European Day of Languages

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)!

Eurpean Day of Languages 2013 - Poem-Poster Competition

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!

Tomlinscote @ Goethe Website

Have a look at the Goethe-Institute website, where Tomlinscote is featured with our lovely cookery demonstration back at the end of October. 

Click on the picture of chef Philip and his captivated year 7 audience to follow the link!

 

Once you're on the page, try out your German, or click on the Union Jack to read the text in English.
Form there, you can also download the chef's delicious recipes for Apfelstrudel and potato salad!

European Day of Languages Celebration 2012

Usually, the European Day of Languages is celebrated in September, but we at Tomlinscote had a slightly belated celebration -but what a fantastic event it was!

Year 7s had practised role plays on the topic of school in their classes and each tutor group had selected a finalist to compete against the rest of the year group on the 23rd of October.

In front of a huge audience the winning groups were established, as well as the individuals with the most authentic pronunciation. The winners were: for German  Luke Pearson,  Lewis Wall and Luke Hollis in 7Y and for French Alex Wong, Shawn Custodio, Kyle Kumar and Alex Rees from 7R. Congratulations!
The best German pronunciation displayed Lewis Wall and Denitsa Uzunova, while the best French accent came from Chloe-May Patrick and Kyle Kumar. Well done to these great young linguists!

They received great prizes: certificates and bags courtesy of our PASCH partners.
Year 7s enjoyed themselves and in the breaks everyone danced and sang to with the multilingual Arsenal Double Club song.

German classes were in for another special treat: a cookery demonstration of typical Austrian food.
Children gathered in the sparkling kitchen of our vocational centre and were greeted by Frau Soylucicek from the Goethe Institut und Philip, a young chef from Austria who is currently working at Ten Bells, a top class London restaurant. They were invited to try sweet potato and black potato crisps. Philip talked about Austrian specialities, answered questions and showed the pupils how to make Schnitzel and Apfelstrudel. Tomlinscote catering students kindly helped in preparing the dishes.
And the best bit? Everyone was allowed to taste some yummy chicken schnitzel with potato salad and Kraut, followed by a delicious slice of Apfelstrudel!
Super lecker!
Of course, the food and the visit went down very well with Year 7s!
Vielen Dank to Philip and the Goethe-Institut who made this event possible!