21st Century Skills & ELT Z - Global English Activity of "ELT Z"

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Welcome again!

After the final session of our teacher training, we designed an activity under the title of ‘Global English’ as team ELT Z. For the process of preparation, we met on Zoom at 2pm and had approximately two hours of meeting to brainstorm, exchange ideas and distribute the duties. We wanted to use what we learned during the sessions of teacher training while trying to maintain World Englishes as the main focus. After sharing various precious ideas and placing most of our thoughts on the project, we decided to benefit from Lino.it and IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive as the materials we learned through the teacher training sessions. Here comes our activity below, take care!

XOXO,  Team ELT Z  




Global English Activity of “ELT Z”




Designed by: Bilge Güral, Zeynep Ahsen Karasoy, Öken Demir, Zeynep Çetintaş

Classroom setting: 20 students 

Level: B2+/C1 

Skills: Speaking, Listening

*It is assumed that the students are being taught ‘British English’ 


  • Activity

*It is assumed that students already have a virtual classroom on “Google Classroom”. 

  1. Students will be paired and in total there will be 10 pairs of 20 students. 
  2. The teacher will share the link of “IDEA: International Dialects of English Archive” with the students on “Google Classroom”. *The link to the website: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/globalmap 
  3. After sharing the link, teacher will ask students to go to the link and will assign each pair a different place on the map the places will be like this: Pair 1: Naples 15 / Pair 2: Germany 11 / Pair 3: India 3 / Pair 4: Russia 24 / Pair 5: Spain 3 / Pair 6: Ghana 2 / Pair 7: Turkey 3 / Pair 8: Kuwait 1 / Pair 9: Jiangsu 3 / Pair 10: France 8 
  4. Each and every pair will be asked to listen to the podcast about the assigned place on the map and will be asked to investigate the podcast in depth with multiple aspects.
  5. When the investigation part is over, students will be provided an another link on “Google Classroom” again and that link will bring them to the website called “Linoit” The link to the website is: http://linoit.com/users/zeynepcetintas/canvases/inbox
  6. The students will see a sticky note and on that note the reflection questions about the podcasts will be written:
  • What did draw your attention when you first listened to the audio?
  • Did you have difficulty in understanding it? Why or why not?
  • Is there any difference from the British accent in terms of pronunciation, intonation, word stress? If yes, explain how by giving examples.
  • Would you like to talk to someone who speaks English with this accent? Why or why not?
  1.  The teacher will ask each and every pair to reflect upon the questions given on the sticky note. Basically students will create a new sticky note on linoit to write down their answers to the reflection questions. 
  2. When the students complete writing their sticky notes, the teacher will ask each pair to present their reflections already written on the sticky notes that they have created about the podcasts that they have listened to. 
  3. Each pair will start their presentation by making their fellow students listen to the most striking 10-15 seconds of the podcasts. After this listening stage, the pairs will continue on with presenting their reflections on their sticky notes. 
  4. When the activity is completed, students will be exposed to 10 different dialects of English and will be able to find out the differences as well as the similarities between the “Standard English” that they are currently learning (British English) and the different dialects that they have listened to.  


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