It may be that in the majority of schools, as in mine, the time is coming for Year 9 to choose their options and that we will be wanting (even more than we usually do!) to make the case for continuing to study languages at KS4 to students and parents. You might find this material useful - written in PowerPoint but designed also to be enlarged on photocopier to produce colour A3 posters.
Most or quotes were taken from a House of Lords debate in December 2009, a link to which I was sent on mflresources, which if you don't know is a brilliant forum that every language teacher would benefit from joining. Download the slides from my 'making the case' presentation here: Download Britain needs foreign language skills 2009
Hope it might be useful,
Rachel
Rachel, thank you for posting this PowerPoint - we were asked at the last minute (and I mean, the last minute!) to pull something together for an event, and I hope you don't mind that I downloaded it. You will be given full credit!
Posted by: Marie | February 05, 2010 at 01:32 PM