Introduction
You have the honour of having been invited to the Oscars’ Ceremony! Next 4th of March the 90th Academy Awards Ceremony will take place in Los Angeles, and your group will be attending. Glamour, culture, celebrities, prizes... Cinema in its purest state! Come on, start getting ready for it!
Task
You will attend the 90th Oscars’ Ceremony, so you have to plan everything for that day. You have to use the grammatical structure of “will” to make predictions about the future. You need to arrange the following elements:
- The means of transport you will use to get to Los Angeles: say which flight you will take and the departure/arrival time. Include the link to the online booking.
- The clothes you will wear: include a photo and the link to where you will buy it online.
- The colours and outfits that you think will be most popular among celebrities.
- Say who will host the ceremony and your predictions on what he will do or talk about. For this task you will have to investigate about last year’s ceremony, which was hosted by the same person.
- Inform yourself about the nominations for each category and choose 5 films to describe. Write the technical specifications and describe briefly the storylines. Include some pictures.
- Make predictions about who will be the winners in each category.
Process
- You will develop this task in your cooperative base teams.
- Focus only on the information demanded when you search the Internet.
- To present your task, you can use a Word Document, a PPT, a Prezi, a PowToon, etc. Choose the format which best adapts to your needs.
Evaluation
The assessment rubric will be the following:
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LEARNING STANDARD |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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The team works as a unit. |
The team is not able to coordinate properly. |
The team works as a unit. |
The team works effectively and as a unit. |
The team works effectively and as a unit, being also highly cohesive. |
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The vocabulary used in relation to “cinema” and “clothes” is correct in general. |
The vocabulary used in relation to “cinema” and “clothes” is not correct most of the times. |
The vocabulary used in relation to “cinema” and “clothes” is correct in general. |
The vocabulary used in relation to “cinema” and “clothes” is correct and varied. |
The vocabulary used in relation to “cinema” and “clothes” is correct, varied and advanced. |
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The use of “will” structures is accurate in at least half of the sentences. |
The use of “will” is accurate in less than half of the sentences. |
The use of “will” is accurate in at least half of the sentences. |
The use of “will” is accurate in two thirds of the sentences. |
The use of “will” is accurate in all the sentences. |
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The project contains all the elements demanded. |
The project does not contain some of the elements. |
The project contains all the elements demanded. |
The project contains all the elements and is attractive. |
The project contains all the elements, is attractive, creative and highly elaborated. |
The correspondence of the 1 to 4 levels with the 1 to 10 scale will be like this:
1=2,5
2=5
3=7,5
4=10
The final mark will result from the average of all the items.
Conclusion
Once you finish your task, you will be able to:
- Book flights online.
- Talk about both cinema and clothes.
- Make predictions about the future.
You have become an Oscars’ expert!
Credits
Here are some resources to help you with the fulfilment of the task:
To look for the flights: https://www.skyscanner.es/
To look for your outfits: http://www.asos.com/es/
Official Oscars’ website: http://oscar.go.com/
Best moments from 2017: http://oscar.go.com/news/music-moments/la-la-land-is-the-2017-oscar-winner-for-music-original-song
Photos from 2017: http://oscar.go.com/photos
Fashion from 2017: http://oscar.go.com/red-carpet
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Author: Cristina Ribera Lliso