Project Time @ La Casona

Project Time is my favourite time of the year. Teachers come up with an agreed topic and then have to design clear instructions to give students according to their levels.Thus, every student is working on the same topic. Students' challenge is to give a presentation which will satisfy the most (worst) demanding audience: their own classmates. This is only one of the gruelling tasks, not to mention the chance to be part of La Casona's Hall of Fame. What is that?It is the collection of Best Projects teachers have kept over the years and which are shown to students so as to get an idea of what is expected of them. Among those favourite projects, some will remember Octavio Tognola's Bloody Sunday, Ernesto Aime's Big Ben, María Eugenia Montiel's Harry Potter, etc.
This time the topic is The World Cup.
For beginners, the task was to design a poster of one of the countries taking part in Brazil World Cup 2014 and one of their footballers. Each teacher will customize it to cater for their own needs. Take, for example, J2 will also include sentences about the footballer and his routine using: MUST, MUSTN'T, DOESN'T HAVE TO, SHOULD, SHOULDN'T, SHOULD.
For intermediate and advanced students, the task also included an activity for their classmates which resembles an exam exercise.
Here are some selected projects and their activities:

Lucía Pérez FCE
"Fuleco"
Activity: Open Cloze

For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Fuleco

Fuleco, as he(1)_____been named, is a Brazilian three-banded armadillo. The species of armadillos (2)____special. Fuleco is one (3)_____the only two armadillos that(4)______roll into a ball while threatened, hence the association with football. It is also native to Brazil and lives only in a small area of Brazil just below the equator, it is(5)_____”caatinga”.

According to research, the mascot creates positive vibes and emotion with people and children, and(6)______­representing the words “Brazilian”, “Nature”, “Friendly” and “Passion for football”.

Another very important reason (7)_____the mascot to(8)_____ popular, is the (9)______that the Brazilian three-banded armadillo is unfortunately part of an extremely endangered species. Reasons(10)_____deforestation and people hunting in its habitat.

(11)_____February 2014 the Brazilian Environment ministry stated it will create a strategy(12)_____ protect the armadillo’s environment. There are plans to educate people about(13)____risk of the armadillo’s extinction if people keep on hunting. The final concrete plans to save the animal(14)_____be presented by the end(15)_____2014.