Business Language Champions
Resource Bank
Welcome to the RLN South West Business Language Champions resource bank.
From this page you can access and download examples of previous BLC activities, resources used successfully in past partnerships and other materials which you might find useful when working with businesses.
All resources are in PDF format and will open in a new window, allowing you to continue browsing resources.
Previous BLC activities
Download examples of activities used in Business Language Champions partnerships:
Year 9 BLC presentation - download (105 kb pdf)
Year 9 French BLC activities - download (154 kb pdf)
Years 10 & 11 French BLC activities - download (106 kb pdf)
Year 9 BLC languages talk and activity ideas - download (127 kb pdf)
Sample resources
Download resources used in Business Language Champions sessions:
Year 9 BLC brainstorming session - download (26 kb pdf)
Year 9 BLC French telephone exercise - download (139 kb pdf)
Ideas for activities
If you've engaged the employer but are stuck for inspiration why not consider a few of these ideas for activities:
- A 'Dragon's Den' - where pupils have to prepare a simple presentation in a foreign language about their product/idea/service and the business representative and teaching staff form a panel to ask questions and judge.
- International cake sale - where pupils must follow a foreign language recipe and then set up a stall and sell their cakes to fellow students/staff/parents in the appropriate language.
- Visitors guide - where pupils have to design a visitors guide to local attractions and events for international visitors. This could work particularly well for schools with partner schools overseas.
Tips for schools
Advice and tips on how to work with businesses, including forging links with local companies and engaging in activities.
Working with Businesses presentation - download (86 kb pdf)
Other resources
RLN London have produced a fantastic BLC toolkit to help businesses and schools get the most out of working together to increase awareness of the importance of languages.
RLN London's BLC Toolkit - download (5.4 MB pdf)
