SESSION 1

Students are invited to play in Minecraft with the aim to meet one foreign speaking person and, during the game, collect information about her/his life. Students are invited to inform the player about the nature of this interaction as “informal homework”. They thus ask the player to give them information about her/his life.

Each student can decide to gather information and structure this collection of information according to the methods she/he wants, such as asking for information while playing, asking for a final interview at the end of the game, or collecting information by chat or email. The aim for the participants is to overcome the simple interactions performed during the game and, by using language abilities, create a deeper interaction and knowledge about the other person online.

Depending on the teachers’ choice, a list of defined information can be required, or, instead, students can be free to collect different, non-structured information, about the players they meet.

(60’).

SESSION 2

After a week, students are asked to present their Minecraft friends that they met online. They need to describe the person through the information they have collected during one or more Minecraft sessions. (Where do they come from, school, his/her daily life and so on… depending on each interaction).

They have to present this information in the foreign language they used to interact.

The teacher can also ask the students’ experiences about online meetings: Did they have any bad experiences? What did they like and what didn’t they like about online meetings during the games?

(60’).