End of the Year Option 1: Festival of Worksheets This project is a great way to get your kids watching and re-watching videos in the course language as they produce worksheets and answer keys for their classmates. The major benefit for you in choosing this project is that students will get lots of language input, during the process of making their worksheet and answer key, and also during the actual Festival of Worksheets, when they will view other groups’ videos and compete to see if they can find details that the group did not include in the answer key. In order to gain a class point, students will be hunting for the “less-obvious” details that the team did not find as they prepped the answer key. The entire process requires and rewards close listening and re-listening, so you will have created the
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motivated to listen and re-listen closely during both the “Making the Worksheets” phase, when they watch and re-watch their video(s), as well as the “Festival of Worksheets” phase, when they will watch and re-watch the other groups’ videos. It’s a great break for you at the end of the year, because it gets you off the “stage” and lets the videos do the talking for you, and your students continue to get lots of highquality input in the language. Win-win! Students will need to interact deeply with a video (or two) in the course language as they produce the worksheets, which will provide them with a good amount of input in the language. As students select the graphic organizer(s) that they want to use for their worksheet(s) and make the key for their peers to use later in the Festival of Worksheets, they will watch and re-watch their selected (or assigned) video(s) many times, engaging deeply and meaningfully with input that you do not have to provide! Then, during the actual Festival of Worksheets, students will compete to fill in the most complete details on their worksheets, using their classmates' keys, and amassing class points if a member of class finds details that are not listed on the answer key, to earn points towards a class reward like a game day or another treat). You will gasp in amazement as your students eagerly watch bunches of videos and interact with loads of language! During the “Preparing the Worksheets” phase, students will watch comprehensible videos, select a graphic organizer that they think fits the information in the video, re-watch the video a few more times, using their
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