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4.4 The Telephone Dictation Workshop – group learning and team
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Learner audience: students from 13 to 17 years of age
by Magdalena Bobek, mag – foreign language teacher at lower secondary school level,
Slovenia
OBJECTIVES
The main objectives of the workshop:
- to make students aware that group/team work can be less stressful for all involved
- To make less able students aware that they, too, can contribute something to the
task at hand without them having to feel less worth than their peers
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To make all participants aware of the different ways a book can become interesting
and its contents easy to remember
WORKSHOP PROCEDURE
Step 1: Forming groups
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Students are put into 4 rows of 5 students of mixed ability and mixed nationality,
forming a team. The number per row should not exceed 6.
Step 2: Pre-activity
The teacher prepares:
= strips of paper each containing one of the titles of the chapters from the book,
Matilda
= copies of nine pictures of scenes taken from the book for each team
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