After weeks of tireless work, the partners in 4 Creativities project (2019-1-BG01-KA201-062354) have completed their work on creating a pilot version of the first intellectual product. The module "Linguistic Creativity" includes a variety of activities aimed at developing and improving students' language skills through innovative approaches.
The results of the project are intended to be used by teachers working with students aged 10 to 12, stimulating their motivation and creativity.
The activities are diverse, fun and most of all easy to plan and implement! A complete list and links to them are given below:
1. "Reading Roulette" - The game is useful for practicing the following language skills: reading; reading comprehension; oral and written expression.
2. "Fantastic combination" - The aim of this activity is the students to create a short story using two seemingly unrelated sentences, chosen at random.
3. "The incomplete story" - The purpose of this activity is to create two stories, developing the beginning and core to a predetermined end, as well as the core and the end to a pre-given beginning.
4. "Why I chose these cards" - The purpose of this activity is to improve and enhance oral presentation skills, as well as competences to develop and present own ideas.
5. "Roll a fairy tale" - This activity is an engaging tool that can be used to inspire active and creative imagination and improve language creativity by telling a story.
6. "My funny chain story" - The activity is aimed at developing foreign language skills (vocabulary, grammar, punctuation) in an easy and fun way.
7. "Creating a great linguistic puzzle" - The activity aims to cultivate language intelligence, inspire teachers and motivate students to constantly develop and enrich their vocabulary.
8. “My faulty fairy tale” - The following activity is one of the numerous ones to make students learn languages in an easy and amusing way. Moreover students can experiment freely with the potential of random simple sentences, phrases and words.
9. „My sweet cookie story“ - The following activity is one of the numerous ones to make students learn languages in an easy and amusing way. Moreover students can experiment freely with the potential of random simple sentences, phrases and words.
10. „New life of an old story“ - This is a group activity which develops creativity, listening and reading comprehension, imagination, creative writing. It can be performed indoor or outdoor. The stories can be written or re-told, depends on the level of the group and the vision of the trainer.
11. „Linguistic Challenge - Rhymes“ - The activity is supporting students to achieve a deeper interest in linguistics. Poetry and thymes help students build their vocabularies, practice their rhyming skills, and understand a unique literary form.
12. „Creative Writing Inspiration Cards“ - This activity is an engaging tool that can be used to inspire an active and creative imagination and improve their linguistic creativity through the medium of telling a story and can be utilized to develop a variety of skills.
13. „Understanding emotions“ - This two-part activity aims to foster the linguistic creativity of the children through a double methodology. First, the child must know the meaning of the existing emotions in order to be able to feel identified with any of them (in case he/she has experienced them). Later, the child carries out an empathy exercise since he/she has learnt how to recognize those emotions in other people.
14. „Author´s Recipe“ - Instructional texts that explain the procedure for making or achieving something by selecting a series of "ingredients" and putting them in an order of "elaboration" of the recipe.
