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The Place We Live In
Home Sweet Home!
September - November 2005

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Student descriptions of their favourite places and an ordinary schoolday in their lives.

Goals:

1.to write an essay about one's favourite place

We all have favourite places where to relax and enjoy the nature. In this activity we want you to share your favourite place with us. For instance, your favourite place could be a near-by forest, a big stone or tree, your summer place etc. This place could be situated either in your home region or somewhere in your country. Because we will have an another activity about favourite buildings, in this activity we concentrate on nature.

What to do and how?

Discuss about the favourite places of students. If it’s difficult to find a favourite place, you could try to recall best memories in your life and where they have happened.

Write an essay about your favourite place. Here are some questions to help you:

• What is it?
• Where is it located? Is it near of far from your home?
• How and when did you find it?
• What things make it as your favourite place?
• How often do you visit this place? How much time do you spend there?
• Do you enjoy this place alone or together with other people?

In addition to descriptions, please write also about your feelings.

3. Add a photo or drawing about your favourite place. Your essay and picture should fit to one page. At first write your essay to ENO Learning Diary.

MY FAVOURITE PLACE

SCHOOL ID:

NAME :
2.to write a description and take a photo of a favourite building of students

What to do and how?

Discuss about the favourite buildings of students. Find one that is the most popular amongst them. For instance it could be a meeting place of students or some other popular youth place.

Write a common description of this favourite building. Here are some questions to help you:

• What is it?
• Where is it located?
• How and when did you find it?
• What things make it as your favourite building?
• How often do you visit this place? How much time do you spend there?
• Do you enjoy this place alone or together with other people?

In addition to descriptions, please write also about your feelings.

Add a photo or drawing about your favourite building. Your description and picture should fit to one page.

When you are ready please send this work to ENO Material. Choose a category: The Place We Live In. Make a title: Our Favourite Building + your school ID!

The deadline for this will be 15^th of October 2005

OUR  FAVOURITE BUILDING

SCHOOL ID:

COUNTRY:
3.to record a story "My Typical Schoolday" for ENO Radio

Split your group to pairs (2-3 students).

In this activity you are to prepare a 1-2 minute story about your typical schoolday.  We practise also how to make recordings with Audacity programme. Each group will make a recording but only one recording will be chosen for ENO Radio.

In your story you could answer to these questions:

• Your name, your school and country
• At what time do you usually wake up?
• What do you do in the morning before qoing to school (breakfast, washing etc.)
• How do you go to school (walk, by bus etc.) and how long does it take?
• At what time your school does start and end?
• How many students on average there are in your class?
• Tell us briefly about your normal lesson (exercises, lectures, team work)
• What kind of equipment do you have in your classroom (overhead projector, chalk board, video, computer etc.)
• Do you have lunch at school?
• Do you have recesses? How many and how long?
• Do you normally get some homework? How long does it take to do them?

Write down the answers in your ENO Learning Diary.

Practise your story and read aloud. Prepare for 1-2 minute recording. If your story is too long you have to cut it.

Make a recording with Audacity programme. Watch that the recording level is not too high or low. In the end, convert your recording to mp3. Save your recording to computer.

Choose one recording to represent your school.  Save this recording in ENO material or send it via email to [email protected]. The deadline will be 15^th of October 2005

4.to share the results at school and in the ENO website

My favorite place

My favorite place

My favorite building

My Typical Schoolday