Today we are going to start working on our newspaper project, Lingva Gazette, at this site: www.smore.com
It will have the following main sections:
Lingva News
Valjevo/Mionica Community
Serbia
InternationalThe Lingva News section will include an article about the English course you are attending and the members of your group. It should also include what you especially like to do in this course and what your expectations are for the future. Another contribution for this section will be an interview with one of your coursemates. In searching for and gathering information for other section of our newspaper, you may find the following sites useful: http://www.ugradu.info/index.php/valjevo-vesti http://www.vesti-online.com/tag/35485/Mionica http://www.naslovi.net/ http://uk.reuters.com/news/world Free-to-use photos can be found at: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=comm&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1 http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic98.htm In the second stage of our project we will present the content of our newspapers and decide which events or situations you think you will remember and why.
Gradac Gorge
Imagine that you work for a travel agency and that your boss has asked you to make promotional flyers for some beauty spots, cultural monuments or other specific tourist offers in and around Valjevo. The series of flyers titled “Must See and Feel …“ is planned to include the following attractions:
Greening along the River Gradac
Promenading round Pecina Park
Roughing It in Valjevo Mountains
Hikers Paradise on Divcibare
History Makers of Valjevo
Valjevo between East and West
Wildflower Trails of Valjevo
Love for Art in Valjevo
Village Treats round Valjevo
Breezy Summer Camps in Valjevo
1. Decide which topic you are going to cover and make a plan for your writing. Think about some general information and the most popular features that would attract large numbers of visitors. This example will help you in your planning:
Must See and Feel … River Gradac
2. Write the text and illustrate it with suitable photographs.
3. Embed your flyers in Lingva WP blog.
4. Have a look at other people’s flyers. What do you like about them? Is there anything that could be improved? Write your feedback in the comments section.
Old Town Tesnjar, Valjevo
1. Are we lucky or unlucky to live in a relatively peaceful city?
Discuss this question first with your partner and then with the whole class. This activity will help you with your vocabulary for this task:
2. Write a 60-70 word paragraph about the way of life in Valjevo and whether you would like to change anything about it. Post your writing to Lingva Journals.
3. Read other students’ work and make some comments/questions. Whose work do you like best?
Lingva Workshop No. 16
The 16th Lingva’s In-house ELT Workshop, held on 21 June 2012, was designed to give an overview of the past year activities that teachers especially liked or thought to be the most effective. They covered a wide span of levels and included adaptations of ideas and resources taken over from ELT literature, replicas of games played in L1, while some were original creations of Lingva teachers.
A2+ Associations Game by Marija Matic
B2 It’s probably me by Katarina Andric
B2 Facts and Myths by Milica Milanovic
C1 Friends and Foes by Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlovic
C2 Hole Hearted, Extremeby Lora Petronic-Petrovic
Lingva Workshop No. 16
Lingva Workshop No. 16, 21 June 2012
Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlovic at Lingva Workshop 16
Lora Petronic-Petrovic presenting at Lingva Workshop 16
Milica Milanovic presenting at Lingva Workshop 16
Katarina Andric presenting at Lingva Workshop 16
Marija Matic presenting at Lingva Workshop 16
