Datum: 5/6/2013
ENRICHED FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING Project
WORKSHOP: A first-step interdisciplinary approach
to the concept of “time”
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Elements
Description
Overview
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Workshop
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Author & Facilitator
Target audience
The workshop is aimed at teachers involved as participants
in project OUTJ 2. They have been following training
which focuses on class observation, team-teaching,
interdisciplinary and intercultural links.
Samuel Farsure is employed as an advisor for French at the
Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for school.
Students or teachers
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Age
Not relevant
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Participation requirements
No special requirements.
Optimal number of
participants per group
Organizational requirements
15
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Duration
90 min
Location/Venue
A classroom
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Special requirements
Goals and/or objectives
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Intended/Expected learning
outcomes
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Computer with a projector
The objectives are:
 to raise the participants’ awareness of/about the
importance of the role of observation;
 to provide them with the cultural information about/on
the film chosen and about film(ic) language in general;
 to stimulate them to come up with ideas/suggestions
1. for an interdisciplinary approach to a particular
theme and
2. about the usage of short film sequences as a
stimulus for creative learning.
By the end of the workshop, the participants will be able
to:
 brainstorm & share ideas about the topic chosen for the
workshop,
 produce & contribute ideas for the development of an
interdisciplinary activity on the basis of the chosen
theme.
Content
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Language
No language objectives.
Culture
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Film analysis
Relevant information about the film “2001, a space
odyssey”
Concept of time, presented and discussed through an
Operacijo delno financira Evropska unija iz Evropskega socialnega sklada ter Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in šport. Operacija se izvaja v okviru Operativnega programa
razvoja človeških virov v obdobju 2007-2013, razvojne prioritete: Razvoj človeških virov in vseživljenjsko učenje; prednostne usmeritve: Izboljšanje kakovosti in učinkovitosti
sistemov izobraževanja in usposabljanja.
interdisciplinary approach
Evaluation/Assessment
methods
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Teaching approaches/methods
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Instructional tools
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Expenses
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Transferability (how much is
the program transferable, further
developments)
Learning activities/approaches
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The participants will show they have reached the
expected outcomes by actively cooperating during the
workshop.
They will provide the facilitator with a copy of their
ideas, suggestions, questions.
Frontal approach
Using film (sequence) as a stimulation for
braistroming on a topic/theme/concept
Workshop facilitation
Observation
Brainstorming
Group work
A copy of the film “2001, a space odyssey”, Stanley
Kubrick, 1968, Warner bros.
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STEPS:
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Pre-viewing activities (10 to 15 min)
The facilitator introduces the workshop and the extract. The sequence to be watched is a 9 minute long
extract of the film “2001, a space odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick. The aim of the sequence is to lead the
participants to guess the chosen topic.
The questions for the participants are the following:
 What have you seen? Witnessed? Heard? What happened during the extract?
 What elements of the sequence can be related to your teaching subject? Name them and shortly
describe them!
Note for the facilitator:
 Elements to be observed:
planets, the sun, the earth, the moon, social organisation, idea, using a tool, spacecrafts, a bone, the
wheel, evolution, classical music, desert, Africa, African landscape, the birth of man, geometrical
shapes…
 Film analysis:
Stress on the match-cut (= raccord par analogie) = A match cut, also called a graphic match), is a cut
in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different
compositions in which an object in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong
continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically.
www.wikipedia.org
 About the film:
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Year: 1968
Country: United-Kingdom/USA
Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Genre: Science-fiction
Length: 142 min.
Distribution: MGM then Warner
 About the extract:
The extract is taken from the beginning of the film, from the part called “The dawn of man”. It is 9
minute long.
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While-viewing activities (10 min)
The extract/sequence starts at 9.21 and ends at 19.00
The participants watch the extract and take notes. The questions for the participants are the following:
 What have you seen? Witnessed? Heard? What happened during the extract?
 What elements of the sequence can be related to your teaching subject? Name them and shortly
describe them!
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Post-viewing activities: Sharing information (15 min)
The facilitator may ask the participants to gather in small groups according to their subjects and share
information first in groups (5 min): science teachers / social science teacher / art teacher / language
teacher for example.
Report in group: at least 10 min. The facilitator then writes on the board the elements given by the
participants. The participants will probably be able to explain things more in details for the audience.
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Note for the facilitator:
 It is compulsory to take time to explain/describe the match-cut from the bone to spacecraft.
It is one of the most commented sequences in the history of cinema: a moment of pure poetry, a master
class in cinema-making, it shows thousand years of evolution and scientific and artistic achievements
in about 10 seconds.
 Remind the participants about the following elements:
This short moment in the film depicts the evolution of mankind, the passing of time, elements which
show the achievements of mankind (the elevation from the ground to the air and finally to space, the
mastering of engines and engineering as well as the production of the most refined form of
art:classical music).
 Music used in the sequence:
- Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a tone
poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical
treatise of the same name. The composer conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in
Frankfurt. A typical performance lasts half an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_%28Strauss%29
- The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (German
for By the Beautiful Blue Danube), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in
1866. Originally performed 15 February 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein
(Vienna Men's Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in
the classical repertoire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Danube
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Post-viewing activities: Creative workshop (45 min)
The facilitator introduces the theme of the interdisciplinary topic (the one the teachers are going
to work on) in 2 different ways (5 min).
- First he gives the participants a riddle taken from the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. They
have to guess the answer (which is the chosen topic).
This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
The Hobbit Riddle:
What is it?
(Time)
- Then he reminds the participants about the viewed sequence. If they have guessed the answer, it
is just a way to stress the objectives of the workshop, if they have not, that might help them to
figure out the answer.
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Work in groups (20 to 25 min): How do we/could we define “time” in each of the subjects you
teach?
The facilitator gives the following instructions & prompts to the participants:
 Try to relate today’s topic “Time” to your classroom activity.
 Can you link it to any particular section/objective of the taught curriculum of your subject?
 What concepts in your subject can be related to the topic?
 What objects/pieces of work/creators/artists in your subject can be related to the topic?
 What interesting/relevant questions arise in relation to the topic in your subject?
 Can you link it to any group of students?
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Reporting (15 min)
The participants are asked to report their group findings.
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