My own Syllabus (MISS PLEASE CKECK THIS)

Course: 4° medio
Tittle: English
instructor: Diana Salinas Mena
Mail: dsalinasmena@gmail.com
N° : 555- 95776783
Office hours: Mondays ( 10:00 - 11:00 AM)  Wednesday (11:00 - 12:00 AM)


Location in the curriculum: idioma extranjero, Viña del Mar , Chile


Course description: It will work the skills of speaking and reading in an apropiate way using the correct grammar and a necesary vocabulary to make it work. In this course it will work specially with Tics, that means with the technological resources, textbooks, news papers, magazines, cardboards, etc. all that they need to make a more productive learning


Course objectives: work in a didactic way to attract the atention of students, for the purpose of be competent in the area of oral communication and reading, creating a strong base in the moment to face the real world. By the end of the course the students will learn and could apply in any instance of real life how introduce themselves, give opinions about topics of their interesting, read a magazine, a song, news,  etc.


Course format: prescencial, días Lunes (11:25- 12:55 AM)  Miercoles (13:05 - 14.35 PM)


Course requirements: 


minimal attendance: 75%
participation in every task 
class norms: respect with each other, bring the materials, textbooks


Assignments: tasks within the class time, materials, portafolio, handout before every class.


Granding procedures: tasks, tests, and the final grade will be the portafolio


required texts: textbook "in contact" for 4° medio, diccionary book


supplementary readings: magazines, newspaper (in english) 

Date/ Session number	Objectives/Skills	Activities/Materials
Unit 1 "our global society" March 9th	speaking: discussing the pros and the cons of globalisation	introducing the unit: watch (internet) news about the theme and discuss it
March 14th	reading: read a newspaper in a slide	bring a slide with news about the globalisation
March 16th	speaking: describes what is your favourite technology device	show the class the technology device and present its advantadges and disadvantages
March 21th	read and speaking: an online talk radio station based in england broadcast an internet discussion	discuss the questions (textbook)and debate (the course it will be divided in two)
March 23th test	speaking: giving opinions about pictures (use agree / disagree)	look pictures in a slide about the globalisation and its repercussions in the world
March 28th	speaking: choose a statement with a partner and show to the class	in front of the class give us your opinion about a statement of globalisation (summary)
March 30th	test	test
Unit 2 "giving advice" April 4th	read : understand the context of an article and vocabulary	work out the meanings of the highlighted words in the textbook "in contact"
April 6th	read: how to give and advice using the words in context	read the article, work out with the highlighted words (its meanings)
April 11th	speaking and reading: give an advice to the problems	newspaper advice column...How to solve them?)
April 13th	speaking: work out the pronunciation, the good way of using words in context	play to be a psychology with a partner (present a problem) free ideas
April 18th	read and speaking: work out about express their thoughts	read the situations and the advice below in the textbook, do you agree with the advice? group debate
April 20th	(write)and speak: identifying speaker's attitude (also vocabulary)	work in pairs to prepare a short dialogue, choose one of the situations (photos) in the textbook
April 25th	read: how to give an appropiate response	article of a singer: What does he has to do? (coursebook)
April 27 th	test	test
Unit 3 "the times we live in" May 2nd	speaking the use of negative form in their likes and dislikes context	talk about things you don't like, prepare two or three rants about things you can't stand and tell to the classmates
May 4th	read : in past tense in parallel with future tense	read about predictions for the future that didn't come true (like the movie back to the future)
May 9th	(write) how to help the world using the future tense	create a slogan to care the world
May 11th	speaking: how to help the world	show to the class the slogan
May 16 th	portafolio	portafolio

        

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education. It refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives)

Remembering: the student recall or remember  information

Understanding: the student explain ideas or concepts

Applying: the student use the information in a new way

Analyzing: the student distinguish different parts or concepts

Evaluating: the student justify a stand or decision

Creating: the student create a new product or point of view

What is a Syllabus? (Plan de estudio)

A syllabus is a program or document that a teacher writes and distributes to provide students with an overview of a college]/school course. The syllabus is usually distributed on the first day of class. It contains several parts:

• The course title and meeting times
• The name of the teacher and his/her contact information
• Expectations and attendance policies
• Topics and chapters covered
• Test dates
• Other relevant dates
• Grading policy
• recommended materials

There are many types like:

Functional/notional: it's no organized in terms of grammatical structure. notion (context) and function (specific purpose for a speaker in a given context)

Grammatical Syllabus:  is based on the structures of a language (example: may start with present simple, then the present continuous, etc.)

Lexical Syllabus: The lexical syllabus is a form of the propositional paradigm that takes 'word' as the unit of analysis and content for syllabus design

Situational: have the potential advantage of tapping students' knowledge of the world as an aid to learning, and also providing realistic themes, and motivating and give them materials that they need to learn

text-based: are a common and convenient method of organising ESL/EFL textbooks, and share the motivational potential of situational syllabi, especially if selection is based on needs identification performed in terms of topics or on the findings of research on frequency of topics in the conversations of people of the same age as the learner

Procedural: Is ‘task’. That is, language is taught through tasks, which cover ‘form’ and ‘meaning’. The content of a procedural syllabus is a variety of tasks that the learner can do using the target language. Examples of such tasks are: giving directions, asking people for information, drawing pictures based on oral instructions, etc.

Mixed:  is one which includes a variety of elements, specifically structures, functions and notions, situations and topics.

process:  focuses on the skills and processes involved in learning language. It can be compared with a product-oriented syllabus, which focuses on completed acts of communication, the outputs.

Example ...

A process-writing syllabus would focus on the processes writers use to complete their tasks, such as collecting information, organising ideas, drafting and revising, rather than just the features of the products of writing, such as letters, compositions, notes, reports etc.

NOW, TO CRATE MY OWN =) !

do you know about these expressions ? Let's see ...

Vocabulary

Goosebumps: piel de gallina
Hair on end: los pelos de punta
Butterflies in the tummy: mariposas en la panza
Wobbly knees: rodillas tiritonas
stuck feet: piez pegados
tears: lágrimas
shaky body: cuerpo tembloroso
tight throat: nudo en la garganta
thumping heart: latido del corazón
feel like going to the toilet: ganas de ir al baño




Did you find any new ?


I have no rigths of the picture

An Effective Presentation ...

Attention                   Perception              Connection






analyzing an activity


activity about the joy of travelling and know the others cultures, in specific the Indu culture ...

Mahatma Gandhi

first: READING


1- the presentation is about the biography of Mahatma Gandhi with a short story of him


2- there are 5 questions about the passage 


3- SPEAKING about the qualities of a great leader




catch the attention with his personal Philosophy, beacause this person is very known in our occidental culture and does not discriminate age even though Gandhi died in 1948


then it could catch our perception when the activity ask us our opinion about a good leader, related with the personality that must have, and interpret the information according to our own environment

Methodology II

What is Methodology?

Set of principles and procedures to achieve learning and could be related with:

• aproach : Theoretical positions and beliefs about the nature of language, the nature of language learning, and the applicability of both to pedagogical settings
• method: A generalized set of classroom specifications for accomplishing linguistic objectives
• curriculum :Designs for carrying out a particular language program
• technique: Any of a wide variety of exercises, activities, or devices used in the language classroom for realizing lesson objectives.

Methodology is related too:

the four skills

• Objectives
• Activities
• Strategies
• Metacognition ( we are aware that we Know, asking to ourselves What and How we learn)
• Projects
• Parent's meeting 
• Values
• Grouping
• Discipline
• Bullying
• Timing
• Culture
• Textbook
• Teaching training