MIXBOOK - Activity

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Activity

Students: from 7th form on

Communicative goal: describing past events (simple past)

1st lesson: Ss work in pairs. One of them is going to tell the other what he/she did while on holiday. His/her classmate will have to guess where he/she has been (the place, I mean). After that, they will exchange roles.
Ss will enter MIXBOOK and T will show them some on-line publications under the category HOLIDAYS. They will create an account and investigate the site by themselves.
Ss will be asked to bring some pictures of their last holidays (or the ones they have retold their classmates) in a pendrive or a cd so that they can work next class on the computers.

2nd lesson: Ss will bring their pictures. Only between 15 and 20 of them will be selected to work with.
Ss start working on their project. T will show them the step-by-step (link) so that they know about the different tools they can make use of.
After that, Ss will start working on their projects. They will know in advance that only 1 more lesson will be devoted to finish it off. It will be compulsory to write a short description or comment for each photograph.

3rd lesson: Ss go on working on their projects.

4th lesson: Ss will make a presentation and share their projects with the rest of the class.


Evaluation
* Accurate use of grammatical constructions (particularly, the simple past form)
* Varied use of vocabulary related to "holidays"
* Use of the webpage (taking advantage of the tools offered)