4.3.1.6. Activities Based on What Makes a Good Life
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Divéki Rita (2024): Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó.
https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132 Letöltve: https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_table_40 (2025. 01. 29.)
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Divéki Rita. 2024. Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132 (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_table_40)
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Divéki R. (2024). Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132. (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_table_40)
Material(s) the sequence is based on | Language aims |
GCD aims |
Suggested methods and techniques to be used in the sequence |
Robert Waldinger – What makes a good life (TED talk on Youtube) | – to develop student’s listening, reading and speaking skills – to expand students’ vocabulary with advanced-level words |
– to raise awareness of an important issue – to expand students’ knowledge about a widespread phenomenon – to develop students’ self–awareness, emotional intelligence, and empathy – to develop students’ critical thinking – to develop students’ autonomy, presentations skills, research skills and cooperation |
– Pairwork discussion – Watching the video – Comprehension questions based on the video – Discussion (groupwork) – Matching vocabulary items with their meaning – Filling in questions with key vocabulary – Filling in quotes with words and reflecting on the quotes – Analysing the infographic – Project 1 – Creating an infographic – Project 2 – Service-learning: Discussion with a lonely elderly person |
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Divéki Rita (2024): Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó.
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Divéki Rita. 2024. Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132 (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p2)
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Divéki R. (2024). Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132. (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p2)
4.3.1.6.1 The Worksheet. This worksheet, similar to the one revolving around the song Get free was created over several years. The original worksheet was written for a language practice seminar, where the main topic based on the coursebook was happiness. The TED talk given by Robert Waldinger entitled What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness presents a 75-year-long study by Harvard University and focuses particularly on the importance of good relationships in later life. The original worksheet only contained the transcript of the talk, some discussion questions, and a vocabulary exercise; however, the whole activity sequence seemed incomplete, even after receiving good feedback on the video and the discussion afterwards. The more creative and interactive activities were then added in Spring 2020, focusing on the theme of loneliness among the elderly. The worksheet starts with a warm-up exercise, in which the learners are asked to name their five ingredients to a happy life. Then, they watch the talk, during which they have to answer some comprehension questions. Afterwards, they are given some questions to discuss either in pairs or in groups in connection with the topics raised in the video. This is followed by a vocabulary exercise, in which the students have to find the meaning of some expressions from the talk, and then, they have to answer four questions using the key vocabulary. In exercise 6, they are asked to fill in some quotes on loneliness with words they can find in a box, and after finishing it, they are invited to reflect on them. The penultimate activity is about analysing an infographic on loneliness in later life, and the students are asked to answer questions based on the figure and the TED talk. Finally, they can choose between two projects: In project one, they have to research what could be done to tackle the problems of loneliness among the elderly and create an infographic on the issue, which they should present in the following lesson. In project two, they are asked to interview either an ageing relative or an acquaintance about the important milestones in their lives and report back their findings to the group in the following session. This version of the worksheet features in Appendix I.
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Divéki Rita. 2024. Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132 (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p4)
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Divéki R. (2024). Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132. (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p4)
4.3.1.6.2 Results from the Reflective Journal. The updated worksheet was piloted with two groups, in Group D, during face-to-face lessons, and in Group K, in hybrid lessons (with one synchronous and one asynchronous online lesson a week). In both groups, the video seemingly provoked strong emotional responses from the participants, most of them really enjoyed both the contents of the talk and the way it was delivered. In Group D, they eagerly used the key vocabulary in their discussions; however, in Group K, this task could not be monitored, as they did it asynchronously with their study partners. In Group D, the activity with the quotes was given as homework, and to check the activity and reorganise the group, the quotes were cut into half, given to each student, who then had to stand up, find their partner and sit together. They were asked then to discuss some quotes, which got some of them engaged, but some students clearly did not want to delve deep into the topic and finished the activity way before the time limit ended. Given that in Group K, this part of the activity sequence was done in the asynchronous lesson, I had little information about their engagement.
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Divéki Rita (2024): Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó.
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Divéki Rita. 2024. Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. : Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132 (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p5)
APA
Divéki R. (2024). Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom. Akadémiai Kiadó. https://doi.org/10.1556/9789636640132. (Letöltve: 2025. 01. 29. https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/m1171digc__113/#m1171digc_111_p5)
The most interesting part of the activity sequence was the project they had to do in the end. In Group D, they presented their projects in front of the whole group, thus, some time was allocated to the presentation of their infographics or discussions in three consecutive lessons. Approaching the first lockdown, elderly people were already advised to isolate, thus, the students had to phone their relatives to interview them. Consequently, the students reported having made their grandparents’ day by calling them and discussing important milestones in their lives. One of the students said that she had talked to her grandma for over an hour on the phone. Some students said that they found out details from their grandparents’ lives they had previously not known, and they marvelled at their grandparents’ lives. Some students reported that they reconnected with their grandparents because of the activity. Some of them seemed truly touched and the way they talked about their experiences also touched the others. There were students who reflected on the activity by saying that they should do it more often as they realized how important it is to talk to their elderly relatives and give them some comfort in those trying times. The outcomes of the activity were quite similar in Group K too; however, they were given the choice whether they wanted to present their findings in front of the whole group or only in small group discussions. Only four students opted for presenting their findings to the whole group, the others preferred to only share their infographics and short presentations in the breakout rooms. The breakout room setting luckily gave me the chance to listen to their presentations without much noise from the other groups, and this setting also created similar magic moments as in Group D. It was heart-warming to see their engagement and how zealously they shared what they learnt from their discussions with their elderly relatives. Most of the students chose Project 2 and some of them even combined the two projects by creating an infographic on their grandparents’ lives. One student reported on a highly unusual interviewee: she interviewed a local homeless woman and presented her life to the group members. Even though the students were not asked to fill in a feedback sheet at the end of the activity sequence, in either case, they gave oral feedback on the last activity: similar to what I perceived, they truly enjoyed talking to the elderly and reconnecting with their relatives, and listening to each other’s stories made their days better and filled with positivity. Finally, some of them shared that this activity made them realize they should talk to their elderly relatives more frequently. Some of the students’ work features in Appendix P4, with the students’ consent.