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Schools & Colleges Programme 2016 – 2017 . MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Welcome to our Modern Foreign Languages programme for 2016 – 2017. 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.

A2 STUDY DAY LA BELLE SAISON (15) LA BELLE SAISON (Summertime) Thu 24 Nov 2016, 10:30 - 15:00 Dir Catherine Corsini/FR BE 2016/105mins/ Recommended for A2 and equivalent level French French with English Subtitles £7 per student, 147 places Cécile De France/ Doors open to school groups 10:15 Izïa Higelin/Noémie Lvovsky This study day will introduce different film genres and approaches In 1971, farmers’ daughter in French cinema to represent ideas and political movements, in Delphine moves to Paris this case the French feminist movement of the late 1960s. and meets Carole, a radical Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film in French, Parisian, actively involved in providing contextual information. Short exercises will provide the stirrings of the feminist key vocabulary. The screening will be followed after lunch by movement. more language exercises in French on the film’s main themes and its characters. Topics discussed will include relationships, freedom, and feminist ideas more generally. It will also consider the contrast between life in rural France and in large cities as represented in the film. The session will also briefly address genre and style issues to evaluate the representation of the past. GCSE STUDY MORNING spanish GCSE STUDY MORNING EL OLIVO AS STUDY DAY BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN: L’AVENTURE CONTINUE Spanish sessions will be led EL OLIVO (recommended SPANISH AS STUDY DAY Thu 8 Dec 2016, 10:00 - 13:00 by Carmen Herrero, Head Tue 7 Feb 2017, 10:00 - 13:00 certificate 12A) Tue 14 Mar 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level French of Spanish at Manchester Recommended for GCSE and (The Olive Tree) Recommended for AS and £7 per student, 147 places Metropolitan University. equivalent level Spanish Dir Icíar Bollaín/ES 2016/100mins/ equivalent level Spanish Doors open to school groups 9:45 £7 per student, 147 places Spanish with English Subtitles £7 per student, 147 places Doors open to school groups 9:45 Anna Castillo/Javier Gutiérrez/ Doors open to school groups 10:15 This study morning will look at relevant themes relating to France A2 STUDY DAY Pep Ambròs including childhood, family, rural France, regions and historical NO This study morning will look As part of HOME’s ¡Viva! Alma has a special relationship background. Tue 22 Nov 2016, at relevant themes including Spanish and Latin American family, friendship, rural Spain, with her grandfather Ramón, Festival in April 2017, we will Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film in English 10:30 - 15:00 and the consequences of the who stopped talking 12 years be selecting a film specifically providing contextual information and key French phrases and Recommended for A2 and ago after his son, Alma’s equivalent level Spanish crisis in Spain. for this event. Further relevant vocabulary which will help students to watch the film father, sold an ancient and £7 per student, 147 places Carmen Herrero will introduce information on the film choice which is in French with subtitles. beloved olive tree. Alma Doors open to school groups 10:15 the film in English, providing will be announced early 2017. The screening will be followed by a few French language resolves to find the tree to This study day will address contextual information, key exercises around the specificity of the Alps region, the characters save her grandfather from his the themes of transition Spanish phrases and relevant of the film, film genre conventions and some intercultural ever-deepening melancholia. to democracy in Chile, civil vocabulary. The screening will differences. This film title is subject to change. liberties and freedom and the include English subtitles and role of advertising tools to will be followed by a series of BELLE ET SÉBASTIEN: L’AVENTURE CONTINUE (PG) change the social process. (Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues) Spanish language exercises based on the film and its Dir Christian Duguay/FR 2015/95mins/French with English Subtitles Carmen Herrero will present Félix Bossuet/Tchéky Karyo/Thierry Neuvic the film in Spanish, providing characters. Sebastian and his loyal mountain dog Belle are on another relevant information on the perilous mission to help save a friend in need. film and its social and political contexts, as well as introducing GERMAN key vocabulary. The screening URDU Led by Maggie Hoffgen, Freelance Film Lecturer AS STUDY DAY will be followed after lunch by Led by Sheraz Ali, Urdu Lecturer at Levenshulme High School & Urdu Lecturer at The University of UN HOMME À LA HAUTEUR a series of language exercises GERMAN GCSE STUDY MORNING Manchester. Thu 26 Jan 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 in Spanish including film and WINTERTOCHTER visual analysis and discussion GCSE, AS AND A2 STUDY DAY Recommended for AS and equivalent level French Wed 1 Feb 2017, 10:00 - 13:00 £7 per student, 147 places of the main themes in the BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN Doors open to school groups 10:15 film, characters, settings and Recommended for GCSE and equivalent level German Wed 8 Feb 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 contexts. This study day will look at comedy devices, relationships and will £7 per student, 147 places Recommended for GCSE, AS and A2 or equivalent level Urdu address the issue of social prejudice. Doors open to school groups 9:45 £7 per student, 147 places Doors open to school groups 10:15 Isabelle Vanderschelden will introduce the film in French, No (15) This interactive study day will involve providing contextual information on popular genres in French Dir Pablo Larrain/CL FR MX US an introduction and some background This Urdu study day will be built around a cinema, the role of stars and how cultural issues are present 2013/115mins/ information to the film followed by a series screening of Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Spanish with English Subtitles of exercises based around the film plus a in romantic comedies. A few short exercises will provide key Gael García Bernal/Alfredo Castro/ Students will watch a full screening of the film vocabulary to help understand the film better. Antonia Zegers discussion. The session will be mostly in and this will be followed by a series of Urdu German and appropriate for Years 10 and 11. The screening will be followed after lunch by a series of language Gael García Bernal stars as language exercises based on the film’s main exercises in French on the film, focusing on its characters, themes a talented young advertising characters and using the themes of unity; cultural and use of comedy. executive who is tasked by WINTERTOCHTER (recommended diversity; tolerance; traditions and language certificate 12) barriers. Pinochet’s opposition with UN HOMME À LA HAUTEUR (12A) heading up a campaign for Dir Johannes Schmid/DE PO 2011/90mins/ Bajrangi Bhaijaan is Hindi language film. The study a ‘no’ vote in Chile’s 1988 German with English Subtitles session activities will be only in Urdu with Urdu script. (Up for Love) Nina Monka/Ursula Werner/Leon Seidel referendum. Dir Laurent Tirard/FR 2016/98mins/French with English Subtitles 12 year old Kattaka lives in Berlin with her Jean Dujardin/Virginie Efira/Cédric Kahn Bajrangi Bhaijaan (12) parents. When she finds out that the man Dir Kabir Khan/IN 2015/159 mins/ Dianne is a successful lawyer who’s unlucky in love. She gets she has called “Papa” all her life is not her Hindi with English subtitles an unexpected phone call from a stranger who’s found her cell real dad, she goes on a road trip with her Salman Khan/Kareena KapoorNawazuddin Siddiqui phone and wants to return it. The stranger, Alexandre is funny elderly neighbour, Lene and her best friend This Hindi language drama follows an Indian man and charming, and the two seem to hit it off. But, quelle horreur, Knäcke to find her real father in Poland. who takes on the mission to return a little girl to Alexandre turns out to be short, but apart from his diminutive This event has been programmed with thanks to her parents - across the border in Pakistan. stature, he is the total package. Can love ensue…? Goethe-Institut London.

