Genially activity

As my students are too young to create their own Genially project, we will work on one that I have created and whose main purpose is to work the speaking skills and to learn about India.

The Genially project deals with India as an English speaking country. During the development of the presentation, students will answer to different questions with varied grouping, so they will have the opportunity to work different speaking and listening skills.

The project starts asking the students what an English speaking country is. This will be worked by the whole class, so we will have a lot of answers, using them to lead to a final idea by the teacher. 

The second slide shows the most famous ones. We can do a list with those they say. The third slide has another question: what do you know about India? To answer it, the class will be divided in small groups which have 5 minutes to reach an answer. The answers will be shared later by the group speaker with the whole class. By this, all of them speak in the groups but just a few in front of the class, so shy students can be calm and those more outgoing have their paper. 

The fourth slide has a link which goes to Google Maps. The task now is to say the neighbour countries of India in the following way: “India is next to...”. It will be done in pairs. The fifth slide has a video showing important aspects about India. It is a song. 

The sixth slide has different images related to India and a question. They will answer it in pairs again and finally, those who want to do it could say their answers to the whole class. Meanwhile, an Indian flute sounds. It invites to reflection. 

The activity is thought to work speaking in different levels: the whole group, small groups, pairs and finally everybody again. It allows students to participate in the moment they feel confident to do so. Furthermore, it also includes listening and students awake their wish to know about India. 

Without a doubt, the use of Genially is a key factor in the activity since the inclusion of music, video, links and gifs makes it much more appealing for the student. Without the music or Google Maps, it would not be the same.