Didactic proposal
This open educational resource entitled The history of my family 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: writing and share a thanks message to the student's family, and write about its past events.
Here, students will learn and practise 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 practiced and a wide range of tasks is presented so that students are encouraged to practice 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.
Celebrating with my family. In this section, students will focus their attention on the celebrations with families around the world and the students will show it in a poster. They will learn also about the vocabulary of the relationships.
Genealogical Tree presents mainly the vocabulary to talk about relationships among the different members of the family. The students will investigate to create the genealogical tree of their family.
Dealing with historical data provides students the opportunity of talking with one of their family relatives, the one who they admire more. And finally they have to create a timeline with the main historical events of him or her.
Finally, the Thanks to my family 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.