English Tasks
The E-LIVE task descriptions serve as comprehensive guides and adaptable templates for educators, originally designed and validated for either primary or secondary education levels. Despite their initial focus, many of these tasks can be seamlessly adapted for use at different educational levels. Teachers looking to initiate an intercultural virtual exchange can employ these tasks as they are, or customize them according to their specific teaching goals and preferences. This flexibility empowers educators to craft learning experiences that are both engaging and impactful for their students.
Tasks for Primary Education
Guess what!
Level: A1/A2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The learners are attributed a school item in a specific colour. During the live interaction, learners question each other to try to guess which card displaying a school item in a specific colour the remote partner has.
Monster mascots
Level: A1/A2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The learners interact to decide upon the body parts (colour, number) of a monster. Individually, each learner draws the monster and suggests a name. A second interaction allows the group to decide upon on the best monster to represent their group and their monster mascot’s name.
Guess who!
Level: A1/A2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The learners prepare short identification cards to introduce themselves to a partner. These are exchanged in the pre-task phase between schools. During the live interaction, learners introduce themselves in small groups and their partner school peers record information on a listening grid to compare information with the ID cards and guess the name of the partner school’s class member.
Tasks for Secondary Education
Our schools
Level: A2 - B2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The students prepare a presentation and conversation about their school (pre-task). They have a videocall in groups of 2-3 students and discuss their experiences, differences and similarities between their school systems (task). They write a shared conclusion and post it on Padlet (post-task).
Would you like to visit my school?
Level: A2 - B1
Asynchronous communication (Padlet)
Summary of activities: The students prepare a video presentation showing their school. They share them in Padlet and react to the videos created by their international peers.
The perfect school
Level: A2 - B2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: After finishing the "Our Schools" task, students engage in a video call in groups of 2-3 to craft a presentation outlining their vision of the perfect school (the task). Following this, they present their jointly created ideal school in class as part of the post-task activities.
Organising an international party
Level: B1 - C1
Synchronous communication (VR)
Summary of activities: The students will meet in pairs in the VR environment and will organise an international get together (in pairs). As a pre-task they will familiarise themselves with the VR space and think about their own culture. There will be a joint evaluation afterwards.
Discovering culture(s) and stereotypes
Level: B1 - B2
Synchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The students introduce themselves, exchange cultural information in a respectful way, reflect on what they have learned and discuss how this experience challenged or confirmed their preconceived notions.
Snakes and ladders
Level: B1 - C2
Synchronous communication (BBB & Genial.ly)
Summary of activities: The students play the classic game 'snakes and ladders' where each square of the game is a question to get to know their partner better.
Introductions
Level: A2 - B1
Asynchronous communication (video)
Summary of activities: The students will create a video where they introduce themselves and ask questions in small groups.
Getting to know each other
Level: A2-B1
Asynchronous communication (Word and Padlet)
Summary of activities: Students produce a short text describing themselves and commenting on their partners’ texts.
Green schools
Level: B1
Asynchronous communication (Flip-platform)
Summary of activities: The students in each class share commented photos of different aspects of their school or project that highlight sustainable development. The recordings are shared with the peers, who will react via the Flip-platform to compare.
Our very own sports
Level: A2
(A)synchronous communication (AI, Padlet, FrameVR, TwinSpace, BBB)
Summary of activities: Students share interests about sports, play online sports games (E-Sports) together, research sports rules and -history to invent new sports together.
Top chef
Level: B1
Synchronous communication (Padlet, FrameVR)
Summary of activities: Students present (and vote for) various existing recipes on Padlet, learn how to present in FrameVR and learn how to prepare the chosen food.
Discussing a topic
Level: A2-B1
Asynchronous communication (BBB)
Summary of activities: The students meet on BBB and introduce themselves face to face (previously they had introduced each other asynchronously on Padlet in a previous task)
Students deliver a presentation on the topic of “measures to keep our environment safe”.
Students exchange information about the topic “favourite books and films”: this can be done through an interview or in informal conversation.