Overview of Task Proposals

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Overview of Task Proposals

• CEFR and ELP seminar
• (Skopje)

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• Want to learn
• How to express myself better about cultural
  topics (films and music)
• Which language activities could help?
• Populair songs
• Karaoke
• DVDs with films
• School celebrations (drama activities)
• Singing competition
• Knowledge quizzes
• cartoons
• Two probably most succesful solutions
• Watching films
• Knowledge quiz
• Arguments
• Vocabulary building
• Real situations shown in films

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Activity Role Play (Complaints)4 roles (3
passengers and 1 travel agent)

• Theme Package Holiday
• Situation A group of holiday makers have come
  back from their summer vacation in Greece. They
  lodge a complaint to the travel agency Star
  Holidays about
• the bus (the bus broke down on our way there)
• the accomodation (the hotel was overbooked and
  we had to wait in a long line for food)
• the tourist guide (was impolite and did not know
  much Macedonian)
• Arguments
• situation is taken from real life (they have
  found themselves in the same or similar
  situation)
• Spoken interaction
• Building their vocabulary in terms of TRAVEL

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Developing writing skills

• Creating blogs and a school magazine
• Communicating with E-mail friend (chatting
  thropugh the internet further step of
  developing)
• Activities (e.g. creating a school magazine)
• Students do (create) this magazine once in a
  term. Students (each class) create 2 pages and
  one topic is given by the teacher connected with
  the textbook. The other is by their own choice.
• Jokes
• Fashion
• Poems (self created/well known)
• Looking for specific information
• Music/film

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Ideas for further development

• To read interesting and authentic fiction texts,
  which I consider challenging
• Reading without thinking about linguistic aspects
  of the text and grammar rules
• To discuss with others on themes of the texts I
  have read
• To enhance the motivation and ceativity for
  expressing yourself in the foreign language

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Summary of Ideas

• Tasks
• Create blogs (for whom)
• Create a school magazine (for whom?)
• Complain about holiday (in what language?)
• Describe and perform school celebration (for
  friends abroad?)
• Watch films (and find arguments why everybody
  should see this film?)
• Organize a singing competition
• Set up a knowledge quiz (on...?)
• Discuss on themes of several articles (and
  summarize the main idea in those articles?)

• Tasks
• Communication with e-mail friends (chat)
• Select cartoons (with a special theme) and
  explain what is on it and why you have chosen
  this cartoon

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Summary of Ideas

• Activitities
• Listen to popular songs
• See all kinds of movies
• Reading texts (authentic, challenging (i1),
  without grammar rules)
• Write articles on special topics (fashion)
• Looking for specific information

• Arguments
• Building a vocabulary
• Enhancing motivation for expressing yourself
• Real life situations

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Summary of Ideas

• Materials to be used
• Articles (in newspapers)
• DVDs
• Cartoons
• Jokes
• Poems
• songs

• Organisation
• Roles (3 and 1)
• Demands on content of school magazine