Business Language Champions
Resources
Welcome to the RLN West Midlands Business Language Champions resource bank.
From this page you can access and download examples of previous Business Language Champions activities, resources used successfully in past partnerships and other materials which you might find useful when working with businesses.
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Previous BLC activities
Download examples of activities used in Business Language Champions partnerships:
'What's my line?' BLC sample activity 
Years 10 & 11 French BLC activities
Year 9 BLC languages talk and activity ideas
Year 8 USB memory stick posters workshop
Sample resources
Download resources used in Business Language Champions sessions:
Year 9 BLC brainstorming session
Year 9 BLC French telephone exercise
Year 10 languages and customs quiz
Year 8 or 9 BRIC Countries handout
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
Top 10 Tips for Teachers on how to approach businesses
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.
Download RLN London's BLC Toolkit
