E.L.I.O.T._2nd group_ Learning Units 14 SCHOOL PARTNERS | Page 50

E.L.I.O.T. - ENHANCING LITERACY BASIC SKILLS AND FIGHTING DROPOUT WITH
CROSS-CURRICULAR THEATRICAL EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
ID Number: 2016-1-IT02-KA219-024165
other Italian idioms would fit the situation.
Final (5 minutes)
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The teacher asks the students to write down an example sentence
for each of the idioms analysed.
2nd lesson:
Selecting the idioms and research about them (in the computer
room)
Introduction (5 minutes)
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The teacher asks students to share the sentences they wrote with
the person sitting next to them and to peer correct them.
The teacher circulates as students work and checks whether the
class understood the concept of idiom.
Development (40 minutes)
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The teacher presents the class with a new list of idioms and tells
them that they are going to look for the meaning of the new idioms in
online dictionaries (Cambridge, Oxford, Merriman Webster). Students will
work in pairs. First, every pair has to write down in a file the meaning of
two idioms (which they chose picking one of the folded pieces of paper
hiding a number corresponding to one of the idioms prepared by the
teacher).
Then, the pairs will explain the meaning of their idioms to the class.
Once the meaning is clear for everybody, the class, the pairs will
have to make up a very short dialogue (2 to 3 lines) using the idioms they
searched.
The teacher circulates and check as students work.
The pairs act their short dialogues in front of the class.
Final (5 minutes)
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The class vote the dialogue they liked the best.
3rd lesson:
Writing the idioms in both languages bearing in mind cultural
awareness