VANE´S LESSON PLAN

LESSON PLAN

Universidad Católica de el Salvador

Teacher: Jacquelinne Vanessa Jimenez 

Audience: Teenagers

Topic: famous touristic places

Time 3 hours

INTERNET TOOLS USED: Facebook.com, Voxopop, Wordl, e-mail, youthink.com, my brainshark.com, you tube.com, google.com, blog, mind42.com.

WARM UP!

Directions: Go to the page of our subject on Facebook and ask students to give their impressions when they read the title “Famous Touristic Places.” The entire group must be set into a discussion.

Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Instructional-Technology-Class-Unicaes/343610822329878

PRESENTATION

Pre-activity

Directions: have students think about some touristic places we have in our country and around the world.

What do you think this video will be about?

During activity

Directions: Play the video and ask students to write down the most important details.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvZUYtfPh0M

Post activity

Directions: Tell students to go to the blog and write an entry about some of the basic things they saw and listened in the video and they also have to answer the following questions. This part is important for the very controlled practice.

Questions:

-Which is the name of the offered city?

-What is the most beautiful place for you?

-Do the places have something in common?

-Would you like to visit any of them?

-Do you have family members living in those places?

VERY CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES

1-Quiz

Directions: After watching the video “New Orleans, Top Touristic Attractions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvZUYtfPh0M), Take the quiz on the following link: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208890&take_again=yes

Send the results to either of these e-mails:       vanesita_jj7@hotmail.com or    xarbamen@gmail.com

2-Matching activity

Directions: Go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51umRiOZLe4 and based on the video about “Top 10 Travel Attractions, San Francisco (California),” give students the following matching activity. They have to develop the activity in Microsoft Word and send it to your e-mail account.

1-De Young Museum                                    a) offers excellent city views

2-In the Fisherman’s Wharf                           b) is an icon on San Francisco

3-The Golden Gate Park                               c) tourists can enjoy the architecture of local houses

4-The Alcatraz Island                                    d) is fascinated place to drive

5-Cable Cars                                                 e) is a place you will remember                  for a long time.

6-In the Architectural Heritage                      f) has beautiful landscapes

7-The Palace of Fine Arts                             g) It is inside the Golden Gate Park

8-The Coit Tower                                          h) you can see Sea Lions

9-The Lombard Street                                   i) used to have a prison

10-The Golden Gate Bridge                          j) was built in 1950

3- Wordl

Directions: Go to these links and rearrange the words to form logical sentences. The answers must be sent to the e-mails given before.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924326/There_is

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924269/Top_attractions

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924245/Residents

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924231/Natchez

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4924047/San_francisco

SEMI-CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES

Extended sentences

1-Directions: The teacher uploads some words on the blog, which must be used by students to form complete and logical sentences.

1-    San Francisco has…

2-    Beaches are….

3-    In London…

4-    Some Touristic Places…

5-    My last vacation…

6-    People from….

7-    Going to Salvadorian restaurants

8-    New York is…

2- Reading and comprehension

Go to the following link and develop the activities:

http://topicsforteenagers.blogspot.com/2012/03/reading-and-comprehension.html

3- Travel culture:

Directions: go to your e-mail and there you will find a file called “Travel culture “. Develop the activities and send it back.

FREE ACTIVITIES

1-Brainshark

Travel Agency seller

Directions: Tell the students to think they are sellers of a travel agency, and they have to offer a touristic place to convince the audience that it is the best place to visit on vacations. Students have to create attractive slides with pictures of the place. Then, they must go to www.brainshark.com to record their voice to explain their presentations.

After doing that, students have to post the link on face book in the page of the subject.

2- Blog

Directions: Students have to go to the page of the subject on Facebook to watch someone’s power point presentation; then, they must go to their blog and comment about that presentation. They can include what they think about that touristic place and if they would like to visit that place. 

3- Mind 42

Directions: Ss must go to mind42 and participate on the mind map “Interesting places to visit.” They can comment the mind map and upload pictures and links to support their ideas.

Note: the teacher must send the invitation to the students’ e-mail, and they have to accept it to participate in this activity

4- Collage

Directions: Ss have to create a collage with the pictures of the places they would like to visit. They must add a short description of the collage and upload it on Facebook. Students can use whatever program to do this collage, example: Microsoft Word, Picasa 3, Microsoft Power Point, Publisher, etc.  

WRAP UP

Directions: send this crossword to each student in an e-mail and ask them to send it back solved.

