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UNIT:
Second grade
SOCIAL PRACTICE:
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
SPECIFIC COMPETENCY:
4A
PRODUCT
STAGES
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Share with your Ss a special anecdote. It could be yours or of someone they may be interested in. The web site http://history.inrebus.com/index provides a
whole variety of anecdotes of politicians, singers, sports people artists, etc. Motivate Ss to do some research on anecdotes about famous people. Encourage
the use of dictionaries and peer work to help each other.
Have your Ss remember an anecdote from their personal experience and share it with the whole class. Try the narration in English.
Elicit from Ss a possible layout for writing an anecdote. If Ss are not able to do so, paste expressions used to tell anecdotes on the walls or board. Make sure
to include the sequence: 1.- Introduction of the story using expression such as: Ill never forget.. Did I ever tell you, etc.,
2.- Specifying the people involved, e.g. My mother and I, I was with 3.- Giving details about what happened, e.g., I said Suddenly.. 4.- Giving details about
the place (where) It was at--- This happened at.. 5.- Giving and ending. Finally , At the end
Practice the phrases by playing Chain story: Have a tape recorder ready to record what students say and have them sit in a horse shoe arrangement. Have
one student say a sentence using the previous written chunk, then another student has to continue the story following the same procedure until everyone has
added information to the story.
Have the whole class listen to the recording as they do this ask them to identify mistake and encourage self and peer correction.
Have your Ss decide if they want to write about a personal anecdote or about something that happened to them as a group. Depending on it, arrange teams or
have SS work individually.
Have Ss take a look at Readers Digest magazine or any other source where Ss can find interesting anecdotes. Have them analyze the parts of it and relate
them to the previous expressions or discover new ones they can use to write their own anecdote.
Have your Ss circle the connecting words and observe how ideas are linked, organized and sequenced.
In order to make sure Ss understood the expressions, organize teams and ask them to act out the sentences they wrote before, assign each team at a time a
sentence, an expression or even a word related to life experiences, then by taking turns ask each team to guess.
Check sentences are understood when said and heard by having your Ss read them aloud. This should be done in teams. Make corrections and encourage
the use of adverbs of time and connectors.
Place a resource word box on the wall for your Ss to check and add details to their anecdotes.
Have your Ss exchange their sentences to enrich their versions and determine the feelings produced by the anecdote.
Have your Ss organize their sentences into a text to put together the autobiographical anecdote.
Emphasize the relevance of having a coherent story
Help Ss structure their paragraphs in a way that the sentence holding the main idea is the first one, and the rest of the sentences provide the complementary
details. Make emphasis on the importance of writing logical sentences. Assist Ss in case they need it but try to omit spoon feeding.
Remind Ss that their anecdotes should be able to answer who, what, where, when and why. Walk around the class offering help but do not stop to check
unless you are required to do so.
Ask SS to exchange their texts, proofread it and provide feedback
Ask Ss to sit in alphabetical order according to their first name and then divide the class in groups. The idea is that Ss work with different classmates. Have Ss
prepare their narrations in good English, correct stress and intonation and on top of that take care of good reading techniques or making use of their notes to
extend them to help with the oral presentation in front of an audience.
Have Ss establish the turns of participation to share their anecdotes in their groups.
Have every team share their favorite anecdote and explain why. Was it fun? Was it scary? Were they sympathetic to the anecdote?
Ask Ss to make follow up questions to get more details and get to know better their classmates through anecdotes.
Tell students to move around to share their anecdotes with different teams. Remind them to give feedback and emphasize empathy..
Back in a plenary session, ask Ss to give their comments on the autobiographical anecdotes just heard. If time allows, ask them meta-cognitive questions to
focus on their learning processes and what they learnt.
If time allows, prepare ahead of time a rubric, checklist or any other evaluation instrument Ss may use quite comfortably for feedback.
Fomento a los procesos de estudio de una segunda lengua (ingls)
antes PNIEB
BOOKS
Publishing house
All Ready!
Macmillan
Brilliant
Santillana
Crossover
University of Dayton
Teens Club
Castillo
Yes we can
Richmond
Teachers
Book
pp.101-113
Activity
Book
pp.96-111
pp.131-149
pp.124-141
pp.142-161
pp.69-78
pp.108-118
pp.106-123
pp.T64T73
pp.64-73
Other resources
http://www.factmonster.com/people.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/essay/writing.shtml
http://www.education.com/activity/writing/
Readers
Book
Reader
pp.85-97
Stories
pp.43-56
Informative
pp.39-50
Informative
pp.26-30
Non-fiction
pp.37-48