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Along the year, all the students have to prepare mini projects dealing with different issues. They had to expose these projects before the classmates and, for this reason, they have to prepare an oral exposition. They formed groups of three and they decided who they wanted to work with.
During the last week of November, a group of three students prepared the exposition about Thanksgiving. They used Genially and they eventually prepared a quiz with questions about this tradition which had to be answered in class. The three people in the group tried to help with the answers thanks to interactive skills in the quiz and other electronic supports such as videos or articles about this celebration.
As they had to do the exposition in November, they decided to do it about Thanksgiving; therefore, the idea was their own and I was helping them with the tool. They decided to make a quiz since it could be a more interactive instrument to promote their mates' participation and I must say that they reached it. They divided the rest of the class into small groups of three (the same existing groups for the different projects) and organized the exposition as a group competition where the ones who answered correctly, got a point. The activity was motivating, active and quite successful.
The most difficult part was not the tool Genially, but to get the questions they were going to forward to their mates. They had to look into the net for quite a long time, that they became a bit impatient and I had to help them to find the questions. I think that a bank of pages and Internet resources could have been more useful for them and it should be taken into account for future similar performances.
The preparation of the activity was quite exhaustive and they had to meet outside the class time to prepare the questions and once decided, they started to use Genially and they used the interactive elements to include any additional information they were going to provide to the class.
The three students were speaking and they took their turns to introduce the topics, to develop the questions and finally to comment on the answers by giving appropriate background.
They made use of the following additional material:
Video about Thanksgiving story:
This article about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and some addtional information:
A complete guide to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Finally, the use of Genially in form of a quiz, has been an excellent learning instrument to facilitate the introduction of new cultures, traditions to the students. Genially is a perfect and funny tool which has served as a vehicle in the oral exposition to get to know different ways of living, and after the quiz has finished, the students continued talking about how Americans celebrate this day and the most popular traditions related to this festivity.
This is the quiz.
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