Manchester from the Industrial Revolution to the 21st century A slide show A slide show MODULE 1 From the Industrial Revolution to the Postmodern Crisis of Capitalism Manchester: A Case Study in European History

WHAT AND HOW? Task: generating a slide show Objectives: showing how the Industrial Revolution has modified and effected the growth of Manchester from different perspectives in different times. Materials: (texts, resources, videos, pictures, articles, Pc, the Internet, teacher’s site) Text types analysed: memoir, novel, essays and articles Methodology: Group work (cooperative and collaborative learning)

WHY? Language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, discussing, interacting, public speaking Study Skills and Knowledge: use of literary code, textual structural analysis, critical interpretation of resources, selection of pictures and information, spoken and written production, interaction, discussion, interaction with a foreign school ICT skills: Office,.ppt, Internet surfing,iMovie What to do with the language  Competence: Selecting information and quotes, selecting images

SKILLS - STUDY PRACTICE FEED-BACK Learning skills  reading/listening,  comprehension,  textual analysis,  group discussion,  critical thinking,  gathering of ideas,  selection,  planning,  drafting,  redrafting,  image selection,  music selection  reorganizing,  generating a.ppt presentation  generating an iMovie presentation  public speaking

FEEDBACK Learnt  developing of our “critical thinking” starting from literary texts and images  understanding which are the reasons of Manchester richness,  about today’s economy  lookin at the world from different perspectives Improvement  more literary texts  a more careful research of images and music. Usefulness  future jobs  it gave us the instruments to read our world.

WORKSHOP 4 CREDITS IACCARINO Luca RABINO Eleonora SELVAZZO Enrico SORANZO Stefano