INDIVIDUAL
TIPS FOR A GOOD ORAL PRESENTATION
1. Show confidence:
*body language (tone of voice, posture, varied eye contact, loose hands..)
*memorise (not read)
2. Involve the audience (ask questions)
3. Ask a thought-provoking question
4. Don’t say the topic or title
5. Element of surprise
6. Humour
7. Know your audience
8. Tell a story
9. Use visual support (few slides with little text)
PR4 parallel programme.
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.
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.
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.
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
Orange speaking board game.
3 min. topics to talk about in pairs.
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 others.
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 students 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.
#SDG10, #SDG5 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:
UNICEF and National Geographic or here. Find there the picture you got and present the story behind.
Students tell fables.
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.
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 or 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.
Make up your own fable
We follow this lesson plan or here.
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.
73 questions with Taylor Swift and Priyanka.
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.
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.
Bill Gates' TED Talk
The next outbreak? We're not ready.
1st.
Listen to it with subtitles.
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
#SDG1
Cross-channel relationships
Festivals and Pairwork speaking
Natascha Kampusch
Behind the Scenes
Coronavirus
Do this quiz and gapfill on Coronavirus to find out the truth about it.
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