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Hello, good afternoon.

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In this video, I'll show you what I've prepared for my students of English at the Official School of Languages.

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First of all, let's have a look at my PowerPoint called Read and Enjoy.

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This is a unit I've designed for B2-2 level of English at the Official School of Languages.

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The setting is literature and my aim is to foster or to encourage my students to read for pleasure, not just as a classroom activity.

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By doing the activities I've designed, my students will be working on specific competencies,

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such as interacting orally, the understanding of the text, writing and producing text,

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and also they will be working on digital competencies.

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How are we going to do this? Well, the activities I've designed are essentially communicative.

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Students will have to speak about a book, like describing characters, referring to the plot and so on.

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They will engage in interactions with their partners, where they will have to ask questions,

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and there's also a cultural factor in the activities, as they will learn about the author and the genre of the book.

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At the end of this unit, my students will be able to extract and analyse the overall meaning of a text,

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and they will be able to actively collaborate in interactive situations by using strategies to enhance their ability to communicate.

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The main teaching approach is communicative, so here we're talking about action-orientated tasks,

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which involves sometimes the use of digital tools, as we will see later on.

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As an example of the exercises or activities I've designed, in Term 1, my students will be doing this crossword,

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which refers to the characters of the novel they've just read.

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Okay, so this is through the virtual classroom, and this is in Term 1.

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And the last thing I'd like to comment is the activities for students with different learning paces.

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So, to start with, as we learned before, they will have to read a novel,

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and they will have to read some instructions on how to deal with this unit.

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Okay, so these tasks are linked to some instructions.

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Okay, so the first activity here is to do a video.

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Okay, this is something they've done before, but if they need to revise how to do this, well, they have the chance to revise this.

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Okay, they will also be asking questions to their partners, yes, about the book they have read.

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Okay, and what happens if my students need to be reminded of what to do?

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Okay, well, in that case, this person can stop at the refuelling station.

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Okay, and here, for example, they can go back to what we learned in class regarding how to write the book review.

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Okay, because the book review is the last step of these units.

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And so once we have gone through these three steps, the last one would be eventually to play a game in Kahoot! regarding a book review. And that's all.