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Activities
Five Clicks Away
Level: Intermediate or above
Age Group: Secondary or University
e-Learning Mode: Non-live
# of Students: As many students as needed
Instructions:
This is a great reading activity that really can only be done online. First find a visually attractive web page on a topic of general interest to your learners. Choose one that has several links on the page, preferably in one area of the page. A news or magazine site will work well, or a site on a specific topic, such as the World Wildlife Fund or a film review site. Tell the students they must start at this site. They begin reading on whatever takes their interest. However, they are ONLY ALLOWED FIVE CLICKS away from that page. At the end of five clicks they stop browsing and take a screenshot of the page they reached and prepare a description of 1) the end page they got to and 2) the steps they took to get there. They post these to your course website.
Credit: emoderationskills
Follow the News
Level: High Intermediate or Advanced
Age Group: Secondary or University
eLearning Mode: Non-live
# of Students: As many students as needed.
Instructions:
Find a large news site and choose four to five news stories that you think “have legs” (that is, they will keep going for at least a week, e.g. the world cup would have been a good one in July). Give the list of news stories to the students, and provide them with the URLs to several news sites in English. They must “follow” their news story for a week, reading or watching items relating to it in English from a variety of news sites. At the end of the week, they summarize their findings into a report and post it on the course site (or email it to you). Alternately they can regularly post a summary of their findings for the class to read.
Credit: emoderationskills
Theory and Technique
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