Masaryk university, brno faculty of education

Evaluation of the activity 
As for development of fluency, the aim can be seen as fulfilled. This claim is based on the fact, 
that students spent the whole time practising diffrent situations related to their study 
programme. Most of the students were able to cope with the questions very well, they used 
lexically relevant and correct expressions in the sentences and a range of grammar with minor 
mistakes which did not endanger the aims of the activity. On the other hand, it must be said, 
that several students had problems to formulate their answers and since the activity was 
designed to be competitive, there was nobody who could enrourage or help them.
Students were exposed to a wide range of situations related to travelling and tourism industry, 
each question answered then led to higher students‘ self-confidence and motivation to 
participate in the activity. The motivating factor was backed by the competitive caharacter of 
the activity. On the other hand, it must be realized, that some of the students who failed to 
answer their questions repeatedly might have felt demotivated and such situation might have 
resulted in their loss of self-confidence. This should be prevented by various means, e.g. 
allowing other people to help them or combining students into pairs for answering the questions. 
Nevertheless, both of the suggested solutions would have their drawbacks, in the first case, it 
would endanger the competitive character of the game and might lead to loss of motivation for 
some players, in the second case, there would be danger that only the strongers student would 
actively participate. 
After going through this activity, students had activated vocabulary related to various areas of 
travelling and tourism industry and had been given opportunity to react in everyday situations 
connected to these topics. 

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The overall atmosphere during the activity was quite competitive, students did their best to 
answer the questions correctly and win the game. Students seemed to be engaged and were 
enjoying the fact they were allowed to evaluate other students‘ answers.
5.3.6 A Deserted Island Dilemma