Wednesday, 12th April 2023
Routes into Languages North West Workshops
Routes into Languages North West is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Details of each session, together with registration links, are available in this blog.
The Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition is live and accepting entries from Manchester now - find out more about the competition and how to enter on the website.
Routes into Languages North West is coordinating a series of free online workshops to accompany the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition. Each workshop is themed around a specific element relating to poetry and languages - an ideal opportunity to engage pupils in creative language production. Details of each session, together with registration links, are available below.
Pop-up pops
Date/time: Wednesday 19 April, 3.30pm - 4.45pm
Target age-range: Years 7 - 9
Languages: French, German and Spanish
This workshop will be hosted by the University of Chester and will explore the power of words and their emotional connections. Students will discover a new field of possibilities to create a text in a foreign language. We will identify new vocabulary that can be created from a given word, and we will finish this session with some creative writing, such as poems, plays or songs. This will be an interactive workshop, student-led, but facilitated by a tutor to provide support and guidance.
We are poets! Nous sommes des poètes! ¡Somos poetas! Wir sind Dichter!
Date/time: Thursday 20 April, 3.30pm - 4.45pm
Target age-range: Years 10 and 11
Languages: held in English, with materials to adapt to all languages based on the core vocabulary lists from your MFL lessons
This workshop will be hosted by the University of Manchester. Unleash the poet within you, have fun, be creative! Join poet Rebecca Hurst as she guides you through a number of writing prompts and exercises that will set you on your path to create poetry in the language(s) you currently study at school. Rebecca's session will be delivered in English and classes can them complete the activities in the lgnauges taught at their school, at a time that fits into their timetables. Work can be shared via an online exhibition on Padlet, which will be open to submissions for a week after the workshop. We will post a video with feedback and appraisals of some of the works presented.
Register to join We are poets!
'Get up, Sing up': Protest songs across the world
Date/time: Tuesday 25 April, 3.30pm - 5pm
Target age-range: Years 12 and 13
Languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish
This workshop will be hosted by Lancaster University and will analyse protest songs from across the world: What do they have in common? How do they help understand the context in which they were composed? How do they bring their message across, and what makes them efficient? We will then break into language groups (Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish) in which we will look into specific examples in the relevant langauges and give you the tools to create your own protest song.
Register to join Get up, Sing up.
Poetry and Music
Date/time: Thursday 11 May, 3.30pm - 5pm
Target age-range: Years 7 - 9
Languages: Arabic, French and Spanish
This workshop will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University and will explore the relationship between poetry and music, look at poems turned to music, and allow students to create their own musical poems. There will be an introduction for all led by Laura Martin-Cisneros, with break-out sessions for Arabic, French and Spanish.
