C1 – ELC Language Learning

180 degrees debate (Swedish department)

The teacher provides a number of (very clear, black&white: e.g. ‘we don’t need a monarchy’, ‘pineapple on pizza is delicious’, things like that) propositions. Two students start the debate, one of them is pro, the other con. Then after some time, the teachers rings a bell (or simply announces) and they swith their point of view immediately, a 180 degrees. The one pro becomes con, and vice versa. They continue the debate in their new role. After a few minutes, two new students get a new proposition and start their debate.

Group work action plan (English department)

The goal of the task is for students to reflect on their role as a group member, to form groups based on complementary preferences and skillsets, to discuss their preferences with their group, and to come up with an action plan (final product) for the group project in which guidelines and a rough timetable for the project are described. The aim of the action plan is also to identify potential challenges for the group as well as ways to navigate these challenges.

Text comprehension and Cloze-text reading (Dutch department)

Reading comprehension at home with Zeeguu and Cloze-gap reading in class.

Press Cartoon Exhibition (Le dessin de presse) (French department)

For their task 1, French Plus 3a students (C1) pretend to be guides at the annual Salon international de la caricature, du dessin de presse et d’humour (international salon of caricatures, press cartoons and humour). They have to create a collective exhibition and then present/decrypt a press cartoon at the launch of the event.

Presentation about a stand up comedian – German department

Analysis and presentation of the language and discourse of a comedian from the target language (TL). Students pick first individually a comedian, look from some information about him/her, watch between 30-60min of performance, and do the analysis. Then in small groups in class they present each comedian. Afterwards, they create a common group forum about comedians in the TL to discover new ones and to encourage the class to watch more videos in their spare time.

Populärwissenschaftliche Sendungen – popular science broadcast – German department

Students watch a serie / listen to a academic podcast about politics/culture and debate, in a role as ‘expert’ with their fellow students about the chosen topic.

Spontaneous nonsense presentation – German department

In this exercise students are asked to actively apply useful phrases (up’s) to a spontaneous nonsense presentation in preparation for the conference at the end of the language course trajectory where they present their research papers. The importance and the usefulness of the up’s when structuring a cohesive presentation is stressed while they are also having fun using theatre improvisation techniques adjusted to language learning, not to mention the great practice for their general presentation skills.

In class debate/conversation – Spanish department

In class conversation in small groups (3-4 students) about a cultural product, in this example about a piece of news from a national newspaper. The type of cultural product is the same for every group. In order to be fully prepared for the conversation, the students are asked to work on it. in advance There are moderators assigned for this tasks to conduct and also participate in the conversation.

Media Diary – Swedish department

Student picks a Swedish/target language source for the media diary (can choose freely as long as the language is Swedish/target language, films, series, podcasts etc.), should last an hour.
Writes a resumé over the consumed material, in form of a review and express their opinion, can be critical and reflective as well but doesn’t have to be.

Category: C1