Nottingham High Junior School

1 = PAST – for all those of you who entered last half term’s optional World Langauges Competition, please come to the science lab at break on Friday to collect your prizes (if you haven’t managed to hand your entry in yet, don’t worry, you have until Friday).

2. = PRESENT – this half term, the competition is to design a poster to promote the benefits of learning a foreign language. Use your imagination, be creative….. Senior School MFL staff will judge them and then all entries will be used to make a display.

3 = FUTURE – the MFL competition after Easter is for YOU to decide! Let me know your ideas and I will choose at least one of them to run next time.

Good luck and, above all, ENJOY! 

For those of you who were unable to hand in your competition entries before the holiday began, don’t worry – I will give you until Friday 24th February. Prizes wil be handed out on this day.

Well done to all of you who entered – I have already recevied quite a few entries and it’s lovely to see the effort that you have put into this.

Well done boys – I am very impressed.

 At school, we read and write from left to right.

Can you name any scripts that are read and written from right to left?               

EXTENSION: Can you name any scripts that are written vertically (downwards instead of across)?

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On Tuesday lunchtimes some of the boys have been learning Italian. They leave their English names at the door as they come in and transform in to Bruno, Massimo and friends  for their lesson.

You are making super progress boys – well done.

To which family of languages do both Spanish and French belong?

EXTENSION: Name 5 countries where Spanish is the official language and 5 countries where French is the official language (to make it even more interesting, see if you can include a range of continents!)

Welcome to Week 3 of this half term’s Optional MFL Competition which is based on languages around the world.

Your challenge this week is to answer the following:

To which family of languages does English belong?

EXTENSION: Can you name any other languages that belong to the same family?

Since some of you only heard about this half term’s optional WORLD LANGUAGES competition in Thursday’s assembly, I have left last week’s challenge here on the blog, simply scroll down to find it.

Now for this week’s challenge:

2.Most European languages use which alphabet?

EXTENSION: Can you name any other alphabets and give an example of a language that uses such an alphabet?

In MFL lessons we looked at how important Epiphany is to French and Spanish children.  Spanish children fill their shoes with straw and wait for the Reyes Magos to bring them presents (if they have been good!). They will probably also attend a procession. In France, the person who finds the ‘fève’ in his piece of the  Galette des Rois (cake of kings) will have good luck throughout the year.

A brand new optional MFL competition for the New Year! This time the focus in on WORLD LANGUAGES.

Try and find the answer to each week’s challenge, write it down, keep it safe, and then hand all your answers in to me at the end of the competition, before the February half term holiday.

If you feel like finding out even more,  why not try each week’s extension too?

Week 1:

Which are the 10 most spoken languages in the world? (answers may vary)

EXTENSION: (Approximately) how many different languages are there in the world? (answers may vary)