Oral Presentations1st B and D - ES

AIM: Making a 3-day tour in a PPT presentation and sharing it with the group

STEPS: Reading about a 3-day tour in New YorkGroup work, planning their own tour, making a PPTTeacher and student assessment Presenting their work in the SmartboardUploading the PPTs to the Net

http://www.slideshare.net/LANGUAGE1ES/presentations

Intelligences:Interpersonal, linguistic, spatial.

Strategies: Problem solving

Competences:Ser persona – Expresarse coherente y autónomamente.

Conocer – Fundamentar ideas; Usar correctamente las herramientas tecnológicas.

Vivir juntos – Demostrar buena actitud y disposición para el trabajo en equipo.

TO DISCUSS ON A MATTER WHILE LEARNING NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS AND HAVE A GOOD TIME.

TO WRITE A FORMAL LETTER CONNECTED TO THE ISSUE PRESENTED.

DISCUSSION: DO YOU KNOW OF ANY STORIES OF ANIMALS HELPING HUMANS?

READING COMPREHENSION: “THE BOY WHO WAS TAUGHT TO TALK BY DOLPHINS”

DISCUSSION ABOUT THE TEXT AND ANSWERING COMP. QUESTIONS

SPEAKING-ROLEPLAY: INTERVIEW THE Brice Family in Miami. One of you is a reporter and the other is Mrs Brice

Writing: write a formal letter to the Director of the Miami Therapy Centre to apply for a job as an assistant in the dolphin pool during your holidays.

I write all the expressions used in formal letters on the board for them to include in their letters

THE STUDENTS LEARNT NEW VOCABULARY, DID AN ORAL ACTIVITY AND PRACTISED WRITING FORMAL LETTERS

INTELIGENCIAS:INTELIGENCIAS:

-LINGÜÍSTICA-INTERPERSONAL-CORPORAL

CO MPETENCIAS:CO MPETENCIAS:

-SABER CONOCER -SABER HACER-SABER SER PERSONAS

ESTRATEGIAS:ESTRATEGIAS:

-PROBLEM SOLVING-SIMULACION

NEWS REPORT “Today, in News Report, FACEBOOK, THE GREATEST SOCIAL PHENOMENA to have ever swept the world.

FACEBOOK in numbers:•300 million of active users are connected in the world.•40 million of new videos (see)________ and (share)_______• by the users.•55 million of “tags”(write)_______ in someone’s profile.•Thousands of old friends (find)_________ through FACEBOOK.•More than 1 billion photos (store)________ on the site and •6 million (upload)____________ daily.•An average of 20 minutes on the site (spend)_________ per day.•1,5 billion pages (visit)____________ a day.•Personal information (reveal)__________ carelessly. • Be careful with this!•And all these numbers are growing rapidly…

What do you know about FACEBOOK? Send your findings to www.newsreport.com

and be a member of our “news” community! More “News report “, after these commercials…

Activity: Revision of the Present Simple Passive. Communicative ActivityStrategy: Simulation and role playA news report programme.Classroom:The idea is to set the classroom as if it were a Studio of TV.(Simulated environment)One desk in front of the classroom, with three chairs. On the board: “News report in five minutes” Music and an opening of a News Report Programme.Students are divided into 5 groups: Sports- General Information- Entertainment- Technology- International- (for the role play)(In General Knowledge, we devoted several classes to the Project “The newspaper of the future”, so Sts are well aware of the language and vocabulary used in newspapers)Before the activity: Teacher checks grammar, by eliciting questions in Present Simple Passive, such as:How many newspapers are read in Argentina?Are news programmes watched in your house?Then, elicits about FACEBOOK and writes on the board, the verbs Sts say.

Activity:Stage 1:Teacher gives out the photocopies of the” News Report” and explains the written activity.Sts read and complete the sentences in Present simple passive.Orally, the exercise is corrected.Stage 2: When the written activity is finished, Teacher invites three students to role playThe “News report programme”. One is the presenter and the other two, news reporters.Music is on. Stage 3:They role play.Stage 4: When the role play is over the teacher invites the five groups to write 3 “news” for each section, using the Present Simple Passive. The teacher walks around the class assessing their performance.Stage 5: When all the groups have completed the activity, the teacher tells the students they are going to role play a second “News Report programme”.They have to select a member of each group to be the reporter .Music is on.Stage 6: They role play.This Communicative activity is very successful and produces a great deal of spoken English!.Competences/Skills: This is an activity that integrates the four skills: Reading, listening, speaking and writing.Aim of the activity: To gain feedback on the effectiveness of their communication