A trip to Gibraltar
- 1. A TRIP TO GIBRALTAR Have you ever been to Gibraltar? Join us in our trip and you will learn about its history and places of interest. Ana M捉 S叩nchez Urbano 22/01/2011 Don卒t forget to bring a camera!
- 2. INTRODUCTION Visit places of interest Get to different locations asking for directions Go shopping and learn about prices and currency Have fun in the leisure centre 22/01/2011
- 3. TASK - Report to the class the Gibraltar project - Use interactive whiteboard for your oral and written presentation 22/01/2011
- 4. PROCESS - Revise, use and extend prepositions of place and direction - Learn vocabulary and useful expressions to ask for and give directions - Vocabulary referred to towns (buildings and shops, including items you can get) - Locate and get to places of interest following directions given - Find out information about its history - Go into a shop and find out opening and closing times - Visit the leisure centre. Choose an activitity to do there: times and price - Calculate prices: convert euros into pounds - Calculate distance in kilometres/miles and time of journey 22/01/2011
- 5. EVALUATION 1. On the student s ability to understand and express themselves in the foreign language: - Identify general and specific information in oral and written texts about giving and asking for directions. - Participate in short oral exchanges referred to giving and asking for directions. -Write short dialogues about giving and asking for directions. 2. On the use of communication strategies and linguistic resources incorporated after reflection: - Correct use of prepositions of place and direction both in oral and written tasks. - Establish relationships between language functions and prepositions of place and direction. 3. On the ability to identify and interpret sociolinguistic aspects transmitted by the foreign language: - Use formulae and registers appropriate to the communicative situation (giving and asking for directions), the hearer, and the communicative intentionality. - Show appreciation towards different cultural visions, and respect towards other people s values and behaviours. - Use the knowledge of socio-cultural aspects that the foreign language transmits, as opposed to the student s. 4. On the use of new technologies of information and communication in a progressive autonomous manner, searching for information: - Show interest in the use of the ICT as a means of communication and learning in the classroom and establish personal relationship both oral and written. 22/01/2011
- 6. CONCLUSION The unit is designed because of the need of our students to be able to understand and make themselves understood in the situation of asking for and giving directions. Our school is located on a tourist coast area, and most visitors and foreign residents are English speaking. It is quite common to find someone asking for a direction in English to find a supermarket, the post office, a bank or a travel agency. For that reason we aim the communicative skills to real situations, being communication in itself the main target in our teaching-learning process. It is also due to students mobility, that they will soon find themselves in the situation to get to an unknown place, do the shopping or talk about places of interest in their own country or the country they are visiting. SEE YOU SOON! 22/01/2011