Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UNIT 1: Around my Neighborhood
- Context: The participants are 80 sixth graders (10-14 years old)
from two state schools. Students' level is A1. It is a large class. They
have few opportunities to speak in English.
- Students´needs: They need more opportunities to speak,
reduce their anxiety, increase their self-confidence and
interact using L2 as natural as possible
- Expected outcomes: At the end of the course: they will be
independent speakers, able to make decisions, more confident to
speak, able to manage their anxiety level. Moreover, they will learn
to use technology.
- Aim of the unit: students will be able to suggest the
changes that their neighborhood need in order to
improve their environment
- Subsidiary aims: To identify the main places in their
neighborhood. To compare their neighborhood with other
neighborhoods. To imagine how their neighborhood can be
improved. To share their ideas and opinions.
- Activities
- 1. Face to face activities
- a. Guessing game: students will receive a worksheet in which they have to match the picture with the definition.
- b. Giving directions: students will follow directions on a map in order to find some places around the neighborhood.
- Purpose: Students will be able to find some places on a map by following directions.
- Assessment: In small groups students will give and receive
directions in order to locate a place in a map.
- Teaching strategy: T-class and small groups
- Resources: worksheet
- c. Memory game: students will have to match places with the occupations orally.
- d. Interview: In pairs, students will design an interview where every
one will answer questions about occupations and actions
- e. Mind maps: students will receive some pictures of places and
occupations. They will write adjectives that describe every
picture. Then, in pairs they will share information.
- f. Discussion: students will discuss the information collected
during the video session about the description of the
neighborhood.
- g. Describing the neighborhood: students will draw their
neighborhood and write the description. Then, they will share
the description with their peers to provide feedback each
other.
- 2. Virtual activities
- a. Multiple choice quiz: Students will do a quiz where they have to choose the correct word.
- b. Video session: students will watch a video and take notes. Then, they will have to answer
some questions orally by recording the answers. https://youtu.be/jz5EfDLu36I
- c. Recording interviews: students will record the interview they did during the F2F session.
- d. Video: students will watch a video about the description of a neighborhood.
They will have to collect information that will be used during an activity in a F2F
class.
- e. Describing the neighborhood: students will record a video describing their
neighborhood based on the model given in the video from the previous activity
- Topics: Places, prepositions of place,
occupations, and adjectives
- Research Project Intervention Syllabus. Designed
by: Ricardo Calderon and Zayda Viviana Nieto