political campaign

8/6/2019 Political Campaign

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Beatriz Buesa (IES Madrid)Claudia Flores (IES Santiago)Mara Mejas (IES Barcelona)

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

G= goal Create a political campaign taking into account the real problemsof society, as seen by locals and students. In order to complete the task,students will have to

- become familiar with politics (parties, campaigns, history,etc.) in the host country by researching and also by

interviewing locals.- Identify problems and design a campaign to promote their

ideas using advertisements, pamphlets, slogans to statetheir proposals and promises

- Present their campaign

R= role Politicians and researchersAudience= locals (poll), the class during the debate and IES local center asthey present their videoS= what is the situation that must be created or entered?A political campaign, including research of problems and expectations of local

people (not politicians) as well as election processes.Performance= what is the performance that you expect from your student?To make a poll, interact with local in order to get some specific informationabout social problems and political views.To state their ideas, defend them in a debate and in written forms such ascreating slogans, and short advertisements.S= what is the standard for measuring success Grading rubrics (at the endof the document)Level: Intermediate-Advanced Spanish

This task will be completed in several sessions. It involves several smalltasks to be fulfilled step by step. It is long, but reviews a number of lexical,gramatical and functional contents, and has an important load ofcultural contents.Class time will be mainly devoted to:

a) Review of grammatical, lexical and functional contents requiredto complete the task (i.e. if they are designing the campaign, theywill review future tense, since they need it for the promises: Ipromise there will be more aids for young people, we promise wewill create more employment... // prometemos que habr ayudasa los jvenes, crear puestos de trabajo)

b) Discuss results from students resarch and present cultural contentsc) Provide instructions and feedback


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Moodle will be used:By teachers:

a) To post instructions, introduction to topics and resources.By students:

a)To post the results of their polls.b)To discuss and prepare for class sessions and design their

campaign.c) To share the final product of each task.

Class time is used to guide students, review contents, introduce input

and provide feedback, but they work independently most of the time.

IMPORTANT: We are focusing on teams, political parties. There

may or may be not a candidate, depending on the groups.

Students will have to understand that they are working on their

OWN party, group, on building a team, not focusing on the

idea of one single person, candidate, leading all discourse or

campaing.

In order to complete the task, students will become familiar with:

GRAMMAR FUNCTIONS VOCABULARY CULTURE

1/ Researchand studies

Subjuntive/indicative toexpress desires (quiero

poder comprar una casa-deseo que haya mstrabajo), Assess situations(no es justo que...)/ Past

Ask forinformation

Assess situations

Politics- parties,voting, elections

right/left.

Political partiesof the country/

problems ofpeople

2/Promises Future (Prometo quehabr...)Verbs of thought (pienso,creo, espero)

PromiseExpress desiresand futureintentions

Politics andsociety(unemployment,aids..)

Politicalcampaigns

3,4CampaignFuture, imperative, ir a +infinitivo

MotivateEncourage,

advertise

Voting/elections

FINAL TASK Debate and presentation of each party.Voting.


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Day 1: Introduction, research

Introduce the topic of politics in the country (Chile, Spain)Identify the main political parties (left/right wing, mediatv, press- closestto them), the name of the president, political party he/she belongs to,oposition, history. A guided brainstorming of cultural knowledge.

Research/ Moodle: Make a poll asking locals about political parties andopinions about president and his/her promises when s/he was acandidate. Find out local interests and opinion of politics.

Day/week 2: Past political campaignsMoodle: Video of the current president during political campaignClass: Discussion of video, comparison with the information gatheredfrom locals.-Contrast the political campaign with what has been done/ what hasnot been done yet.

Past Reported Assess

Habr ms becas Dijo que habra ms

becas

El nmero de becas se

ha reducido.

Listening/Reading/Speaking

GRAMMAR: Contrast subjuntive/indicative I (thoughts- pienso que/ no creoque), past tenses, reported speech

FUNCTIONS: Promise, assess I (Connectors and structuring of a discourse)

VOCABULARY: Society and politics I (paro-desempleo, ayudas,impuestos...)(unemployment, aids, taxes...)

CULTURE: Past political campaigns in the host country

Division of the class into two political parties

Speaking/listening/writing

VOCABULARY: Politics (de derechas, de izquierdas, oposicin, partido poltico,...)//(right-left wing, opponents, political party...)

CULTURE: Politics in the country- parties, president...


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Day/week 3. Real problems

Ask students to brainstorm problems of society- host country.Review of indicative/subjuntive with verbs of desire (Quiero encontrar untrabajo/ quiero que haya ms ayudas para los jvenes) as well ofassessing (es injusto que los jvenes no encuentren empleo, es una penano poder encontrar una vivienda...)

Moodle: Research and ask at least 15 people (locals) about their opinionof problems/concerns/things that could be changed in the country toimprove their lives. Include recent laws/aids provided by thegovernment. Post your research and provide a comment on the findingsposted the other party.

Speaking/Listening/Writing

GRAMMAR: Contrast indicative/subjuntive with verbs of desire (Quiero encontrarun trabajo, espero que haya ms ayudas para los jvenes) andassessing expressions (es una pena no poder... es injusto que no hayabecas)

FUNCTIONS: Expressing desires

VOCABULARY: Society and politics II

CULTURE: Problems/Issues in the country, as seen by locals

Day 4: Designing the campaign

From the results of the research, discuss and choose the topics in whichthe campaign is going to focus on.Discuss your perspective of the problems mentioned by locals as aforeign student, and compare them to your those in your own country.Groups have to decide how their campaign is going to be organizedand create an ad/poster.Class time will be used to review future tense (Crearemos ms puestosde trabajo, prometo que habr menos paro) in order to prepare thedebate.

Moodle: Videos of previous real campaigns in the host country, post theirpolitical advertisements

Listening/speaking homework: listening/writing

GRAMMAR: Future, imperative, ir a + infinitive

FUNCTIONS: Promises, advertising

VOCABULARY: Elections (abstencin, voto en blanco...)

CULTURE: Problems/issues in the country, as seen by students


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Day 5: Debate and Presentation.

Students will bring posters/advertisements to class and hand a list ofpromises to their classmates. The two parties will have a debate.

Also, students could present their campaign to other classes/IES staff.They will post in Moodle a video which summarizes the campaign theyhave developed including the political ads theyve created.

Day 6: VotingAfter viewing the whole campaign, voting will take place and the winnerparty will be elected.

Students' evaluation of the task (anonymous survey in Moodle):- How did you feel completing the task? (open answer)

- Do you think that this task has helped you to assimilate some of theconcepts of the course (grammar, vocabulary, etc.)?

1(not at all) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10(definitely)- How could the task be improved? Would you add/eliminate

anything? (open answer)

- Would you recommend to keep the political campaign in thesyllabus for future courses?

1(not at all) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10(definitely)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Grading rubrics:

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Poster Accuracy (use of grammar,vocabulary, connectors, etc.)

Creativity

Content cultural perspectiveincluded

Video Accuracy (use of grammar,vocabulary, connectors, etc.)

Creativity

Content - cultural perspectiveincluded

Interactionwith locals

Criticalthinking

Comments:Final grade:

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