EDL: EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

INTRODUCTION

Game: Run to the correct answer zone

20 things you might know about European languages

20 more things you might know about European languages.

Our Comp@ss Rose

1. TASK: A COLLABORATIVE READING AND DICTIONARY

Each class records some lines of the poem Compassby Amanda Gorman via Flip. Each class will be in charge of some lines.

Are you ready to listen to the parts recorded by your partners and continue with the recording?

We will create a common product in the form of a video wITH each bit. We will also have a dictionary based on words you need to understand the poem. Then, we will share the interpretation of the parts partners have recorded or the whole poem by adding a comment on Fiip.

Ready? Who is ready to record the first lines? This is the link.

A collaborative reading: COMPASS by Amanda Gorman

COMPASS

This year the size of a sea

Sick to its stomach.

Like a page, we are only legible

When opened to one another.

For what is a book

If not foremost a body,

Waiting & wanting-

Yearning to be whole,

Full of itself. This book is full

Of ourselves. The past is one

Passionate déjà vu,

One scene already seen.

In history's form, we find our own faces,

Recognizable but unremembered,

Familiar yet forgotten.

Please.

Do not ask us who we are.

The hardest part of grief

Is giving it a name.

The pain pulls us apart,

Like lips about to speak.

Without language nothing can live

At all, let alone

Beyond itself.

Lost as we feel, there is no better

Compass than compassion.

We find ourselves not by being

The most seen, but the most seeing.

We watch a toddler

Freewheel through warm grass,

Not fleeing, just running, the way rivers do,

For it is in their unfettered nature.

We smile, our whole face cleared

By that single dazzling thing.

How could we not be altered.

Do you need to listen to the poem first?

TOOLS:

Vanilla Voice: Copy and paste your lines. Choose a speaker and listen to the pronounciation. Turn it into human sound speech.

Text to Voice: Text to speech converter. Scroll down to choose the character and speed.

Our Comp@ss Rose

RESULTS:

1. A collaborative dictionary

Which words did you need to check to understand the poem? Add the words to this document and partners will translate them.

2. A collaborative reading

2. TASK: A challenge

Handbook of language challenges