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Table 13. Activities with IC tools 
Language and 
communicative 
area 
Activities 
Listening 
Learners use a barcode scanner application on 
their group’s smart-phone to scan a QR code. 
The information contained in the QR code led 
them to a recording of a poem. Learners next 
have to listen to the poem, complete a cloze 
activity and solve a puzzle hidden in the poem. 
Speaking/reading
Learners have to make a recording of a radio 
play script using the audio blog software Vocal-
Post (http://vocalpost.com) and e-mail it to their 
teacher. 

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Writing 
Learners scan one of two QR codes, further 
watch a short video or cartoon. On their answer 
sheets they then have to write a paragraph 
retelling the story. 
Grammar 
Learners scan the QR code and are further sent to 
an online grammar quiz. After finishing this, the 
results are e-mailed to a teacher. 
Dictionary work Learners use a dictionary app to complete one of 
the worksheets. 
In organization of independent work the following tasks can be 
used in the EL classrooms: 
1. Task to go to a virtual rally in some of the English language 
speaking country. 
2. Task on analyzing press materials on different topics (sport, 
theatre, cinema, leisure, etc.). 
3. Task for working with different sites: analysis and comparison 
them in the aspects of richness of information, accessibility for 
using them by students. 
4. Task for organization of the international telecommunication 
project. 
For the first task the site “The virtual reality” is suggested.
Within this site, students can have an opportunity to get acquainted 
with interesting information about some country. Besides it gives 
an opportunity to be virtually at different places, for example, at the 
café, station, supermarket and get a lot of information about native 
speakers’ environment and read the opinions of foreigners about 
people and visited places. 
The site “City Net” also can be used since it helps learners to 
travel to different countries and see the famous places. It is 
necessary to point out that this site is the best navigator. The 
materials of this site can be used in organizing role-play and 
different parties in English.

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The third task can be carried out in cooperation with an 
educational establishment. 
The preparation for it takes several stages: 
- Defining a topic/ theme. 
- Collecting data by the participants of the project. 
- Cooperation through e-mail. 
- Presentation of the reports through TV-bridge. 
TV-bridge can be carried out without preliminary exchanging 
of information, but compiling and sending them by e-mail positively 
influences the communicative activity of learners. The themes may 
be different, but it is useful to orient on the themes dealing with 
future professional activity of learners. It will be interesting and 
desirable if these themes include the problems of global character. 
DVD/video can be used in many ways to cause effective 
learning of the EL. We outline the following benefits of its using: 
- exposes students to authentic language in real situations; 
- provides a situational and visual context to language 
interaction; 
- exposes students to authentic non-verbal (body language, 
cultural traditions) and verbal (register, colloquial speech) elemen ts 
of language. 
There are three stages of working on the video: