Some practical ideas for using the London 2012 Games as the launch pad for creative enterprise projects linked to modern foregin languages.
The London 2012 Games provide a unique context for linking modern foreign languages (MFL) and enterprise education, with athletes from 205 countries taking part, speaking a huge range of languages.
Get Set has brought together a suite of resources to help you use the inspiration of the Games to engage your MFL students and enhance their entrepreneurial skills.
You could use these resources to give any special student-led events you may be planning such as International Olympic Day – (23 June each year) or National School Sport Week (28th June-2nd) an international dimension.
Have you got what it takes?
Check out the Enterprise Strand and the Have you got what it takes? resource which challenges students to prepare a ‘pitch’ to host a Pre-Games Training Camp. Students could prepare a mood board as part of their ‘presentation pitch’ to a national team in their chosen language. Encourage them to be inventive in the way they can make a non – English speaker feel welcome.
Let’s Get Cooking Around the World
Let’s Get Cooking Around the World is a collection of delicious and healthy recipes inspired by seven countries which have either recently hosted, or are about to host, the Olympic and Paralympic Summer and Winter Games, or are key partners in the London 2012 International Inspiration programme.
Olympic and Paralympic Values posters A set of posters portraying the Olympic and Paralympic Values translated into different languages. (Get Set Values posters are offered to Specialist Language Colleges only.)
Other ideas
- Brighten up display boards with “Get Set for London 2012” translated into French, German and Spanish.
- Olympic and Paralympic Records posters
- Inspirational achievements translated into French, German and Spanish.
- Get Set Activity Sheets
- Word puzzles translated into French, German and Spanish.
