A Discussion Club with a native speaker Reinhard Hohl.
Teachers from two groups participated at the meeting and have heard the information about World Explorers. Teachers teach this topic at school and they shared their experience of using teaching methods for explanation the main ideas of this topic.Several suggestions were made- to be familiar with the topic of discussion, than teachers can be prepared for it better. Another one-is that they will propose the topics for discussion and it will be interesting to them.
Session #2 March, 16, 2013
The topic of the meeting was "Travelling".
Teachers of the group were introduced to the topic through the song "Susanna". Brainstorming was useful to identify the meaning of travelling for teachers and the objectives of it. The discussion about the dream land motivated teachers to thing about the values of learning new culture traditions, new country, environmnet, people and so on for the future input into our society. Speaker introduced to teachers Ireland by main factsheets, World map, Irish songs and dances and answered on many questions that were interested to teachers. The discussion was interesting and teachers were motivated to know more about this country and to teach it to theur students at schools.
the virtual travelling to Papua New Guinea allow the students learn about the primitive lifestyle, culture and traditions of people who live there. Presentation of video information, main statistical information, and piggy language dictionary was very interesting for participants of the project. They were very surprised that 700 different groups of people with own languages live on the small area of PNG and many of them do not have ideas about wheel, metal, and other industrial products.
Discussion between groups about this country was supported by an excellent source of information, who lived in this country for two years, and could present it by his own experience of living there.
"Travelling to London" was provided by Renhard Hohl to AEPE students of our group. He has lived there for many years and just recently had a vacation in London. From his own expereince he presented interesting information about London, historical places, culture, traditions, facts that were so interesting for our teachers. We compared several words that are different in British English and American. Reinhard prepared presentation with pictures, photos, post cards, map about London and it was useful to understand the beautiful view, the situation and location of London. Many questions were raised and answers were provided. Students understood topic and shared this information with their class students at schools and University
Session #5 June 15, 2013
The role of Internet and globalization were discussed at the meeting with teachers in a club. Reinhard presented general ideas , and provocative questions "Can we trust to any information that we can find through Internet sources? How can we believe the source? Will it be useful to compare different sources? How teachers will teach there students to use information? What plagiarism means? and etc.." Teachers participated in a role game where they experienced the role of teacher-candidate for the job vacancy " Teacher-specialist in language teaching English using traditional and new technology multimedia techniques". that required by imagined International school . Teachers presented their arguments and supported them by different facts from articles that were distributed before at the class. It was an interesting and exciting discussion, where all agreed that Internet will be used by teachers as a new generation know it better how to use it:)). Teachers created blog page where they reflect on their teaching experience and it motivates them to work and to use Internet.In a conclusion, Reinhard summarized the main points of a discussion and presented the criteria for assessment of public speaking speech that can be done in the future by teachers at the time of discussion with their students.
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