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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