| Task’s description | |
| This task is developed for A2/B1 learners to learn about Gorbachev’s reforms and prepare for an interview with a native speaker. | |
| Specific LOs (Learning Outcomes) and/or goals of the task. | |
| – Learn about Perestoika – Extract essential information from authentic texts and pictures – Formulate questions | |
| Sequencing the task | |
| Before the task | |
| Class work, time: 15 minutes 1. Students discuss two statements and make predictions if the statements are true or false: 2. Teacher shows the picture and tells the story, so students can decide if their predictions were right. | |
| During the task | |
| 1. Individual work, time: 10 minutes Students work with the pictures and captions from the news website RIA Novosti to find out about the unusual western service, queues and prices. Students are provided with the questions. 2. Group work, time: 10 minutes Students discuss answers and make a list of 5 questions that they can ask about McDonalds in the USSR and one’s personal experience with the fast-food restaurant. 3. Group work, time: 10 minutes Students exchange their questions with another group, discuss their peers’ questions and report their findings to the group whose questions they answered. 4. Group work, time: 5 minutes Students work in groups to decide what a new text will be about. Students receive a list of the phrases that can give a clue about the text. 5. Individual work, time: 15 minutes Students read the text and match the phrases from the previous activity with the abstracts of the text. Not all phrases should be used. Students check the answers after finishing the task. 6. Class work, time: 15 minutes Students recycle the previous text and play the game called Activity. The words/phrases should be conveyed by drawing, presenting or describing and should be guessed by the other players. If a word has to be drawn, it must neither be spoken nor gesticulated. The drawing may contain neither letters nor numbers. | |
| After the task | |
| 1. Reading task Students read an extract from the book Second-hand Time by S. Alexievich and find the answers to the questions. 2. Preparation for a real-world task/interview Students make a list of 5 questions they would like to ask a person born in the USSR. They publish their questions in the Google document. During our next class they are going to choose the best questions and discuss how they are going to interview people born in the USSR. | |
| Additional comments | |
| Resources used: https://ria.ru/20200131/1563921181.html | |
| *Note: If you want to add the original document with the task, please paste the link here: | |
| https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q_I7LUcw8DX95gxYxQRAFUN_x019ZLD8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113942628276836511113&rtpof=true&sd=true |
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Preparing for an interview with a native speaker (Russian department)
- Communicative competence and pragmatics, Aural (listening), Asynchronous, To remember (define, identify, label, recall, list...), CEFR Level, A2, Linguistic competence, Synchronous, To understand (explain, interpret, summarise, classify, associate...), B1, When/Where, Combination of outside and in class, Hybrid face-to-face and online, Written, To apply (solve, discover, demonstrate, report, relate...), Setting, Authentic / genuine, Written, Digital component - Mode of communication, Manipulated authentic / genuine, Combination of individual and pair work, Goals, To create (plan, combine, formulate, develop, collaborate, role-play...), Competences, Above 90 min, Combination of individual and whole class group work, Type of task, Input, Problem-solving, Output, Type of participation / grouping, Time estimate, Sharing experiences
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