Thursday, 17. October 2019

Our second day in Malta started again with english lessons at the EC Malta. At first we watched a short video. It showed a way how a CLIL-lesson could look in practice.

After that Sam showed us a really helpful website: breakingnewsenglish.com There you can find prepared lessons based on news articles. There are seven levels, from elementary to advanced, where you can choose the right one based on the level of your students. Beside the articles in different difficulties the lessons have up to 26 pages of printable activities and handouts. And the best: The lessons are free.

Further on Sam showed us some activities which we also tested in our groups.

• Translating an english text to german and back.
• Two students: One can see a picture for 30 seconds. He/She then has to explain the picture to his/her partner. This one has to draw it. 
• Give the students a headline. They have to guess what the article could be about. 
• "Just a minute" - Talk a minute about an specific topic. 
• Taboo - Explain a word to another person without using it.  

At the end Sam showed us also the website https://books.google.com/ngrams There you can type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. So if you are unsure which word you should use you can check which one is usual. It´s also interesting to see at which time specific words popped up in books or were used more frequently (e.g.: Smartphone, Sustainability).

Our last lesson at EC Malta was with Therese. It was all about the use of idiomatics, especially idioms "using the body" (e.g.: see eye to eye with, break a heart, be cheeky...)

In the afternoon the management of Internships Professionals Ltd. (Mr. Joseph Marquette & Ms. Emanuela Marianecci) invited us to Birkikara. There they told us about Malta in general, their business and we also got some informations about the job shadowing in maltese schools which we will do next week. At the end of the meeting we got some delicious finger food and drinks.