OUNDLE LINGUA 2019 Introduction It’S Been Another Busy Year in the Adamson

OUNDLE LINGUA 2019 Introduction It’S Been Another Busy Year in the Adamson

OUNDLE LINGUA 2019 Introduction It’s been another busy year in the Adamson. The first School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) dtrainees joining the Oundle Modern Languages Department, eight trips, penfriend letter exchanges external speakers, DELF exams and the BLC business event. This year’s edition of Lingua brings you the best of the year in our department as well as show some of the adventures and musings of our keen linguists. With information about the new SCITT teacher training programme, an interview with our recent addition to the team, Miss Ford, and some of the statistics from the Oundle School Modern Languages Survey, we hope that you will enjoy the 2019 edition of Lingua. Editor: Miss Charlotte Hignett (French and Russian) Many thanks to the following pupils for their help at Lingua Vols as well to the various contributors to this edition of Lingua for their time and effort. Khayali Kanabar (2Sco), Emilia Giacco (2Sco), Esme Lawson-Tancred (4K), Carys Nokes (4K). Front cover: Khayali Kanabar (2Sco) 2 Oundle Lingua 2019 Lingua 2018 Department News The National Modern Languages SCITT �������������������4 European Day of Languages �������������������������������������������5 Real-lives Languages ����������������������������������������������������������5 Meet the MFL department: Miss Ford �����������������������5 Oundle School’s Budding Linguists Russian and Chinese at Pre-U – a Good Idea? ��������6 Why I Chose German in 2nd Form ������������������������������6 French ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 Spanish �������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 German �������������������������������������������������������������������������������9 Chinese �����������������������������������������������������������������������������10 Russian Learning Russian Through the ‘Stans! ����������������������11 Italian ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������12 Arabic ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������12 The Oundle School Modern Languages Survey �����������������������������������������������12 Oundle Pupils’ Musings Implementation of Chinese Educational Methods in UK Schools ���������������������������������������������������13 Which are the Best Apps for Learning a New Language? ������������������������������������������������������������������14 Listen!��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������14 Can Learning a Language Make You Happier and Help You Live Longer? �������������������������������������������15 Department Highlights From Over the Year �������������������������������������������������������������16 Oundle Lingua 2019 3 Welcome to the 2019 edition of Lingua Maintained sector: Thomas Deacon Academy, Ormiston Departmental news Bushfield Academy, Longsands Academy, Sir Christopher Hatton Academy, Catmose College, Prince William School The National Modern Languages Kettering Buccleugh Academy SCITT Trainees are mentored by the School language teachers Pupils studying languages at Oundle this year will have allocated a and work with some of their classes. All of the noticed a few new faces around the Adamson Centre and the eagle-eyed amongst them may have noticed teaching sessions taking place in A1, where the ‘pupils’ are adults. The Modern Languages Department has set up a teacher training ‘hub’ for modern languages as part of a national scheme called the ‘National Modern Languages SCITT’. The acronym ‘SCITT’ stands for ‘School Centred Initial Teacher Training’. This government scheme was created to help tackle the shortage of modern languages teacher in our schools. It is unique in being the only teacher training course focussed on one core subject area. The scheme runs across state and independent schools� Of the 13 schools that form the Oundle hub, trainees take on placements at two of them. The current partner schools are: Independent sector: Oundle School, Oakham School, Stamford High School, Bedford School, Bedford Modern and Rugby School 4 Oundle Lingua 2019 trainees in the hub come to Oundle every two or three Real-lives Language weeks for a day of pedagogy, currently taught by Katrin Sredzki-Seamer, the course leader in Sheffield, Sara Davidson For the first time last summer, 13 Germanists and 48 (Head of Modern Languages) and Karen Paone (Italian and Hispanists in the Fourth form sat the CIOL Real Lives Spanish teacher) exam. Real Lives is a real world multiple-choice listening comprehension exam suitable for Fourth form cadets. Selection to become a trainee is via a rigorous application It teststesting their language skills in adventure and and interview process, trainees are impressive linguists from