The document is a series of slides from an English teacher discussing a school project about students' native villages and motherlands. It encourages students to work in groups as historians, environmentalists, guides, and artists to research their villages, identify problems, and create presentations, publications, websites, or drawings to promote knowledge and patriotism about their motherlands. The teacher provides evaluation criteria and suggests sources where students can find information like asking parents, neighbors, teachers, and surfing the internet.

1. English teacher
Oksana Skrigun
School of
Bogdanivka
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2. What is the best place What is the best place
For you? For you?
No other one No other one
So caring So caring
So kind So kind
So nice So nice
And warm And warm
As your As your
Mother’s hands! Motherland!
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3. The country you were born in is
your Motherland, your native land.
Your Motherland is your native
village, the house you live in, the
snowball tree in your granny’s
garden and your mother’s song.
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5. “One should respect his motherland,
his culture and his mother tongue
because they are givers of happines”
Do you agree with this
statement?
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7. Find out:
• Where is your village situated?
• When was Bogdanivka founded?
• What is it like?
• What do you know about its history?
• How many people live there?
• What are they interested
in?
• Are there any problems
in your village?
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8. Work in groups
• Sociologists
• Historians
• Environmentalists
• Guides
• Artists
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9. Working on Project you:
• Research the problem
• Take part in the drawing competition
• Collect photomaterials
• Try to solve some environmental
problems
• Make a tour around
our village
• Promote patriotism
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10. What will you be proud of at
the end of the project
• Presentation
• Publication
• Web-site
• Photo album
• Drawings exhibition
And mainly your
knowledge about your
Motherland
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11. It will be useful to
estimate your work
Evaluation criteria
Presentation Publication Web-site
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12. Where you find information
• Ask parents
• Ask neighbors
• Ask for help History Teacher
• Surf the Internet
• Involve your friends
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13. And remember that…
…genuine success
comes only to those who
are ready for it.
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