Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


Activities Based on Dear Future Generations

4.3.1.1.1 The Worksheet. The worksheet centring around Prince EA’s spoken poem, Dear Future Generations, was piloted in most groups (n = 7). The activity sequence starts with a warmer in which students have to imagine that they are living 50 years in the future, and they have to say what life is like then. In the second exercise, to activate their schemata of global issues, they need to identify some, based on six images. Then, they are asked to predict the genre of the text they are to deal with based on the title. Afterwards, the students get to work with the video: first, they only listen to the first part, and they are asked to reorder the screen captures taken from the video. While listening to the second part, they have to fill in the text first with some words and then with full sentences. They only have to watch the last, most impactful, part of the video. The follow-up activities consist of speaking tasks in pairs and groups and little projects. First, they are asked to express their feelings in connection with the video, then, they have to express their thoughts on some quotations from the poem. The next task is a time capsule activity, where in small groups, they have to decide what they would save for future generations from the year they live in. In the creative writing activity, they are asked to write a letter or poem to future generations. Finally, the activity sequence closes with a project, in which they have to create an infographic on one of the issues presented in the video (the worksheet can be found in Appendix I). The aims of the sequence are to raise awareness, to expand students’ knowledge about some current events, to develop their creative and critical thinking, their researching and presentation skills alongside their vocabulary and their four language skills.

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

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