MOVING AWAY

1. Context:
Level: EFL adult students of all nationalities, level B1 (intermediate)

2. Communicative aims:

- Listen to the various speakers talking about their moving away
- Write the reasons why each of them moved away
- Write down the advantages of living in the new places
- Talk about which of the places mentioned the students would choose to move to
- Talk about the circumstances under which the students would move away

3. Digital aims:

- Record yourself expressing your thoughts and upload it on soundcloud, after joining the group: http://soundcloud.com/groups/moving-away

- Upload on facebook photos where the student would like to move to and comment on each other's posts
http://m.facebook.com/groups/483773271644572?view=permalink&id=485812104774022&_rdr

- Add a new entry on the blog with a brief description of your ideal destinations: use descriptive languages (adjectives, place nouns etc.), If clause (If I moved away, I would...). Comment on other students' descriptions.

4. Sequence
A. Warm-up: Talk in pairs about people you know who have moved away. 5'

B. Listen and write down the reasons why each of them moved away and the advantages of living in the new places
10'
http://www.hotenglishmagazine.com/free-weekly-lessons/travel-english-learn-to-talk-about-where-you-want-to-live

C. Prepare a 1-minute speech about why you would move away, where to, under which circumstances and you would miss. Homework 1: At home you will record it on soundcloud.  5'

D. Homework 2: Upload on facebook photos where the student would like to move to and comment on each other's posts
Homework 3: Add a new entry on the blog with a brief description of your ideal destinations: use descriptive languages (adjectives, place nouns etc.), If clause (If I moved away, I would...). Comment on other students' descriptions.

E. Next session: discussion of how students felt when recording themselves and listening to their voices in the foreign language, how this can help them imporve their pronunication and to build up confidence.

Photo competition: vote for your favourite photo published on Facebook clicking on the I like button and say what you like of it.

F. After 2 weeks: discussion of blog entries

6. Assessment

Speaking
Fluency
Intelligibility
Use of vocabulary
Use of If clauses
Participation on the blog
Interaction on Facebook
Which digital tool has proven more efficient and motivating