What are you planning to do? Some ideas from the MLTAWA committee.

• organise lunchtime karaoke in different languages
• have students create posters (either in English or target language or both) to celebrate their language learning by encouraging them to complete one of the following statements – Send your favourites to us and we will publish on the website ([email protected])·
  • I love learning a language because…
  • Learning a language has…
  • Languages are important because…    
    
• film students and staff saying a short introduction in their language – either the one they are learning or their home language, and putting them together to make a short film to show at an assembly
• display student languages work either in the school library or a public space e.g. local library or shopping centre (local schools can collaborate for a bigger display)
• share with the school community the number of languages spoken by the students and staff
• play card games or board games in the target language at recess or lunch
• conduct a class languages quiz
• give a short PA announcement each morning in a different language
• run a competition on your school intranet about languages which is open to all students to participate, give prizes at end of week
• a school-based version of Languages in Our Landscape (a display of photographs and descriptions) – can be judged by students and staff through a People’s Choice process
• practise tongue twisters in different languages
• play games that originate in other countries.

Languages Week ~ 5-9 August

More ideas available on the MLTAWA website here and here .

Resources published by OMI and the WA Museum for Languages Week 2018 are available here.