Mount Perception

English Challenge: Mount Perception



Week 15-17 your class will be challenged to build a mountain: Mount Perception. The mountain consists of several squares that can be filled after proof of activity by each of you. You work in school and each week you have one activity as homework. Gather at least five new words from each activity. In your blog you write down a log book where you present your activities and your words. For example:
Log book: Week 15 
Activity: I listened to podcast x and retold it to Y. Y retold another podcast to me.My five words: cave -grotta, disgusting- avskyvärd, origin- ursprung, clogs- tofflor, interpret-tolka.
Activity: I worked with the song Happy in lyricstraining and here are five words from the song:.....I talked with my teacher about my tasks.
Activity: Here is a summary of a news article from News in Levels:....................... My five words:........
Homework: I listened to a news programme at UR. My five words:...........

To build Mount Perception you must do activities where you listen or read. For example:

Listen
  • Listen to a song and practise lyrics at lyricstraining.com. Write down which song you listened to and at least five words from the song. 
  • Listen to a podcast in English: Go to http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/. Write a short summary of the content or retell it to someone else. Write down five new words.
  • Watch TV news in English. Write a summary or retell three important things from the news to someone else. You can also see it together with someone and discuss it afterwards. Write down five new words.
  • Listen to news about Sweden in English at Radio Sweden. Write a short summary of the content or retell / discuss it with someone else. Write down at least five new words.
  • 6 Minute English. Choose a program. Listen and collect five words that you write down. Write a short summary of the content or retell / discuss it with someone else.
Read 
  • Big Words  is a quiz in six rounds. Write down your five words while you do the quiz.
  • Test your personality.  Write down the result. What kind of personality are you? Write down your five words while you do the test.
  • Read an article at News in Levels.  Choose level 2 or 3. Write a short summary of the content or retell / discuss it with someone else. Write down five words.
  • Use an English source of information for school work in a subject other than English. Write down the name of the source and some things you found out from this source. Write down five words.
  • Choose a story from The Story Museum, where you can read and listen to 1001 stories from around the world. Write a short summary of the content or retell / discuss it with someone else. Write down five words.
  • Read a Swedish newspaper article in English and write a short summary or retell it to someone in English. Write down five new words.

Bonus 
You can gain extra squares when you sit down with your teacher and talk about some of the activities that you have done.

Treat & Words
If your class manages to fill the mountain in three weeks you will see an English film week 18.
Homework week 18: All the "five words" you have written down to each task.

Extras
If you have done one activity and just have a few minutes to spare:
  • try a vocabulary game
  • read a joke
  • play a game with the Akinator (Think of a person. The genie will guess who it is with the help of 20 questions.

How high are the mountains?
  • 7a
  • 7b
  • 7c
Perception test
At the end of this project we will do a listening and a reading comprehension.
We will also ask you to write down your thoughts on whether you liked working in this way.
  • Time
    • Did you have time enough? Or was it too much time?
    • Did you use the time effectively? (Better or worse than "ordinary" lessons?)
    • How well did you focus? 
  • Positive things
    • What was good?
    • What did you learn? 
    • Did you find tasks that were at the right level for you?
    • Did you find any interesting tasks?
    • Which task was the best? Why?
  • Negative things
    • What was bad?
    • What was difficult? 
    • Which task was the worst? Why?
    • What can be improved?
  • How do you think you learn English best? 
    • When? Where? In what way?
    • Did you get any new ideas of good ways to learn English in this project?

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