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6.12. Project lesson

A project lesson is a piece of learners' community work which is planned, organized and self-administered by learners on their own. For example, after studying the unit "Cities and Places of Interest"a non-standard lesson "Odessa and its places of interest" can be conducted.

At a project lesson students'foreign language speech interaction is interwoven into intellectual and emotional context of their socially coloured activities and constitutes its integral part [73, 134].

Project activities of learners' community can V be organized without a plot. By its contents the plot of a project lesson must be connected with the contents of the unit of the textbook after which the project lesson is organized. However, the plot must include some information which can 7 be found in the lessons of the unit and which is to be found by learners themselves.

The role of the teacher in organizing a project lesson has some peculiarities. Не/She formulates the topic and retells the students what kind of information it might include. The teacher should arise students' interest to it and urge them to anticipate finding some new, peculiar and interesting information on the topic.

Any plot implies some characters. Within the plot "Odessa and its places of interest" the following characters might act: guests from abroad visiting the school, representatives of mass media, Principal of the school, pupils of the form receiving the guests, the teacher etc.

Unravelling the plot, defining the characters and their social status, assigning the characters to certain students are carried out by the community of learners. The function of the teacher is that of an adviser. Не/She can suggest some ideas, for example, concerning little known facts about Odessa: "Mysteries of Vorontsov Palace in Odessa", "Odessa is a city of bridges", "Odessa is a city of lions", "History of underground passages in Odessa", "Bunin in Odessa", "Babel was bom in Odessa " etc. Nevertheless, final decisions with what material to work are to be taken by the students.

It is advisable that the teachershouldn 7 distribute ready-made handouts con­taining the language information necessary for the project lesson and ask learn­ers to study it. Otherwise the learners would only execute the teacher's will and not their own ones. In this case learners' activity loses its creative and searching character, and it lessens their emotional satisfaction of the work .

The teacher shouldn't thrust his/her decision on the learners. Не/She only takes care that all tasks be distributed among the learners.

Besides making up a plot and assigning the roles the learners' community decide what visual aids are to be made, who is able to make them, what music is to be used during the presentation and things like that.

On the day of the presentation all visual aids are displayed. All the plot is performed from beginning to end. Teachers and students of other forms can be invited as spectators. To make up a panel of judges students of other forms can be invited.

Project lessons can also be conducted as non-class activity.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PART 6

Ground your choices on the paragraphs of the part

1. From the multiple choice below choose two correct answers.

At a non-standard, or plot, lesson

a/it is the teacher who makes decisions and controls everything at the lesson;

b/students role-play the dialogues prepared in advance; c/students practice in spontaneous speech interaction to a great extent; d/ unexpected discussions and debates can take place; e/students can study dialogues and poems by heart.

2. The topic and contents of non-standard lessons

a/include exercises in lexis, grammar, speaking and reading; b/are based on a lesson included into the general topic of a unit of the textbook; c/ are closely connected with the general topic of a unit of the textbook; d/are given to the students at the beginning of the lesson.

3. From the multiple choice below choose three correct answers. A jury team, or a team of judges, is formed at;

a/a quizzing-game lesson; b/a lecture lesson; c/ an auction lesson; d/ a press-conference lesson; e/ a brain-storming lesson; f/a discussion lesson; g/ a debate lesson; h/an interview lesson; i/a simulation-lesson;j/a project lesson; k/a round-table lesson.

4. From the multiple choice below choose four correct answers.

The Master of Ceremony is appointed by the teacher at:

a/a quizzing-game lesson; b/a lecture lesson; c/an auction lesson; d/a press-conference lesson; e/ a brain-storming lesson; f/ a discussion lesson; g/ a debate lesson; h/ an interview lesson; i/ a simulation-lesson; j/ a project lesson; k/a round— table lesson.