My Favorite Singer A Performance Task Incorporating Internet Technologies for EFL

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My Favorite Singer A Performance Task
Incorporating Internet Technologies for EFL
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Chezi Fine
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E-mail Address hezi5_at_bezeqint.net
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Sample Title Page of Student Portfolio
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• I. Description of Class
• II/ Description of the Technological Environment
  and Access
• III. Rationale

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The performance task will motivate and challenge
weak learners to access information about their
favorite singer, write fan e-mail and share it
with their classmates and their peers worldwide.

• V. The Internet Technologies to be used Chat.
  Forum, E-mail
• VI. A General Description of the Project
• VII. A Detailed Stage-by-Stage Description of
  the Project

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• Sarit is 23. She can sing. She can play the
  darbuka, the guitar and the piano. Sarit has 8
  CDs. The name of her latest CD is Laasot Mashe
  ba Li. Her songs are hits of Israeli music.
• Sarit sang in the Hadera music band from the age
  of 14 to the age of 16. After that Sarit sang as
  a soloist in beachside cafes. She was a hit. Song
  writers like Ehud Manor and Kobi Oz wrote songs
  for her. She sang at the Eurovision song contest.
  Sarit says I love it when people like my music,
  it makes me happy in my heart."

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Light a candle
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Light a candle with me
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A thousand candles in the dark

• Sample e-mail
• Timetable
• VIII. Enabling Skills

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EFL
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Music vocabulary, basic sentence-structure/questio
ns presenting singer (This is She can singShe
can play the darbuka)
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E-mail letter format
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Basic chat greetings.
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Computer / Internet
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Using search engine with given keywords (e.g.,
Israeli singer) copying and pasting text and
pictures from sites of singers logging on to the
music forum at Daves ESL Café writing e-mail
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Sample search engine
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http//index.nana.co.il/Category.asp?cat1817
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Sample URLs of sites of Israeli singers and
lyrics
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http//www.milim.cjb.net
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http//www.israeli.web1000.com
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IX. Assessment Rubric
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Content Maximum Points Points Earned Cover Page
includes
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my name
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our class
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our teachers name
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the date 10 Singers ID card and comments about
the singer / band 20 There are the title and one
stanza of a song with explanations 20 There are
at least 3 photographs of the singer or
band 10 There are captions under the
pictures 10 Form The portfolio is presented in
a plastic cover 5 It has all the relevant
material ( cover page, ID card, photographs, one
stanza with translation, pictures) 5 Capital
letters have been used for names and
titles 5 The captions are appropriate 5 The
portfolio is clean and attractive 10 Total
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Pupils who help the non-readers of the group get
bonus 100
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X. How the Task Fits into the Yearly Plan
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The performance task suggested itself to us when
our class reached Unit 3 in our textbook, Chance.
This Unit has music as its theme and presents (on
p. 26) a ballad called Sam And Pam
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When I had the class listen to the taped version
of the ballad Sam and Pam, and when later in this
Unit we read that this ballad was a hit in Max
Langs café, the pupils had a big laugh at the
expense of the efforts of this remedial book to
stick to sound phonological gradation
principles to teach the appropriate vowel and
consonant combinations.
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Sam and Pam sat on the sand.
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They sat hand in hand.
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They sat and they sang.
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..Ad nauseum
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How could this ever be a hit? I challenged them
to suggest hits for Max Langs café. They began
to suggest the songs of their favorite singers. I
seized the opportunity to offer a performance
task called My Favorite Singer. This is how the
project was born.