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3 . E x a m p l e s o f g o o d p r a c t i c e
3.6 An example from Leonardo Da Vinci, Spain
Subject: English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
Objective: understanding and appreciating literature.
Duration: 1 lesson a week during the 2nd term of the year. 8 sessions.
Participants: students aged 14-16.
Tasks: Students are given a set of questions about a chapter of a book they have previously
read. In pairs or groups they discuss the best possible answer to each of the questions.
Meanwhile, the teacher monitors the activity and helps with any problems the students may
have. Once they have come to an agreement about the best answer, they write it down on a
sheet of paper and hand it in to the teacher, who gives them the corresponding feedback
and mark the following week. During the next session the tasks will be done again with the
next chapter of the book and so on.
Results: Even though the books are not adapted readers, but original versions (which are
always more difficult for non-native students) they get really engaged in the activity and at
the end of it they have developed...
- team work
- discussion skills
- critical thinking skills
- reading/ writing/ oral skills. 18
3.7 An example from The Academy at Shotton Hall, The United Kingdom
The learning resource area is also open for teachers and there are shelves for teachers to
reference pedagogical text books.
Shotton hall has an extensive library with an eclectic range of books, there is a belief that
teachers have a fundamental role to plaz in creating readers. Of course in the classroom,
teachers of English can convey a passion for the books being studied, but teaching students
how to read is something which requires the teacher...all teachers to be reading role models
and by creating a culture where reading for pleasure is encouraged and supported.
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prepared by teachers from Spanish school Leonardo Da Vinci
Throughout the school posters of teachers of Physical education, Mathematics, Science
describing their favorite books can be seen.
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