Description:

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Level: A2

Israeli level: pre-basic1, pre-basic2

Target audience: all college level students

General goals/objectives: (writing, speaking)

Specific goals/objectives:

1. research student’s own facebook account
2. write an email or a letter to someone from the past
3. speak for 3 minutes about a relationship

Materials needed for activity: (check the following)

• Internet access
• projector

Time: 60 minutes

Procedure:

Students research their facebook account, write an email or a letter to someone from the past and speak for 3 minutes about a relationship.

Activity 1

Ask students to enter their Facebook account, count and write down the following:

1. How many contacts do you have on Facebook?
2. How many of them are family members?
3. How many are friends?
4. How many are current or former coworkers?
5. How many are current or former classmates?
6. How many are just acquaintances?
7. Do you accept everyone as a contact on Facebook?
8. What is a Facebook relationship? How is it different from real life relationships?
9. What do you share on Facebook?
10. Is your account open to the public or limited to friends only?

Activity 2

1. Teach students the structure of an email or a letter.
2. Teach students how to proofread an essay
3. Students write an email or a letter to someone they have unfinished business with, telling them what their issue with them is: how the person hurt them, what they would like to hear from the person or to happen between them, etc.

Grade students’ work according to the following grading rubric:
Introduction (Opening Paragraph)                                           20 points
Body                                                                                                50 points
Concluding Paragraph                                                                10 points
Writing Conventions (grammar, syntax, connectors)         20 points

Activity 3

1. Students speak for three minutes about a relationship they have.

2. Grade student’s oral presentation according to the following grading rubric:
Each presentation is graded on a scale of 0-10 according to the following parameters:
1.      Length: 0-3 points in 0.5 intervals (i.e., if the student spoke for 1.5 minutes, their grade is 1.5 points)
2.      Content: 0-2 points
0 points – speaking is irrelevant to topic.
1 point – speaking is relevant to topic with some deviation or not covering enough points within the topic
2 points – speaking is relevant to the topic and fully covers it
3.      Communicative ability: 0-2 points
0 points – reading the entire text from the page; zero eye contact with the audience
1 point – turning to the page quite a lot but maintaining some eye contact with the audience
2 points – looking at the page no more than once every 20-30 seconds; ample eye contact with the audience
4. Language use: 0-3 points in 0.5 intervals
(Correct) use of connectors, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary[/tabcontent][tabcontent]CAN-DOS

1. Production / Writing; Creative writing; Can write simple phrases and sentences about themselves (adapted A1)
2. Production / Speaking; Sustained monologue: Describing experience; Can describe everyday aspects of his/her environment, e.g. people, places, a job or study experience. Can give short, basic descriptions of events and activities (A2+)

[/tabcontent][tabcontent]By the end of this LO, you should be able to:

• write an email or a letter to someone you know
• speak about one of your relationships for three minutes

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