Congratulations to Hanifah Hashim-Subhan, Jasmine Carter and Samantha Carter (all in year 12) who entered the Goethe-Institut video competition for 14-19 year old students, entitled 'Sport ist mein Leben' (sport is my life). They produced a 3 minute film in German explaining netball, a sport unknown in Germany (where handball is much more popular). We are delighted to announce that the girls have won the UK part of the contest and will soon receive their first prize in the post, a pair of Beats headphones each! Well done to the girls and thank you to the Goethe Institut for this opportunity! Follow the link below to see our video and the winning entries from Sweden and Denmark. You can vote which one you like best - the overall winners are sent on a weekend trip to Berlin!! https://www.facebook.com/SportDeutsch?v=app_126231547426086&app_data=%7B%7D
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWLvbE0QWng. Unfortunately, the girls didn't win the trip to Berlin, but they were very happy to receive their early Christmas presents!
The German department are proud to announce that five year 12 students have won second prize in a reading contest by the Goethe Institute. As part of their annual Digital Days competitions, the task involved reading out sports commentaries about the football world cup. Our students convinced with accurate pronunciation and great intonation amongst over 100 participants and won 100 pounds!
Congratulations to Renuka Doll, Hanifah Hashim, Isobel Leigh, Michael Phillips and Christopher Spain!
6 students from Year 8 and 9 worked really hard and successfully got to the first round.
On Monday 9th December, with a great deal of excitement and a very early start, they travelled up to London (accompanied by their Chinese teacher) to perform in front of students from 14 other schools (and the judges, of course).
We hope to hear whether they have reached the final very soon.
WOW! What a day, from the early start with
feelings of nervousness to the excitement of knowing we were competing for the
chance of a place in the finals, and if successful an amazing visit to China.
We all met bright and early at the Farnborough train station and made our way
to London to perform at the Bloomsbury theatre. On arrival we weighed up the
competition groups from all over the country. It was hard to tell as each group
presented with such high standard; finally the time came for our performance.
We surely gave it our all and felt confident that we had
excelled. Only time will tell whether we go through to the finals or not!...
fingers crossed!
Tom Lara 9G
Participating in the HSBC Mandarin Speaking competition has
improved my understanding of both the Chinese language and culture – from the
scripts we received, I have managed to pick up some new vocabulary that we
hadn’t covered yet in our lessons. Also, our script, like all the other
entries, had contained a plot surrounding a certain part of Chinese culture (In
our case it was about how boys are the favourites of grandparents) and it was
interesting to see the contrast between British and Chinese family life. For
days, I had practiced my lines, listening back to an audio tape to perfect my
tones and accent – when I learn new vocabulary now, I have more confidence in
trying to say things I’m not familiar with. Overall, the speaking competition
was a great experience for me to learn more about the language and the culture
behind it, and I’d recommend anyone to take up more opportunities like this in
the future.
Remember the European Day of Languages Competition? Here are some winning entries from our feeder junior school Ravenscote. The overall winner of years 3 to 6 was Joshua Mills in 5B with two poems about languages!
Further winners were:
Alice Green in Year 3
Neve San Emeterio and Diya Rashid in Year 4
Pia Boeber, Izzy Wragg, Abi Gumbrell, Hannah Richardson, Millie Bates, Mya Chumber and Mia Hewitt in Year 5
Naomi Whiteland and Lucy Andrews in Year 6
Congratulations to the all the winners -who have received some sweets and goodies, and especially to fabulous 5B, who have shown particular enthusiasm for this task with 47 entries (winning them some German sweets)!
The 26th of September is the European Day of Languages!
People all over Europe -and in Tomlinscote - celebrate our cultural and linguistic diversity: If we all spoke the same language and had the same culture, it would be very boring! Imagine life and your language without pizza, croissant, hamburger, cafeteria, restaurant, kindergarten, and so on. It's wonderful we are all different and can give new ideas and words to one another.
To learn a language is to be able to communicate with more people, to open up the world for travel and multiply your career opportunities. It is to find out about other cultures and learn from them, and to broaden your horizon. You become cleverer as you train your brain in coping with another grammar and feed it with more vocabulary! And of course, it's lots of fun!
Competition
We would like you to write
a poem (rhyming, acrostic, a sonnet, a two-liner)
about languages(why are they important? what is great about them?)
and create a poster with it! (make it visually stunning!)
You can see some fabulous examples below (winners from a previous competition).
You can work on your own, with a partner or even get help from home!
Hand in your word to the MFL office or your language teacher (make sure your name is on the back)!
The deadline is the 4th of October 2013!
Great prizes to be won!
Good luck! Viel Glück! Bonne Chance! Buona suerte!
if you fancy testing your knowledge of languages click here for a language quiz!
