Ted Talks
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Teaching / Learning English with Ted talks.
From a listener to a speaker
2023/2024
Autor: Renata Drążek, nauczycielka języka angielskiego
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT / OPIS PROJEKTU:
Learning a foreign language has never been easier than in the Internet era, with the abundance of interactive tools and ideas. So has broadening the knowledge about the world and ourselves, as well as sharing ideas with others.
In this project we would like to combine learning English with building self-awareness and increasing awareness of vital contemporary global issues. The project will be based on TED talks in English, which will serve as material for linguistic analysis: improving listening, reading, speaking and writing skills and expanding the vocabulary range, as well as carrying out various activities related to the topics discussed in the TED talks.
An important part of this project will be student-oriented learning in which students become teachers by preparing and testing their own educational material, mainly in the form of interactive digital exercises, with the use of such applications as learning apps, kahoot, quizzes, vocaroo, padlet and others. Also, they will have an opportunity to improve their writing skills, cooperating in writing argumentative or opinion essays and articles on the topics discussed. Finally, they will work on their speaking skills by preparing their own short TED speeches, which will be either recorded or presented at a school event.
AIMS / CELE:
- Development of students self-motivation for learning a foreign language by letting them be the creators of learning content
- Acquiring the ability to use English efficiently
- Development of linguistic competences required for national language exam (Matura in Poland)
- Development of digital competences through the use of ICT in the project
- Building awareness of vital contemporary issues
- Enhancing students' collaborative skills
- Learning about culture of other countries
- Establishing new acquaintances and relationships
- Increase in communication skills
- Exchange of international values
- Promotion of schools in the international arena
ACTIVITIES / DZIAŁANIA:
- The students create an avatar. Then they upload the avatar on their profile (etwinning live) and complete information there.
- Getting to know one another (maps, descriptions of individual students, presentations of schools, towns and countries)
- introduction by 10th December (Renata)
- map by the 10th Dec (Luisa)
- presentations of schools / town / country - by the end of December (Kasia)
- Introducing E-safety by means of quizes, games etc - Internet Safety Day (February)
- Forming international project teams
- Designing project logo proposals and voting for the best logo
- Watching 1-2 Ted talks a month and analysing the vocabulary and grammar structures
- Preparation of interactive exercises and testing them by students
- Videoconferences and expressing opinions on the forum / chat
- Writing essays and articles (in case of Polish students based on requirements of the national school leaving exam)
- Preparing videos of student speeches
- Gathering all the interactive exercises, videos and pieces of writing on a padlet
- Creating a dictionary with words/phrases and sentence examples in English and equivalents of partners' languages
DIGITAL TOOLS / APPS
- AVATAR MAKER (The students create an avatar)
- MAPCHART (PARTNER MAP)
- PADLET (The students introduce themselves)
- GOOGLE SLIDES / POWERPOINT … (The students present their school / town) (from five to ten slides) Then they share their presentation on twinspace.
- CANVA. (The students read this page: https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/code-of-conduct.htm and then do an infography/presentation with canva)
- GOOGLE FORMS to vote for the best logo and title for the project. I’m not sure if we can change the title of the project. Is it common practice? Maybe a logo and title contest within the project. They can upload a title and a logo on a page and then voting for the best one. Ok
- FIRST - SECOND TED TALK (10 - 31 January)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w32u2NwCve0 Finding your voice in an introverted society
- WORDART (The students listen to the TED talks, work on vocabulary and write a list of words in English and all languages participating in this project. Then we will then make into wordclouds)
- BOOK CREATOR (The list of words are collected in a Multilingual dictionary)
- FORUM questions suggestions
- KAHOOT - one (The students prepare a listening comprehension activity with ten questions. Then we will make this into a KAHOOT)
- PDF - The students write an essay (opinion article…) on the topic and then share the link on twinspace. - the second TED talk
- THIRD - FOURTH TED TALK (1 February - 28 February)
- GOOGLE DOC (The international team could work on a doc where the activities are explained)
- QUIZLET (The students listen to the TED talks, work on vocabulary and write a list of words in English and all languages participating in this project. Then we will then make into flashcards in quizlet with the words and definitions.
