Languages Week

Languages Week 2022 @ TLSC

Japanese

In Ms Thomas’ Year 7 Japanese class, students learnt about the traditional Japanese fan, Uchiwa. Uchiwa is considered a summer fan and is often used to create a breeze to keep cool in hot weather and can be used in cooking to cool food, too.  Students enjoyed applying their knowledge of Japanese culture and language to their Uchiwa design. 

Year 9 students enjoying learning how to move small chockies from one to another plate using chopsticks! Not as easy as it looks.

They are now competing each other in teams to move those chockies faster. Concentrating so hard holding their breath!

Year 7 students are showing off their paper cranes that they have made for their Origami session! Was hard but finally got there helping each other 🙂 

Miss Park

Italian

Students in Year 7 watched Pinocchio in class and made their own paper marionettes. They also used the movie to focus on adjectives to describe the characters to be used in future classes. 

Students in Year 8 watched the movie Luca and explored the different modes of transport as well as learning about friendship and seeing some authentic piazzas in Italy.

Year 9 students watched Italo – a movie about a stray dog in a small town in Sicily. They used this as a focus of using their new grammar point of modal verbs to make up sentences. Students were enriched not only by the language but also by the cultural aspects of the films they watched in their Italian classes thoroughout Languages Week.

VCE students participated in “Uno spuntino” in class where they sampled some authentic Italian foods.

The gelati van was a huge success on the two days it was here during lunchtime. The first day was quite cold and not even the rain stopped our students from buying un gelato!

Junior Italian Poetry Competition and Senior Italian students exploring Lygon Street Carlton

Exploration of Lygon Street

On Friday, September 2nd. The students at Taylors Lakes Secondary College went to Lygon to Explore the

contributions Italians have made to Australian society. The juniors started the day by participating in the CIS (Centre of Italian Studies) poetry competition whilst the Senior students were given the opportunity to converse with other Junior students, and introduced them to the structure and what awaits them in the senior years. Many students commented that the “The Lygon Street trip was an enjoyable experience” as the senior students were able to have an immersive tour of Lygon Street, and enhance their knowledge in Italian contributions. After a very informative tour of Lygon Street, students had lunch at Brunettis, where they were served authentic Italian pizza, “the pizza was very different to common pizza. It was extremely light and flavourful.” Along with the pizza, students were given the opportunity to order drinks such as Chinotto and other Italian drinks. Following pizza, students were given a gelato of their choice. During the day, all students visited “il museo”, an Italian museum which allowed students to observe physical items which Italians used and brought with them to Australia.

Jeremie Catty (Year 12)

Italian Lygon Street Excursion

Our Italian Lygon Street excursion was tons of fun. Recently in class we were learning about the cultural impact Italians have on Australia, and Lygon Street was the main focus. It was so cool to see the impact in real life right in front of us. We explored Lygon Street and saw what places were still there and what had been replaced. For lunch we ate pizza at Brunettis and had gelato for dessert. It was delicious.

Nicolla Vella

The Italian Lygon Street Excursion on the 2nd of September was lots of fun. Our focus area in our Yr11 and Yr12 Italian class has been Italian contributions, and so to see these actual landmarks of Italian history in our area was very interesting. We had a great time at Brunetti’s, and after we went to the museum; although we didn’t spend long there, it displayed many interesting pieces of Italian culture. We all had a great time.

​Ethan Cedillo