VIVIANA

STEP 1

1.      ¿What should English Language Learning (ELT) materials have?

First of all, materials should achieve impact, this means materials that increase the curiosity in the learners, of this way the teacher can be keep the attention of this learners.

This material can have an attractive presentation and content with the use of images and interactive presentations, have variety as the use of different kind of points of information, besides is important that this tasks challenge the student to create a critic thinking.

In the same sense, Materials should help learners to feel at ease, is important that the student enjoy the process of learning and for this is important generate a comfortable environment, Comfortable environments could be creates with the use of a relaxed voice, besides the presentation of subjects with images and spaces for the student develop their own activities.

Materials should help learners to develop confidence, as activities that encourage to the students to other levels and challenge their capacities and abilities, as to be creative and analytic.

Likewise, Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment, in other words activities than required the time inversion by part of the student, this used as practice of the knowledge acquired.

2.      Please, explain the main on the following question: ¿Proposals for Principled Approaches to the Development of ELT Materials?

Although there is already a large amount of teaching material on the market, it is very interesting that we design our own material, as well as new, it will be better adapted to the group with which we work.

We can talk about didactic materials for teaching in general since these materials are not only used for teaching English, however, throughout Over the years, there has been a major change since the first materials didactic used by the teacher to the current ones available today.

One of the most popular resources that has been used the most over the years is the blackboard. From a personal opinion I think it is an essential resource in the classroom which has also undergone many changes and evolutions. To this day, the slates have a wide range of resources and activities that awaken in the student an extra motivation. However, the slates must be complemented with another series of resources that from my point of view are much closer to the student.

Nowadays there are many very useful technological and digital resources and at the same time motivators for students, however, there is a wide range of resources adapted and specially designed for each class with which you work.

The use of didactic material in education, has as main objective the approach and contact between the student, the teacher and real life, since in many occasions the direct contact with the reality. To achieve this, the materials can be designed by the teacher or well selected from others previously prepared.

Apart from this, there are other advantages such as the motivation of the student body and the teacher in the face of the teaching-learning process, the ease with which they learn concepts, the development of procedures and strategies, and also their contribution to a better fixation of learning.

The materials and their use should contribute not only to learning aspects specific but also to the development of general knowledge, should be consistent with our own theories of learning and involve selection, process and organization of information. It is also important that they favor the communicative competence of the language being learned, and interleaved use of materials with the teacher acting as mediator of learning.

Finally it is also important that the materials help them in the resolution of problems that may arise in the short term, as well as the experiments, the more students live the situations, the greater the internalization of learning, values ​​and attitudes that materials transmit.

LINK OF THE VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfot5PjH0OU&t=67s

STEP 2

·         Listening activity: you must choose a video on “Customs and Traditions of your district”. Then, you must ask ten (10) questions from the video in a Word file attaching link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxkPbB8qFM

1.       What extreme sports can you practice in Colombia?

2.       Where are concerts held on the beaches?

3.       What kind of dishes are traditional in Bogota?

4.       When is the black and whites carnival celebrated?

5.       What is the name of the festival where theater groups from other countries come to Colombia?

6.       Does Colombia have middle school?

7.       What kind of education is paid by the government?

8.       What is the schedule of public education?

9.       Where can you practice climbing?

1.   What food accompanies the fried Mojarra?

·         Reading activity: you must choose a topic on “local food” or “folklore of your district” in English; then, you must ask for ten (10) questions from the topic in a Word file attaching link.

https://es.slideshare.net/viviandepp1/colombian-food-133892070

1.       Are the soups consumed in all weathers?

2.       How often do Colombians eat meats?

3.       What dish is similar to a mixed grill?

4.       With what foods replace the chicken in the coast?

5.       How is the preparation of roots in Colombia?

6.       Who were the first people to prepare arepas?

7.       In which region the food is spicier? In the Andean region or in the coast?

8.       What exotic fruits are there in Colombia?

9.       What Colombian drink is more popular in the world?

1.   When did Juan Valdez appear?

STEP 3

1.       Speaking activity:

Link of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WwRNbQVlvo&t=318s

2.       Writing activity:

My Business trip itinerary

I need to get up at 6am so that I can get ready and catch the bus that is leaving at 7.30am from Suba Avenue, The bus will arrive in downtown at 9.30am and then I have to get on the ferry at 10.00am.  The ferry is going to depart at 10.30am.

Then, I will arrive in Santa Fe at 12.00pm and I will take a coach to Park Way.  I will arrive at 1.30pm and eat lunch. At 3.00pm there is a business conference that lasts for 3 hours.  I will attend the whole conference.

I’m going to a jazz concert, which will start at 8.00pm and then I will go back to my hotel. The next day I’m going to an art exhibition which is going to open at 9.00am.  Then, at 1.00pm I’m going to watch a film and then catch my coach back to Santa Fe at 5.00 in the evening.