Spanish Cinema Trip at Greenwich Picturehouse

On Wednesday 7th November members of the Year 5 and 6 Spanish club (along with some other keen and able linguists) attended a special screening of Zipi y Zape y el club de la canica (Zip & Zap and The Marble Gang) at Greenwich Picturehouse cinema, as part of the Into Film Festival 2018.

The film is a remake of the old comic book stories and TV series that Marta, our Spanish Club teacher, remembers reading and watching as a child in Spain.

Some feedback for the children included:

"The film was really funny!"

"I heard lots of words that sound like English... lots of cognates."

"It was hard sometimes to watch and read the subtitles so it inspires me to be fluent in Spanish when I am older."

French - Cinema Reward Trip to see 'Gus, petit oiseau, grand voyage'

This week a group of 28 children from Key Stage 2 Bannockburn visited The Barbican Centre in London as part of a the IntoFilm Festival 2016. They watched a film called 'Gus, petit oiseau, grand voyage' and it was spoken entirely in French - although there were some subtitles to help! After having watched the film, the children furthered their learning by completing a French treasure hunt on their journey home.

After the children commented on how similar some French words can be to English like 'cinéma' 'famille'  and 'policier' - these are examples of cognates, words in foreign languages that resemble their English translations, so we can often guess the meaning. However, the children also met some "false friends" over the course of the day. These are words that we can try and guess but they actually mean something different,  like 'magasin' which, as the children discovered, in fact means 'shop' and not 'magazine!'