Romania Scoala Gimnaziala nr . 17 Botosani
Subject ( s ) Topic
English Pirates and piracy ( history , culture , storytelling , creative writing , EFL , esafety
( ICT ) Aims of the lesson 1 ) to raise awareness about cyber security ;
5 ) to foster creativity , collaboration , communication , expressing an argumentation , tolerance Age of students 12-13
Time Methods
2 ) to increase their fluency in English and acquire basic words / phrases in other languages , not studied at school ; 3 ) to improve their writing skills and encourage creativity ; 4 ) to encourage collaboration between team members and also with the partner schools from Europe ( if turned into an eTwinning project );
19 hours and 30 minutes Brainstorming , work in groups
Teaching resources Meetingwords , Tricider , Powtoon , Miro , Storybird , Storyjumper , Audacity ,
Activities
Voicethread , Wheeldecide , Joomag 1 . Students research about famous pirates back in the day . They pay attention to appearance , ships , valuable items that they looted . 2 . In groups of 6 students discuss how to present themselves using a pirate story . They decide on their pirate names , looks , outfits and background of the story ( time and space ). 3 . In teams , the students start creating a pirate story to introduce themselves , deciding on a moral of the story , open ending , timeline , number of scenes , number of characters . 4 . They write down the story .
Then they decide if they want to read it / act it out , according to their level of confidence . They decide who reads what / who is the narrator ( they can take turn , if they want to act it out ). 5 . They act out the story / create an audio recording of it or a video recording and upload the result on the Twinspace .
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