leadership situations, linked to the services in which all walks of life, which currently includes a mix of: Oxbridge emergencies require clear and accurate communication graduates, career changers, foreign nationals, many already and understanding. The real-life elements have also been have some experience of working within a school setting. designed as a way of countering the declining interest in Trained in the latest MFL pedagogy and influences, they languages in schools. Last year, Oundle had a a 98% pass bring fresh ideas to the department and provide additional rate. Ella Aisher (W 5th) and Rohan Scott (SC 5th) achieved support to both teachers and pupils� the highest marks in the German and Spanish exam A side benefit of the scheme has been the partnerships respectively and were awarded with a trip to the Awards and links established with the Universities of Sheffield and Ceremony at the Institute of Linguists with Mrs Davidson between the other partner schools. This is leading to the and Mr Smith. This year, the number of Oundle entries has development of further projects. doubled and we wish the candidates lots of luck! A further benefit is that, should a vacancy crop up in the department, we have direct access to high calibre recently trained linguists which are normally hard to come by in the current climate. Oundle pupils, OO’s or even parents who are keen linguists and think they might want to become a language teacher should keep us in mind… European Day of Languages The European day of Languages is a Council of Europe initiative which has become a bit of an annual tradition at Oundle, helped by our diverse and multicultural community. On the 26th September, teachers taught Meet the MFL Department: Miss Ford different languages such as Maori, Japanese, Turkish, Esme Lawson-Tancred (K 4th) Swedish and Lithuanian, opening pupils’ eyes to entirely sat down with Miss Ford new language families. In some cases, pupils took to the (Arabic and Russian) to learn board and enthusiastically taught the likes of Latvian, Tamil, about her journey into Cantonese, Russian and Yoruba to the rest of their sets. languages and teaching� Other departments joined in too, introducing tasters to their lessons. In one Chemistry lesson, the challenge was What was the first language to pronounce the Welsh word, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery- you learnt? chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. A great day was topped English is my first language off with either a Turkish or Spanish lunch in house! but I also grew up learning Mauritian Creole, which is the language my Mum speaks with her family. Spoken on the island of Mauritius it’s a dialect of French mixed with an indigenous language from, I think, Madagascar. My family all spoke that and I remember not understanding them but now I speak it fluently. Where did you go to University and did you take a year abroad? I went to university in Durham and I took a year abroad, spending six months in Morocco and six months in Russia. Oundle Lingua 2019 5 What is the most interesting things about learning as tricky conjugations and the concept of perfective and a language? imperfective verbs. I guess language is inextricably linked to the culture that it Learning these languages has been very rewarding. I have comes from as you learn so much from the country/countries visited China twice and the last time I was offered an and the people. Just from learning the language you learn internship in Warsaw by a Chinese company for this summer. about their habits, their customs and their nuances. I have also made a lot of close friendships with people If you could learn another language what would it be from Latvia, Ukraine and Russia thanks to speaking Russian and why? with them. If I could learn another language I would learn Urdu because Angelo Giacco (L L6th) I can already read it and my Mum speaks it. It’s also a bit like Arabic in that it’s an ancient, very poetic, beautiful language. Why I Chose German in 2nd Form My Mum never taught me unfortunately. I chose to learn German this year in second form because If you could go to any country, where would you go? I was born in Stuttgart, Germany. I have really enjoyed learning German so far with Frau Davidson and find it I think I would go to Finland to see the Northern Lights, but interesting comparing German, English and Latin words. I it’s very cold. Finnish is also a really cool language; I think it’s think that German is a much simpler language to learn than got about twenty cases� if you were learning English for the first time because it is Have you ever made any embarrassing language mistakes? so structured! Yes, when I was in Russia I wanted to ask how to wash a piece Last year I visited Stuttgart with my family.

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