Preparing for an interview with a native speaker (Russian department)
This task is developed for A2/B1 learners to learn about Gorbachev’s reforms and prepare for an interview with a native speaker.
Category: Synchronous
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.
Cultural Newsletter (French department)
Writing a newsletter for the other students where they suggest cultural initiatives to attend to/follow/learn from remotely
Report a crime or déclaration d’un vol (French department)
For their task 4, French Basic 1b students (A2) have to play roles. One student will be a police officer and one student will play a victim. The victim has to report that their animal has been stolen. The police officer has to fill in a form and draw a facial composite of the thief.
Text comprehension and Cloze-text reading (Dutch department)
Reading comprehension at home with Zeeguu and Cloze-gap reading in class.
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.
Plot-puzzle – German department
After having watched a movie in preparation for the seminar, the students have to order a messed up plot summary.
Inklusion in deutschen Schulen – Inclusion in German schools – German department
Students read articles about inclusion within the German educational system and discuss and write about whether they are in favor/against inclusion in schools
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.
Nominatie van een film – Dutch department
This task consists of a series of tasks in which students are introduced to different films. All films are approached from different angles. Students are expected to study these different angles in order to read and appreciate reviews about the films, after which they are invited to watch the films themselves. In the end they need to discuss if the film will be nominated for a festival based on a set of criteria. Each student needs to write a report, which will be evaluated and assessed by the teacher.
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