Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
English department Weekly Plan Feubrary
Level: 8 grade Teacher: Natalia Lobo S.

General objective: Identification of family members and partners relatives

Objectives	Language Content and Functions	Procedures	Attitudes, Values and Culture	Evaluation Strategies
LISTENING · Guessing the general meaning of a short passage. SPEAKING · Eliciting basic information from both friends and strangers. READING · Understanding a range of written materials WRITING · Expressing personal information, such as likes, dislikes and feelings	Family relationships. This - that - these - those - are - -How many do you have? -I have brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles... -My mother's sister is my . -Is he/she your _______? -How old ? -Who ______? -How many _____? Functions: Identifying people. Asking for and talking about people and families	§ Listen to a description, comparison, conversation, passage or other explanations in the computer and answer the question. § Exchange of information with other people in internet about the topic. § Development of reading comprehension activities about familiar topics in the computer. § Written in the computer descriptions or comparisons about the topic.	§ Tolerance towards gender and people’s feelings. § Responsibilities among family members. CULTURE · Importance of long-term family ties in our country. · Differences and similarities in gender roles among both cultures.	§ Identification of different elements by filling in charts, listing, grouping or checking. § Asking and answering questions in a given context. § Production of short dialogues or passages. § Production of questionnaires to interview people.

Authentic Vrs Non Authentic materials

Authentic material is the vehicle of the daily communication that is used in conversations, books, traffic signs, menus, programs, posters, announcements, etc. Generally, the authentic materials are entire versions, not published of texts written for speaking native." In other words, the benefit students get from being exposed to the language in authentic materials. Authentic would be material designed for native speakers of English used in the classroom in a way similar to the one it was designed for. The non authentic material is the material which it was designed with the exclusive purpose of teaching a foreign language as well; it means that it was not created for native speakers of the target language.

Advantages

Using authentic material in the classroom, even when not done in an authentic situation, and provided it is appropriately exploited, is significant for many reasons, amongst which are:

1. Students are exposed to real discourse, as in videos of interviews with famous people where intermediate students listen for gist.Authentic materials keep students informed about what is happening in the world, so they have an intrinsic educational value.


2. As teachers, we are educators working within the school system, so education and general development are part of our responsibilities.


3. Textbooks often do not include incidental or improper English.The same piece of material can be used under different circumstances if the task is different.Language change is reflected in the materials so that students and teachers can keep abreast of such changes.


4. Reading texts are ideal to teach/practice mini-skills such as scanning, e.g. students are given a news article and asked to look for specific information (amounts, percentages, etc.). E.g. basic students listen to news reports and they are asked to identify the names of countries, famous people, etc. (ability to detect key words).


5. Books, articles, newspapers, and so on contain a wide variety of text types, language styles not easily found in conventional teaching materials.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages mentioned by several writers are:

1. They may be too culturally biased, so unnecessarily difficult to understand outside the language community.


2. The vocabulary might not be relevant to the student's immediate needs.


3. Too many structures are mixed so lower levels have a hard time decoding the texts.


4. Special preparation is necessary which can be time consuming With listening: too many different accents.