This is the presentation used in the fifth and last session of the summer course on mini-projects organized together with APAC, English Teachers' Association in Catalonia.

1. Mini-projects, Maxi-learning
Session 5 – 6th July 2018
Usoa Sol
INS Emperador Carles
Summer Courses 2018
APAC’s

2. Aims of today’s sessions
• Rounding up the course
• Giving the final touches to your
projects and presenting them in
open class
• Updating your wikis and making
sure you’ve commented on your
peers’ sites
• Taking the two final surveys
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3. Session 5.1
Usoa Sol
6th July 2018
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4. What do you have to do?
1. Finish up the pending elements in
your project.
2. Plan the presentation you’re going to
do with your group.
3. Every group has about 15 minutes to
present their project + question time.
Everyone in the group has to speak;
try to distribute each person’s
contributions evenly.
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5. 4. Present your project as if you were
doing it with your students, describing it
in depth, going over the steps and
showing the materials you have
created.
5. At the end of your presentation,
everyone should be able to know
exactly what each project is about and
how to carry it out with their students.
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6. Session 5.2:
CLIL
mini-project
presentations
& round-up
Usoa Sol
6th July 2018
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7. Groups
1) Anna, Eva, Manel and Marc
2) Cristina, Eduard, Helena and
Teresa
3) Anna B, Iván, Marta A and
Mireia
4) Inma, Piedad and Sandra
5) Laia, Lourdes, Marina,
Natatxa and Romà
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8. How can projects help the
students to learn English?
• Projects provide a real-life context for learning;
they help to put English into practice and give
students a reason for learning it a reason
outside the class (foreign countries, e-
Twinning...)
• Projects give students a reason to look at each
other’s work
• When doing projects, students feel more the
centre of their learning and get to be teachers
(role-reversal)
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9. • Projects contribute to the classroom
atmosphere and allow teachers and students
to collaborate and get to know a different
side of each other
• Students are LESS self-conscious of their
mistakes because they’re more focused on
the content
• Doing project conveys the message that
English is not a subject in itself, but an
actual tool
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10. • Projects are adaptable to different levels and
different learning styles; they cater for
diversity
• They’re cross-curricular, so you’re working
on several topics at the same time and
developing competences
• Projects increase motivation, give students a
real reason to do things beyond the
academic motive;
• They’re motivating both for teachers and for
students because they’re fun and different
from the routine
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11. What do you have
to do next?
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12. 1. Make sure you have completed all the
online tasks so you can get credit for
the 5 extra hours:
a) Information & projects uploaded onto the
corresponding page on the wiki.
b) Comments on colleagues’ work on wiki
(post 1 + post 2): minimum 4 comments
in total
c) Comment on each of the 5 CLIL projects
(one constructive comment per project)
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13. 2. Do the final course survey (check your
email).
3. Complete the Departament’s course
assessment survey.
La meva XTEC – Les meves activitats
Username – password
Qüestionari participants
(Check the course objectives on the wiki)
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14. TÍTULO
Subtítulo
Día Mes Año
I hope you enjoyed
the sessions!
Have a great well-deserved
summer break!
If you have any questions, you
can contact me at
usoasol@gmail.com
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