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Year 9 Languages Challenge

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Welcome to the Year 9 Languages Challenge!

What is the Languages Challenge? The Languages Challenge has been created to support and reward pupils at Stowmarket High School who love languages and want to use their languages creatively in their own time. Pupils complete a series of tasks and present the evidence to the Routes into Languages panel. On successful completion of the Languages Challenge, certificates and prizes are awarded at a special Languages Challenge celebration.

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Who is the Languages Challenge for? The Languages Challenge is for any pupil in Year 9 at Stowmarket High School. We are looking for commitment, creativity and enthusiasm. We have assumed you are learning French and German but if you are learning a different language or speak another language at home, then why not try the Challenge in that language?

What do you have to do? There are 7 categories: Learning the Basics, Using your Talents, Research, Culture, Creativity, Resources and Futures. Each category has a choice of tasks. You must complete at least one task from each category. Tasks are worth 5 or 10 points. To successfully complete the Languages Challenge, you are aiming for a total of 100 points from all 7 categories.
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What else do I need to do? You must keep evidence of each task in your portfolio. This could be in the form of photographs, videos or written accounts. You will also need to write up an overall self-evaluation explaining what you have achieved and what you have learnt. The whole portfolio will be submitted to the Routes into Languages East panel. You should choose one of your outcomes to be performed, shown or presented to parents and visitors at the Languages Challenge celebration. What happens next? Once you have decided to take on the Languages Challenge and have received your portfolio, you should look at the tasks and decide where to start. You could plan all of the tasks you want to do, or you could pick one and get started. Your teachers will help you and check that you stay on track. When you complete a task, make sure you can show what you did and keep the evidence in your portfolio. What happens when it is finished?

6d. Find two ICT resources for language-learning. Evaluate them and write a review for the blog.

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7a. If you have a career that you would love to pursue, investigate the opportunities that would open up if you could speak another language or travel abroad. How can having a language help you break into that job? 7b. Investigate which local companies or businesses regularly use a language or have connections with other countries. 7c. Investigate what opportunities there are to study languages at college or university. What do people who end up studying languages at university go on to do? 7d. Interview a university student who is studying a language. or someone who has worked abroad or uses a language in their job.

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Who are Routes into Languages East? They are an organisation that works with education establishments and businesses in the eastern region to promote language learning. As a school we are already working with Routes into Languages East with our Year 9 German Double Club and they will also be supporting us this year with the introduction of the Language Leader Award with Year 10 French students. Routes into Languages are providing the portfolio in which you will record your challenges and will be part of the team judging your work at the end of the year.
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When you have completed your portfolio, bring it to show Mrs Frankland or Ms Turner who will make sure everything is ready for it to be presented to the Routes into Languages panel at the end of July. There will be a Languages Challenge celebration, where visitors and parents will look at what you have been doing. You may be asked to perform, show or present one of your tasks to an audience. Pupils who successfully present evidence of completion of tasks worth 100 points from all 7 categories, will be given a Routes into Languages East Challenge certificate and prizes will be awarded.
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Category 1 > Learning the basics

1a.Experiment with three different techniques for learning vocabulary. Evaluate which ones works best by measuring your results.

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Category 4 > Culture

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4a. Listen to some music in your chosen language. Share what you find with your friends. 4b. Watch a film in your chosen language. Write a review of it in English or your chosen language. 4c. Read an on-line magazine in your chosen language. Write a review of this in English. 4d. Choose a celebration for your chosen country and teach someone else how this is celebrated.

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1b. Produce a grammar guide in your chosen language. Evaluate 10 how well by getting feedback on how helpful it is. 1c. Find resources to teach yourself something in your chosen language that you have not done in class yet.

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Category 5 > Creativity Category 2 > Using your talents

2a. Use your chosen language in an area where you have a talentsong, drama, sport, dance, web design, gaming. 2b. Run a successful language club or event. 2c. Assist in a language promotion event. 2d. Pursue/investigate a topic of interest to you in your chosen language.

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5a. Write a song, poem or story in your chosen language. Share it with your friends or family. 10 5b. Learn a joke in your chosen language and tell it to one of your teachers. 5c. Create a video tutorial in your chosen language. Show it to someone and get them to write a review of it. 5d. Record or film yourself speaking your chosen language. Share it with friends or family. 5e. Create a collage about yourself in your chosen language. 5f. Create a Christmas card to represent the differences between Christmas in the UK and in a country that speaks your language.

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3a. Investigate an aspect of culture, history, geography from your 10 chosen language/country. 3b. Research a famous person who speaks/spoke your chosen language. 10

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3c. Find and follow instructions in your chosen language to make 10 somethinga recipe, a machine, a toy 3d. Research two athletes from the Olympics Team for your chosen country. 3e. Research the most common baby names in your chosen language. Which one do you like the most?
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6a. Use the school library to find a book/resource/CD in your chosen language. Write a review of this in English for the blog. 6b.Use Stowmarket or another local library to find a book/ resource/CD in your chosen language. Write a review of this in English for the blog. 6c. Complete a MYLO challenge.

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