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	Time: 12 hours Level: Intermediate

	Introduction Introduction Resource This unit explores phonic and historical connections between languages and suggests how such knowledge might be used when teaching modern foreign languages (MFL).

	1. Teaching languages: language awareness 1. Teaching languages: language awareness Resource ‘Those who have been brought up to speak the [English] language have one great … advantage. […] With a little knowledge of the evolution of English itself, of the parallel evolution of the [Germanic] languages...

	2. Tracing word histories 2. Tracing word histories Resource ‘Romance languages, a group of modern languages derived from the ancient Latin language and spoken by about 400 million people. These languages form a major group in the Indo-European languages, belonging...

	3. Moving forward 3. Moving forward Resource Language is constantly changing: words come and go and human history is caught like a fly in amber in words we use without thinking every day. By developing in our students the awareness of links, cognates,...

	4. Encouraging students to think about etymology 4. Encouraging students to think about etymology Resource When is the best time to introduce students to making connections between languages?

	5. Introducing vocabulary 5. Introducing vocabulary Resource How do you introduce new vocabulary to your students? There is nothing more deadly than being given a list of words and being told to learn them. Utterly essential as this is to language learning, it is...

	6. Listening, reading and language assimilation 6. Listening, reading and language assimilation Resource One assumption that is widely held as axiomatic is that people learn by doing … We seem to have deduced that people learn to speak by speaking and so on. In reality one simply drowns by attempting to swim...

	7. Resources for further study 7. Resources for further study

	References and Acknowledgements References Resource Acknowledgements Resource