Read the statement down and complete the crossword about useful vocabulary for tourists.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

ACROSS 3. A person who prepares food for eating. 4. A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors. 6. One who travels for pleasure. 7. A place where meals are served to the public. 8. The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space. 10. An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.

DOWN 1. One who serves at a table, as in a restaurant. 2. To sail or travel about, as for pleasure or reconnaissance. 5. A steep descent of water from a height; a cascade. 9. One who shows the way by leading, directing, or advising.

HOMEWORK

Directions: Go to this link on Voxopop http://www.voxopop.com/group/1d41a847-15cb-4e18-bc65-35b65a58bfbc and follow the talk group named Famous Touristic Places. Students must give their point of view about the studied topic, and about how they felt when recording their voices in the Power Point Presentation and how was the experience with the collage. They can say what places they would like to visit, etc. 

Instructional Technology quizzes

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This time we are going to work with some useful Internet tools(quizzes on youthink.com, a video, a listening and a reading), which are intended to help students to get a better understanding of the topics and they also have a big chance to reinforce some skills in the target language. That is why, we have prepared 3 quizzes which contain 12 questions each, and they are designed for three different age levels: kids, teens and adults.
To continue, we will describe what each quiz is based on and then we will give you an idea on how to develop each of them.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE QUIZZES

These are multiple choice quizzes constituted by 12 statements with three possible options each. You have to go to the different links and then based on that, you have to choose the most appropriated answer. If you cannot open the links from here, you can Google them. At the end of each quiz you can check your score and see how accurate you were in your answers.

FIRST QUIZ

1)-This is an amazing quiz for kids and it is based on a very nice story narrated by a kid who wanted to eat a cake his mother had baked. At night, he makes the decision to go for it, and he tiptoes toward the kitchen fearing to wake up his parents just to discover out that his sister has eaten the cake.
2)-The first thing you must do is to watch the video and pay close attention to single details to answer the quiz in a correct way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL6xzw7kKN8

3)-After watching it, go to: http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208422&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

SECOND QUIZ

1)-This quiz is for teenagers and it is based on a reading about the smell of a book. It says that each smells remembers us something and that everything has a different smell. The author says that his favorite smell is of a book’s, and he also describes some books he has bought because his favorite hobby is reading.

2)-Go to the following link to read the article:
http://www.topics-mag.com/edition19/smells/book.htm

3)-After that, go to this link to carry out the quizz.
http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208153&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all

THIRD QUIZ

1)-This quiz is for adults, and it is based on a listening about “the ideal woman.” We can listen to the opinions of two friends who have different points of views about the ideal woman. There is one man who seems to be possessive and perceives a woman as a slave, and the other who describes a woman with wonderful feelings and emotions.

2)-listen to the conversation on:
http://www.esl-lab.com/ideal/idealrd1.htm

3) Go to the following link to carry out the quiz:http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=208414&filter=my_qs&f_cat_id=-1&time_span=all
It is important to say that some of the statements need your critical thinking because you cannot find the exactly answers in the audio.

CONCLUSION
This activity has been meaningful for us because most of the time students and teachers are accustomed to the traditional quizzes based on paper, but with these tools we can change the methodology, and it can benefit our pupils and the teacher. As you can see, by using these methodologies, we have access to most of students’ skills. We are sure that students will enjoy the experience of taking online quizzes and little by little they will get practice on the use of Internet tools.

My first class

Well, I´m gonna talk about my first class at the university. It was in Advanced English II with teacher Giovanni Blanco. To be honest, that day I was very nervous because some of the students were my classmates, but at the end it was an advantage for me.

I started my class with a beautiful quote, and some students helped me to read and analyze it. Then, I developed the warm up activity. For me it was incredible because students were exiting to participate. It was a group spelling activity, so we were shouting to confuse the person at the front. The problem was that we were making such as noise that it made me feel that the teacher next door was going to arrive to say that they were in classes. Fortunately, it didn’t happen.

The topic of the class was adjectives and word order, so I studied a lot to be prepared to whatever unexpected question. I really like that when teaching advance students, we have to investigate and read to be ready. It is incredible that I studied that topic in grammar, but I didn’t learn it, and now I manage it very well.

During the class, some students asked me about the topic, and I was happy to answer them. Then, I gave them a series of sentences, which they had to organize, and when I saw that all the groups did it correctly, I felt as a good teacher jaja. At the end, we share the answers, and I congratulated them because of their effort.

Also it is important to mention that the teacher gave me the feedback at the end of the class. He gave me some recommendations that for sure will benefit my work as a teacher.