Masaryk university, brno faculty of education

Evaluation of the activity 
As far as fluency is concerned, it can be stated that the aim was fulfilled. Students worked in 
pairs during the activity and based on the observation, the level of language was rather diverse. 
Some of the students used only shorter utterances to express themselves, others created longer 
complex sentences. Nevertheless, all of the students managed to lead conversations according 
to the roles and situations they had chosen. The time given students to prepare before the 

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speaking activity was used by most of them to look up vocabulary or discuss the outline of the 
conversation. During this activity, students were matched in pairs randomly, thus there was no 
possibility to encourage the conversation in case there were two weaker students in a pair and 
none of them spoke. Despite this fact, all the students succeeded in playing their roles and 
produced relevant and coherent conversations. 
The fact that student had been given time to prepare for their roles and discuss them with their 
partners helped them to gain self-confidence during the real conversation. Another important 
factor was the fact that all the students managed to play their roles and solve the situation, which 
should help them develop self-confidence in speaking in problematic situations related to their 
future carrier. All the activity was done in the form of “Oscar“ competition for the best 
performer, which led to students‘ higher motivation. This might be proved by the fact that even 
weaker students participated in the activity as best as they could. There were no problems with 
students not paying attention to the others, because based on the last activity, it was decided, 
that each student was supposed to evaluate each pair with stars, from one to five, where five 
was the best performance. This led to better participation and involvement of all the students in 
the activity.
After the activity, students had activated vocabulary related to travel agencies, travelling and 
hotels, as well as they had been given an opportunity to practise their speaking in real-life 
situation related to the above mentioned topics.
Overall atmosphere throughout the activty was very creative and entertaing. Student seemed to 
be enjoying the roles and practised solving possible situations in a funny and entertaining way. 
Students were also led to appreciate other people’s work and effort, which could have been 
another motivating factor for the students. 
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