Nuevo Proyecto: 2018-10-24 17:25:42 - Technology Celebrities And Their Tech Achievements.
Descripción
Students talk about a community that is formed by the most influential people in tech by using grammar and vocabulary related to the activity.
Through the activity, students are expected to talk about who is behind the most inspiring and innovative companies in tech and make their own TOP 10 by filling out a form containing these tech celebrities’ most relevant information (Job Title, place of work, tech platform description, fortune)
Talking about communities, neighbors, cyberspace, welcoming guests are topics of Speak out Intermediate Module 2-Unit 8 Level V 2018-2, which are usually an important part of an assessment process and students apply their knowledge in different activities prior to the information sharing.
Ficha técnica
Área:Lengua Extranjera
Asignatura:Inglés
Edad: No hay restriccion de edad
Duración:Lengua Extranjera
Herramientas:
Audio
Herramientas: recopilar información
Herramientas: tomar apuntes en clase
Imágenes
Páginas Web
Video
Objetivos
El estudiante estará en capacidad de:
? Dados textos expositivos relacionados con actividades que se realizan en el
entorno familiar y social, evaluar diferentes tipos de relaciones
interpersonales en comunidades reales y virtuales.
? Narrar en un texto (oral y escritos) eventos importantes en el ámbito
tecnológico que impactan la vida cotidiana a nivel socio-cultural.
? Intercambiar ideas sobre tipos de comunidades y actitudes hacia una sana
convivencia.
Recursos
English textbook: Speak Out Intermediate Unit 8
- Power Point Presentations
- Relative clauses
- Relative pronouns
- Blog about neighbors
- A website review
Other
- An article about influential people in technology.
Requisitos
Grammar
- Articles
- Quantifiers
- Relative clauses (defining/non-defining)
Vocabulary
- Getting on with people
- Compound nouns
- The internet
- welcoming
Functions
- Getting on (with people).
- Talking about internet.
- Welcoming.
Proceso
Actividad 1
Talking about technology celebrities.
Duración: Two hours
Actividades del Estudiante
Actividades Docente
Actividades del Docente
The teacher
- Asks the students to provide examples of each virtual tool.
- Has students check this list of words and asks which tools they use regularly or occasionally.
- Explains the difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses along with relative pronouns by talking about the origin of YOUTUBE.
- Gives extra practice with a Power Point Presentation
- Provides worksheets in addition to the ones the book has.
- Has students infer the rules to recognize the difference between defining and non-defining rules. (Book Speak out Intermediate Unit 8, section 8.2). Then has students put the topic into practice: Practice Activity 6A; Page 96.
Actividades del Docente
The teacher
- Reviews the concept of defining and non-defining relative clause and the corresponding relative pronouns.
- Provides a worksheet that will be used to put into practice the topic of Relative clauses.
- Gives instructions for students to combine two sentences that turn into relative clauses.
- Shows a Power Point Presentation to summarize concepts.
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Actividades Estudiante
Actividad del estudiante
The student
- Participates by providing information that describe internet tools.
- Completes worksheets and activities from the book and gives his/her own examples with sentences containing relative clauses.
- Pays attention to the listening and takes notes of the listening to be ready to answer questions.
- Searches information about the following names in technology.
James Gosling |
Steve Chen |
Serguei Brin |
Bill Gates |
Reed Hastings |
Charles Babbage |
Ben Silberman |
Paul Allen |
Jawed Karim |
Jan Koum |
Philip Don Estridge |
Chad Hurley |
Alan Turing |
Mark Zuckerberg |
Jeff Bezos |
Steve Jobs |
Larry Page |
Tim Berners-Lee |
Brian Acton |
Marc Randolph |
The student:
- Applies his everyday experience and knowledge of internet and researches about some of the people that have created the tools and apps that they use on their smart phone.
- Completes the exercises provided in the worksheet provided by the teacher.
- Researches what duties are necessary to perform in the following IT (information Technology jobs.
- Comes to class prepared with information about the VIP names in technology listed above.
- Writes job descriptions for each job by using relative clauses.
- Reads an article about influential people in technology
- Fills in the forms for each IT celebrity (Job Title, place of work, platform, description, fortune)
- Makes the TOP 10 based on criteria decided by the student.
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Evaluación
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Teacher’s questions
The teacher asks students some of these questions in order to get them involved.
- How often do you use internet?
- On average, how many hours per day do you spend on the Internet?
- What do you like doing most online?
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- How often do you use...
everyday
more than once a day
once a week
once a month
Chat rooms
Instant messenger
Social networking sites
blogs
gaming
Web browsing
music
File sharing
shopping
News
internet
- Where do you use the Internet?
at home?
at school?
at a café?
at Icesi library?
on your mobile phone?
at a friend’s or family’s house?
- If you use Internet at home, what room do you use it in?
___ living room
___ bedroom
___ dining room
___ Other (please specify)
- How many online contacts do you have that you have not met in the real world?
- Have you ever met someone in the real world you have only met online?
- Do you use a webcam?
- What do you use a webcam for?
- State the 3 best things about the Internet (include web addresses if wanted)
- State the 3 worst things about the Internet (include web addresses if wanted)
Students will be graded considering this rubric.
Rubric
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5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Communicative achievement |
Discourse is well organized. Uses strategies for communication breakdown naturally. |
Discourse is well organized. Uses strategies for communication breakdown with some difficulty. |
Discourse is somewhat organized. Uses limited range of strategies for communication breakdown. |
Discourse is somewhat disorganized. Rarely uses strategies for communication breakdown. |
Discourse is disorganized. Does not use any strategies for communication breakdown. |
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Comprehension |
Generally understands main ideas and details easily. |
Understands most main ideas well. Details sometimes pose a problem. |
Understands simple ideas easily, more complex ideas pose a challenge. |
Has trouble understanding simple ideas. |
Consistent lack of comprehension. |
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Fluency |
Speaks with very little hesitation. Ample vocabulary range allows for smooth flow. |
Speaks with occasional hesitation. Common vocabulary generally flows well. |
Speaks with hesitation. Common vocabulary sometimes flows well. |
Speaks with frequent hesitation. Common vocabulary often poses a problem. |
Speaks with severe hesitation. Common vocabulary consistently poses a problem. |
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Intelligibility |
Minor pronunciation issues do not affect communication. |
Pronunciation issues occur occasionally, but distraction is minimum. |
Pronunciation issues are more frequent and lead to distraction. |
Pronunciation issues are quite frequent and communication is affected negatively. |
Pronunciation issues are prevalent and communication is severely affected. |
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Grammar |
Uses a variety of structures with few and minor errors. |
Uses a variety of structures with some distracting errors. |
Uses limited structures with few and minor errors. |
Uses limited structures with distracting errors. |
Uses limited structures with significant errors. |
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Notas
Project to be developed by Level V students at Icesi University, Cali, Colombia, 2018-2.
Contenido publicado bajo licencia "Creative Commons"