Activity evelopment sample student directions.doc

Activity Development Learning Unit Level: 4 (from the 2007 Prepa Tec plans) Life/Academic Skill: Exchange/interpret written and spoken information, listening comprehension, note-taking Basic skills needed: Recognizing meaning from context, summarizing recalling information, Materials needed: Slips of paper with information, questions, song lyrics Syntactic concepts: reinforcement of passive voice, simple past Specialized vocabulary: moody, expelled, cement (a reputation), relaunch, backslide, high-rise, accolade, reckoned, Identify competency to develop (no more than two; as their acquisition should consider effective evaluation of at least one of them) Written Production: The student can write coherent, simple, short texts, about current topics with informative purposes. Course Objective: Facts : At the end of the unit, the student will be able to describe in verbal and written form: An object, person, place or process. Make connections with previous/future skills to develop Connect to current interests of students Interactive Oral Skills: The student can participate in a conversation with previously prepared information about it, on familiar topics or issues of general interest. Listening skills: The student can understand the main idea in topics of personal interest, when spoken discourse is paused and clear. Introduction /Warm-up/Review (Directions are expressed in terms of what the student is going to do) Listen to the beginning of the song “Tears in Heaven”. In pairs, comment on everything you know about the author. The song can be found in the following website: /open/104928/tears_in_heaven/Eric_Clapton_-_Tears_in_heaven Discuss the following: in what ways can an artists’ personal history influence his/her career? Presentation: Explain the method of presentation Explain materials, equipment and technology Read the following information from the overhead projector: Eric Patrick Clapton was born on March 30 1945 in his grandparents home in Surr