Didactic proposal
This open educational resource entitled Festivities around the world is based on the curriculum of English as a foreign language and it is aimed at students of the 1st year of compulsory secondary education. However, it can be implemented on other levels,. As a teacher, you can adapt or modify its contents. Likewise, feel free to use the whole resource or just the sections that best fit your teaching demands.
The main topic of this resource will make easy to apply the grammar and vocabulary content to a real situation: creating a quick guide in which the student will explain some of the most important and well-known festivities that take place in English-speaking countries.
Here, students will learn and practice contents, procedures and attitudes related to the basic knowledge areas of communication, multilingualism and intercultural values.
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By working on this resource, students will face some individual activities, but also some collaborative tasks and a final project in which they will use all their knowledge and will demonstrate how able they are to develop and consolidate some specific and key competences in several learning situations very similar to those in which people may get involved in real life.
This project is part of a set of projects entitled "English in my daily life'"which is based on the curriculum for the 1st year of compulsory secondary education.
The following objectives have been considered in the design of this project:
- to learn while working on a project.
- to encourage collaborative work, since most assignments require information sharing and interaction with other students.
- to foster students' self-learning process by using IT resources.
- to reinforce students' communicative skills through activities of listening and reading comprehension, but above all, through tasks in which they must produce their own oral and written messages.
The project includes several stages that students will need to go through to eventually do the final challenge: create a poster with the history of the student's family and a thanks message to them. Within this learning scenario, relevant language contents can be practised and a wide range of tasks is presented so that students are encouraged to practise and improve the linguistic skills required for their final output.
- This unit starts with the Breaking the ice section in which students are going to focus their attention into the project and how it will work. By using a game students and teachers will identify the previous knowledge. Then students will start working with content questions and it structure and set the beginning of their Learning Diary.
- Let's start the research!. In this section, students will focus their attention on the festivity they already celebrate in their countries or hometowns. They will learn about their own festivals and why they celebrate them.
- Which festivity do we choose? presents mainly the vocabulary to talk about a festivity which take place in an English-speaking countries. The students will investigate to create a text with the main events of the celebration.
- provides students the oportunity of talking a little bit more about the events of the festivity. In this case, the student will deal with the things that have to take place during the celebrations, they will express in terms of obligation and prohibitions.
- Finally, the What does it consist of? section offers the student the final challenge in which students will show how much they have learnt about the topic. They will have to create a poster in which they are going to talk about heir family past events and also thanks them for being your family.