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Class or Subject Area: French
Specific Learning Objectives:
Writing (intermediate / advanced):
Students summarize and synthesize information and arguments from a number of sources.
Students understand and summarize the plot and sequence of events in a film and answer further questions of detail.
Grade Level(s): 10-12
Activity Summary:
After watching in class the movie “Amelie” , students complete a series of 6 online quizzes. The completion of quiz 1 gives access to quiz 2 etc.
What you need:
Access to Internet
Access to Google Docs
Hot Potatoes, a quiz maker available for free on the Internet
How it works:
The teacher previews the movie and writes a series of questions relevant to the objectives of the lesson.
If needed, the teacher downloads tutorials on how to use Hot Potatoes and how to make quizzes by using the “form” feature on Google Docs.
(S)he breaks down the series of questions in several quizzes. Students will need to reach a given score to be able to go from quiz to quiz.
Preparation:
Preview the movie.
Make a list of 50-60 questions about the movie.
Download Hot Potatoes and familiarize yourself with the application.
Visit Google Docs and familiarize yourself with the “form” feature; there are plenty of tutorials on the Internet on how to make quizzes with Google Docs.
Spread out your list of 50-60 questions in several quizzes (created with Hot Potatoes and/or Google Docs) and publish those quizzes on the web.
Explain the assignment to your students.
Directions for the students:
“ Let’s see what you remember from the movie “Amelie”. In order to do so, go to the following web page [url of quiz 1]. If you reach the following score (it is up to the teacher to decide if the students need or not a perfect score), you will get access to the next quiz.
Sample:
Here is the starting quiz of a series of six, made with Hot Potatoes. Here is the last quiz of that series, made with Google Docs. Another option is to ask students to use Google Maps to list all the places mentioned in the movie and to write comments about those places by using the information given by the quizzes, like in the following example.
Class or Subject Area: Foreign Language
Specific Learning Objectives:
Reading (beginner): Students locate a concert or a film on calendars of public events and identify where it takes place and at what time it starts.
Reading (intermediate): Students I read reviews dealing with the content and criticism of cultural topics (films, theatre, books, concerts) and summarize the main points.
Writing (intermediate): Students give clear detailed descriptions on a wide range of cultural, intercultural and social issues.
Writing (advanced): Students write detailed critical appraisals of cultural events (film, music, theatre, literature...).
Grade Level(s): 6-12
Activity Summary:
Students use Themeefy to write a short e-book presenting the cultural life of a given city.
What you need:
Access to Internet
Access to Themeefy
How it works:
Students use Themeefy to (1) agregate and (2) curate relevant information about the cultural life of a given city. They visit web pages giving information about seasonal festivals, movies, dance, theater, museums. Then they pretend that they spent their last week-end in that city and write - in the past – about their experience, contrasting past tenses, such as “perfect” (what they did) versus “imperfect” (how it was).
Preparation:
Make a list of cities you want your students to visit. Those may be related to places that your students will visit in real life or places described in a novel you are reading in class. Assign each student (or group of students) one of the cities on your list.
Have them write about the cultural life of the city they just visited.
Directions for the students:
“ I will assign for each of you one of the cities we have discussed in class. Using Themeefy, you will gather information about cultural events happening in that city. Your task is to write a five-page long e-book about the cultural life of that city, as if you had spent a week-end there For each page, write a comment about the cultural event you supposedly attended. Your magazine includes 5 contrasted uses of the past tense. At the end, you will send to your teacher the url of your e-book. To understand how it works, let’s demonstrate with … (you model the activity by explaining how to use Themeefy with a city and a narration of your own).
Sample:
Here is a sample e-book I have made for the students, to use as a model.