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Speaking
Imitating
Find a model from a video or
audio and try to imitate it
(words, stress, pauses,
intonation). Sing too. Then,
compare the model and what
you said.
Evidence
Recordings, videos and a
reflection.
Self- recording
Choose a topic (depending on
your level) to talk about for some
minutes. Record yourself while
you talk (as naturally as possible).
Listen to your recording and try to
identify weak areas to improve.
Evidence
Recordings, videos and a
reflection.
Reading
aloud
Choose a paragraph, a
conversation, or a part of a book
you like and read it aloud. Try to
pay attention to your
pronunciation, pauses (based on
the punctuation) and intonation.
Evidence
Recordings, videos and a
reflection.
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Personalizing
Find explanations and examples
of a particular grammar form and
write your own sentences,
examples or short compositions.
Evidence
Writings (sentences or paragraphs according
to the English level) in which you
demonstrate the use of the topic, and a
reflection.
Grammar
Language
transfering
Applying grammar rules from one
language to another giving
examples about it and comparing
similarities and differences.
Evidence
Writings or video recordings
explaining or talking about the two
languages and comparing them, and a
reflection.
Literature for
grammar
Reading short tales (poems,
essays, texts according to the
English level) in order to imitate
structures analyzing and copying
the style and creating your own
writings.
Evidence
Writings imitating texts, and a
reflection.
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Predict
Choose a text in this link:
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/s
kills/Reading. Look only at the title. Write
your predictions. Then read the text and
compare it with your guesses. Write your
comments about your guesses.
Evidence
Document with the guesses and
comments and a personal
reflection.
Reading
Vocabulary building Summarizing
In the following Choose a text (depending on your level) in this
link, http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/s link:
kills/reading, choose a text (depending on your http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/
reading. Read it and select the idead that you
level), select 10 words, infer / guess / predict the
meaning of the words by the context and make a think are the most important in the text. Using
those ideas, write a summary of the text using
list. Then check the meaning in a dictionary and
your own words.
represent the words using a picture, synonym or
definition.
Evidence
Evidence
The original text, the summary
Document with the words,
representation and a personal and a personal reflection.
reflection.
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Predicting
key words
Read carefully the instructions and the
questions before you listen. Identify key
words and families of words. See if there
are names of people in the conversation
that you can use to somehow predict what
the listening will be about.
Evidence
Document with your guesses,
the answers to the exercise and
a reflection.
Listening
Summarizing
Watch and listen to a video for 2 minutes
without the subtitles and write down a
summary. Then, watch and listen again, this
time with subtitles on (L1 for lower levels, L2 for
more confident students) and compare your
notes.
Evidence
Document that shows the contrast
between what you understood before
and after the subtitles, and a reflection.
Transcribing
Watch and listen to a short video (a song, a
conversation, a monologue) or an excerpt of a
video (2 minutes) without the subtitles and
write a text out of the speech you are listening
to. Make pauses and rewind if necessary then,
watch and listen again, this time with subtitles
on (in English) and compare your notes.
Evidence
Transcription before and after
the subtitles, and a reflection.
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Mind-
mapping
Choose a topic and find 10 words
related to this topic. Then design
a mind-map categorising the
words.
Evidence
Picture / file of your mind-map,
and a reflection.
Vocabulary
Labelling
Find a picture of a topic you are
interested in and look for 10
words of things you see in the
picture and label them.
Evidence
Picture / file with your labels, and a
reflection.
Opposites
Choose ten characteristics that
describe a topic you like and find
out their opposites.
Evidence
Sentences with 3 or 4 pairs of
opposites, and a reflection.