In this post, you will find resources for the topic "History and Historic figures. Peace and war issues,
control and power."
Here's the vocabulary for this unit:
The task for the blog:
Think of an important event (conflict, discovery, victory etc.), phenomenon (civil movement, suffrage, development in a certain sphere, e.g. Industrial revolution etc.) or a historic figure that is particulary interesting for you. In your post (200-250 words) describe why you are interested in the chosen event, phenomenon or a person. Present important details (at least 6) in a timeline (using this tool: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/) and paste it in your blog.
In this activity, you will get acquianted with the realities faced by immigrants in the USA around a century ago. As you enter the site, press "i" for instructions.
You will have to choose an immigrant character for yourself and follow further steps. A girl called Victoria will be your guide in this adventure. After you have completed all the stages of this game you will be offered to send Victoria a postcard. This is the base for your blogpost (you don't have to do the task on the game site; you should write a letter in your blog):
Write a letter (200-250 words, 20-25 active words and expressions) to Victoria describing your imagined experience based on the choices you made throughout the game (mention as many details as possible) and your imagination. Make sure you include some facts from Victoria's stories too. Also, paste an image of your immigrant passport and any other pictures you consider relevant.
In this post, you will find resources for the topic "Media. Fame.
Celebrities. Talking about truth and lies".
To begin with, take a look at the vocabulary on the topic:
The task for your blog:
Imagine that a world celebrity (of your choice) paid a visit to the Ostroh Academy (the reason and purpose are also up to you). You will have to create a fake facebook profile of this celebrity with his/her updates concerning this visit (up to 250 words, 20-25 active words and expressions) and embed it in your blog. Remember to add pictures and/or videos, freinds' comments to make it more interesting.
We hope that you're enjoying your time with your families and friends. For the sake of keeping you away from boredom we'd like to offer you some tasks. We'll be posting them one by one making sure that you get all of them till the end of December.
EDUCATION.
In addition to the wordlist you have (see below the post), please consider these resourses and review collocations presented in them. If you find any expressions unfamiliar, add them to your wordlist.
It appears that you have quite an impressive load of vocabulary now! It means that you need to create a wonderful blogpost using all those collocations, phrasal verbs and idioms.
BUT!
In this trimester we're taking the course to a whole level. For example, before creating something you will need to listen to the experts on this topic. In the videos below you will hear two renowned and visionary educators, Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson. While you're listening, jot down the ideas you find complelling, controversial or impossible to agree with, i.e. those that inspire you to express your own opinion on them. It is particularly important to single out the ideas that YOU personally find thought provoking.
Now that you have watched the videos, write a blogpost where you will include some ideas (not more than 4) that you've jotted down and express your opinion on them. Requirements: 200-250 words, 20-25 active expressions.
Think about your own ways to improve education system in our country based on what you have learned from videos. Present your ideas in a mindmap created with this tool: coggle.it and add it to your blogpost. You will need to sign up using your google account.
A very rough example just to give you an idea what it looks like:
Once you've created a mindmap, you can download it as an image and paste in your blog, or choose the option "share publicly" (then you have to copy the code and paste it in your blog, just as you did when adding a Voki avatar).
Happy holidays!
P.S. And yes, you'll be getting more points for your blogs in the second trimester.
