BLOG PLANNING

URBAN TRIBES

BLOG PLANNING

URBAN TRIBES

Alejandro Restrepo LópezEnglish Education DegreeFunlam, 2016.

Population

Teenagers between 14 – 15 year old

Intermediate English level, A2-B1

Private school with emphasis on English as a foreign language

Environment and methodologyThe students are supposed to have a good vocabulary and basic skills (Listening, speaking, reading and writing)

The classroom provides a space to develop interactive activities, where the aproximations can be corrected.

The rol of the blog is to provide assistance and reinforcement to what we do in the classroom during the F2F experience.

Taking into account the age of the students, the best thing to do is to explore the society through what they want to know, and a common topic for those ages are the urban tribes.

Blog topics

Communicative function

Organizational knowledge

Topic

Students will be able to compare people from the urban tribes.

• Comparatives• Superlatives• Adjectives• Simple present• Verb to be.

Urban tribes.

ResourcesAudios Youtube Powerpoint Mind mapsRecording of a conversation among some urban tribes members, where some characteristics will be mentioned.

Video-tutorial about comparatives part of speech.

Presentation about the simple present part of speech.

Mind map about the verb to be part of speech.

Students will choose a karaoke track about their favorite urban tribe, where they will perform what they have learned.

Video-tutorial about superlatives part of speech.

Presentation about the adjectives part of speech.

Mind map about the different music genres that define every urban tribe.

How do they dress like?: In this video the main dressing characteristics ofdifferent urban tribes will be shown.

Urban tribes

Youtube videos

Audios

Mind maps

Power point presentation

s

How do they dress

like

Superlatives

Simple present

Adjectives

Comparatives

The music they hearVerb

to be

Urban tribes’s karaoke

Interviews with urban

tribes members