Teaching Reading

In this new assignment, we have to create different activities to develop the teaching skills.

 

 We work with:

- a blog article called  An Ecology of Houses

- a magazine article called  The Velociraptor-Like Robot That Could Save Your Life

Also we work with 2 different poems but written by the same author Home they brought her warrior dead and to the Queen by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

In this link below you will find the entire work.

teaching reading

catedra 1

In this oportunity the catedra 1 consisted in the

 planification of  a unit for 2 week, we chose 5° grade. 

Here you will fin the link of the whole document: 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BAvnyTQJ1idGx2U1RlMVVGV2c/edit

Methodology II

How to describe learning and teaching

In this class we have to read the chapter 4 of the book How to Teach 
English by Jeremy Harmer.


Sequence Variations of the ESA Model (from Harmer, 1998)

ESA Straight Acrrows sequence

EAS(A) Boomerang sequence

EAASASEA (etc.) Patchwork sequence

In this link below, you will find the conceptual map of the chapter 4.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BAvnyTQJ1iNXlDZUZ6ZFRYalk/edit

Language Awareness,Teaching Grammar, 2nd part

In this link below you will find the 2nd part of teaching grammar. 




In this opportunity we have to choose another unit of the same level which was 2° medio, the unit chosen was unit 3. After that we have to  choose  a skill, that it was writing and  develop the activities proposed for the Mineduc and reinforce those activities with our own activities  from the 10 techniques that we saw in the text Language Awareness.  

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxLLSbLAmgFISnFDRzEzZWNwOWs/edit

Language Awareness, Teaching Grammar

In the link below, you will find the document were you can see the 4 activities that we chose to teach grammar. First, you have to know which level we chose, the level is 2° medio and the Unit 1 Sports and Hobbies. The types of activities are: error detection and correction, cloze procedure, sentence combining and dictogloss. 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BAvnyTQJ1iVFlzbGk5WkRiN2M/edit

Language Awareness

We can understand language awareness as explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensivity in language learning, language teaching and language use.

The idea is the students discover through techniques the grammar involved in those activities. The teacher give material and guide the student, to reach the goal.

The text proposed 10 techniques to teach grammar in an efetively way:

1.- Lenguistic problem - solving
2.- Error detection
3.- Restoring C- texts
4.- Cloze procedures
5.- Paraphrase
6.- Propositional cluster
7.- Sentence combining
8.- Grammaring
9.- Dictogloss
10.- Language games

The Lexical Approach, Teaching Vocabulary.

Here you will find the inputs that I chose to teach vocabulary. Is for 8° grade and the same unit of the lesson plan "Life in other Countries" presented as a Catedra 2.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BAvnyTQJ1iN2hiR3JnTnVWRW8/edit