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TIPS FOR A GOOD ORAL PRESENTATION 

BEGINNING

Don´t inroduce yourself (we all know who you are, it's redundant and boring).

Don't say the title. Start with a thought-provoking question or an anecdote.

GENERAL

1. Show confidence:

*body language (tone of voice, posture, varied eye contact, loose hands..)

*memorise (not read)

2. Involve the audience (ask questions)

3. Element of surprise/Humour

4. Use visual support (few slides with little text) 

ENDING

A sentence or a quote they can remember. 

Learning Journal

ESL Video

PR4 parallel programme. 

 Randall's cyberlistening lab

Do the listenings of your choice, write the title on a piece of paper, do the Listening and Vocabulary exercises. You need to listen to it three times minimum. Copy vocabulary you have learnt.

 Randall's culture videos

Choose a video you like. Watch it a first time without text, a second and third time with subtitles. Do the comprehension activity. Copy the title and write words you have learnt.

Vocabulary quizzes

Go to "Complete list", choose a quizz you like, do the activities after listening to it several times, write on your paper the title and the words you have learnt. 

Funny sketches

In groups they share a sketch to perform to 1st ESO students. 

Lyrics training

Play and learn here

The parade
We describe parades and festivals.

Violence in the media. A debate.
We are going to hold a debate following the ideas provided and using the expressions given.

Comic cartoons.
Cartoons to match captions and correct mismatches. Students then explain in groups their comics and why they are meant to be funny. Watch this presentation and prepare a 1' comment on the comic selected, explaining the text and why you see it may be funny.

Literacy
In order to take a deeper look at one of de SDG, Quality Education (#4) and Reduced Inequalities (#10), we'll do an activity and some research related to it. We'll look at the Kakuma Project and Dasyc.

Murder in the classroom.
A teacher, Mrs. McGowan has been killed. Discuss in groups who killed her after checking all suspects' alibi's and motives.

Personal oral project.
Each student chooses a topic which may be of special itnerest to their partners. For 20 min they present it focusing on the following aspects: visual support, body language, linguistic accuracy and in general ability to communicate. Two students assess their peers through a rubric, and with constant feedback each presentation has to consider their previous peer's assessment.

Against Child Marriage
Along with our school's Walk Against Child Marriage, we wish to work on two of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, namely, #SDG10 Reduced Inequalities and #SDG5 Gender Equality. One of children's rights is to have an education and to live as a child, this ends when they are pushed to marry when they are not prepared to it, they are then forced to leave school and their health and freedom is highly damaged. We will work on these two links:

Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides

In this 10-min report, you take the minute assigned to you and write the information you get to present it to the class. 

Find there the picture you got and present the story behind.

Students tell fables and Make up your own fable
Starting from a previous etwinning project where they shared fables told to their peers, they prepare a 1min presentation following these models and taking fables from here. Another link you may use is Aesop's Fables and then go to Perry Index.

Focusing on the fable style sheet, we will create our own fables to tell our peers. The outcome will be seen here.
We follow this lesson plan or here.

Dive into an Ocean's photographer's world
With this TED TALK we will work on our listening skills. Cooperatively we will build up a questionnaire to guide and boost our partner's listening skills having them find out missing information.

Booktubing
We'll be in charge of this Net4com etwinning section, fully described here.

As All Saints' Day is approaching, we go into its real origin.
Listen to it carefully and try to do the questionnaire to the left. Then try to remember as much information as you can taking notes.

Listen
Why you should make useless things and Don't eat the marshmallow

Debate on cloning
We watch the movie The Island.
After that, we make a selection of expressions for a debate from the prezi made just for that purpose.
Find information and arguments for and against cloning on the web and prepare for a debate.
Reading this text, we will divide it into sections and make a list of words, expressions and arguments for preparing for it.
Also, work in groups on the following document from Claudio Azevedo's web.
For previous year's debates samples see this.

US History
Pairwork and review on US History. Learn about their History with this activity.

Tongue twisters

Choose one here and teach it to your partner, your group and the whole class. Let's see if your tongues twist or not. Make a TIK TOK with it. Top 5 tongue twisters. And... the super famous She sells....

Be a chef!!!
We are going to make videos to show our cooking skills. Watch Jamie Oliver for ideas. It can be very simple as this Cheese sandwich.
Give the Ingredients list with its proportions and write the Instructions.
Use the  specific cooking vocabulary both for the tools (lid, pan, sauce pan, frying pan, bowl, mixer, grater..) and for the process (stir, mix, sim, peel, grate...).
One option is also recording someone of your family making something like a paella or whatever. You can be the reporter instead of the chef.

Formal EOI Oral tests
We practice this type of tests with its assessment requirements too. 

ESL Conversation Questions

https://www.eslvideo.com/conversation.php

Page 3 and 4.

Volvo calendar
You are given a picture from a Volvo calendar, at random. You have to speak with a partner for two minutes about anything that comes to your mind about it.

SOUL SURFER MOVIE. Videos 1  2
 

Dali's painting puzzle

You will be given a piece of Dali's Outskirts of Paranoiac. Make a thorough description of it. It may be difficult, as you may get a piece of heaven, but focus on details. Your partners have to find out which one it is. Eventually, we will put them all together to make the whole picture.

