Introduction and Presentation of the Framing Narrative

Activity 1

1. Gather the group in a circle, making sure everyone can see each other.

2. Introduction by the facilitator:

Welcome everyone to the workshop and explain that the first activity will help everyone get to know each other through their favourite words.

3. Sharing favourite words in your language of origin:

• Participants introduce themselves by sharing their favorite Hungarian word and explain why they like this word: is it because of its meaning, its sound, or because it evokes memories.
• You can also as them to write them down on small cards or stickers next to their names and use them as name tags by fixing it on their cloths

4. Sharing Framing Story:

Invent and share a role play type of framing story.

Example for Framing Story from the Paris workshop:

“We are in the near future, where digital tools and artificial intelligence have become so advanced that, in most professional settings, it’s likely that hardly anyone will need to learn languages other than their own. However, in personal and family spheres, as well as in artistic fields where emotions are conveyed and machine intervention is not tolerated, people continue to study languages for creativity, literary translation, or sharing and exchanging with their lovers, friends, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, etc. We, who in the past world, learned languages not to advance our careers or to gain any material benefit, but simply to tell stories to our grandchildren, to say kind words to our lovers, or to appreciate the tales of our ancestors or our grandmothers’ cooking in their native language, have become rare and highly sought-after. We are observed as phenomena by scientists, who try to understand how speaking a second language with which we have a strong emotional connection, even if we do not master it perfectly, can influence our way of perceiving or interpreting the world and drive us to creativity, both individually and as a group sharing a passion for the same language. What can we bring to the world that would be different or superior to what machines are capable of? This is also why we have gathered here. The scientific experiment we are participating in today aims to understand how human perception of a place, image, or atmosphere changes when they are interpreted and described in a language that has fundamentally nothing to do with the context in which we perceive them. For the results of this experiment to be usable, we must complete several creative tasks.”

Exploring Photographers through Inventing Titles

Activity 2

1. Introduction to the activity:

Our first task will be to interpret the emotions conveyed by people who, in the past, experienced situations somewhat similar to ours, and their emotions expressed in their native language. We are talking about the countless Hungarian photographers who lived in Paris and captured various moods of the city from the early 20th century onward.

2. Getting familiar with the resources:

• Take your mobile phones and explore the website: https://cotaassociation.wixsite.com/photoparis Scroll through the photo gallery.
• If a photo intrigues you, click on it to reveal the photographer’s name and some biographical details.

3 . Choose photos:

Tell everyone to choose a photo. Initiate conversation about where the photos could be taken. Below the gallery, on the map, check the approximate locations where the photos were taken. To better visualize the map, press the small arrow in the top right corner to view it in full screen.

4. Inventing titles:

Give titles to the photos you’ve chosen. To help you, below the map, you’ll find two lists of 100 adjectives and 100 nouns. Try to choose words from these lists to compose your title so that others can easily recognize the words, even if they don’t immediately understand them. Your titles can consist of an adjective followed by a noun, or multiple adjectives and nouns. You can add conjunctions, plural endings, accusative case, possessive forms, or decline the nouns to form prepositional phrases.Try to create titles that aren’t too obvious, preferably a bit enigmatic, so that others won’t easily guess which photo you’ve chosen.

5. Write down the titles:

Each participant shall note their titles.

6. Share your titles with each other without revealing the corresponding photos.

In turns, every participant will read out-loud the titles they invented. the other participants should note down all the titles they hear.

CREATIVE PHOTO MAKING WALK

Activity 3

1. Creative walk

Take a walk around the surroundings in small groups or pairs, immersing yourselves in the ambiance of the streets you traverse, while keeping in mind the titles given by other participants.

2. Making photos

Make photos that epresent scenes, landscapes, or details that could correspond to each title that you noted. Being accompanied might be helpful if you need people to pose as figures in your photos. If, by chance, you already have an idea of a photo that matches the title you’re representing, resist the temptation to recreate that photo. Instead, clear your mind and create original images. If needed or if you prefer, you can also draw, sketch, or record sounds or short videos.If you’re unable to create content for all the titles, that’s okay—just do as much as you can. After taking each photo, upload it to the map.

3. Optional uploading of photos on Padlet.

• Reopen the website: https://cotaassociation.wixsite.com/photoparis
• Put the map in full-screen mode.
• Tap the “+” button at the bottom center of the screen.
• Enter the address where you took the photo.
• Select the first icon to upload a file.
• Choose the photo, video, or audio file you want to upload.
• Once the upload is complete, tap “publish,” and you’re done

Quiz Game Session

Activity 4

1. Introduction to the activity:
Once that you all made photos for each titles, and you are all together again, you will try to guess which titles correspond to which photos. You will be playing both the photographers’ and our own photos. If a player has an idea, they must say the title out loud and explain which photo they think it matches. To do this, they should either describe the photo (ideally in Hungarian, with help from other participants if needed) or give its location on the map, or both. The person who took the photo or assigned the title to one of the black-and-white photos should simply respond with “igaz” or “helyes” if someone correctly guessed the title, or “nem igaz” or “hamis” if the title doesn’t match the image.If the title is correct, the player should add it as a comment under the corresponding photo on the map. Gradually, each of you will accumulate points—one for each correct title.A small surprise is planned for the top one or three winners, such as a beautiful printed photo, a book, or a Hungarian treat.

2. Show your photos to each other:

In turns, each participant will show the photos they made. The other participants, with the help of the list they noted will try to find out to which title does the photos shown correspond.

3. Write down the titles:
The participants, to practice writing skills, shall write down the title they think of in silence. Once the titles are written, they are shown to the photographer who answers by “true” or “false” in the language you are practising or learning.

4. Note the right answers:
Make a list with the participants’ names and note each time when they match the photo with the correct image.
5. Recompense the winner:
Preview a small gift for the person who gave the most good answers, preferably something related to their language or the culture of origin.
Following the example of working with cubes, picture cards were also used. They were no less successful.
6. Ending:
To conclude, review the original photos to which the invented titles were given.

CLOSING SESSION / REVISION AND FEEDBACK

Activity 5 

1. Introduction to the activity:
Gather the participants in a circle. Explain that this is the final part of the workshop, where everyone will have a chance to reflect on their experiences and share their feelings about the day.

2. Asking open questions:
You can start with the following questions:

• What did you learn today ?
• Which part of the workshop did you like the most?
• Which photographer is your favourite one and why ?
• What would you do differently?
• Do you want to share any game ideas based on the photos?

3. Revision of the vocabulary learnt:
Ask the participants to share the list of words and expressions that they learnt either in a written form or orally.