Feature of Project- based learning:

1. A “driving question”that is anchored in a real-world problem

2. Opportunities for students to make active investigations, apply information, and represent their knowledge in a variety of ways.

3. Collaboration among students, teachers and others in the community so that knowledge can be shared and distributed between the embers of the “community”

4. The use of technology

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The Project design has 3 stages.

1 Stage. Pre-production

- Teams get together and brainstorm the ideas, assign roles.

- Individuals research different aspects of the projects and bring back the results

2 Stage. Production

- Each individual has a writing task

- Each person is responsible for the production task

3 Stage. Post-production

Sharing the results

Individual evaluation

Steps for the teacher:

1) Determine the goal

2) Consider the final product

3) Determine the teams/ groups.

4) Timeline and objectives

5) Create guidelineas and instructions to follow

6) Determine evaluation

Evaluation

- Use of targeted useful expressions and vocabulary

- Combination of useful experiences and vocabulary to express personal messages

- Pronunciation of frequently used expressions and targeted vocabulary

-Participation in classroom routines

- Perseverance of using English all the time

- Initiation and maintenance of oral exchanges

- Reaction to oral messages

- Support of peers during interaction

- Expression of personal messages

Possible criteria for evaluation

Always speak English

Being on topic

Using phrases and vocabulary that we practiced for teamwork

Encouraging your friends to keep speaking

"All About Me" project

Project Goal:

To encourage self-reflection, promote self-awareness, and foster a sense of community within the classroom.

By the end of the project students will:

- Share some personal information within the group.

- Have deeper understanding of their personality

- Communicate

- Develop sense of self-worth and confidence

- Use some digital tools to prepare information about themselves

Activity 1

Students fill in the worksheet about their personalities, including aspects like date of birth, favourite things, hobbies and interests.

Activity 2 "My Life Timeline"

Students create a timeline where they note their short term and long term plans (using a worksheet/ digital platform)

While working on the timeline, students brainstorm on some important moments of their lives.

While presenting, they should speak about their life story as a novel.

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Activity 3 Connecting with Others - "My Place in the World"

Students create group presentation where they speak about their school, town, community.

Presentations can be in form of posters (using the worksheets as example) or can be created using digital platform (https://www.canva.com/), PPT

"Remembering the pages of the book" project

Project Goal:

- to foster a deeper appreciation for literature, enhance reading comprehension, and develop creative expression through active engagement with a chosen book.

By the end of the project students will:

- Choose and read a chapter in a book

- Eplore characters, plot, theme, express personal attitude to the text

- Be involved in discussion

- Use creativy (art supplies, digital tools)

Activity 1

Every team chooses on book. Every student is given one chapter for reading.

After discussion

students fill in the worksheet "My Book Review"

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