Session Agenda

Here is the list of activities and the suggested order we will follow to experience them all. We will add links to each activity to explain and provide new ideas for humanistic language learning.

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1. Welcome and presentation of the session - overview
2. The holistic approach
3. A video about humanistic language learning
4. Inductive, Deductive and abductive thinking!
5. The energy temperature in the room (activity)
6. The skills we will explore: spoken interactions, reading, viewing and representing

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Spoken Interactions Ideas

• The silent birthday line
• Play emotions with sounds
• Speaking in micro-time
• The intelligent pizza
• Geography with your body
• Stand all of you who...
• The preposition ball
• The body-grammar rules
• The body words
• Post it emotions (colours and images)
• Number sequences
• The vocabulary of counting 
• Counting emotions
• The "Lorenza" song
• The accessories date/job interview
• The "2 thumbs" hand debate
• Dragon's Den Inventions
• Selective Listening (interrupt, connect, keep silent, distracted)
• The hand gestures (pairs talking to pairs)

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Representing Ideas

• The energy temperature in the room (see introduction to session)
• Mysterious signs
• Wishes
• The 5-objects story
• The group picture
• Curators at the museum
• Doodles
• Pass around the doodle (special drawing)

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Reading Ideas

• Wordles
• Text strip projects
• Word families
• 3 truths - 3 lies
• Map reading (hidden messages)
• Selective and expressive reading (common text)

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Viewing Ideas

• Small movie clips views-notice
• See the opening...imagine the end
• Music/Space/Movements/Relations lists 

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Writing Ideas

• The pair-mail messages
• Write to your object (friendly letter)
•  Write to someone else's object (lost and found)