In "One Day in the Life" Project students exchanged photographs/images describing a days in their life. They described aspects of a typical day (like visiting the market or going to school) or a special day like vacations, birthdays, celebrations or holidays. In this project the students practiced using different online tools: Discribing a holiday the celebrate with their family they used Voki. Speaking about the mealtime on a day of their life students created videos using ANIMOTO.
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A day in my life - personalities My dear students, everyone of us lives among pepole. We are surrounded by diffrent personalities who have a great importance in our life: family members, relatives, friends, neighbours or anyone else who is in our life. In February we are going to end our ONE DAY IN MY LIFE iEARN PROJECT. That’s why I want you to create a media project about an important personality in your life which were shared with international partners through the iEARN forum and/or applied for the iEARN Moldova Student Media Conference in Chisinau which will be held in March 2016. TASK 1 Access the links and enjoy watching the presentations below that were created by other students. Write about your feelinds. Which presentation did you like best? Why? Post you answer to this task as a comment HERE. https://vimeo.com/152197341 https://vimeo.com/152023031 TASK 2 Watch this videos attentively and learn how to create a Voicethread presentation.
TASK 3 Choose an important personality in your life, it may be a family member, a friend, a relative, a neighbour, a worker, a store clerk, a teacher you love and respect or anyone who is in your life and decide how to share his or her story. Use Voicethread to create a media presentation following the instructions: * Your presentation should have at least 5 slides. * Each slide must provide a description. * You should introduce the personality you chose, tell 2-3 intersting things about him or her, using the vocabulary we have learned this year. * Share the reason you love and respect this person. Enjoy experimenting with Voicethread! All of you will get marks for the the projects you'll create acorsing to te rubric below: Enjoy experimenting while creating wonderful personal projects!
Good luck!!! A day in my life - holidays
Lesson Plan
CLASS: the 5th form
LEVEL: elementary TOPIC: Happy Holidays MAIN SKILL FOCUS: speaking, listening, writing and reading COMPETENCES: Communicative Competence - Recieving and Producing oral messages Communicative Competence - Recieving and Producing written messages SUBCOMPETENCES: 1.1. Identifying the general (global) meaning of an oral message, presented clearly and at an average speed. 2.1. Asking for and using information about people and activities related to the students' immediate environment. 7. Cooperating with classmates to fulfill some study activities, showing responsibility, respect and tolerance in the course of communication. 3.1. Identifying the type of a text. 3.3. Extracting the main ideas from an unknown text. 3.5. Selecting ideas from a text and arranging them into an appropriate scheme. 4.1. Asking for and giving personal information. 3. Drawing pictures and collages in the course of the study activities. 7. Employing non-verbal means of communication - body movements, facial expressions and actions - through active games. OBJECTIVES: To understand the meaning of an oral message; To speak about their favourite holiday using Voki; To read the text demonstrating its understanding; To compare traditions conected with a holiday in their native country and in an English speaking one. ONLINE MATERIALS AND RESOURCES: Voki, Wordle, Tagul, Padlet, online dictionaries. dear Students, it's winter. it's the season that brings the most beautiful holidays.
TASK 1 - PRE-READING
Listen to Santa's Reindeer and follow his instructions. How to use Voki? Learn HERE! As you create a Voki audio, post your link as an answer to this task at comments HERE.
TASK 3 - POST-READING
A. Complete the sentences with the right word: 1. On Christmas British people celebrate the _______ of Jesus Christ. 2. Each family has a __________ ___________in their house for Christmas. 3. The most famous Christmas lights in Great Britain are in ________ ___________ in London. 4. A ________ person often switches them on. 5. British children believe in ____________ ________________. B. Compare Christmas celebration in Great Britain with Christmas celebration in Moldova. Find 2 similarities and 2 differences. Use the information from the text. C. Answer the questions: 1. When do English people celebrate Christmas? 2. Who brought Christmas tree to England? 3. When do they decorate the Christmas tree? 4. Where do English children find their presents? 5. Who brings the presents? A day in my life - mealtimeHello my dear students, I have a new task for you. This time you are going to produce a short video using photos, video clips, text and music. Task 1 Take pictures of everything you eat or drink during a day, or find the suitable pictures with the dishes you have for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner and for snacks on the net. Save all the pictures in a file in your computer. Task 2 Use these pictures, add text and music to produce a short video about your mealtime and food. Watch this video bellow and learn how to do it. Here is an example of video I have created for you. Enjoy watching it and produce a simmilar one! So let's get started. To create a video you should use ANIMATO, make an account or log in with Facebook. You may add as more slides as you want. Don’t forget to give a title to your video. Place the link to your task below, as a comment to this assignment. GOOD LUCK!
ABOUT THE PROJECT "One Day in the Life" is a project in which students exchange photographs/images describing days in their lives, and then make cross-cultural comparisons. Students may discuss aspects of a typical day (like visiting the market or going to school) or they may document special days (like vacations, birthdays, celebrations, or holidays.) project planGoal of the Project: Developing students' specific skills Student Age Levels: 1o-11 (the 5th form) Number of students involved: 15 Possible classroom activities: - Students share photographs having some text or caption of daily routine work, school life, holidays celebrations, festivals celebrations. - Students share video of a typical day spend with friends.After posting their work in the appropriate discussion, students then post at least two good responses to other students' posts from outside their country, for each new post they make. This assure that everyone gets good feedback! Period: September 01 2015 - March 31 2016 September - PREPARING FOR THE PROJECT 1. Project registration (10 -13 September) 2. Looking for partners (14 -19 September) 3. Making accounts for each student (20 -22 September) 4. Introducing the project to the students (23 -25 September) 5. Having students exploring the iEARN blog (26 -31 September) October- General Theme Disscussion: YOUR DAY LIFE AT HOME 1. Students describe their daily routine at home after school (Study time, Playing time, Fun with friends etc.) 2. Students describe a day with the family (Refreshment time, Family getting-togethers, Family chores etc.) 3. Read the posts of other students and post comments. November- General Theme Disscussion: YOUR SCHOOL DAY 1. Students describe a typical day at their school. 2. Students describe a school trip they took recently, or a special school day. 3. Students write about their normal school life (Extracurricular activities in the school, Going to library, sports, elocution etc.). 4. Read the posts of other students and post comments. December - General Theme Disscussion: MEALTIME 1. Students describe mealtime at their home. 2. Students write about their meals and foods. 3. Read the posts of other students and post comments. January - General Theme Disscussion: HOLIDAYS 1. Students describe holiday celebrations in their homes. 2.Students describe the special days, the ones they consider the"best days" in your life. 3. Students present and exchange photographs that reflect their culture and community. 4. Read the posts of other students and post comments. February - General Theme Disscussion: PERSONALITIES 1. Students describe personalities that they encounter in their daily life. 2. Students document a person in their life: a family member, a friend, a neighbour, a worker, a store clerk, or anyone who is in your life. 3. Read the posts of other students and post comments. March - End of the project - Partner Online webinar |
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