Cool Hunting: Introducing Further Oral Activities and Understanding Texts
Here is a Further Oral Activity (FOA) that works well early in a Language and Literature course. The activity is informed by all of the Part 2 Learning Outcomes. The FOA follows from watching and discussing the documentary film The Merchants of Cool. The film can be viewed here. The nature of the task does not, admittedly, give much autonomy to students. That is, they don’t choose the activity. However, students do...