- BOOK CREATOR (The list of words are collected in a Multilingual dictionary)
- EDPUZZLE (In this platform there are many TEDTALKS already prepared or we can make one)
- AUDICITY or others - Record an opinion audio about the talks and share on a PADLET
- FIFTH, SIXTH TED TALK (1-31 MARCH)
- GOOGLE DOC (The international team could work on a doc where the activities are explained)
- EDUCAPLAY (The students listen to the TED talks, work on vocabulary and write a list of words in English and all languages participating in this project. Then we prepare an online activity)
- Start preparing your TED TALK
- CREATE YOUR OWN TED TALK (1-30 APRIL)
- UTUBE or FLIPGRID. Choose a topic (from different social issues, the sustainable goals???) and record your own TED TALK (2-3 minutes)
- BOOK CREATOR (All the materials created in this project could be collected in a book)
ACTIVITIES BY MONTHS
- December - introduction and e-safety rules
- January - the first (1 or 2) TED talk and activities
- February- 2 Ted talks and activities
- March - 2 Ted talks and activities
- April - the final event and closing the project
OUTCOME / REZULTATY:
- Collections of interactive vocabulary exercises, videos, essays and articles
- A multilingual dictionary
- Youtube videos (students prepare a TED talk about a topic)
TED talk links:
Renata’s suggestions:
DISABLED PEOPLE (the strength to overcome challenges)
https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_ted_questions_no_one_knows_the_answers_to
CLIMATE CHANGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w32u2NwCve0 Finding your voice in an introverted society
And this one is just beautiful:) probably too long for students, but you might enjoy watching it https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter
Luisa´s suggestion
BENEFITS OF MUSIC
POLLUTION (Plastic)
TECHNOLOGY (BIG DATA)
MENTAL ILLNESS
(MENTAL ILLNESS) https://www.ted.com/talks/ruby_wax_what_s_so_funny_about_mental_illness?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
EDUCATION
ETWINNING ONLINE MEETING – 6 MARCH 2022
HOW TO JOIN THE MEETING
- Teachers get a link to the meeting by email.
- If you open the link with a mobile phone or tablet, you will need to download app. (you can download before the meeting or at that moment if having internet onnetion.
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- If you open the link with a computer, you will see this. If it is in English great but if you find it in Spanish you have click the second one that means continue in this browser. This way you don´t need to download the app. Remember to use your name to be easily recognised
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- You can share the link with your students but it will also be available on etwinning. Remember to tell your students to join the meeting using their etwinning username.
ONLINE LESSON
- At 8.15 the online lesson starts. Teachers and students join the meeting. Remember to join the meeting using ETWINNING USERNAME
- Teachers and students greet each other.
- The teachers explain the development of the lesson
- After that, the participants watch this short video: https://youtu.be/5G0ndS3uRdo
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- QUESTIONS TO THE WHOLE GROUP:
- Had you heard about the sustainable goals before?
- What is the organization responsible for the development goals?
- How many objetives are there?
- Do you remember the goals? Can you name one?
- What year are we supposed to ahieve these goals?
- We may not ahieve the goals completely but why do you think it is important to have this agenda?
- Which one is the most urgent? Why?
- …..
- QUESTIONS TO THE WHOLE GROUP:
- The students are divided into different rooms where they had to prepare the team task.
- They have to suggest different measures to be taken regarding their goals. You can hava a look at this webpge THE SUSTAINBLE GOALS WEBPAGE
- Each team is responsible for two different goals.
- Make proposals and complete this google presentation (as in the example on slide 1-no poverty
- Record the proposals and upload the audio on your goal pages on twinspace (if you do not have time to do it, decide who is going to record.
- Everybody join the meeting again to say good bye.