InternationalLanguagesDay-Cathays

= International Languages Day at Cathays High School, Cardiff = We held our first international languages day on Tuesday 23rd June. we decided to celebrate the many and varied languages that our students speak, so organised taster sessions in Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Somali and Urdu.

Students also experienced sessions in Salsa, Bollywood Dancing, and Clog Dancing.

Thank you to CILT Cymru who also came and took 2 sessions on language awareness with our students.


 * [[file:first words.ppt]] - generic first words presentation - to allow pupils to be polite in all the languages!
 * [[file:languages day booklet - answers.doc]] - this is the booklet issued to all students on the day. It contains their timetable and the language they learned during the day.
 * [[file:buying food in the market.ppt]] - powerpoint - generic - issued to all tutors
 * [[file:market flashcards ppt.ppt]] - a set of these was printed off for all tutors
 * [[file:market questions cards.doc]] - these were printed off in multiple sets - to play simple card games
 * [[file:cafe ppt.ppt]] - powerpoint - generic - issued to all tutors
 * [[file:cafe flashcards.ppt]] - a set of these was printed off for each tutor.
 * [[file:cafe questions cards.doc]] - these were printed off in multiple sets - to play simple card games

Most the tutors who came into school to teach the languages sessions were not MFL-trained teachers, so they were also given a (very short) training session and handouts on using flashcards and simple card games. The handouts are below.


 * [[file:USING FLASHCARDS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM.doc]]
 * [[file:Uses for card games in language lessons.doc]]

To celebrate the vast number of languages spoken by our pupils, we also ran a competition:
 * [[file:Cathays languages - English words from other languages.doc]]
 * and the answers... (!) [[file:Cathays languages - English words from other languages - answers.doc]]