Module

Title

Functions

Theme

Language activities

Competences

Strategies

Texts

2nd Module

(25 h)

Year 2002

 

Awareness of historical events

(important events which occurred during a year)

 

 

 

 

Unit 1:  5 hours

 

 

 

 

Unit 2:  5 hours

 

 

 

 

Unit 3:  5 hours

 

 

 

 

Unit 4:  5 hours

Waging War on Terrorism

 

 

 

Faces in the News

 

 

 

Fast Forward

What’s new?

 

 

 

Trends of the Year

-Reporting information

-Talking about past events

-Expressing opinions

-Making Comparisons

(better specified in the next chart)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall listening comprehension

-listening for gist

-listening for specific information

-listening for detailed understanding

-follow carefully

articulated speech

 

Overall reading comprehension

-understanding magazine articles (AM)

-reading for specific information

-reading for detailed understanding

 

 

General Competences*

-Declarative Knowledge

-Existential Knowledge

-Skills and Know how

-Ability to learn

 

Communicative Competences

Linguistic:

-   semantic

-   phonological

-   lexical

-   grammatical

Socio-linguistic:

-  social relations

-  registers

(basic awareness)

Pragmatic:

-  discoursive

-  functional

 

Reception

Identifying cues

Inferring

Framing

 

Production

-Building on previous knowledge

-Self-correction

 

Interaction

Asking for clarification

Oral

Inter-personal dialogues and conversation

Public announcements

Songs

News broadcasts

 

 

 

 

Written

Magazine articles

Newspaper articles

Pictures taken from magazines

 

 

* General Competences

 

Declarative knowledge

SS will acquire:

-         factual knowledge concerning the country or countries in which the language is spoken such as significant events which occurred in US during a year time, new inventions and trends which developed there and spread throughout Europe (knowledge of the world);

-        knowledge of the society and culture of the community or communities in which English language is spoken, mainly related to everyday living, living conditions, interpersonal relations, major values (sociocultural knowledge);

-        knowledge, awareness and understanding of the relation between the “world of origin” and the “world of target community” (intercultural awareness)

 

Existential competence

SS will develop a self-awareness relative to their own:

-         attitudes towards new experiences, other persons, ideas, societies and cultures;

-         ethical and moral values;

-         beliefs.

 

Skills and know-how

SS will acquire intercultural skills and know-how which are:

-         the ability to bring the culture of origin and the foreign culture into relation with each other;

-         cultural sensitivity.

 

Ability to learn

SS will develop the sensitivity to language and language use so that new experiences can be assimilated as an enrichment through the exploitation of authentic material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modulo

Title

Year 2002

Level

B 1, IV class of High School

Prerequisites

·   Knowledge of general grammar

·   Knowledge and usage of main tenses, especially past tense

·   Knowledge of a range of specific vocabulary

·   Knowledge and usage of reading techniques (skimming and scanning, intensive reading), identify key words and be able to summarize

 

Linguistic Objectives

·     Enrich vocabulary (vocabulary range)

·     Reinforcement of Past Tense and Past Perfect (grammatical accuracy)

General aims

·     Consolidation of linguistic competence (continuous exposure to L2, Reinforcing receptive and productive skills: listening, reading and speaking)

Pedagogical Objectives

Social competences

·     Capability to work in team and share opinion with others

·     To intensify personal interaction

Communicative Language Competences

Pragmatic Competences

·                    Can express him/herself with relative ease. Despite some problems with formulation resulting in pauses, he/she is able to keep going effectively without help.

·                    Can adapt his expression to deal with less routine, even difficult, situations.

·                    Can exploit a wide range of simple language flexibility to express much of what he/she wants.

·                    Can link a series of shorter, discrete simple elements into a connected, linear sequence of points.

·                    Can explain the main points in an idea or problem with reasonable precision.

Linguistic

Competences

·                    Has a sufficient language to explain the main points in an idea or problem with reasonable precision and express him/herself thoughts on  abstract or cultural topics.

·                    Communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts; generally with good control though with noticeable mother tongue influence.

 

 

Functions

·                   Giving information about an event

·                   Talking about experiences in the Past

·                   Comparing general events to precise past events

·                   Expressing likes and dislikes

·                   Expressing agreement or disagreement

·                   Describing places

·                   Expressing opinions

·                   Identifying people

·                   Making deductions

Aids

·                   Authentic material (e.g .newspaper and magazine articles, ), press releases

·                   Internet sites

·                   Blackboard

·                   Photocopies

Strategies

Reception strategies:

·        Can identify unknown words from the context on topics related to his/her field and interest

·                   Can extrapolate the meaning of occasional unknown words from the context and deduces sentence meaning provided the topic discussed is familiar.

Interaction strategies:

·                   Can intervene in a discussion on a familiar topic, using a suitable phrase to get the floor.

·                   Can initiate, maintain and close simple face-to-face conversation on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.

Production strategies:

- Planning:

 Can work out how to communicate the main point(s) he/she wants to get across, exploiting any resources available and limiting the message to what he/she can recall or find the means to express.

Tasks to be performed

-         answering questions (written and oral)

-         guessing meanings and matching words

-         fill in the blanks exercises

-         discussing topics

-         making searches on the Internet

-         giving personal opinions

-         note-taking

Assessment Tools and criteria

Written test:

Structured:  True/False – multiple choice- completion

Half-structured:  Short essays – summaries – official talks

Not- Structured: free writing - discussions

Evaluation Criteria

Spoken Fluency, Flexibility, coherence, precision (pragmatic competences)
Vocabulary range, grammatical accuracy, phonological control, orthographic control (linguistic competences)

Criteria for credit granting

50 = narrow pass (5 ½) S-     80= pass with merit  (8) D

60= pass   (6)   S                    90=                           (9) O

Remedial work

Do be defined according to results

Links to other subjects

Science

Music

History

Geography

Time

20 hours (in class); time needed by SS (at home)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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