In each case, I would try to find a discussion topic, such as:
- Living in the country vs Living in the city
- Boarding school vs Day school
But this is a little dated and boring and doesn't involve necessarily involve much web material. A more interesting alternative would be:
- Ban blood sports like fox hunting and bull fighting!!
- Festivals should be fun, but sensible and safe!!
- Immigration dilutes a country's identity!!
These topics allow for webquest-style investigation, video links of festivals such as Pamplona or Corre-foc, consideration of current events and news headlines, as well as personal opinions and cultural norms and values.
Reading or writing or discussing these topics will be language rich: modals of obligation and supposition; narrative tenses - including the perfect for what has changed so far; futures and conditionals; linkers and text referencing devices, etc.
Possible outcomes
- Development of guidelines
- Publication of a leaflet
- Letter to... (authorities, european commission, newspaper, etc)
- Comments (in blogs, on webs - such as BBC News)
- Glogger posters for school
- Wiki
- Online asychronous debate between schools - with different rounds in the different languages
EXAMPLE: 'Families are no longer in fashion!!'
Stage One
- find TV ads which feature the 'typical' or 'model' family and send these links to their overseas partners
- analyse the ads, identify the stereotypes and prepare and send a questionnaire about what families are really like
- get back the results of the questionnaire and jointly with their overseas partners, create a summary document
Stage Two
- find videos, documentaries, etc of families in the past
- interview family members
- pass on this information to their partners
- create a short play with dialogue and narrator based on this information and video this
- post and comment on each others' videos
Stage Three
- study language related to statistics, graphs, trends, etc
- read 'serious' articles and find statistics about population growth and change in family structure/
- read articles about the stay-at-home generation
- produce an information leaflet or poster warning of the changes/dangers
Final stage - optional??
Bring everything together in a performance for a younger age-group:
- commenting on the stereotypes of families
- telling them about families abroad
- telling them about families in the past
- warning them about how families are changing
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