Activity for Gina

In Chilepodcast you can listen to podcast of Chilean students talking about their personal lives, and maybe you can learn about schools in Chile. This is a good opportunity for you to learn Spanish.

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Run-ons And Comma Splices

Comma Splices:

Gina's interaction with the target language can be greater, because the two groups interact each other daily, but they do have different points of view about certain topics such as lifestyles and culture.

Gina's interaction with the target language can be greater because the two groups interact each other daily, but they do have different points of view about certain topics such as lifestyles and culture.

The Public Market and Chinatown were the places that I liked the most, in these places you can find a lot of interesting things to do, eat and watch.

The Public Market and Chinatown were the places that I liked the most. In these places you can find a lot of interesting things to do, eat and watch.

Run-ons:

For this reason it is important to have in mind the students' interests, we have to give them the opportunity to think by themselves if English or Education in general can make a difference.

For this reason it is important to have in mind the students' interests. We have to give them the opportunity to think by themselves if English or Education in general can make a difference.

Then they can compare and contrast their reality and learn that it is possible to live better.

They can compare and contrast their reality; then they can learn that it is possible to live better.

Social Interaction, High Expectations And Teach Through Content

In my future work with High School students in Chile I will include these three different approaches in my teaching. Why? Because I think it is necessary to make content meaningful for the students. It is important that our students can express their ideas and experiences. The activities must be plan in the way the students can see themselves reflected and integrated, we have to talk about our culture, desires, feelings, society and life.
In Chile teachers always tell their student if they learn English, they will have better jobs, better opportunities, in a few words they will have a better life. From my point of view these things are really important and maybe are true, but I am not sure that students really think that English can change their lives. For this reason it is important to have in mind the students' interests, we have to give them the opportunity to think by themselves if English or Education in general can make a difference. We can show them how different societies all over the world have improved their lives because they believed that through English they could be in contact with different people and communicate with them. Then they can compare and contrast their reality and learn that it is possible to live better. But to do all these things it is critical that we really believe in the students' potential, we have to trust in them and give them all our support, because this is our job. It is not our work put labels to our students neither go to a class thinking that those students can not do it better. We do not have to plan the activities thinking in what they do not know or "can not do" we must think in what they really know and build on that.

Video

Problem Solving And Social Interaction

Steps 1 and 2

What do you know about Mapuches’ culture?

Students have to work in groups of 6, the have to Brainstorm, Ideas about what they know.

They also have to write the most important idea in a cardboard and then explain it in front of the class

The teacher gives a brief description and introduction about Mapuches’ Culture; Hometown, Traditions, Food and clothing.

Teacher brings some visual aids. (mapuches’ jewelry )

Brainstorm about students own culture

Students have to work in groups of 6. They have to brainstorm, Ideas about what you know

They also have to write the most important idea in a cardboard and then explain it in front of the class.

Steps 3 and 4

Once the students have shared their ideas, the classroom as a whole decides which the most important concepts about both cultures are. Then, students compare the positive and negative aspects of each culture.

Steps 5 and 6

Students have to work in group of five and create four questions for a Mapuche guest speaker that is coming to the class. The questions have to be created based on what was discussed in class. The interview will be recorder in order to be analyzed in class and shared with the other English classes to make debates and exposition of the Mapuches’ culture for the school

Videos - Social And Psychologycal Distance

Dangerous Minds (1995) Choice