The Sixth Sense sketches
We are going to watch the movie and recreate some of its most famous scenes. Who would you like to be? Cole? Malcolm? Anna Crowe? Lynn? The mad stranger?? Watch previous editions of this activity. You can also fill in this Worksheet.

Teacher-4-a-day

You have to face a challenge: you'll be your classmates' teacher for 50 min. Prepare a session on an area of your expertise, with theoretical and practical content, a game (kahoots are a great resource, but there're many others...). Watch a previous edition here for ideas.

Make poverty History


Cross-channel relationships


Festivals and Pairwork speaking


Natascha Kampusch

Watch here her story.

Behind the Scenes

Coronavirus
Do this quiz and gapfill on Coronavirus to find out the truth about it.

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 Learning Journal

 Skype in the classroom

 This year's main aim is to enhance in the classroom the resources Skype provides for enhancing Oral Competence with speakers from all over the world. We have joined in the Microsoft Educator Community to do so. Let's see what awaits us!!!

A wider and more ambitious goal will be teaching the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Along with it we'll improve our Oral Communication skills in English.
What is sustainable development?
Which are the 17SDGs?

Three films

Topics for conversation
For 3min they speak spontaneously about the topic given in their card. When the teacher claps, they exchange cards. We'll do this a s a warm-up the first few days.

Home sweet home
You have just moved and have to find who is living at your former home. You are given a card with your new home characteristics and another on your former one.

Pictionary
You have a room picture and have to describe it in detail to a clasmate who will draw it on the blackboard. when finished, in detail, you show it to the artist on the blackboard to see if it is similar to what he imagined while drawing.

Missing kids
Jeremy Vargas and Madeleine McCann disappeared in strange circumstances. Two police inspectors teams are investigating them. On the web you have to find out all the information about the cases to present it to the other team. Make a ppt on it.

Climate action
In order to work on the #SDG13, #SDG14, #SDG15 presented above, we're going to work on Greta Thunberg's speech this week.  You can also watch her on a video to support comprehension and see her attitude in there. We'll stick post-its with quotations from her speech.

Amanda Gorman's Earthrise.

The Great Big Lesson.

Generation Earthshot.

Climate Changemakers. Write your message.

Can you cope?
You are given a role and have to perform it with a partner who has a complementary one. It's fun to find out why he/she behaves that way.

Small conversations
You are given a role-play card, you prepare it with a partner for a few minutes and then perform it before the class.

Presentation on Alicante and Spain
To produce a presentation for our etwinning partners, we will work on several aspects so that they get the whole picture of our country. the result will be seen here and presented orally via a videoconference.

Listen
to Joey's first English lesson here or Why people believe they can't draw.

Short funny sketches

Yellowstone National Park
To work on #SDG13, #SDG14, #SDG15, we wish to be positive and arise admiration to the wilderness. We are going to watch the video Experience Yellowstone and then every student will watch and present one mini-documentary from this section together with a mini comprehension activity for their peers, explaining which section you liked most and why. Pay attention to your MEMORY, PRONUNCIATION AND PERFORMANCE


A project on The Book Thief
We watch the movie. Every students does some research on a character in the story and present it to the class for a minute each. They focus on the context, the character description, physically, personality and their role in the story, with interactions with other characters.

Readers presentations

Famous people
Find out "Who's who" by asking as many questions as possible. A yes/no answer is the only possibility. If your answer is wrong, you are out of the  game, o just give your answer when you are absolutely sure of the answer.

Giving directions to find the best restaurants
We also practice with this BBC listening activity.

British Culture, Customs and Traditions.
Explain about British traditions your own way. Take the information from this link.

We love to eat
Show your cooking abilities to your classmates and share the result with them It's a piece of cake!!
We then write our recipes and pick the most specific and new words to make a poster. This ppt can help you.
We can get inspiration from Jamie Oliver's website, pick up a video, a simple recipe and you'll present it to the class. Pick up 3 new words for these sections: verbs, tools, food/others.
You can also visit Gordon Ramsay's recipes here.

Easter Scavenger Hunt
Easter is round the corner. Follow this link to find the requested information. Divide the class into two teams: History and Traditions. Individually, using your cell phone, try to find all the answer to you section. Once finished, check them with your team. Eventually, both teams present the info to the whole class.
Once done, we go through the "Others" section and work together on the computer and screen to elarn more about it.

Formal EOI Oral tests
We practice this type of tests with its assessment requirements too. 

ESL Conversation Questions

https://www.eslvideo.com/conversation.php

Page 1 and 2.

73 questions with Gal Gadot and Roger Federer.

The language of advertising
Through several activities, we'll go deep into this world. Support video listening: 1  2 
Top 10 Best Super Bowl 53 Commercials
Eventually, you'll make your own add. Watch previous editions here.

Teacher-4-a-day
You have to face a challenge: you'll be your classmates' teacher for 50 min. Prepare a session on an area of your expertise, with theoretical and practical content, a game (kahoots are a great resource, but there're many others...). Watch a previous edition here for ideas.

Mystery Skype
We'll find out where another school is via Skype. You'll have to prepare your questions, work with maps, team-work and develope your critical thinking skills. Be ready for great fun!!
Watch this video to get an idea of what we'll do.