Cjelina 5: Blagdani i tradicija
🏆 5 | 3 | Lekcija 2: Razgovor (Test)
Unit-final task
🤔 Pre-class task
Prepare yourself to make a dialogue (role-play) and include the following elements. One of you will be an international student and your instructor will play the role of a local host (i.e., new roommate). Use all previous tasks in this unit to inform you and help you make a meaningful dialogue.
Scenario
You are an international student who is studying in Croatia during the Fall semester. You might be assigned one of the following two situations:
- You will go home for Christmas/New Year’s Eve.
- You will not go home during the holidays
Make a dialogue about your winter break, what you are planning to do, where you are going, what you want to see, etc. When you come to the part where you discuss the specific holiday, be sure to make a comparison between Croatia and your home country. Be sure the dialogue goes both ways and that you are not just answering the questions. No matter what role you were assigned to do, you might still potentially invite your friend to spend the holidays with you – this will all depend on what your instructor says during your discussion. Finally, think of local traditions and phrases that appeared throughout the unit. You may want to include something about them.
🗣️ In-class task
Listen to each of your classmates performing their dialogues. Take notes about their cultural performance. Your homework assignment will be to write a reflection on the cultural components that you noticed in each of your peers’ dialogues. When your classmate writes a response to your own performance, you will need to provide them with a follow-up and comment on their reflection.
As a person who is evaluating your peers’ performance, reflect on the following components:
- Evaluate how successful they were in navigating the conversation in a culturally appropriate way.
- Did they recognize and-or use expressions that present a figurative meaning?
- Were they able to recognize, understand, and react to non-verbal cues in dialogues with the instructor?
- What else could they have done in performing real-life situational discourse?
💬 Post-class task
After the role-play, you need to submit your notes from the class session on your peers’ performance. In this way, you’ll receive feedback on your strengths and areas for improvement, helping you to refine your skills further.
🙋 Optional task
As a person who is reading responses from your peers, you can engage further in the discussion. If you do, be sure to include at least the following in your comment
- Do you agree with them? If yes/no – why?
- What will you do to improve (if needed) your future dialogues?
- Any other comments?
Media Attributions
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