Modern Languages Blog

In association with the Confucius Institute and other bodies, the Scottish Centre for Chinese studies is presenting a lecture on Chinese literature.
Below is some information about the lecture:

Date: Tuesday 28 April
Time: 5.15 – 6.30 pm
Location: Lecture Theatre, Hugh Robson Building 10-15, George Square, Edinburgh

Speaker: HAN Dong, Chinese poet and novelist
Topic: New Words, New Roads: Chinese Literature in the World Followed by panel discussion with translators of contemporary Chinese literature.

Download more information PDF file: Han Dong talk

This lecture is FREE. You are very welcome to attend should you be interested in China, literature or translation studies.

Check out the Tutors’ pages - a guide to BBC resources by topic and grammar point.  This newly-launched one-stop-shop lists our materials for eating out, travel, adjectives, verbs and more.

Also the TV pages withiun this section which include details of BBC and online programmes and includes transcripts:  French TV ; Spanish TV ; German TV ; Italian TV

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/tutors/index.shtml?

The Primary Languages website is a national gateway to advice, information, support and training for primary languages teaching and learning. The site is owned and operated by CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the government’s recognised centre of expertise on languages.

http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/primary_languages.aspx?

The Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is looking for advice from teachers about how Chinese language, history and culture can be more widely taught to children and young people in the UK.
To share your views please complete the following survey:

https://surveycenter.pwc.com/se.ashx?s=1A7312042DDA0B32

A modern Scottish version of ‘L’Avare’ (The Miser) by Molière
Riverside Drama Club presents: The Auld Skinflint’ adapted from Molière’s “L’Avare” (The Miser), by John Coutts.

A tale, in scots, of greed, love, intrigue and deception set in 1630’s Stirling.

Where: In the Cowane Centre, Stirling

When: Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 May 2009 at 7.30pm.

How much: £6 (concessions £5)

Phone (voicemail) 07787 160640, or contact the Box Office at the Albert Halls – 01786 473544

http://www.afglasgow.org.uk/spip.php?breve81

From the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow. Helmut Käutner (1908-1980) was one of the most successful German film directors of his time. He produced numerous film classics that are nowadays ‘Evergreens’ within the German film history and received several awards for his films.
We will show 6 of the most popular in April and May here at the Goethe-Institut.
In German with English subtitles. Free admission.

Further information from http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/gla/ver/en4298719v.htm 

Great Freedom No. 7 (Große Freiheit Nr. 7)
Tuesday, 21 April, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany 1944, 112 mins. German with English subtitles. With Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Söhnker.

The Devil’s General (Des Teufels General)
Tuesday, 28 April, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany 1955, 120 mins., With Curd Jürgens, Victor de Kowa, Karl John.

Sky without Stars (Himmel ohne Sterne)
Tuesday, 05 May, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany 1955, 108 mins. With Eva Kotthaus, Erik Schumann, Georg Thomalla.

The Captain from Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
Tuesday, 12 May, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany 1956, 93 mins. With Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth.
The Affairs of Julie (Die Züricher Verlobung)
Tuesday, 19 May, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany 1956/57, 106 mins. With Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki.

The Redhead (Die Rote)
Tuesday, 26 May, 6.30 pm, Goethe-Institut

Germany/Italy 1962, 94 mins. With Ruth Leuwerick, Rossano Brazzi, Giorgio Albertaz

A team at Millburn Academy in Inverness has won the UK level of the ‘Charlemagne Youth Prize’.

Read more on the LTS International education blog

 http://ltsblogs.org.uk/internationaleducation/2009/03/25/europe-and-the-charlemagne-youth-prize/

This spring, the Alliance has launched a podcast in French for learners of French.  The podcast comes with accompanying documents to help you make the best of it. You can also interact with teachers and co learners/listeners.

Listen to the podcast: http://www.afglasgow.org.uk/spip.php?article306 

See Podcast Alliance Française de Glasgow on Facebook for accompanying scripts and learner materials.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78617930258

Shawlands Academy cooked up a winning entry at a recent competition for schools in Glasgow aimed at getting pupils actively learning about employability and enterprise skills through the use of modern languages.

The Glasgow International Job Centre competition set pupils aged 14 from eleven secondary schools the task of investigating and gathering all the information needed to recruit someone for a job in another country – a task made more difficult by the fact they had to do all of it in the language of their chosen country.

Read more of this article from the British Council

Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Keith Brown, Minister for Schools and Skills, formally launched the Curriculum for Excellence guidance on Thursday 2 April in Stirling. 

The reforms are intended to raise standards by improving learning and teaching with literacy and numeracy a key focus. They will help our young people to become:

• successful learners with the motivation for learning
• confident individuals with physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and self-respect
• responsible citizens with respect for others
• effective contributors who can communicate, solve problems and be enterprising and creative.’

Curriculum for Excellence –  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/index.asp 

Experiences and outcomes for Modern languages – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/languages/modernlanguages/index.asp

Experiences and outcomes – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/experiencesandoutcomes/index.asp