MFL Year 9 Options 2021- Rastrick High School
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Year 9 Options 2021 –
MFL
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that
goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language,
that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for
the same things but learning another way to think about things.”
Flora Lewis
“To have knowledge of foreign languages… I would have no
hesitation in advising people of any age to learn another language.”
Arsène Wenger
“With languages you are at home anywhere.”
Edmund de Waal
Languages are a life skill • Research shows that by using 2 (or more) languages you have improved cognitive ability • Language skills are used every day to communicate, understand and interact • Opens opportunities to travel & work abroad • Boosts confidence and networking
Speaking & Communication Skills One of the most important skills you will ever possess, is the ability to communicate your ideas and listen to those of others. The nature of learning a language boosts your confidence and public speaking skills, which would help you in college interviews, job interviews, performances, presentations and life itself!
English is NOT enough! • Did you know that there is the same amount of native French speakers in Europe as there is native English speakers? • 437 million people speak Spanish worldwide – that’s 65 million more Spanish speakers than English Speakers
MFL GCSE course 2021-2023
• No coursework! 4 exams at the end of Year 11, 25% each.
- Speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Speaking: Listening:
- Roleplay Understanding and responding to
- Photocard different types of spoken
- General conversation. language.
Preparation time given before 1. English questions
the exam. 2. French questions
Reading: Writing:
3 sections:
- 2 pieces of writing based on
1. English questions bullet points;
2. French questions - A short translation into French
3. A short translation into EnglishThemes at GCSE • Theme 1: Identity and Culture • Theme 2: Local and international areas of interest; social issues • Theme 3: Current studies and future plans
Themes at GCSE • Theme 1: • Friends, family, marriage and partnership • Free-time, media • Technology in everyday life • Customs and festivals
Themes at GCSE • Theme 2: • The environment • Poverty, homelessness and charity • Healthy lifestyles • Holidays • Home town and local area
Themes at GCSE • Theme 3: • School (an international picture) • Jobs and careers • Future plans
Themes at GCSE • You’ve done most of the ground work already!! • You gain cultural awareness • Chance to travel and see exciting events • Authentic materials to understand the world • 75% of your assessments are non-written • There is something for you regardless of your skillset
Possibility of MFL Trips 2021 &
2022Where could languages take you? • A GCSE in French or Spanish makes you more employable. • People who speak a second language earn (on average) 12% more from their job than people who don’t! • It gives you the edge in the job market! • Demonstrates you have key communication, memory, social and problem-solving skills
Where can languages take you? Jobs in: • Advertising • Media and film • Sports & events management • Travel & tourism • Editing & publishing • Law • Business • Translation, localisation & interpreting
and even more… • Fashion • Journalism • Subtitling • Music production • Medicine • Intelligence and operations • Politics
Look at this advert for Manchester United – See how even in sports -
languages are essentialEven Alan Sugar thinks highly of languages
• Games translator • Fashion buyer
• Coding • Recruiter
• Subtitling • Foreign
correspondant
• Brand specialistA-Levels & University
• Some universities require a foreign language
regardless of the course you want to study (it
demonstrates the amazing skillset you have).
– For example, if you want to study Medicine at UCL,
you are required to have a language at GCSE!
• These can provide you with opportunities to
study/work abroadLanguages and fame
Did you know
these celebrities
have hidden
Bradley Cooper (French) talents to help
them in their
careers?
Mila Kunis (Russian)
Brad Pitt (German) Arsène Wenger
(English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian &
Japanese)Languages and fame
Did you know
these celebrities
have hidden
Jodie Foster talents to help
(French, German, them in their
Spanish & Italian) careers? Will Smith (Spanish)
Tom Hiddleston JK Rowling (French)
( French, Greek & Spanish)Languages at RHS!
Look at some of the amazing experiences your own teachers have
had because of their language skills!
Mrs Dawson
Studied French and Arabic at Leeds University. Lived in
Morocco for a year, learning Arabic and teaching women
and children English, and in France where she worked for Mrs Poulter-Dunford
Eurocamp on various campsites from the age of 18 to 23.
Went on a once-in-a-lifetime camel trek through the Sahara Studied Spanish at Leeds University. Lived in a Cuenca,
desert, where she had to use her language skills to ask a Spain for a year teaching English in a primary school and
local police offer for directions to the desert and to not get teaching teachers who worked in bilingual schools.
fined for crossing a check point without stopping! Through tutoring and teaching, I used the money I earned
to travel around Spain during my year abroad. On my
return, I then completed my qualification in Teaching
English as a Foreign Language. I then lived in Malta for 6
months teaching English and running cultural activities.
Miss Wisniewski
Studied French and Business Studies at the University of Newcastle from 2013-2017 - during this time, I lived in
Paris for just under a year, where I lived just round the corner from the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Élysées! I
worked as an Intern in an "English Language Teaching School", where I would go out to a variety of schools
across the capital, providing English language lessons. The highlight was definitely being able to spend my
weekends wandering around the city, visiting the Louvre, Versailles, the Arc de Triomphe etc. but also being able
to converse with the locals in their native language.Languages at RHS!
Miss Garcia Miss Roys
I have always been passionate about Look at some of After finishing school, I completed a
languages and decided to study the degree the amazing World Challenge trip to Costa Rica and
of Translation and Interpreting in Spain. experiences your Nicaragua for a month, during which I
This enabled me to spend a year abroad had to use my Spanish to deal with bats
studying in Germany, where I made friends
own teachers have in a classroom, flooded dorm rooms
for life and got to spend a month travelling had because of and volcano treks. Fell in love with
around Europe. However, one of my best their language Nicaragua and moved there for a year,
memories is when I was working as a Team skills! before studying Spanish and Portuguese
Leader in a language exchange programme at the University of Birmingham,
over in the States. My American host family spending time at Portuguese and
took me to a rodeo and spent a month Spanish universities. Then moved to
living as a local while getting paid! Plus, if it Italy for a year before completing a
hadn’t been for languages I would have Master’s in Translation at the University
never been able to come across all the of Leeds and working in the industry
amazing students at Rastrick... before becoming a teacher.
Mr Kordbacheh
Languages & history were the only real subjects I enjoyed at school – mainly because they were the
subjects I was good at. After college, I studied French and history at the University of Manchester. During
this time, I spent an amazing year living in Lens, France teaching English in a French school. My language
skills meant that I could spend the majority of my time travelling around Europe. I got to visit the sites of
Paris, the historic city of Cologne & the cobbled streets of Brugges to name a few. I was able to have some
‘once in a lifetime’ experiences such as: making wine with the local people, a 15 hour trek visiting world
famous war monuments, presenting in French to the local council about environmental projects and
learnt to ask (in French) how to remove super glue from your eye (don’t ask!). I even got to work as a
translator during preparation for the London 2012 Olympics!Results
Recently MFL results have been in the top
20% of the country and we’re on track to
have higher results this year!
Pupils achieving a Grade 7+ increased from
7% to 35% in recent years
Think how good this would look on your
applications!Global Citizen
“We live on a wonderful, little lump of land in the
middle of the sea but we are not an island, we are
part of something far, far bigger”
Watch this video an think about how we are only a small part of
the jigsaw and must broaden our horizons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1UNaA92fgOptions – MFL 2021-2023 If you have any questions, please speak to your teacher or anyone in the MFL department.
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