LC Virtual Exchange Document - Flipbook - Page 10
Group Projects
You could organise a debate on Zoom, either between the Irish and the exchange students, or between partnered
students. Topics are endless, and a great opportunity to open students up to new ideas. See Spotlight on
Schools: https://ppli.ie/debating-and-spoken-language-skills/
If students are doing a project on cultural events, don’t just focus on the big events – Easter, Christmas, etc.
focus on the smaller ones too, e.g. St Brigid’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Summer Solstice, Hallowe’en,
Winter Solstice, etc.
If students are working on a group project, they can be partnered with exchange students as well as Irish
students, so for example 2 Irish students and their 2 exchange students could work together on a group project.
You could ask each class to come up with different activities for both classes to do together.
Check our ‘Things to think about!’ in the appendix
Shared blog/Vlog
Student could collaborate to create a blog or vlog of the virtual exchange.
They could include amongst many others:
• written pieces
• Interviews
• reviews of films/TV series they both watched
• Presentations
• Quiz
• Recipe demonstrations
• Games etc.
Peer-Homework help
Students could be paired so they could
meet on a regular basis to help each other
with homework in TL and English. This might
require some guidelines to be written out on
how feedback should be given etc.
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