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Proyecto Lengua Extranjera Inglés Nuevo Proyecto: 2018-10-24 17:25:42 - Technology Celebrities And Their Tech Achievements.

Nuevo Proyecto: 2018-10-24 17:25:42 - Technology Celebrities And Their Tech Achievements.

Publicado el 24 Octubre de 2018

Autor: Alexander Abril

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: 1 Sesión Unit 8 Communities Having in mind the objective of task-based activity, which is to research about the most important celebrities in the tech community, students go over vocabulary related to the different virtual tools that people find on internet. Students listen to four different people talking about their online communities in which they explain the purpose of each virtual group (Speak Out Unit 8, Listening 8.2) in different situations with the aim of practicing both the vocabulary words presented on the activity and function of each of these communities. Duración: 2 hours Actividades del Estudiante During this second session, the teacher will follow up on the topic of Relative clauses.

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.
  •  

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.
  •  

Evaluación

  • 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?
    1. 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

     

     

     

     

     

    1. 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?

     

    1. 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

  1.  

5

4

3

2

1

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

             

 

 

 

Notas

Project to be developed by Level V students at Icesi University, Cali, Colombia, 2018-2.


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Ficha técnica

Área:Lengua Extranjera

Asignatura:Inglés

Edad: - No hay restriccion de edad

Duración: 1 Sesión Unit 8 Communities Having in mind the objective of task-based activity, which is to research about the most important celebrities in the tech community, students go over vocabulary related to the different virtual tools that people find on internet. Students listen to four different people talking about their online communities in which they explain the purpose of each virtual group (Speak Out Unit 8, Listening 8.2) in different situations with the aim of practicing both the vocabulary words presented on the activity and function of each of these communities. Duración: 2 hours Actividades del Estudiante During this second session, the teacher will follow up on the topic of Relative clauses.

Herramientas:

Audio

Herramientas: recopilar información

Herramientas: tomar apuntes en clase

Imágenes

Páginas Web

Video