1. ENGLISH AND CULTURE Methodology of Culture for Teachers of English
In-service training Dublin
Course provider English Matters S. L.
Participant: Zdravkova Elena
A projektet az Európai Bizottság támogatta. A kiadványban (közleményben) megjelentek nem szükségszerűen tükrözik az Európai Bizottság nézeteit.

2. Erasmus + pogram Dublin 2017. 05. 21-27.
The program
First workshop

3. Dublin, Trinity College

4. My group completing a task
Trinity College: Sphere in Sphere

5. Inquiry-based learning
A learner-centred approach realized through a process of enquiry promoting higher order thinking skills
Inquiry learning has several forms including analysis, problem solving, discovery and creative activities
Goal – active construction of meaning through: questioning, researching information, collecting data and reporting findings ...
Students are responsible for processing the
data they are working with in order to reach
their own conclusions

6. Four Stages of Inquiry–based Learning
Stage 1: Exploring
What do we already know? What do we want to find out? What questions do we need to ask?
Stage 2: Investigating
How are we going to find out about this? How to record our data?
Stage 3: Processing
Analysing the information, evaluating ideas, organising and synthesising findings
Stage 4: Creating
Presenting the results of the inquiry, transferring learning to new contexts and inquiries

7. Benefits of Inquiry – based learning
Develops students’ literacy skills, research skills and learning skills (critical thinking, creative thinking, teamwork and communication)
Promotes active involvement of students in learning that is relevant, challenging and social
Helps students to become independent and responsible learners
Enables the teacher to assess student understanding of content

8. Inquiry-based Project work
The Irish Language in the 21st century Ireland
Website:
- Vox pop
Survey the Irish public about their attutude towards the Irish language
- Photographic evidence
Look fo signs that dsplay Irish place names, the names of streets, Institutions
Analysis, Reflection, Critical Awareness

9. Project work tasks
Reading for enjoyment in Ireland Irish clothing and jewellery today Traditional Irish food Stained Glass or Visual Art - Create a diamond poem inspired by this stained glass piece

10. Irish writers Using literature in the classroom Comparing a poem and the lyrics of a song: similarities and differences
Patrick Kavanagh: On Raglan Road
Luke Kelly: The Black Velvet Band

11. Patrick Kavanagh: On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion’s pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay –
O I loved too much and by such, by such, is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind, I gave her the secret sign that’s known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her poems to say
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May.
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay –
When the angel woos the clay he’d lose his wings at the dawn of day.
Patrick Kavanagh

12. Key Ideas
Parallels between literature and music: James Joyce: Eveline and The Beatles: She’s Leaving Home
Roddy Doyle and other contemporary writers as a teaching resourse
Comparing a poem and song lyrics
Graphic organizers for high level thinking
Music in the classroom
Irish short films for the classroom
Exploring Irish Mythology and symbols

13. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) Poem: A Drinking Song
Poetry: all the words separately on pieces of paper
Students have to create their own poems
The Lake Isle of Innissfree
Students have to draw a picture associated with the poem
m/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/

14. Roddy Doyle:The wilderness
Pre-reading activities
Brainstorm words associated with „the wilderness”!
(Words are written on the board.)
Add any word before or after one of the first set of words!
Create a sentence using the expressions on board!
Roddy Doyle’s: The Barrytown Trilogy, Bull Fighting
accessible vocabulary, close observation, exciting dialogues, humour

15. Roddy Doyle

16. Parallels between pieces of music Compare and contrast
Ed Sheeran: Galway Girl
Mundy: Galway Girl

17. Parallels between literature and music
James Joyce: Eveline
(read and listen)
and
The Beatles: She’s Leaving Home
Task: Compare and contrast:
Family background, relationships
Feelings
The development of the action and the ending

18. Hiberno English
‘…ever since English was forcibly introduced to this island, the people who live here have defiantly spoken it in their own way, with their own rhythms and cadences and meanings and nuances.’
Joseph O’Connor, writer

19. Hiberno English (Irish English)
The revival of Irish in everyday communication
Examples:
-‘Cúpla focal’ = a couple of words. ‘Give us a cúpla focal John’.
-‘Ceol agus craic’ (slang) = music and entertainment/good times ‘Let’s go to the pub for some ceol agus craic.’
‘The craic was ninety (brilliant, great).’ It was great craic.’ (slang expressions)
-‘Siopa’= shop. ‘Anybody want anything in the siopa?’
-‘ciotóg’= the left hand, a left handed person. ‘She’s a ciotóg.’
-‘mé féiner’ (from the Irish, myself alone) = selfish person. ‘She’s a mé féiner.’
-‘sin scéal eile’= that’s another story. ‘I could go on but sin scéal eile.’

20. Story Bud? Guess the meaning!
Angry
Hello
House
Drink
Hungry
Exhausted
Embarrassed
Brilliant
Disbelief
Absolutely knackered
Story bud/there’s head the ball
That’s savage/that’s deadly
Gaff
Stop the lights/janey mack
Going for a jar
Scarlet for you/morto
Lost the rag/threw the head
I’m starvin’/I’m ravenous

21. Story Bud? Angry Hello House Drink Hungry Exhausted Embarrassed
Brilliant
Disbelief
Lost the rag/threw the head
Story bud/there’s head the ball
Gaff
Going for a jar
I’m starvin’/I’m ravenous
Absolutely knackered
Scarlet for you/morto
That’s savage/that’s deadly
Stop the lights/janey mack

22. Irish Short Films The white dress Alternative titles for the film
Describing character
Role on the Wall activity: Draw a figure of a girl, write down words inside/outside
Diary: thoughts and feelings at the end oh the day

23. Irish Short Films Donkey
Task: Write a postcard to your former employer including the following:
What is your life like now
Why did you leave the job
Give some advice to your former employer
Task: Create a WANTED poster
Task: Create a storyboard
Task: Write a diary entry by Donkey

24. Irish short films
Signs Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty Other short films:

25. The Book of Kells
A copy of the 4 Gospels, inscribed in Latin by Irish monks around 800 A. D.
It took seventy-five years to complete.
Hand-written and painted on pages of vellum (calf-skin).
Spectacularly intricate designs (brightly colored birds, animals, faces entwined with the letters).
The book, as it has survived, has 680 pages.
It derives its name from the Irish village of Kells (NW Dublin). Kept in their monastery for several hundred years. In 1661 was transferred from Kells to Trinity College Library in Dublin.
Considered one of the most famous and valuable illuminated manuscripts to have survived to modern times.
The Chi Rho monogram consumes the entire page. The letter chi dominates the page. The letter rho is snuggled underneath the arms of the chi. Both letters are divided into compartments which are decorated with knot work and other patterns

26. Project Task: Celtic Myth, Cú Cuchulain
Cú Cuhulainn
Geography
(places of battles)
History
Ethics: justice and punishmnent
Arts, Paintings and Sculptures

27. Glendalough National Park: a fileld trip

28. Kilkenny Kilkenny Castle, Rose Garden Medieval town
Kilkenny was granted a city charter by King James I in 1609

29. Irish Symbols

30. Collaborative Poem Writing
Create a diamante or diamond poem of seven lines inspired by the poem My Father perceived as a Vision of St. Francis
Use the following structure:
noun
adjective adjective
-ing -ing ing
noun 1 noun 2 noun 3 noun 4
-ing -ing ing
adjective adjective