Universitat de Valencia

STAGE 2: Building the Community

BEGIN 2

Building the Community

English

B1/B2

90 mins

Dates: Week 2, from __________ to __________

Deadline: End of Week 2.

Theme & Goals:

Building the online Community so that it becomes a non-threatening environment where students feel comfortable and are not afraid of participating nor making mistakes.

Step 1. Reading digital profiles:

Read each other’s digital profiles on the Google+ Community.

Step 2. Playing a Kahoot! Game: (see list of possible questions below)

Play a game on Kahoot! By https://kahoot.it/ and accessing and introducing the game pin¹. The game aims to give you the opportunity to learn some interesting facts about your foreign partners’ country and institution².

Step 3. Forming Virtual Exchange groupings:

You will get grouped together based on your common interests. Alternatively, you can get grouped together based on the placement test results.

Step 4. Introductions and ice-breaking questions:

Post and respond to ice-breaking questions on the Google + Community.

Step 5. Personal introductory videos:

Create and upload your personal introductory videos on the Google + Community and comment on the videos posted by your partners (home activity).

Step 6. 1^st synchronous meeting:

Meet with your foreign partners for approximately 20 minutes at Google + Hangouts³ (home activity). In your conversation you may discuss the ice-breaking questions and personal introductory videos, the Kahoot! game, etc.

Step 7. Reflections on your 1^st synchronous meeting:

Write a personal reflective essay about your 1^st synchronous meeting (around 400-500 words). (Home activity). (See list of possible Reflective questions below).

Playing a Kahoot! Game about Valencia and Spain (Step 2):

1. In Spain, which is the biggest meal of the day?

a) Lunch

b) I dunno

c) Dinner

d) ) Breakfast

2. What is Seville?

a) A typical Spanish dish

b) A beach in Spain

c) A theatre in Spain

d) A city in Spain

3. There are two co-official languages in Valencia. Spanish is one of them, which is the other?

a) Basque

b) Catalan

c) Galician

d) Arabic

4. What is the official name of Spain?

a) The Spanish Federation

b) The Democratic Republic of Spain

c) The Kingdom of Spain

d) The Spanish Republic

5. Which of the following is NOT a Spanish overseas territory?

a) Ceuta

b) Melilla

c) The Canary Islands

d) Trinidad

6. Spain claims sovereignty over which British territory?

a) The Falkland Islands

b) The Isle of Jersey

c) Gibraltar

d) Montserrat

7. What is «agua de Valencia»?

a) A cocktail (made of orange juice, vodka and champagne)

b) A sweet non-alcoholic drink (made from grinded “chufas»)

c) A liquor (made of must of grape with wine alcohol)

d) A sweet drink (made of wine, chopped fruit and sweetener)

8. Which of the following Spanish dishes is NOT typically Valencian?

a) Paella (rice with seafood, vegetables and olive oil)

b) Gazpacho andaluz (a cold soup of raw vegetables)

c) Mona de Pascua (round tart or flat cake)

d) Fideuá (thin noodles with fish and crustaceans)

9. Which of the following feasts does NOT take place in Valencia or the Valencian Region?

a) Las Fallas (when papier mâché figures are built and burnt)

b) La Tomatina (a mass tomato fight between over 40,000 people)

c) The Moors and Christians festival

d) La Feria de Abril (a spring fair)

10. Spain is the EU country with the second highest number of bars per inhabitant, which country has the highest number?

a) Cyprus

b) Greece

c) Portugal

d) Malta

11. Which of the following is banned by the Spanish law?

a) Being naked in public

b) Same-sex marriage

c) Smoking in indoor public places

d) Bullfighting

12. When meeting someone in Spain, how many kisses on the cheeks is it customary to give?

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

13. Which of these is a Spanish ritual to celebrate the New Year?

a) Eating 12 grapes with their family at midnight

b) Eating beans for good luck in the year ahead

c) Burning life-size dummies on the streets

d) Hanging an onion on their door as a symbol of rebirth

14. Which of the following Spanish cities is bigger?

a) Bilbao

b) Madrid

c) Valencia

d) Barcelona

15. Which of the following peoples did NOT settle in Spain at any point in history?

a) Iberians

b) Arabs and Berbers

c) Visigoths

d) Ostrogoths

16. Which of the following painters was NOT born in Spain?

a) Salvador Dalí

b) El Greco

c) Pablo Picasso

d) Francisco de Goya

17. Which of the following is NOT a Spanish invention?

a) The quill pen

b) The submarine

c) The mop

d) The bicycle

18. Which of the following places was NOT «discovered» by a Spaniard?

a) Iceland

b) Antarctica

c) California

d) The Pacific Ocean

19. Which of the following eating times is more common in Spain?

a) Lunch from 2 to 4 pm and dinner from 9 to 10 pm

b) Lunch from 12 to 2 pm and dinner from 6 to 8 pm

c) Lunch from 3 to 6 pm and dinner from 10 to 11 pm

d) None of the above

20. What happens to a Spanish woman’s surnames after getting married?

a) She keeps her two maiden surnames

b) She takes her husband’s two surnames

c) She takes a combination of her surnames and her husband’s

d) None of the above are correct

(Reflective essay about 1^st synchronous meeting, Step 7):

Summary of tasks:

Participation in the Google+ Community, including number of posts, length and quality of the interactions.

Language/Communication skills (e.g. written skills from the reflective essays and forum, and oral skills from the introductory videos and synchronous meeting).

Reflective essays: content and depth, linguistic accuracy.

Teamwork.

Kahoot game (previously created by the teacher) available at: kahoot.it. Alternatively, other gamification and flipped teaching tools, such as Socrative or Plickers, might be used.

Hangouts or any other videoconferencing tools for synchronous meeting.

Moodle Tasks/Portfolio functionality or any other portfolio and file sharing tools for the written reflective essays

Possible questions for reflection