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Breaking the ice

Your project: general information

The final outcome will be the creation of a promotional video on Instagram to advertise a service that your company offers to the community. In order to be able to create the final product, you will overcome different missions that will help you gain knowledge and acquire strategies.

This project will be worked in a collaborative way. There will be pair work, teamwork and individual work. This means that you will create your own knowledge with the guidance of your classmates and teacher. 

It will be really important for success to follow all the instructions given in each activity, using the net and the links as a source of information.

Your work

The missions that you will have done at the end of this project are:

Mission 1: Design of a social media profile to promote the company. 
Mission 2: A radio interview talking about the company. 
Mission 3: Oral mediation. Advising a group of teens who want to set up a new business. 
Mission 4: A promotional video on Instagram to advertise a service that your company offers to the community. 

Your portfolio

One of the tasks that you have to do is a portfolio which will be assessed during your learning process. A learning diary will be an important part of your portfolio and both documents will be used for documentation and reflection of the learning experience.

To start creating your portfolio, we will offer you some tools that you may know, but remember that you can use any other tool that makes you feel more comfortable, or any of your teacher's choice. You can start from scratch or use some of the templates that the tool offers you. 

If you choose to create a digital portfolio, you can use any of the following tools:

If you prefer, you can also make your own portfolio in physical format. The video "How to make creative learning diaries" will also help you create your printed portfolio.

We offer you some tips on dos and don'ts for your portfolio design in this infographic. 

The "Rubric to assess a portfolio" (note) will help you design your learning diary (Download editable file/Download pdf file). 

It would be a great idea to have just ONE portfolio for all your subjects. To do so, you only have to create a new page for each subject. 

Once you have created your portfolio with your personal details, you will have to upload the pics, videos, links (or QR codes if it's in physical format) that show your learning progress and write your learning diary next to each evidence. Don´t forget to write the name of the task. 

The questions that you can answer for this section are:

  • What did I do?
  • When did I do it?
  • How did I work, individually, in pairs or in groups?
  • How did I feel working in that way?
  • How well/badly did it go?
  • What did I learn with this task?
  • How will I use it in the future?
  • What do I have to improve?
  • What strategies will I use in the future to improve it?

You will also create a glossary section in your learning diary in which you will keep a record of the new words that you are learning in each mission. You will choose the most representative ones and provide some information which will help you level up your vocabulary. For physical diaries, you can work in "Reflection on language. ‘A glossary‘". (Download editable file/Download pdf file). 

Along with this, you will add  a grammar snacks section where you will upload some kind of visual materials with the use of the language structures that you are using in each mission.  

Adding a glossary and a grammar section to your learning diary makes it a personalized tool for improving vocabulary, grammar, and tracking language learning progress in an engaging way.

Assessment tools

Every mission will include a final task to consolidate all the learning. This final task will be assessed using different assessment tools: 

  • Mission 1 Checklist Instagram Profile
  • Mission 2 Rubric to assess spoken interaction
  • Mission 3 Rubric to assess oral mediation
  • Mission 4 Rubric to assess an Instagram reel
  • Portfolio Rubric to assess a portfolio

Dissemination

Send your reels to your Business Councillorship at your City/Town Hall explaining them your business plans for the improvement of your town. 

If you are working on a printed portfolio, the aspect "USE OF DIGITAL TOOL" does not apply.

You can write the definition of the word, a synonym, an antonym, the part of speech it belongs to, as well as an example where the word is used in a real context or even an image which represents the word. You may also say include the equivalent word in your language or if it is a false friend or cognate making comparisons with this word in English and your language.

You are expected to include visual aids (posters, infographic or mind map) to aid comprehension including examples where these language structures are used. Here you could also establish a comparison of this language form with your own language.

Entrepreneurs

You are about to start your first business, but first of all you should know how you think about and act on opportunities. Being self-aware is something you must take into account for this project. An entrepreneur is someone who creates an innovative company that provides a new or necessary product to people.

