LEVEL: 2nd of ESO
TIMING: Two sessions of one hour each.
OBJECTIVES:
- Involve students with real English oral production
- Learn ways of expressing weather predictions
- Use technological resources (Audacity, Blogs…)
- Produce competent oral productions
- Express both orally and in writing their own creation
- Involve students with real English oral production
- Learn ways of expressing weather predictions
- Use technological resources (Audacity, Blogs…)
- Produce competent oral productions
- Express both orally and in writing their own creation
COMPETENCES:
-Communicative linguistic and audiovisual
-Artistic and cultural
-Treatment of information and digital competence
-Learning to learn
-Autonomous and personal initiative competence
CONTENTS:
-Present simple and continuous tense
-Weather vocabulary
-Pronunciation tools
-Information and technology tools
Session 1
-Communicative linguistic and audiovisual
-Artistic and cultural
-Treatment of information and digital competence
-Learning to learn
-Autonomous and personal initiative competence
CONTENTS:
-Present simple and continuous tense
-Weather vocabulary
-Pronunciation tools
-Information and technology tools
Session 1
(Listening and writing)
1. Listen carefully and do the activity proposed about weather. Afterwards, tell me through an entrance on your blog whether you like the activity or not.
HELP!!
√ If you need a bit of support according to weather vocabulary you can use this website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScGbLBOvKo
√ Moreover, for some more information, you can just check this other website: http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/
(Listening)
2. Who is Gerard Butler? Do you want to see him as a weather forecaster?
(Listening)
2. Who is Gerard Butler? Do you want to see him as a weather forecaster?
(Writing)
3. You are almost experts now! Write down a SHORT weather prediction for today of your country. Write it and upload it in your blog. I’ll correct it as soon as possible!
Session 2
(Reading and listening)
1. Read some of these nursery rhymes http://www.nurseryrhymesonline.com/weather/ and choose one of them, the one that you most like. Then, look for it in youtube and check its pronunciation.
HELP!!
√ There is a free online pronunciation dictionary. Check it if necessary:
(Speaking)
2. You must record your own voice (with Audacity) as a formal weather forecaster BOTH with the prediction you wrote down the last day in your blog and with the chosen nursery rhyme in the end. Good luck!
Then, upload it in your blog so everyone can listen to it.
HELP!!
√ There is a free online pronunciation dictionary. Check it if necessary:
