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6.4. Auction lesson

An auction lesson is a lesson organized as an auction. After studying a regu­lar unit of the text-book, let it be "Music We Enjoy", students are invited to at­tend an auction where books, CDs, records and other things connected with the theme of the unit are sold. Learners are asked to buy them. However money is not used at the auction. "Knowledge is money" is a slogan of an auction-lesson. Money is substituted by learners' knowledge about the things being sold. To buy a book or something else a student has to retell what he/she knows about, for example, the author of the book or its contents etc. The sellers ask them as many questions as they want before the book or another thing is announced sold.

Auction lessons can be conducted either with real forms (books, booklets, discs, post-cards etc.) or with "as-if"'forms.

The teacher follows the learners' talks and evaluates their speech.

6.5. Press-conference lesson

At a press-conference lesson learners demonstrate their readiness to ask and answer a great variety of rather unexpected questions connected with the genera! topic. Along with it they have to speak out in favour of some problems aris­ing on the spot within the general topic and beyond it. A press-conference lesson can be devoted to a certain problem, e.g. "Is sport patriotic or antimilitaristic ?", "Are ways of travelling expensive ?", "The Internet in our Life", "Business in our Life", "Medicine in our Life"etc.

Some days in advance of conducting a press-conference lesson the circle of learners is divided into several small two-member teams. Each team consists of "representatives" of various social groups of population who are to be inter­viewed. Among them there can be President and his advisers, politicians, scien­tists, actors, mass-media representatives, common people etc. A separate group consists of interviewers.

The learners are recommended to think over the questions they are going to ask as well as to think over the contents of the answers. Preparation for the con­ference is conducted as small teams' studies, members of each team preparing together or at least consulting each other.

Neither the interviewees nor interviewers are limited in their questions and answers if they are connected with the general topic of the press-conference.

The teacher announces only the general subject of the press-conference and helps to divide the learners into small teams. S(he) also gives any help required by any student concerning language difficulties and other procedural problems. It is the teacher who appoints the Master of Ceremony regulating the flow of the conference. The teacher may also ask somebody to touch upon this or that related problem for the press-conference to cover a more complete set of questions and to make it more interesting.

During the press-conference lesson the teacher makes notes according to which she/he later evaluates participation of each learner in the press-conference.

6.6. Round-table lesson

A Round-Table Lesson's main idea is to create such conditions for learners which would stimulate wording their ideas concerning the problems discussed at the round table.

The contents of the material studied in the text-book is usually of great help. The conditions created at round-table lessons help learners to transfer their knowledge of the problem to somewhat other, however similar, conditions in comparison with those the information is given in the text-book. For example, ecological problems are often touched upon in text-books. After studying a unit of lessons connected with ecology in general learners can be given the following questions at a round-table lesson:

  1. What proves that the environment of Odessa is polluted?

  2. What measures are taken by the city authority of Odessa to lessen the pollution of the environment?

  3. Do you agree that the city authority does everything possible to lessen the pollution ? What is to be done first?

  4. What is the main source of pollution in Ukraine?

  5. What rivers are considered polluted in Ukraine ?

Learners do not get an exact wording or a formulation of the topic of a round-table lesson. They are not given a home-task to make up questions connected with a certain problem either. They may prepare such questions on their own. The teacher's task can be as follows: "At the next class we are going to have a round-table lesson, it is connected with Unit Y."

During a round-table lesson the desks in the classroom form a circle and students see each other well. Each student is to formulate and express their own thoughts and opinion of the problems suggested to them on the spot.

The Master of Ceremony at a round-table lesson is the teacher. S(he) formu­lates the questions in the way and sequence other than in the text-book. . If the teacher sees that the talk fades out some leading questions are asked. This helps to revive the talk.