Isobel Leigh for her amazing success in the Oxford German Network Olympiad! The theme was Grimm's fairy tales (as it had been the 200th anniversary of their publication this year), and Isobel chose to make a short film about Schneewittchen (Snow white).
We are very proud to announce that she is the WINNER in the film category for Year 10 -11, having beaten entrants from all over the UK. Isobel was invited to attend a ceremony at the Bodleian Library in Oxford a few days ago to celebrate her success! What a wonderful achievement!
I asked Isobel to write a bit about the whole experience in German:
a screen shot from the film
"Frau Brown hat mir über
diesen Wettbewerb erzählt und ich habe gefühlt, dass es toll wäre, es vor
meinen Prüfungen zu machen. Ich habe das Märchen “Schneewittchen”
gewählt, weil ich gedacht habe, dass es das
interessantste ist und anders als der Disney film, deshalb habe ich
mehr über dieses Märchen gelernt. Wir konnten entscheiden, welches Projekt
wir machen wollten. Ich habe mich für einen Film entschieden, denn ich habe
früher kurze Filme mit meinen Freunden gemacht und
ich habe gedacht, dass es eine Herausforderung wäre.
Zuerst habe ich
das Drehbuch geschrieben und dafür habe ich die originale Geschichte und
die englische Geschichte benutzt. Danach habe ich mit meinen Freunden
aus Collingwood die Filme gemacht – sie war Schneewittchen.
Für die sieben Zwerge habe ich Schattenmarionetten gemacht und meine
Eltern haben mir geholfen, die zu filmen. Dann habe ich alles geschnitten, was eine lange Zeit gedauert hat. Am Ende habe ich den Film
zu die Oxford German Network geschickt.
Sie haben mir in einer
Email gesagt, dass ich gewonnnen habe und ich war sehr glücklich. Am
Dienstag bin ich mit meiner Mutter und meinem Bruder nach Oxford
gegangen und im Bodleian Bibliothek gab es eine Zeremonie
für die Gewinner. David Cornwell (John le Carré) hat den Gewinnern die
Preise, die Bücher waren, überreicht und deswegen war das auch toll."
Well done to those people who have already entered the competition! The prizes for the fastest three and the first correct answer already have their names on!
But there's still a lot to play for, as the biggest prizes will be decided randomly amongst all correct entries!
Need a little hint? Try using Google translate to find out what 'I love you' is in different languages, and click on the speaker icon to hear the foreign language said out loud....
Take part in our competition and win a fabulous prize!
Watch the video and listen to the different people saying 'I love you!'
Can you figure out which language each one is?
Below are the languages included in the clip. But which is which?
A - Afrikaans
B - Bulgarian
C - Chinese (Cantonese)
D - Danish
E - Douala
F - English
G - French
H - German
I - Hindi
J - Italian
K - Polish
L - Russian
M - Spanish
N - Tamil
O - Turkish
P - Welsh
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Copy this grid and write in the letters of the right languages!
Send your answer via email to mmahler@tomlinscote.surrey.sch.uk
Make sure you include your name and where you live (town & country if outside UK)!
Fantastic prizes to be won!
The first three entries win a chocolaty prize just for taking part!
The first entry with the correct answer wins another bigger prize!
Finally, out of all the correct entries we randomly draw three more names out of the hat to establish who wins our main massive chocolate prizes (courtesy of the Language College)!
It's worth doing some research and send your answers!! Good luck to everybody!
PS:
Prizes are only available for collection at Tomlinscote school. Other students, parents, teachers, alumni, primary pupils, everyone is invited to participate! If you
live too far to collect your prize, feel free to participate, but we cannot
send heavy boxes of chocolates by mail...
Final deadline for entries is Monday, the 20th of February!
Winners will be announced shortly after.
Thank you to everyone who allowed us to use their voice!! Tell all your friends to participate!
Frau Mahler's students of the month are the winners of a competition held at Ravenscote Junior School:
Children had to reply to posters about German Christmas traditions sent over by pupils from Hanover. They had to produce powerpoints, pictures or texts about British or other traditions celebrated in their families.
....and the winners are:
for year 6: Alexandra Perry (6M/S)
for year 5: Christina Exall (5NL) Congratulations!
The following people also produced fantastic texts and pictures and deserve a special mention here:
In year 6, in second place Rebecca Carnie (6F), in thirdplace Amy Butterley (6ML), and in joint fourth Sophie Marney (6M/S) and Ditte Wikke (6M/S).
In year 5, in second place Rachel Eadie (5NL), in third Laila Dackombe (5BE) and in fourth place Joshua Davies-Lye (5S).
Well done and VIELEN DANK to all of you for your lovely contributions!
