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POPULATION

Age: 12 -14 years old

Socio-economical level: Students ‘ socio-economical level is average. They are students from a contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.

Relationship with English: Not large. The students lack proposals and time that promote foreign languages (English) performing, like towards the language and knowledge from different cultures.

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INSTITUTION

Type: Middle private school.

English level: Students are exposed to English few hours a week. The students’ level of English changes from student to student, there are ones that have very good level and others who do not.

Pedagogical approach: The school pedagogical approach is a traditional approach where the learning is facilitated and lectures, presentations, and textbook are present. Grammar is brought more to the class than

anything else, leaving aside cultures and putting interaction with the language itself aside.

This blog will help students to work in a constructivism approach, where an individual learning is present and where students will have self-instruction and materials. In addition, grammar will be put in content, giving students the opportunity to interact and to compare several cultures.

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TOPIC Different countries around the world

(USA, Germany, Colombia)

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION- Comparing places

- Describing different characteristics from each country - Analyzing what the advantages and disadvantages from each country are

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SKILLS

Reading: Texts to give a general description of the country, texts to mention aspects such as Geography, Politics, Economy, Demographics…

Writing: Fill in the blanks (superlatives, comparatives), writings with the purpose of analyzing, reading comprehension questions, true or false questions.

Listening: Videos of native people talking about the country, videos that show different aspects of the countries.

Speaking: Presentation summarizing the information presented in the blog.

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COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

Organizational: writing paragraphs, adjectival comparison, adjective order, adjectives for places, parts of the city, and prepositions of place.

Pragmatic: Culture, politeness, cities, countries, correct adjectives, politically.

Strategical: outline, use of glossary, comparative chart.

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What types of contents do you see in your blog?

o Different countries:o Geography o Economy

o Demographics o Cultures (music, people…)

o Grammar (mostly superlatives and comparatives)