A student in another class was particularly taken by films that we have shown in class and is therefore analysing some of the films of Pedro Almodόvar.

Therefore, she’s decided that during her holiday, she’s going to write a diary examining an element of French culture.

A GCSE French student in one of my classes is wanting to deepen her understanding of French people.

But a student who speaks this language at home could perhaps embark on a project with a question focussing on the Latvian language or element of Latvian culture. Because it really does not matter what exactly you learn – the journey of discovery is what you get rewarded, and a grade, for. The student is in the driving seat of deciding what exactly to study. So how can the MFL student benefit from these qualifications? It is really down to how you look at it because in this suite of qualifications, you have to consider how it can work for you and your students.

Here the cultural capital that is missing from many elements of a traditional GCSE can be amply rewarded. MFL are all about that longer-term effort to a reach a certain level of mastery and profundity of understanding. They give credit to independent, sustained work and academic curiosity. So where do the FPQ and HPQ come into this? These qualifications provide the road map and framework to studying. Equally I know that students have gained so much from flipping the learning and having time to work through difficult concepts. In Russia, for example, a newspaper would never refer to ‘Putin’ but rather ‘Vladimir Vladimirovich’.

For example, I was once told that reading a foreign language newspaper was limited to 50% unless the reader understood aspects of culture. It’s not necessarily rewarded by the traditional GCSE but has provided some of the best MFL classroom discussions ever. Projects give students huge opportunity to explore culture and language.Ĭultural knowledge is deeply linked with language and gives it context. The element of choice really can lead to enhanced interest and therefore intrinsic motivation. I have often attempted to give them choices, such as 'What makes Guadeloupe unique as a French speaking area?' or 'Research the use of the imperfect, then teach that tense to the class'. Project work has always enabled learners to ‘dig a little deeper’, hone their organisational skills and fundamentally have time to really consider something. As a teacher of MFL for 20 years, I know that every year and at every level throughout my career I have set my students project work. The new knowledge and new skills learnt are the true aim of education, alongside the journey that gets there. I will start with the notion that assessment is simply a test to show what you, or a student, already knows and is not actually the end goal. I want to consider them primarily from the perspective of a language learner and how they can be used to support and enhance language studies. Both are equivalent to half a GCSE: Level 1 covers grades 1–3 and Level 2 grades 4–9. The Level 1 Foundation Project Qualification (FPQ) and Level 2 Higher Project Qualification (HPQ) focus on project-based learning. The acronym MFL is, I hope, obvious to the reader, whereas FPQ and HPQ may be new. No external interfaces, hardware-accelerated rendering, negligible loading times, reliable and accurate tracking, super-fast workflow. Want to add a bit of organic behavior to your flare but hate Final Cut's linear keyframes and don't want to go into Motion? Enable the new Flicker, Dynamic Animation and/or Track Brightness options and BAM! It animates on its own after a couple of clicks. Want to add a slightly wider glow to the flare that's already present in your footage but the camera is a bit too shaky? Use the build-in Mocha tracker and BAM! Done in 30 seconds and sticks to your clip as if it was there from the beginning Need to adjust the flare's colors to match your clip's mood? Just set the primary color in the Color Palette, play with the secondary/tertiary handles and BAM! Done in 10 seconds. The new version was designed to let you to do all of this much better and much quicker than ever. So if you need to do this anyway, why not use a tool that is both powerful and fun to use? A properly used digital lens flare is invisible and enhances the image rather than making it look 'J.J. But the fact is that more often than not, you do need to spice up an otherwise boring shot.

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