DIDACTICS II

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Newsletter 15 6^th July 2002

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico

Cátedra de Didáctica Especial del Primer y Segundo Ciclo de la EGB y Práctica de la Enseñanza –Segundo Año

Lecturers : Omar Villarreal & Andrea Coviella,

Practicum Supervisors : Marina Kirac, Claudia Alvarez, Marcela Russo, Marisa Caccia, Analía Figliola, Gabriela Junco, Patricia Suárez Rotger and Florencia Raña.

Assistant Teachers: Romina Hirniak and Maria Laura Groppo.

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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life: the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure"

Grayson Kirk

Dear All,

Last posting (promise) for this weekend. This time to send you a lesson plan that Anabela Ayuso (afternoon shift) wrote for the lesson “Would you like to come?”

I liked it very much and asked her to share it with all of you. So here it goes…

Have a great Sunday.

A big hug to you all

Omar

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Would you like to come?

© Omar Villarreal

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A/W Brief. Split Image

(A) Tommy is lying on his bed talking over the phone. His brother Agus is sitting on the floor next to Tommy´s bed trying to overhear Tommy´s conversation through the receiver. Tommy is not upset at his brother apparent “nosiness”

(B) Viole is talking over the phone. She´s sitting on the edge of a sofa in her living room. She looks very excited.

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Viole Have you got any plans for this weekend?

Tommy Viole, it´s only Tuesday today

Viole I know but….There will be a dance at school this Friday.

Did you know?

Tommy No, I didn´t . Who´s organizing it?

Viole Second Polimodal. Would you like to come?

Tommy I don´t know. Anyway I´m grounded.

Viole Grounded? Why?

Tommy Do you remember the Maths test last Wednesday?

Viole Yes. Why?

Tommy Well. I got a 4.

Viole Will there be a make-up?

Tommy Yes, There will be a make-up next Thursday.

Viole Great! The party is this Saturday.

Tommy I know….but, who will convince my dad?

Viole I can talk to him if you wish.

Tommy Thank you, Viole … but he will want to see the marks of the

make-up first.

Viole But there won´t be another party at school till next month.

Tommy Anyway, don´t worry. I´m not suffering.

Viole But I am.

Tommy Pardon?

Viole I mean I am very sorry you can´t come.

You know what? I can come to your house on Saturday and we can listen to some CD´s together.

Tommy Er…er…I can´t tell you right now. I´m studying for the make-up now.

Viole Great. You know what? I can go to your house right now and help you.

Tommy Oh, no. It´s not necessary.

Viole Oh! Why? I can be there in a minute.

Tommy But Viole….. Hello, Viole…Hello.

She hanged up.

Agus Uhm, Your Majesty. That girl wants to become your queen.

Tommy Oh, Agus. Stop it. She´s only my best friend.

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Anabela Ayuso

“Would you like to come?”

LESSON PLAN

COMMUNICATIVE GOALS: Talking about events in the future

GRAMMAR FOCUS: THERE WILL BE (Affirmative- Interrogative-Negative)

VOCABULARY FOCUS: General vocabulary

RECYCLED LANGUAGE: Days of the week

ACTIVATION:

I will ask the students to look at the pictures.

I will ask them several questions: “Who are talking over the phone?” “Where is Viole?” “What is Agus doing?” “But what is he really paying attention to?”

I will try to elicit from them that Agus is trying to overhear Tommy´s conversation.

I will ask them if they have brothers or sisters and if they are usually curiousabout their lives: “Have you got a brother/sister?” “What do they do when you are talking to a friend aver the phone?” “Do they try to overhear your conversations?”

COMPREHENSION AND CLARIFICATION:

I will ask them to listen to the cassette following the reading in their books.

I will ask them to listen again and answer “What day is it today?”

I will ask them to listen again and answer “What will happen on Friday?”

I will try to elicit “a dance”.

Listen again (always with their books open). Answer “Will Tommy go?” “Why?”

I will try to elicit “No, because he got a 4.”

At this point I will introduce the word “gronded” by saying: “No, he won’t go because he got a 4 and his father got angry. Now he is grounded.”

Listen again. Answer “What is Tommy doing now?” “Why?”

I will try to elicit “He’s studying for the make-up.”

Listen again. Answer “When is the make-up?”

Then I will write two event and two days on the board:

EVENTS Dance DAYS Friday

Make-up Thursday

I will ask them to look for the sentences in the text that join each event with the correct day. I will write them on the board.

“There will be a dance this Friday.”

“There will be a make-up next Thursday.”

I will ask them “Qué queremos decir con “There will be”?”

I will try to elicit “Decimos que “habrá”.”

I will write “EVENTS IN THE FUTURE” as a title.

Then, I will call their attention to the negative and the interrogative sentences.

I will copy them:

“There won’t be another party till next month.”

“Will there be a make-up?”

I will explain how the negative and the interrogative sentences are formed.

APPLICATION:

Activity 1

Name of the activity: Days of the week

Focus: Writing

Grouping scheme: Solo

Brief description: The students will look at the calendar and complete the sentences with a day of the week.

E.g: There will be a festival on ………..5^th June.

Activity 2

Name of the activity: Will or Won’t

Focus: Speaking and writing

Grouping scheme: Whole class ------- Solo

Brief description: I will show them a picture of a party or a sign with the word “party” written on it and I will say “next week”. They will make sentences like this. “There will be a party next week.” For negative sentences I will do the same but adding “It was cancelled”. They will say “There won’t a parade on Friday.”

Then, as a written activity, they will look at a chart in which there are some days and events. Some events are crossed out meaning they were cancelled. They will complete the sentences with WILL or WON’T.

E.g.: There ………be a parade next Monday.

Activity 3

Name of the activity: Future events

Focus: Writing

Grouping scheme: Solo

Brief description: There are two columns; one with events and the other with different times. Each event is matched with one time. They will make sentences using “there will be”

E.g.: test --------------------------this week.

Activity 4

Name of the activity: Finding out future events in my city

Focus: Speaking

Grouping scheme: Pairs

Brief description: There are two types of cards. Card A contains a list of 15 events and card B contains only 5 events. They are the ones that will take place during the following month. Student A will ask questions of student B, trying to guess what events there will be in town. Student A has only 6 possibilities to ask. The winner is the student who makes more guesses in his or her 6 chances.

REFLECTION:

I will give them 3 sentences and ask them “Which sentence would you choose when you want to express an event in the future?”

“There is a party next week.”

“There was a party next week.”

“There will be a party next week.”