German or Italian in their classes. INSET included an evaluation of CLIL pedagogy, encouraging teachers to develop and embed target language activities in the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, German, ICT and technologies, Italian, Multimedia, film, music and radio, Storytelling
- Sector: Primary
The Language of Business
The idea behind this project was to bring together employers and young people, to enhance the employers’ engagement in Italian language learning and to give pupils an opportunity to understand how languages are used in a real work environment. Working with employers and students, we produced audio and video material to be used in both Italian language and business lessons as part of integrated programmes.
Language qualifications factsheet
This comprehensive factsheet lists the available language qualifications that can be used pre- and post-16 in schools and colleges. Covering 31 languages, qualifications are presented by language and by level, making it easy to find the information you're looking for. The factsheet was published in March 2011.
Languages as an Enterprise Skill
We staged a Languages Impact Activity day with employer - designed and led activities, attended by year 11 pupils from all the Isle of Wight secondary schools as a major component of National Enterprise Week. This day was followed up with a programmed sequence of structured consequential development.
- Theme: Employer engagement
- Keywords: Employer engagement, Enterprise, French, German, Independence in speaking, Italian, Spanish, Work-related learning
- Sector: Secondary
On the snail trail
‘On the Snail Trail’ aims to capture language learning in Key Stage 2 and put it into a meaningful context. CLIL methodology is explored for French, Spanish, German and Italian, through mathematics based on a story book and exploring the evolution of snails in science.
- Theme: CLIL
- Keywords: CLIL, French, German, Italian, Science, Spanish, Storytelling, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Incognito
A board game for 2 players. Students take on the role of a British undercover agent and must work their way through France, Germany, Spain and Italy and back to Britain. They must pass on coded messages in the appropriate language in various situations, accumulating money as they go.
- Theme: Transition
- Keywords: French, German, ICT and technologies, Italian, Spanish, Transition
- Sector: Primary/Secondary
Developing Intercultural Understanding through Spontaneous Talk
The aim of this project was to increase and encourage spontaneous student use of the target language, through use of visual prompts such as photographs, often involving elements of Intercultural Understanding. The project was trialled with Year 8 classes in French, Spanish, Italian and German in schools in Shropshire.
- Theme: Intercultural understanding
- Keywords: Alternative accreditation/new GCSE, French, German, Independence in speaking, Intercultural understanding, Italian, Spanish
- Sector: Secondary
