Outside the classroom, Personal development
Art and culture, Expert and on the go, Storytelling
30 min.
Large group, Small group
Upto 1 hour
Materials needed
Advanced, Moderate
Speaking, Writing, Listening, Reading
Narrative thinking, Creativity
Learning to learn
Objectives
The learner can use words s/he hears to compose a new tekst.
Material
- Paper and pen
- Some audio files (radio, tv, …)
- Blackboard or something alike.
Preparation
- Collect some audio files
Instructions
- Listen together to the chosen audio files.
- Tell the learners which words attracted your attention. Write them on the blackboard and create a poem/short text.
- Listen together to some more audio files and let the learners make a poem/short text with the words which caught their attention.
- Send the learners outside with the assignment to listen to conversations in the building, on the street, in a supermarket and to write down words and sentences they have picked up.
- On their return, let them turn those words and sentences into a ‘gossip poem’.
- Hang the poems on the wall.