The Links into Languages LinkedUp Award Scheme has produced a series of free resources for teachers of primary, secondary, and post-16 languages. From CLIL to transition and from alternative accreditation to progression, these materials have been created and tested by groups of practising teachers and others working with languages. The LinkedUp Award Scheme aims to tackle the challenges we are facing and make a difference to teachers and learners, with the emphasis on innovation and creativity. Funded projects cover all ages from 4 to 19, a wide range of different languages and ten themes which reflect national priorities for language learning. Find out more about the Award Scheme.
This week the focus is on Secondary Resources:
Creative projects in languages
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/1889
Outside clients commissioned a product requiring the use of the foreign language, and pupils delivered the product, such as a children’s book for a primary school, a resource for a visitor attraction or jingles for a radio station.
Languages as an Enterprise Skill
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/2519
We staged a Languages Impact Activity day with employers, and 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.
24 Hours in Shropshire
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/2536
Working with an award-winning local employer to highlight the importance of foreign language skills in Shropshire’s tourism and leisure sector, particularly in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, this project developed a bank of teaching materials to give students the opportunity to use their language skills in an inspiring and practical way.
Internationalising Enterprise – Languages and Export
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/2537
Under the employer engagement theme, the team developed a model for an export-based project to help pupils see the application of languages in business. The context was the promotion of a product overseas through research into French/Spanish culture and the best media to promote it.
2,2 Millions – Solar ovens can save lives
http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/2555
CLIL Solar Ovens challenge days and many other activities were organised to motivate students – there is a balance here between human interest and technology that appeals to both sexes. 2.2 million people die every year because they breathe in the smoke from cooking fires. Solar ovens use the rays of the sun to cook food and are helpful to both human health and the environment.
All of the LinkedUp projects can be accessed on www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/linkedup.