Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 26

English. It is a simple activity that is ideal for young learners. It is entertaining, and
straightforward to set up. All the students needed was a leaf of paper, a grey pencil, a
black felt tip pen, coloured pencils or crayons, and a little bit of imagination.
There were two classes, and the first started with colours and Christmas vocabulary
pre-taught or reinforced. Next, each student was asked to take a leaf of paper and outline
on it – using a grey pencil – a drawing connected to Christmas, making sure it has specific
areas for colouring in. This is a collage of photos of students working on this:
When the drawing was ready, each student took a black felt tip pen and outlined it
so that everything was more easily visible. This is Teodora’s drawing on her desk:
By now the first class was ready. For the beginning of the next, I chose – and made
one more copy of – 15 of the drawings that exhibited the main feature I needed for the
upcoming step: they could be divided into two somehow equal parts – Teodora’s drawing
is a good example – on the left Santa Claus, on the right the Christmas Tree:
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