Education matters

Dear students!

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.

The basic wordlist on topic "Education"