Rocket going out of a computer
Mohamed Hassan. Untitled (CC0)

To help you find the best business for you, do this quiz to know what type of entrepreneur you are. 

  • Do you agree with your entrepreneur profile?
  • What do you know about the entrepreneurs given as examples?

Share your enterprising profile with your classmates and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each type of entrepreneur. You will use a team board, Kanban Framework, from the tool Miro to share the different profile features. 

To know more about the qualities of an entrepreneur you can listen to an interview to a famous entrepreneur who will give you some recommendations for your start-up.

Closing the gender gap at work

Gender equality has become a crucial aspect in today's society. But, what does gender equality mean to you? Do you think it is important? The notion of gender equality means that men and women have equal power and equal opportunities for financial independence, education, and personal development. But, do you think men and women have the same job opportunities? To reflect on this issue, let's work on the following steps. 

Find out about Global Goal #5 on Gender Equality

In order to gain better understanding and awareness on gender equality, you are going to watch this call-to-action video from Emma Watson to learn a little bit more about Global Goal #5 Gender Equality. You can learn more about this Global Goal by visiting www.heforshe.org.

World's Largest Lesson. #FromWhereIStand - Take Part In a Project For Gender Equality (Licencia Global Goals)

Survey on local influencers and decision makers

After watching the video, we will take a challenge which will help you understand what gender (in)equality looks like where you live. This challenge has been adapted fromThe World Largest Lesson for Global Goals.. We will start conducting this survey to reflect on your local community influencers and decision makers. Fill in your survey by putting a cross in the relevant box. You may need ask your family or friends about the gender categories or search the web to learn about the people they refer. 

Survey results

Then, check your responses with your partners and discuss the survey results. 

Ratio calculation of male to female roles

Are there more men or more women roles in your survey? To calculate the ratio of male to female roles in positions of power, count the number of crosses in your columns (both male and female). If you have answered every question, then the sum of all the columns will be 10. So for example, if you recorded 2 females and 8 males in your survey, your calculation would be:

 2/10 x 100 divided by 8/10 x 100 = GENDER RATIO

Add the female figure on the left and the male figure on the right.

STEP 5

Finally, complete this 'From Where I Stand' poster and learn about the men-women ratio. Take your ratio for the female and male sides and colour in the corresponding shape. Use a different colour to highlight the difference between them. Are you surprised about the results?

STEP 6

After finding out about gender (in)equality in the workplace, design a poster with your findings and add a catchy slogan to promote gender equality at work. To create your poster, you can use Canva. 

Food for thought

Now that you have learnt about the reality of gender disparity within employment, reflect on the following questions and record a short voiced message using the collaboration tool VoiceThread  for group discussion. After recording your message, listen to another´s partner message and say if you agree or disagree with them. To revise some useful expressions to express agreement or disagreement, have a look at the British Council video and activities. 

  • Do you think there is gender inequality in the world?
  • What would the world be like if gender equality existed everywhere? 
  • Do you feel you can make a change in the world toward gender equality?
  • Can you think of someone who is a role model for gender equality?

Learning diary

In this project you are going to start creating your portfolio. Remember it helps you reflect on what you are learning and, most important, what the best way for learning is. 

You will create the title of your project "Building businesses, changing lives", and a first section entitled "Breaking the ice”. You will update it with your work and reflect on your learning using the following questions:

  • What did I do?
  • When did I do it?
  • How did I work, individually, in pairs or in groups?
  • How did I feel working in that way?
  • How well/badly did it go?
  • What did I learn with this task?
  • How will I use it in the future?
  • What do I have to improve?
  • What strategies will I use in the future to improve it?

Remember to update the glossary and grammar section with the new words and grammar structures you have learnt. 

Do not forget it would be great if you shared these feelings and thoughts with your classmates. You will have 10 or 15 minutes to complete this part.

If you are working on a printed portfolio, the aspect "USE OF DIGITAL TOOL" does not apply.

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