Monthly Archives: December 2015

Our Films:Our Europe > SCILT

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The Scottish European Educational Trust has run for some years a competition about Europe and how being a European citizen affects the young Scottish people.

Four of our S3 students – Louise McCann, Holly McIntyre, Jennifer Wardale and Kelsey Wilson – signed up and have been working into their idea, storyboard and script for a short film about the mentioned topic.

Their effort and work has had its outcomes and in Cardinal Newman, and specially from the Modern Languages Department, we want to congratulate them and celebrate their success so far.

Louise, Holly, Jennifer and Kelsey must be very proud of themselves and we hope that they do well in the next phase too.

Our Films:Our Europe > SCILT.

5 techniques to speak any language

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Have you ever seen any of the TED Talks?

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 […] and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. [https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization]

The topics of the videos vary and one may not be interested in many of them. If you wish to know or see more about them, visit the TED website

We leave just now this enthusiastic speaker called Sid Efromovich, who speaks 7 languages and shares here his techniques for learning to speak any language.

Summary of Sid Efromovich’s TECHNIQUES TO SPEAK A NEW LANGUAGE

  • MAKE MISTAKES – You are afraid to speak in the foreign language because you don´t feel confident in it. But you need to dare to speak and make mistakes!
  • SCRAP THE FOREIGN ALPHABET – escape from your own alphabet, and try to find ways to grasp the foreign language sounds.
  • FIND A STICKLER – Someone who will help you to find the errors and make them right.
  • SOLO CONVERSATIONS – speak to yourself in the foreign language, so you will have to think how to produce different parts of a conversation.
  • BUDDY FORMULA – find a friend or someone who shares the need and interest of practising the target foreign language and practise, practise, practise!

La fiesta de Navidad

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Christmas are coming close and in Cardinal Newman we want to celebrate it in a very different way. The Modern Languages department, alongside with the unvaluable help from other departments such as Art and Sciences among others, have prepared a Christmas celebration following the Mexican tradition. According to it, there will be two differentiated parts: a religious and a non-religious one. That way the Cardinal Newman pupils will be able to see how people from other cultures live and celebrate something as familiar to them as Christmas.

In the the religious part, we will show respect to the Saint Patron of the Americas, the Virgin of Guadalupe, as well as to Jesus Crist’s birth on Earth.

After that, the non-religious part will be an opportunity to enjoy Christmas in a Mexican fashion, with music and dancing and some other surprises.

All S3 pupils, specially, are going to enjoy from this celebration, either in amore active way – helping in the preparation and development of the fiesta – or as the audience of such an enriching experience. We hope all of our students involved enjoy this Mexican Christmas Fiesta and learn very much from it.

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