How
to make teenagers become really interested in cultural issues has
always been a difficult question but it is especially so these days
when the internet provides a press-button solution to almost any kind
of question we want to answer. But what if we try to take the
advantage of the net in a way that we give the students a chance to
use it freely in the lesson to answer several questions in a limited
time?
That’s
why we decided that this year one of our traditional English language
competitions should not be the usual „how to translate a given
English text into Hungarian” with the help of a dictionary but
giving the students difficult and complex questions to be answered
with a sensible use of any search program on the net. In this way the
right answer can only be found after checking at least four or five
relevant sites.
The
result was surprisingly positive: the students enjoyed searching the
English web pages to answer the questions referring to British,
American or Australian topics. The competition tested their English
knowledge, their ability to select among the infinite information
found on the net and most importantly their common sense wisdom which
they certainly must need in the future.Ferenc Kertész
The
results: Kasnyik Ádám was the fastest, Farkas Fanny came the second
and Szalai Marci got the bronze medal. We should not forget about the
two 9th graders, Veszeli Lili and Varga Bence who also managed to
fill in the quiz perfectly.
In
the pictures one of the organisers, Sípos László is congratulating
the winners.
Ferenc Kertész
