MODULE
Title: Let’s
go to the U.K. and Ireland !
Addresses:
III year of
Istituto Tecnico Aziendale
Level: B1 CEF
Teaching Units: 1) England: London
2) Scotland: Edinburgh
3) Nothern Ireland: Belfast
4) Ireland: Dublin, Cork, Limerick,
Waterford, Galway
5) Something for everyone!
Prerequisites
simple, present and past
tenses, future forms).
Vocabulary: knowledge of the vocabulary related
to interests, food and drinks, prices,
general descriptions of people and places.
Functions: asking for and giving information,
suggestions and directions;
talking about likes and dislikes;
talking about yourself;
describing places.
Language activities: to distinguish the various
kinds of texts;
to scan and to skim a text.
Objectives
related to
travelling.
Functions: to ask for and give precise
information, suggestions and directions;
talking about likes and dislikes;
talking about yourself;
describing places.
Language activities: reading comprehension,
spoken interaction,written production.
Can do statements:
can scan a map;
can scan a tourist guidebook in order to
locate desired information
from different
parts of it;
can skim a text
related to students’ own field of interest with a
satisfactory
level of comprehension;
can deal with
most situations likely to arise when making travel
arrangements
through an agent;
can give and
obtain more detailed information;
can give and
ask for detailed directions;
can write detailed descriptions on a subject
within one’s field of
interest.
Pedagogical aims: to improve the
knowledge of places in
which English is used
as
mother tongue;
to
motivate students towards travelling and to make them become
aware of the presence of realities
that are different from their own.
Competences involved
Ability
to learn (savoir apprendre): declarative knowledge; existential competen-
ce;
skills and know-how.
sociocultural knowledge (living conditions, visi-
ting,
interpersonal relations).
motivations, attitudes (new experience,
cultural viewpoint, cultural difference),
personality factors (enterprise,
loquacity...).
intercultural skills (culture relations, etc.).
Linguistic
competences: can communicate with reasonable accuracy in familiar
contexts (grammatical
competence);
can show a sufficient
vocabulary to express themselves on
topics related to their
field of interest (lexical competence);
can
use a quite clear pronunciation (phonological comp.);
can use the semantic fields related to
the topic chosen
(semantic competence).
Pragmatic
competences: can express themselves with relative ease;
can
exploit a wide range of language flexibly to express
much
of what student want;
can
link simple elements into a linear sequence of points;
can
convey simple information of immediate relevance,
getting across the main points.
Aids: tourist
guidebooks, catalogues, brochures, photocopies, blackboard, internet
sites ( i.e. hostel in Dublin: www.fourcourtshostel.com).
Tasks to be performed: to read texts on subjects
related to students’ interest with a
satisfactory level of comprehension;
to interact with reference to the
topic chosen;
to write detailed descriptions and informations on a
specific
subject within students’ field of
interest.
Strategies involved: to identify unfamiliar words
from the context related tostudents’
interests;
to exploit any resources available in order to communicate.
Assessment: Units 1-4
Role play.
Imagine that you work
for a tourist office in Great Britain or Ireland.
Tell about the beauties
of the above mentioned countries to a foreigner
who wants to come for an
holiday. Suggest him/her where to go, what
to do and everything you want.
Unit 5.
Write a tourist
guidebook/catalogue related to the cities dealt with or to
other British and Irish
places.
Grid of the elements to be assessed.
|
Spoken
activities |
Written activities |
|
fluency 0-2 grammatical
accuracy 0-1 pronunciation 0-1 vocabulary
0-2 relevance
0-2 interaction 0-2 |
grammatical
accuracy 0-2 vocabulary 0-3 relevance 0-3 personal
elaboration 0-3 |
Criteria
for credit granting: minimum mark 5= narrow pass
minimum mark 6= pass
minimum mark 7= pass with merit
minimum mark 9=pass with distinction
Time:
15 hours