CRITICAL CONCEPTS
GUARDED VOCABULARY
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
VISUALS
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT
CRITICAL CONCEPTS COMPONENTS
1. HANDS ON ACTIVITIES • STUDENTS LEARN BY DOING• THEY WILL MAKE BETTER CONNECTIONS
WITH NEW KNOWLEDG IF THEY MANIPULATE THINGS
2. GUARDED VOCABULARY • TEACHER MUST CLASSIFY VOCABULARY INTO 3 TIERS:
• TEACHER SELECTS CAREFULLY WHICH VOCABULARY STUDENTS WILL BE FOCUSING ON ACCORDING TO THEIR LEVEL
• TEACHER GIVES CLEAR EXPLANATIONS OF NEW VOCABUALRY TO HELP STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING
3. COOPERATIVE LEARNING • STUDENTS LEARN BETTER IN GROUPS• SLOWER STUDENTS WILL BE HELPED BY
FASTER ONES• GROUP CONFIGURATIONS MUST BE
DIFFERENT ACCORDING TO THE CLASS OBJECTIVE
4. VISUALS • USE GRAPHICS TO HELP CONNECTIONS• PICTURES, VIDEOS
APPLYING COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT IN CLASS
• CHECK THIS LESSON PLAN
• THERE IS A CAREFUL SELECTION OF VOCUBULARY AND MATERIAL
• THERE ARE HANDS’ ON ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
• THERE IS A VARIED GROUPING CONFIGURATION TO MAKE COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES .
ECUADORIAN STANDARS FOR ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LEVEL A1
LISTENING
Recognize expressions, words, and sentences in simple spoken texts related to the learner’s personal, educational, and social background.Follow speech which is very slow and carefully- articulated, with long pauses for them to assimilate meaning within the personal, educational, and domains.
SPEAKING
PRODUCTON Produce slow, hesitant, planned dialogues
SPEAKING INTRODUCTION
Interact and participate in brief informal discussions in a simple way by asking and answering simple questions about the learners’ personal, educational, and social background. Communication is dependent on repetition at a slower rate of speech, rephrasing, and repair.
READING
Understand and identify simple informational, transactional, and expository texts—a single phrase at a time—picking up familiar names, words, and basic phrases and rereading as required.Extract the gist and key information items from simple informational, transactional, and expository texts.
WRITING
Produce informational, transactional, and expository texts consisting of a sequence of simple sentences that have more detail and show more variety in lexical range and sentence structure.
COMMUNICATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
•Talk about the past
•Say good-bye
•Talk about occupations
•The simple past of be
•Someoccupations
Class Profile:
•“ELOY ALFARO ” Military High School
•English Language
•3rd year of Bachillerato
Total # of Students: 40
P = 13 students in the Preproduction stage
EP = 19 students in the Early Production stage
S = 8 students in the Speech Emergence stage
CONTENT OBJECTIVE:
LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES
• Speaking : - In pairs, talking about hot jobs for the 21st centuries using it’s in my bag strategy
• Reading : - In groups, organizing an article in the “bag”.
• Writing : - Individually answering some Comprehension questions in the bag..
To identify different occupations.
STRATEGY: IT’S ON MY BAG
ACTIVATION
HOT JOBS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
• Students will predict the jobs that will bementioned in the article.
• Students will write their predictions in thefront face of their bag.
• Doctor
• Mental Health
and Substance
Abuse
Counselor
• Hotline
Handymen
• Game Designer
• Engineer
• Media Manager
• Virtual Reality
Actor
• Lawyer
CONNECTION
• In pairs, students will organize the articlethey have in the bag.
• Students will share their answers in theirgroups and with the teacher.
• Students will paste the story in theirbags.
• Students will make up concepts ofHotline Handymen and Virtual RealityActors.
AFFIRMATION
• In small groups students will check out theconcepts, and select a spokesperson.
• They will share the concepts with the class.
• Individually they will answer 3 ComprehensionQuestions and write their answers in theirbags. Pg. 58
A REFLECTION IN THE UNIT• Difficult at the beginning.
• Change some activities suggested by the book.
• First lesson was especially complicated, butthen the rest of the lessons became lessdifficult.
• The Strategy was completely aligned to theBiography Driven Instruction Approach.
• Step by step the students will receive thenecessary scaffolding.
• The affective filter is kept low.
AH-HA MOMENTS
• We must ground our instruction on our students’biography.
• Cooperative learning fosters a positiveinterdependence, individual and groupaccountability, critical thinking and self-reflection.
• Learning strategies must be explicitly taught.
FINAL COMMENTS
• The course has been very useful.
• This course has promoted my personal curiosityand creativity.
• I am ready for a change.
• I am brave enough to go out from my comfortzone and start working out new things inside myclassroom.
• I am willing to succeed because this means mystudents’ success.