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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
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
Introduction (5 minutes)
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The teacher tells the students that a ballot will be held. They will
ballot 10 idioms out of those met in the 1st and in the 2nd lesson.
Those they liked the best.
Development (40 minutes)
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The students will tick ten idioms in the list provided by the
teacher.
The students will put their voting slips in the ballot box. The
teacher will read the results.