visions 21 integrated activity
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VISIONS
VISIONS OFOFTIMETIME,,SPACE
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TIME, Latin American Edition, April 10, 2000
In the future, will…Visions of the21st centuryWe have wrapped ourimaginationroundthe radical ideasthat modern scientiststake for granted…
…great unsolved riddles of space and time
and humanconsciousness.
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Aims
DevelopmentSession 1
DevelopmentSession 2
DevelopmentSession 3
Delivery
Integrated
speaking
Integrated
speaking
In the future, will…
AIM Seaching in different sources and integrating lingüistic skills, such as reading, listening, writing and speaking, linked to technological skills as well, in order to develop and present an academic talk which answers the questions about Visions of the 21st century.
In the future, will…
Session 1 •Students will be given a Time magazine article of the series “Visions 21”.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2051251,00.html•Students will have to work in pairs. Each pair of students will choose an article to read and find the answer for one of the questions previously presented.
In the future, will…Session 1 •Students will also look up in Internet for articles or any other material about the chosen question. •Video: http://www.space.com/17231-how-to-time-travel-video.html•Article: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/are-we-ready-to-meet-et•Article: http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurcontroversies/a/Can-We-Clone-A-Dinosaur.htm•Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4GdGwu9dM
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Session 2 •Students will read and compare the article the chose with electronic sources about the same topic.•Next, they will make a T-chat, in a texts processor, to set there the main points, of both sources, comparing and contrasting them.
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Session 3 With the information students have gathered, they will make a mind map, in Power Point, with drawings, icons, pictures, etc. and cue words only .
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Delivery Each team will present their mind map to the rest of the class orally. Students must use it as a visual aid to build up their academic talk. The audience will be given the chance to ask questions about the presentation.