The feast of year-long projects

Feel free to do both tasks - in English :).

1. W OLPI LSP istnieje tradycja tworzenia projektów rocznych i ich prezentacja w obecności innych uczniów i nauczycieli. 

Dla jednych jest to cenne doświadczenie, dla innych źródło irytacji i powód wewnętrznego (a czasem również zewnętrznego) sprzeciwu.

Napisz rozprawkę typu za i przeciw, w której przedstawisz zalety i wady projektów rocznycb.

Limit słów: 150-250.

2. We wpisie na blog przedstaw swój projekt roczny. Opowiedz, jak go realizowałeś/aś w trakcie roku szk. Podziel się swoimi wrażeniami z prezentacji - zarówno własnej, jak i  innych osób. Który z prezentowanych projektów szczególnie zapadł Tobie w pamięć?

Limit słów: 99-188 🤔🙂.

Around Art

Ten wpis i towarzysząca mu praktyka dotyczy grup, które w ramach zajęć j. ang. odwiedziły wystawę prac dyplomowych uczniów LSP wyeksponowaną w auli szkoły. Oczywiście każda osoba ze społeczności szkolnej, która ma na to ochotę, może również wybrać dla siebie któryś temat.

1. Opisz wybrany obraz, rzeźbę, animację, szkic itp. 

2. Na podstawie wybranego obrazu (lub innej pracy plastycznej) napisz opowiadanie, baśń, list lub wiersz. Daj się zainspirować temu co i jak widzisz i odczuwasz. Niech to będzie praca twórcza, która może i samego Ciebie zaskoczy :).

3. Napisz list do organizatora wystawy prac dyplomowych uczniów LSP w budynku szkoły OLPI. Wyraź swoją opinię na temat wystawy, uwzględniając jedną rzecz, którą można było zrobić inaczej. Zapytaj, czy istnieje możliwość nabycia jednego z obrazów i jakie są warunki.

A recipe for an abstract notion

 

Choose something that is NOT a dish (e.g. a state of mind, sensation, emotion, an abstract thing, etc.) and create a recipe for it. Describe the process using " a recipe language". You may want to include the ingredients.

You have some ideas in the photo. Feel free to choose from outside the list.

Time for Fairytales

Fairytales... Who, as a kid, wasn't read to or told them at bedtime? Seems we're all familiar with them, and often have a favourite one that stays with us for longer.

Today feel invited to revisit the realm of fairytales. Pick one task: either tell the fairytale to your classmates, family members or to yourself, or write it down, this time in English.

Or, consider writing a totally new one. With students of class 3B, we considered the option. Then I was handed in two beautiful ones, one about time (a mixture of reality and the surreal), the other one about a bird, in a poem form. What a delight...

Whoever wants to explore the land of other reality and time, just go for it:).

Creative Reading

All the tasks are based on "There Will Come Soft Rains", a short story by Ray Bradbury, so please google the title and read or listen to the story after doing task 1. Then choose as many (or as few) tasks from the list as you wish.

1. What does the title suggest about the story? What can it be about? (Remember, there are no wrong answers).

2. Read the story. Take your time.

3. Write a synopsis of the story.

4. What had happened before the story starts? What happens next? Follow your imagination or logic, or both.

5. Look at a part of a story / choose a fragment. Write a set of questions to that part, or create an exam oriented task(s) to that.

6. Write your interpretation of the poem inside the story. What's its meaning in connection to the story plot?

7. What can you assume about the author on the basis of the text?

8. Find the info about the author and the short story. Make a (fun) fact file.

9. Let's say you can communicate with the author through time and space.

a) Write a letter to the author and tell him about the present state of the globe. Mention where and how he was right about predicting the future. Discuss the possible directions humanity can/must take and/or the future of life on the planet.

b) Write down an imaginary conversation with Bradbury. Ask him any questions you want. Let him ask you any questions he wants.

10. Tell the story from a different POV (point of view), e.g. one of the characters, the house, the appliances, some tree in the neighbourhood, etc.

Entertainment opportunities

1. What's your favourite song, TV programme/ channel, film/ series/ documentary or book? What is it about? Why do you like it? What kind of inspiration could it be for others?

2. Imagine you are a journalist or a reporter. Interview a person of your choice who is a singer/ band player/ actor or actress/ film director/ writer/ sportswoman or sportsman, etc. Ask 6 questions and imagine the person's answers. Include at least one unusual question.

3. Rewrite the interview using reported speech.

(I asked where she lived and she said she had lived in Oslo in the past but had moved to Cracow.)

This is a set of tasks for class 3A gr. 1 (Wednesday and Thursday).

Class 3B group 1 - tasks 2 and 3 (Thursday).

Thank you & see you soon 🙂👋.

The Skin Mask

Watch a short film about making a skin mask

(it's one of the topics in Close-up C1 student's book:

https://youtu.be/bgIXb_PqeKI?si=thl59ZglEXslsVbs).

Then (free)write on the notion of the skin mask. 

1. Go for a short story, a poem, a memory, a dream, a report from an event, a monologue, an overheard conversation, etc. 

2. Write a piece about the reasons people choose to have one made. 

3. Would you like to have your own face's mask created? Or you'd rather not? Respond to the question in your writing.