This is a presentation about the introduction of Mystery Location Calls in the EFL classroom.

1. Flattening Classrooms
and Building Bridges
with Mystery Location
Calls
ARTESOL, Buenos Aires, 2015

2. Before the call
Where do I find partner classes?

3. What does my partner class need to
know?
(Details to be arranged via email)
-Students´age group.
-Time in GMT (Argentina is -3GMT. ie.three
hours behind GMT)
World Time Buddy, time converter
-Any other detail you consider important.

4. In class
Whole class prepares questions.
Eg. Is your country in the Southern Hemisphere?
Does your country border the Pacific Ocean?

5. Greeters ROLES
Questioners
Mappers
Note takers
Photographers Recorders

6. Why not Prepare a Gift?
-Sing a traditional song.
-Show typical food.
-Share the link of a recorded msj.
Showing “dulce de leche” and strawberries
to students from Taiwan Class Mascots with a student from Australia

8. Mystery Location Calls
A great chance to:
make learning meaningful, relevant and fun;
to model netiquette with our students;
to meet classes for globally collab projects;
to learn notions of online safety;
to start building a positive online presence.

9. Thank you!
Useful Links and Inspiration