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Languages Work

The national information resource on careers with languages

Presentations

Our slide-show presentations convey our key messages on languages and careers. It is recommended for ease of use that you save the files using 'Save Target As ...' and run them in the stand-alone application rather than the Internet Explorer plug-in.

Career paths with languages

Career paths with languages

This is a presentation designed for careers advisers, careers teachers and MFL teachers. It talks about the wide range of careers in which language skills can be used and also gives important Labour Market Information (LMI) about language skills and employment.

 

Career paths with languages (ppt 3.8MB)

 

Languages and Careers: 10 questions you always wanted to ask

10 questions presentation

This presentation has been developed to inspire and motivate people in their language learning by helping them develop their understanding of the ‘true value’ of languages in the workplace. It’s part of the Languages Work suite of materials, and signposts them as sources of further information.

Languages and Careers: 10 questions you always wanted to ask
(ppt 5.9MB)

 

Expanding horizons with Languages Work

expanding horizonsThis presentation is intended for use by teachers and invited speakers. We recommend that they select and adapt slides to suit their audience, and in particular we recommend the use of local examples.Our thanks go to the Spanish Tourist Office for images used throughout and we welcome your feedback.

 

Languages Work: Expanding horizons (inc notes pages) (ppt 5.6MB)

 

Spanish PowerPoint presentation

spanish powerpointThis presentation has been designed to help teachers, outside speakers and others such as 'undergraduate ambassadors' convey the message of Languages Work Spanish. The notes pages give further guidance on presention for different audiences. We are very grateful to the Spanish Tourist Office for use of photographs.

 

Powerpoint presentation (ppt 31.79MB)

 

A guide to languages and careers
careers powerpointThis first presentation of the Languages Work campaign, provides a ready-made show for a talk or discussion at school, college or university. It can be run in Acrobat Reader by selecting Window/Full Screen View (or Ctrl+L as a shortcut). Press Enter to move between slides. The second file consists of the notes pages to accompany this presentation.

 

Languages Work: A guide to languages and careers (pdf 113KB)
Languages Work: A guide to languages and careers notes pages (pdf 129KB)

 

Why study languages?

why study languagesThe slide-show by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies works very well on a loop at exhibitions.

Subject Centre: Why study languages? (ppt 1.93MB)

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