Global plays and sings carols at Wedel Café
Two days after Christmas, on the last Friday of the year, Global Village’s own musical talents will play and sing some of the best known Christmas carols at Wedel Café, Rynek Kościuszki.
Friday, 28 December, starts at 6 pm. Admission free.
Kolędnicy z Global Village:
Marzena Białobrzewska (guitar)
Wiktoria Franczak
Tomek Grygoruk
Ewa Grygoruk
Kacper Jelec (guitar)
Marta Jelec (violin)
Andrzej Kozłowski (musical saw, pcv tube)
Maciek Kozłowski
Magda Kurza
Michał Pawłowski (guitar)
Wojtek Rogalski (guitar)
Andrzej Kozłowski, master of musical saw
Hush… may we ask you all for silence?
Out of the blue
Who could have expected that a seemingly ordinary coursebook text would spur us to develop quite a few brilliant lesson ideas. First of all, it caught our attention because its title referenced indirectly to Miles Davis’ seminal record – Birth of the Cool, although its subject concerned blue pigments. And then were the questions of how to make a rather unappealing IELTS text more personal and how to bring more life into a text-based lesson.
Trusting our intuitions, we just displayed some excerpts from the texts on the walls, read them fast and talked for a bit, only to switch to students’ own experiences, memories and associations of blue. And off it went.
There were personal stories told in the Magic Circle, paragraphs written, blog entries, extra knowledge brought by a doctor, colour charts, idioms and, most of all, a blueprint to apply to other topical lessons in the future.
The Birth of Blue
Homage to blue
Empowering listening
We are all used to listening tasks incorporated into practically every course book, from beginners to truly advanced. Heavily edited and often strikingly unnatural, they function as testing exercises and only in the context of the lesson – once done, instantly forgotten. That’s a big drawback.
The advent of podcasting has changed a lot in using authentic listening resources in teaching and learning. There are tons of fantastic quality programmes available for multiple listening sessions, at any time, anywhere, with that bonus of a personal, almost intimate feel that good podcasts, like good radio, always have.
To meet the needs of Diana, Gosia, Karolina, Jarek, Joanna and Michał, all members of ielts_7 group, we start an online collection of selected podcasts aiming particularly at students focused on IELTS.
Our selection: Raw listening for IELTS
The source: Start the Week
