What's the Mosaic project?

The Mosaic project is a compilation of interactive activities (listening, reading, use of English and speaking) designed for the EOI second level students (A2 or Pre-Intermediate) to practice, expand and consolidate the contents seen in the classroom. With the new curriculum for EOIs sometimes there is no time to do in class all the listening, speaking and reading activities we would like to since they can be too time-consuming but essential to the student. Therefore the aim of this project is to fill this gap.

With the integration and use of ICT and the Internet we hope to improve students’ motivation and help them to develop their skills by working at their own pace, in a significantly less stressful environment, where they can work whenever and wherever they want and become more self-confident.

The contents of this project have been created on web format and also in a Moodle course to facilitate its use to both teachers and students. The listening and reading comprehension activities come from real English sources such as videos from the BBC, SKY News, YouTube, different web sites and English newspapers or magazines. All of them include the reference. The exercises have been created with Hot Potatoes since it gives students immediate correction and feedback. These activities can be used as supplementary or consolidation material for an A2 course but NOT as a course itself. All these activities are learner centred and designed to develop learner autonomy.

All these materials are meant to be repository resources for teachers, with already made activities and their corresponding key. They can be used as class material, set as homework or as revision and consolidation activities.

Since a mosaic is a pattern or picture made of many small pieces, we would like, in the future, to expand this project course by course to cover the remaining levels of the EOI.