POETRY
These can be designed to address a specific theme/event or they can be more general. In the past, I’ve delivered sessions such as multilingual children’s poetry, poetry for ESOL creative writing students, and bilingual poetry for Bi+ poets.
We typically tackle one poem in depth and have a tutorial-style discussion. This is followed by a creative writing activity that reprises either the themes or style of the aforementioned poem. There will always be a more scaffolded option and a more “free” option. Previous participants have written poems, songs, diary entries, etc.
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LANGUAGES/TRANSLATION
Creative Translation – This involves translating an excerpt of written work, usually a poem or short story extract. We will introduce the text, draft rough translations, then edit a “polished” version. Participants will work on their own piece of creative writing or art afterwards. In the past, people have made multilingual zines, pop-up books, posters, etc.
Languages & Careers – There is a small warm-up activity related to job adverts. Participants then form groups and work together to write a cover letter before using it to support a role-play/mock interview for their dream job. I provide crib sheets of useful phrases. This style of workshop can be run in multiple languages simultaneously! (I’ve done one with Mandarin, German, Spanish, and French at the same time)
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TALKS – I typically do “Careers in Languages” talks for Sixth Form and Fifth Form groups, but I have also done language-specific talks too.
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If you would like to run more than one workshop in any given day, I’m happy to run an informal Q&A session/talk as well!
All workshops are designed to last around 2-2.5 hours, but this can be adapted.
Talks are usually 1-1.5 hours.
Do drop me a line if you’d like to inquire about fees!
If you have a specific workshop in mind that isn’t mentioned above, or if you would like me to develop a resource for you to deliver yourself, do still get in touch! I have experience designing teaching resources for secondary schools too.