Traditionally non-traditional Czech language lessons

Although the teaching of ČJL is based on certain traditions such as working with textbooks, workbooks and worksheets, practicing writing reading analyses, essays and term papers, many of these and many others are also approached by the teachers of Czech at the SE Secondary School of Czech in a non-traditional way.

Thus, reading diaries in our school are not just reading diaries written in a notebook, but often creative filling in of tables on a PC, which then serve well for the preparation for the oral final exam thanks to their columns "time, space, themes, characters...". The initial practice of the term papers takes place in the computer labs so that students have a good understanding of, for example, formatting issues in MS Word. The students also use the classic textbooks to write their own test, which they then exchange and complete with a classmate.

Teaching and revision are in many ways becoming more fun, lessons tend to be inspired by 'lazy teacher' methods and group work (from 2 to 15 pupils) is a common feature. Methods and applications are used according to the class, the curriculum and the situation at hand, e.g.: pentagram, diamond, Venn diagrams, ladder, I.N.S.E.R.T., reading with anticipation, trimino, crossword, kahoot, mentimeter, repetition using wordwall or liveworksheets, one-on-one, posters, 10 key words, suitcase, skits, dominoes, literary bingo and much more... We also give space for students' creativity - e.g. in the creation of Dadaist poetry, a band or calligrams in Year 3.

In some classes, students evaluate their work orally during the lesson, while in others they use a picture of a light bulb for evaluation at the end of the semester, in which they indicate what they were good at (what enlightened them), what went "over the top" (i.e., rather not so good), and they also express the pros and cons of Czech lessons. In some classes this year, for the first time, they also evaluated their own work using a picture of a sailboat, where students wrote in the sails what they were good at, in the hull of the boat how they worked together in class, in pairs, in groups, in the water they indicated what they swam in, in the sun they indicated what they liked about the ČJL lessons, and in the cloud they indicated room for improvement.

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