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SCHOOLS & COLLEGES PROGRAMME 2017-2018 � MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Welcome to our Modern Foreign Languages programme for 2017-2018. Our year-round Schools & Colleges programme uses film, visual art and theatre to enrich students’ learning. Throughout the year, there are a variety of MFL study sessions, which have been specifically programmed to support GCSE, AS and A2 students of French, German, Spanish, Urdu and Arabic. All sessions are led by native language speakers. For more information about any of the study sessions listed below, please visit homemcr.org/ schools For more information about foreign language films and special events which may be of interest to MFL students, sign up to our weekly e-newsletter at homemcr.org/sign-up

HOME’s Schools & Colleges Modern Foreign Languages programme is supported by Routes into Languages North West at Manchester Metropolitan University.

FRENCH All French sessions will be led by Isabelle Vanderschelden, Head of French at Manchester Metropolitan University.

French A2 Study Day: Screening: FRANTZ Frantz (12A) Wed 22 Nov 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 Dir François Ozon/France/Germany 2016 Recommended for A2 and equivalent level French 114mins/French with English Subtitles £7 per student, 147 places Pierre Niney/Paula Beer/Enst Stötzner Doors open to school groups: 10:15 In a small German town after This study day will look at relationships and national World War I, a young German stereotypes. woman Anna, mourns daily at the grave of her fiancé Frantz who Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film in French, was killed in battle in France. providing information on the WW1 historical context of the One day, a young Frenchman film and the notion of auteur cinema. A few short exercises Adrien, also lays flowers at the will provide key vocab prior to the screening. grave. His presence so soon After lunch, French language exercises will focus on the after the German defeat ignites characters and themes in the film. One objective will be to suspicion. What are Adrien’s enhance the students’ intercultural awareness. motives and can Anna forgive? French GCSE Study Morning: Les vacances du petit Nicolas SPANISH Wed 6 Dec 2017, 10:00 - 13:00 All Spanish sessions will be Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level French led by Carmen Herrero, Head £7 per student, 147 places of Spanish at Manchester Doors open to school groups: 09:45 Metropolitan University. This study morning aims to ignite students’ interest in watching French Spanish A2 Study Day: films. La jaula de oro Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film mainly in English, providing Tue 21 Nov 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 contextual information and key French vocab. The screening will be Recommended for A2 and equivalent followed by French language exercises around the character of le petit level Spanish Nicolas, his friends and the themes of family, friendship and holidays. £7 per student, 147 places Objectives include practicing KS4 vocabulary whilst introducing film genre Doors open to school groups: 10:15 conventions and cultural differences. The topics covered in this study day include; teenagers; borders; Screening: migration; social, national and Les vacances du petit Nicolas (PG) racial barriers; identity; personal (Nicolas on Holiday) relationships; Central America, Dir Laurent Tirard/France 2014 Mexico, USA and journeys. 93mins/French with English Subtitles Valérie Lemercier/Kad Merad/Dominique Lavanant Carmen Herrero will present the film in Spanish, providing Little Nicolas, his parents, and Grandma go for a holiday by the seaside. relevant historical and contextual On the beach, Nicolas quickly makes some new friends including information as well as key Isabelle, a little girl who Nicolas is convinced his parents want him to vocab. The screening will be marry. Misunderstandings and humour pepper this light-hearted look at followed after lunch by a friendship and family life. series of interactive Spanish language exercises on the film, French AS Study Day: its characters and themes plus Médecin de campagne (12A) activities on film analysis and Wed 24 Jan 2018, 10:30 - 15:00 cinematographic techniques. Recommended for AS and equivalent level French £7 per student, 147 places Screening: Doors open to school groups: 10:15 La jaula de oro (12) This study day will look at social realism and representations of rural (The Golden Dream) France today. Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film in French, Dir Diego Quemada- Díez/Mexico/ providing contextual information on the rural context of the film and the Spain 2013 medical system in France. Short exercises will provide key vocab to help 110mins/Spanish with English Subtitles understand the main themes (health, the medical profession, rural life) Brandon López/Carlos Chajón/Karen and discuss the style of the film. Martínez/Rodolfo Domínguez Screening: This engaging drama tells the Médecin de campagne tragic tale of a group of teenagers (Irreplaceable) who flee Guatemala through Dir Thomas Lilti/France 2017 Mexico in pursuit of the American 102mins/French with English Subtitles Dream. Racial tensions come to François Cluzet/Marianne Denicourt/Christophe Odent the fore when Chauk (Domínguez), For the people living in a remote area of Normandy, the local doctor a Tzotzil Indian who is also Jean-Pierre is a well-respected, essential part of the community. When trying to cross the border, joins Jean-Pierre finds himself seriously ill, he employs a younger doctor Natalie the group. Along the way the to assist and take over the practice, should the need arise. Will she adapt teenagers are tested by traumatic to this new life and be accepted by the local people? encounters, and before long they form an unshakable bond. Spanish AS Study Day: Carmen Herrero will introduce the Luis Vorbach/Jordan Prentice/Ella Frey Tambien la lluvia film in English providing contextual Michi is has been living in a Tue 23 Jan 2018, 10:30 - 15:00 information and key Spanish vocab. children’s home since his mother The screening will be followed by Recommended for AS and equivalent level died and when he starts the Spanish language exercises based around search for his father Tom, he is £7 per student, 147 places the film plus a discussion relating disappointed to find that he is far Doors open to school groups: 10:15 to; the characters of the film; the from his fantasy, in fact at just over This study day will address the narrative; intercultural differences; 4 foot, he is shorter than Michi. Back themes of Latin America history and film genre conventions and style. at the children’s home Michi’s finds representation of colonialism and that his father’s height makes him Screening: neocolonialism in film. a target for bullying. Life becomes Carmen Herrero will introduce the Rara (12A) unbearable and he flees the home Dir Pepa San Martín/Argentina/Chile 2016 film in Spanish, providing relevant to live with Tom. Their newfound 88mins/Spanish with English Subtitles relationship is fraught with historical and contextual information Julia Lübbert/Emilia Ossandon as well as key vocab. The screening difficulties but ultimately leads them A coming-of-age story within a will be followed after lunch by a to understand the true meaning of non-traditional family, where two series of Spanish language exercises family and friendship. sisters live happily with their mother based on the film, including This event has been programmed with and her female partner. Despite character studies, film genre analysis thanks to Goethe-Institut London her loving and stable home life, as and discussion of the main themes. Sara approaches 13 she is suffering The session will also include a short from typical teenage angst. Add to overview of the style of Icíar Bollaín. this an insidious homophobia from ARABIC Led by Abdel Wahab Khalifa, Screening: school staff and some other parents, and their domestic harmony starts Arabic Lecturer at the University Tambien la lluvia (15) to come under threat. of Manchester (Even the Rain) Arabic GCSE, AS and A2 Dir Icíar Bollaín/France/Mexico/Spain Study Day: 2010 103mins/Spanish with English Subtitles GERMAN Wadjda Raúl Arévalo/Karra Elejalde/Luis Tosar Led by Maggie Hoffgen, 30 Jan 2018, 10:30 - 15:00 Sebastián (Gael García Bernal) is Freelance Film Lecturer Recommended for GCSE, AS and A2 or an idealistic film director hoping equivalent level Arabic to realise a complex historical German GCSE Study £7 per student, 147 places Morning: film about the Caribbean Indians Doors open to school groups: 10:15 driven to rebellion by the cruelty Auf Augenhöhe This Arabic study day will be built of the conquistadors. Things go Thu 8 Feb 2018, 10:00 - 13:00 around a screening of Wadjda. The well until life begins to imitate art, Recommended for GCSE and equivalent film will be followed by a series and the crew become embroiled level German of Arabic GCSE and AS/A2 level in a bitter local conflict over £7 per student, 147 places language exercises based on the water privatisation, the real-life Doors open to school groups: 09:45 film’s main characters and the Cochabamba Water Wars from the This study morning includes