Topic outline
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MiLLaT
Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching is an Erasmus+ project
The MiLLaT project pursues the main objectives, as follows:
- developing language, intercultural skills in the area of mediation, and digital competences of teachers and indirectly students in order to prepare university students and teachers to better coexist in multilingual and multicultural societies;
- implementing and disseminating innovative pedagogies to design open educational materials for blended and online language courses;
- implementing learning and teaching mediation activities and strategies into language classrooms relevant to the concept of mediation by sharing good practices and know-how;
- developing approaches to foreign language learning supported by ICT and open educational resources in the academic context;
- meeting the needs of students relevant to the labour market by developing mediation activities and strategies which support the acquisition of transversal competences.
Partner universities - University of Warsaw, Poland
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
- Charles University, Czech Republic
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Task title: STUDYING ABROAD: CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC CHALLENGESTarget learners/course: Academic EnglishCEFR starting level: C1 (can be easily adapted to different levels)Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- discuss typical cultural and academic challenges that international or first-year students are faced with;
- understand the concept of acculturation and differences in academic cultures;
- give advice to international or first-year students at their home university.
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Task title: Metaphor in Political Discourse
Target learners/course: English for Politics
CEFR starting level: C1/C2
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- Identify metaphorical expressions in political discourse;
- Explain metaphorical reasoning by offering the conceptual metaphors that underly the metaphorical expressions used in political discourse;
- Interpret the meaning created through the use of metaphor in political discourse;
- Share argumentation and collaborate in identifying metaphorical expressions, conceptual metaphors and their interpretation in political discourse,
- Evaluate the colleagues’ contribution and express their evaluation.
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Task title: Los horarios públicos en EspañaTarget learners/course: General Spanish A1CEFR starting level: A1Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able:
- Understand timetables.
- Speak and write about timetables, opening times.
- Know cultural differences concerning opening times in Spain and Lithuania.
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Task title: Text analysis and acquisition of new wordsTarget learners/course: C1/C2CEFR starting level: B2Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to talk about Corporate Social Responsibility and use related vocabulary in context.Files: 4
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Task title: Presentation on a chosen topicTarget learners/course: general English B1CEFR starting level: B1Expected learning outcomes:By the end of the task, students will be able to
- find relevant information in different sources.
- summarize information.
- relay specific, relevant information from complex texts using subject-related vocabulary.
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Task title: Summary writing. Argumentation – quality of supportTarget learners/course: Academic EnglishCEFR starting level: C1Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- examine and experience different summarizing strategies
- start thinking about the validity of supporting information in the arguments
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Target learners/course: Business English C1/C2CEFR starting level: C1Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
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understand benefits of foreign language knowledge in business and learn some useful phrases in a foreign language producing an explanation where, when and how the learnt phrases could be used.
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Task title: Explaining data
Target learners/course: Business English C1/C2
CEFR starting level: C1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
present data in different formats and to use appropriate words and expressions.
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Task title: Presentation skills: managing ‘difficult’ members of audience
Target learners/course: English B2
CEFR starting level: B2
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- better understand how inappropriate behavior, comments, body language, etc. may affect the presenter and the audience;
- better handle difficult audience types and use different strategies to deal with them.
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Task title: Learn English tenses with Mr. Bean!
Target learners/course: English A2
CEFR starting level: A2
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- better understand how the Present Continuous tense is used and whether it has more similarities or differences in students’ native language;
- use active vocabulary on the topic ‘In a swimming pool’.
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Task title: En el restaurante
Target learners/course: Spanish A1
CEFR starting level: A1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
order food in a restaurant and to now some cultural information about Spanish dishes.
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Task title: Perfil de usuario
Target learners/course: Spanish A1
CEFR starting level: A1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
get basic personal information by asking questions and will be able to understand and answer these questions.
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Task title: A job interview role-play
Target learners/course: Reading and Speaking C1
CEFR starting level: C1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
talk about job market use related vocabulary in context.
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Task title: Preparing a short presentation based on the text and discussion in groups
Target learners/course: Reading and Speaking C1
CEFR starting level: C1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
talk about education/educators, use related vocabulary in context.
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Task title: ONLINE INTERVIEW ON PLURILINGUAL PRACTICES IN GENERAL EDUCATION
Target learners/course: English C1: CLIL and plurilingual pedagogy
CEFR starting level: C1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- To explain the notions of plurilingual practices and approaches
- To synthesize and relay the information acquired in L1 in English
- To prepare and deliver an oral presentation in English of the acquired and synthesized information
- To engage in a post-presentation discussion with the peers
- To use spoken academic English corresponding to C1 level
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Task title: VARIETIES OF LANGUAGES
Target learners/course: English B2
CEFR starting level: B2
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- tell about the varieties (accents & dialects) of their mother tongue in English;
- better understand the concept of linguistic discrimination and express their opinion on the issue of ‘accentism’;
- tell about the varieties of the English language in the UK.
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Task title: Culture Shock Stages: Jigsaw Activity
Target learners/course: English C1: Intercultural Communication
CEFR starting level: C1
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
- describe 5 stages of culture shock using content specific vocabulary;
- use their metalinguistic skills more confidently (defining concepts, paraphrasing, asking questions for clarification, checking for understanding, and summarizing information.
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Task title: Word definitions
Target learners/course: General English
CEFR starting level: B1 and higher
Expected learning outcomes: By the end of the task, students will be able to:
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define the vocabulary that they are studying in their own words
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