ARABIC Routes Into Led by Abdel Wahab Khalifa, Arabic Lecturer at the Languages University of Manchester Routes into Languages programme is a national ARABIC GCSE, AS AND A2 STUDY DAY project funded by Higher THE IDOL Education Funding Council Thu 9 Feb 2017, 10:30 - 15:00 for England (HEFCE). The programme has created a Recommended for GCSE, AS and A2 or equivalent level Arabic £7 per student, 147 places number of regional consortia, Doors open to school groups 10:15 where universities are In this Arabic study day, students will be introduced to working together, along contemporary Arabic cinema through the screening of the film with schools and colleges, The Idol. Students will watch a full screening of the film which will to promote language be followed by a series of Arabic GCSE and AS/A2 level language learning. The Routes North exercises based on the film’s main characters, events and themes. West consortium is led by Study session activities will be in Arabic. Manchester Metropolitan University, in partnership with the University of THE IDOL (PG) Manchester, University Dir Hany Abu-Assad/NL UK Qatar AR AP 2015/99mins/ of Central Lancashire, Arabic with English Subtitles University of Liverpool, Tawfeek Barhom/Ahmed Al Rokh/Hiba Attalah/Kais Attalah University of Lancaster. Based on a true story, The Idol follows the endeavours of eventual The Routes into Languages Arab Idol winner Muhammad Assaf as he goes from a gutsy Gaza project offers events that boy to a symbol of hope for Palestinians at home and abroad. enthuse and motivate themes of home, family, individuality and self confidence, and pupils to take up and cultural diversity. Study session activities will be in Arabic. continue with language learning. Events include The Foreign Language Spelling DATE SUBJECT EVENT Bee Competition (Year 7); Language Enrichment Events Wed 19 Oct F&M Mustang (Year 8 pupils); Film and Thu 10 Nov F&M Into Film Festival: Hunt for the Wilderpeople Culture Events (Year 9 & Fri 18 Nov F&M Into Film Festival: Belle & Sebastian 10); Essay Writing for Film Tue 22 Nov MFL Spanish A2: No (Year 12 & 13) and GCSE & A Thu 24 Nov MFL French A2: Summertime Level Days. INSET and CPD Wed 7 Dec F&M Tangerine sessions for teachers are Thu 8 Dec MFL French GCSE: Belle & Sebastian programmed throughout the Thu 26 Jan MFL French AS: Up for Love year. For further information Mon 30 Jan F&M Teacher INSET visit Wed 1 Feb MFL German GCSE: Wintertochter routesintolanguages.ac.uk/ Tue 7 Feb MFL Spanish GCSE: The Olive Tree northwest/events.html Wed 8 Feb MFL Urdu: Bajrangi Bhaijaan Thu 9 Feb MFL Arabic: The Idol Tue 14 Mar MFL Spanish AS: Film TBC

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