a themes of home, family, individuality year 2000. screening of Auf Augenhöhe. There and self-confidence, and cultural will be an introduction to the film diversity. Study session activities will Spanish GCSE Study before the screening. A variety of be in Arabic. Morning: exercises and points of discussion Rara with the help of worksheets will Screening: Tue 6 Feb 2018, 10:00 - 13:00 follow, focusing on descriptions, Wadjda (PG) family relationships and friendships, Recommended for GCSE and equivalent Dir Haifaa Al-Mansour/Saudi Arabia/ level Spanish and prejudice against people that Germany 2012 £7 per student, 147 places are different from us. 98mins/Arabic with English Subtitles Doors open to school groups: 09:45 Reem Abdullah/Waad Mohammed This study morning will look at Screening: Wadjda is a young teenage girl in a themes including pre-adolescence, Auf Augenhöhe (12A) country where women and girls are friendship, family life, marital (At Eye Level) prevented by strict behavioral codes separation, sexual diversity and Dir Joachim Dollhopf/Evi Goldbrunner/ from participating in many activities. freedom, justice, prejudice and Germany 2016 She wants to ride a bicycle and references to Chile’s history. 98mins/German with English Subtitles compete with her friend Abdullah. Her family situation makes it unlikely Screening: that she will get the money to buy Routes Into the bicycle she desires – so she Happy Bhag Jayegi (PG) Languages Dir Mudassar Aziz/India 2016 comes up with a novel solution to 126mins/ with English Subtitles Routes into Languages is a her problem. /// national project to encourage and enthuse young people to Happy Bhag Jayegi is a light- learn languages. The programme hearted take on the cross-border has created a number of regional URDU camaraderie that revolves around consortia, where universities are a runaway bride. It lures you into Led by Sheraz Ali, Urdu Lecturer working together, along with throwing logic out of the window at Levenshulme High School & schools and colleges, to promote (‘baher’) for a while as it offers clean Urdu Lecturer at The University language learning. The Routes entertainment with ample gags. The of Manchester. North West consortium is led cat and mouse game between the by Manchester Metropolitan Urdu GCSE, AS and A2 Study characters, with a dash of romance, University, in partnership with Day: forms the story. the University of Manchester, Happy Bhag Jayegi University of Central Lancashire and the University of Liverpool. Wed 7 Feb 2018, 10:30 - 15:00 ¡Viva! Spanish and Recommended for GCSE, AS and A2 or The Routes into Languages equivalent level Urdu Latin American project offers events and £7 per student, 147 places Festival 2018 initiatives that enthuse and Doors open to school groups: 10:15 Thu 12 – Sun 29 April 2018 motivate pupils to take up This Urdu study day will be built For its 24th edition, ¡Viva! returns and continue with language around a screening of Happy Bhag with a venue-wide celebration learning. These include the Jayegi. The film will be followed of Spanish and Latin American Mother Tongue Other Tongue by a series of Urdu GCSE and GCE culture. We’ll be bringing you a National competition, our level language exercises based specially selected programme Language League: Kick Off on the film’s main characters and of the most exciting film, visual resources for teachers and pupils using the themes of unity; cultural art and theatre from across in French, Spanish, German & diversity; tolerance and traditions. the Spanish-speaking world. Arabic, Language Enrichment Happy Bhag Jayegi is Hindi Look out for the full programme Events (Year 8 pupils); Film and language film. The study session announcement in early 2018. Culture Events (Year 9 & 10); activities will be only in Urdu with Essay Writing for Film (Year Urdu script. 12 & 13) and GCSE & A Level Days. INSET and CPD sessions Tue 26 Sep F&M Teacher CPD for teachers are programmed Fri 17 Nov F&M My Life as a Courgette throughout the year. For further Tue 21 Nov MFL Spanish A2 - La jaula de oro (The Golden Dream) information visit: Wed 22 Nov MFL French A2 - Frantz Thu 23 Nov F&M Phantom Boy routesintolanguages.ac.uk/ Wed 6 Dec MFL French GCSE - Les vacances du petit Nicolas (Nicolas on Holiday) activities/north-west Thu 7 Dec, F&M All This Panic Fri 12 Jan Drama Teacher CPD Tue 23 Jan, MFL MFL Spanish AS - Tambien la lluvia (Even the Rain) Wed 24 Jan MFL French AS - Médecin de campagne (Irreplaceable) Tue 30 Jan MFL Arabic – Wadjda Thu 1 Feb F&M Under the Shadow Tue 6 Feb MFL Spanish GCSE - Rara Wed 7 Feb MFL Urdu - Happy Bhag Jayegi Thu 8 Feb MFL German GCSE - Auf Augenhöhe (At Eye Level)