USING SKYPE IN CLASS

Hi everyone, we are Anna Molina and Edurne Lafuente. We want to share with you our project about Skype.

Enjoy!! :)

USING SKYPE IN CLASS

CONTEXT:

A new student has arrived at school, in order to embrace him in the new environment, the teacher will contact with the old school (India) of this student. To make children aware of similarities and differences of people lives living in different countries.

AGE GROUP: 5^th grade of primary

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

-       -   To use in context the comparatives and superlatives.

-       -  To learn new vocabulary from the target language.

-       -  To respect other cultures.

PRETASK:

In order students learn some things about the old school (India) of the new boy, they will prepare a little interview about it. They would ask the students from the Indian school, through the Skype, topics like:

-          Weather

-          Cultural monuments

-          Educational system (Routines, Languages that they learn at the school)

-          Traditional food

-          Festivities

The teacher will help the students to formulate all these questions with the proper structure.

TASK:

This will be completely a speaking activity. First of all, the group class will be divided into groups of 4, each group will have a role (Reporters, Cameras, Writers (Relevant Points), Explainers (They will explain to the Indian school the traditions and educative system they have at Barcelona, using as a support pictures & Videos (Ipad))

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw  (2011) Same, same but different 

POST- TASK:

In this activity, students will have to review the interview with the Indian school, recorded by the students, as well as their notes, and they will have to create a display (see Picture 1) comparing the two cities (India and Barcelona). To close the activity the teacher will read a storybook: Same, same but different[1]. Finally, after reading the book, they will have a little debate to be conscious of the differences and similarities of all different cultures around the world.

[1] Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same. But different!