Didactic proposal
This open educational resource entitled A sport journalist is based on the curriculum of English as a foreign language and it is aimed at students of the 1st year of compulsory secondary education. However, it can be implemented on other levels,. As a teacher, you can adapt or modify its contents. Likewise, feel free to use the whole resource or just the sections that best fit your teaching demands.
The main topic of this resource will make easy to apply the grammar and vocabulary content to a real situation: interviewing an athlete, a sportsmen or sportswomen.
Here, students will learn and practice contents, procedures and attitudes related to the basic knowledge areas of communication, multilingualism and intercultural values.
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By working on this resource, students will face some individual activities, but also some collaborative tasks and a final project in which they will use all their knowledge and will demonstrate how able they are to develop and consolidate some specific and key competences in several learning situations very similar to those in which people may get involved in real life.
This project is part of a set of projects entitled "English in my daily life" which is based on the curriculum for the 1st year of compulsory secondary education.
The following objectives have been considered in the design of this project:
- to learn while working on a project.
- to encourage collaborative work, since most assignments require information sharing and interaction with other students.
- to foster students' self-learning process by using IT resources.
- to reinforce students' communicative skills through activities of listening and reading comprehension, but above all, through tasks in which they must produce their own oral and written messages.
The project includes several stages that students will need to go through to eventually do the final challenge : create a video in which they are going to play roles as journalism and athlete, and they are going to interview each other. Within this learning scenario, relevant language contents can be practiced and a wide range of tasks is presented so that students are encouraged to practice and improve the linguistic skills required for their final output.
This unit starts with the Breaking the ice section in which students are going to focus their attention into the project and how it will work. By using a Thinking routine students and teachers will identify the previous knowledge. Then students will start by expressing their opinion about practicing sports and set the beginning of their Learning Diary.
Different kind of sports. In this section, students will focus their attention on how to practice the different sports (team sports or individual sports), first they will deal with vocabulary. Finally they will organize a debate about the benefits or damages about practicing them.
At the sport center presents how to talk about the actions which are taking place on that concrete moment, the present continuous. After learning the grammar the students will have to opportunity of using it on the task. They should describe what is taking place in the sport center.
The Healthy lifestyle section offers the students the moment to start thinking and writing about what they consider is good for their health. In this section the students will practice the writing skills.
Sportsmen or sportswomen provides students the opportunity of investigating and reading some information about famous athletes and then create a digital presentation about them. