The teacher will
present “the introduction part”, explain and model each exercise and “the end
of unit test´s” part since through this last part students will demonstrate if
they have adequately acquired the vocabulary. The teacher will also take notes
of their final score.
PRESENTATION:
The teacher will
present a video about places in town in order to introduce the main vocabulary
of the main presentation´s video. Students are supposed to watch, listen to and
repeat the vocabulary.
Then, students will
click on the next link to watch a video
that will help them to get familiarized with the topic of Unit 6, which is
“Where are they?; in addition, it will help them to know more about places´
vocabulary, get involved with “where-questions”, subject pronouns and
prepositions “in” and “at”.
In order to check
their understanding about the video, students will answer a short quiz on
Youthink.com and the teacher will take notes of their final score.
Places around town.
American Eagles Academy. Unit 6 "where are they?" Mega Goal Intro:
Then, students will
record themselves reading the questions and answers they found in the picture.
They will do it on Voxopop.com in our talk group which is called: AMERICAN
EAGLES – SATURDAY PROGRAM.
Free-practice:
Students will work in
groups in order to create a dialogue which they will perform and record on mailvu.com or with a camera.
If students record themselves on mailvu, they will send their videos to
the teacher´s e-mail just by clicking on the "Send” bottom and by filling
all its requirements to be sent. The teacher´s e-mail: daysiramos_07mail.com.
If they record themselves with a camera, they will have to upload the
video in our private group on Facebook which is called: American Eagles-
Academy Saturday Program.
The best
job will win a point. The teacher will take into consideration: dialogue´s
originality, costumes, fluency and clarity of voice, pronunciation and acting
skills.
sábado, 3 de marzo de 2012
Lesson plan for teenagers of 14 years old
Universidad Catolica de El Salvador
Present Continuous
Faculty of Science and Humanities
Action Verbs
Teachers: Deysi Ramos and Alex Magaña
Time: 3 hours
General objective:
At the end of this lesson plan, students will be able to:
üRecognize the correct usage of the present continuous with the verb to be.
Specific objectives:
. As a result of this lesson plan, students will be able to:
ü. Identify properly the present continuous in the oral and written form.
ü. Formulate correctly affirmative and negative sentences in the oral and written
form.
Materials:
Computer
Camera and mics (if the computer doesn´t have by itself).
Internet
Web sites:
eslgamesworld.com
youthink.com
voicethread.com
vocaroo.com
wordle.com
mailvu.com
voxopop.com
mind42.com
youtube.com
hotmail.com
Warm-up
Students get ready to begin the class by playing this fun and easy game in which they will be able to challenge “the virtual teacher” and throw him overboard by clicking the word that does not belong to a certain group of words. Students should be smart and click on the highest number of any dice since this is the number of steps that “the virtual teacher” walks forward if the students answer correctly, but if they don´t, “the virtual teacher” walks backward the same number of steps. Play the game in the next link:
Copy the words you chose that do not belong to each group in our group in Facebook. You must copy the word before choosing it, so that you are able to send them to your teachers.
Presentation
Through these series of videos, students are going to get involved with some vocabulary and the correct use of the present continuous with the verb to be. In the first, second and third video, students get familiarized with some action verbs and with affirmative and negative sentences using the present continuous as the target structure. In the fourth video, students interact with it by repeating some statements. In the last video, which is the sixth according to the sequence of these videos, students get familiarized with a “wh question” using the present continuous, and they also review affirmative statements using our target structure. Watch the videos in the next link:
IMPORTANT NOTE: There are five videos that students can easily watch just by clicking the next one that continuous the sequence. All of them are called “present continuous verb tense”, but each one has its own number and subtopic. The sequence of the videos´ number goes like this: pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3, pt. 4, and pt. 6, so if you don´t find pt. 5 don´t feel lost because it doesn´t exist.
Controlled practice
1.Action Verbs Catching
In this activity, there are images and sentences to describe the words under the bucket. Students are supposed to catch and drop them into the correct category boxes by clicking and dragging them without letting they go till they are into the proper bucket categories. To do this activity, go to this link:http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/present%20tenses/action%20verbs%20catching2.html
Copy and paste your result in our group in Facebook.
2.Present Progressive Hangman
This activity has a question on-screen along with the required character spaces. A panel at the bottom provides students with the letters of the English alphabet and numerals zero to nine. Click all the alphabets or numerals in the answer, or alternatively type the answer and click the "guess the answer bottom". After your sixth incorrect entry, the hangman fills in the answer for you. If you get it right, you´re free of the noose and move on to the next question. To do this activity, go this link:
After students finish the game or if time gets over, they have to click on “check answer” bottom and copy and paste those results in our group in Facebook.
3.Present continuous´ quiz on youthink.com
Students have to go to this link and take the quiz. After taking the quiz, they have to e-mail their results to the teachers. To do this, students have to fullfil this grid with the information required. It appears in the page where you take the quiz. your teachers´ e-mails are:
alexjandro26@hotmail.com and daysiramos_07@hotmail.com
In this activity, students go to this link: http://voicethread.com/?#u2507093.b2796120.i14759802 in which there is a picture that they are going to describe and record by using the present continuous. For example: Simon is eating.
The recording must be done in vocaroo.com. After recording, students have to click on “click to save here” and share it on Facebook.
2.Go to Wordle.com and record on vacaroo.com
In this activity, students go to this link:http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924671/Present_Continuousin which there´s a picture with disorganized words that they will use to write as many sentences as they can. Then, they record themselves reading all their sentences on vocaroo.com, after that they have to click on “click here to save” and share it on Facebook as a private message.
to listen and watch the video in order to be able to answer the teacher´s questions on voxopop.com. The name of the talkgroup in which students are going to participate is: PRESENT CONTINUOUS, and its link is:
In this activity, students record themselves showing pictures that they will also describe by using the present continuous. Students must go to this link:http://www.mailvu.com/ in which they only have to click on the "Permitirbottom" and then click on the "Record bottom", which is on the right side of the image´s camera, to have access to record. After recording, students send their videos to the teacher by clicking on the "Send bottom" and filling all its requirements to be sent. Here you have the teachers e-mail:
daysiramos_07@ hotmail.com and alexjandro26@hotmail.com
2.Recording yourself on Voxopop
In this activity, students search for a short story in which the present continuous is used as a target structure; then, they record themselves reading it on Voxopop.com
The mind map´s topic must be done with the present continuous structure, but students decide the kind of statements they are going to use; in addition, they have the freedom to upload as many pictures, links, etc. as they want. After done it, they have to publish it by sharing their links on our group in Facebook.
4.Get the most creative dialogue design award!
In this activity, students work in trios to create a short dialogue by using the present continuous as the target structure. Then, they are going to record themselves and upload the dialogue, in a Microsoft Word document, on voicethread.com in the teacher´s account which is: user: alexjandro26@hotmail.com , and the password is: alejandrito
IMPORTANT NOTE: After checking all groups´ work, the teacher is going to give an award to the most creative job.
Wrap up
Students have to write 13 sentences on a word document. They also have to include an image next to each sentence, so that they show their understanding of the present continuous tense. They have to send their documents to the teachers´ e-mails which are: alexjandro26@hotmail.com and daysiramos_07@hotmail.com
Hello. In this blog entry, Alex and I are going to present different ways on how we can use videos, stories, and different internet sources. In this project, we have made used of a website to prepare quizzes, so the idea is to come up with different internet tools, so students can practice their understanding of English.
THE FIRST QUIZ
This first quiz is addresed to children. This reading is about a lady who swallowed many animals. She followed a chain in order to catch the first animal she swallowed.
https://voicethread.com/?#q.b2735446.i14434763(IN THIS LINK, YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE READING, SO CLICK ON THE LINK, BUT IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS TO VIEW THE READING YOU CAN TYPE THIS USER alexjandro26@hotmail.com AND PASSWORD: alejandrito)
In this quiz, you will have 12 questions. Each of them have three options, so click on the one that best matches each request.
This second quiz is based on a musical video in which teenager students are going to put into practice their visual and memory skills since they need to be pretty good observers to answer correctly all quiz´s questions.
The video is about a guy who is in love with a girl that he hasn´t met yet.
Right after watching the video three times, go to the quiz´s link in which you are going to find a multiple option quiz that only has 12 questions and 3 options. Please click on the best option for each statement.
It´s for adults. They have to see a video from youtube. The video is about global warning and some other aspects related to it, so after watching the video (link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs), you have to go this link
and take the quiz which has 12 questions with three options each; be sure to click on the one that best matches each request.
CONCLUSION:
We think that as society is changing day by day, and the use of technology is becoming a need for teachers and for students as well, these tools we have used to prepare our quizzes are very nice because students are in touch with different internet tools that some of them might be familiar with, so that it will be even easier for them to use.
At the very beginning, we felt kind of weird because we are not accustomed to use these tools, but since we got involveld with them, they were easy to use.
Something that might be considered as a disadvantage is that when we are not accustomed to use these tools, they seem to be time-consuming.
lunes, 13 de febrero de 2012
My Computer and Internet Skills
Nowadays, the correct use of the computer
is necessary in any professional area since they have been implemented due to
their many benefits including simplify the work and save time. In most
companies employees must be able to use basic application programs such as
Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Photoshop and Paint in order to develop
their work correctly; in addition, they have to manage these programs quickly
and accurately to deliver their work on time. In my experience, the computer
has become a basic tool to develop effectively my work and studies because it
has helped me to get quick information whenever I need it and it has helped me
to develop or improve different skills.
First, it has helped me to get pretty good
information about anything that I’ve needed to know. For example, when teachers
have assigned me homework in which it is necessary research about a certain
topic, I have googled and gotten the information I need faster and easier than
with a book. Despite not all information found on Internet is useful, I have
found pretty good ones on reliable links such as Wikipedia, or the ones
suggested by teachers. Moreover, I have searched for new speaking, listening,
reading and writing activities to help myself improve these skills, to help my
students learn English easily, quickly and pleasantly, and also to be an
updated teacher.
Second, it has helped me to develop or to
improve many different skills such as origami, dancing, cooking, perception,
memory, logical thinking, socialize and the four macro skills in English
language through videos, video games, windows live messenger and web pages. Last
year, when I had free time, I used to watch videos to learn how to make animals
with paper and give them to my younger students as a reward; these not only
helped me to motivate my students, but also helped me to improve my fine motor
skills and patience. I also used to enjoy watching videos and dancing along the
video´s music, or recording myself singing, which helped me a lot to improve
pronunciation, fluency and perkiness in tongue to speak English.
All in all, the computer
has not only become a basic tool which help us to work better and faster, but
it has become a very useful tool which can help us to learn, understand,
explore and develop our own skills and intelligences. It is important to cite
that almost all great benehfits that I have experienced would not have been
possible without Internet. The computer is very helpful for me and many
other people, but it is even more when we have access to Internet since we can
get the lasted information from any developed nation, or interact with people
who can help you get what you need. Thus, the computer andInternet arelike rice and beans together because
when they are joined, they becomea very good mealto
feedyour body, oryour
knowledgein this case.
Since we were borned we started learning, we learned to talk, to walk, to eat, etc. In my opinion, learning is one of God's purpose for life. Even elderly live in a "learning process" till they die. Whenever you confront something you can't do, get excited because you are going to learn how to do it!!!!
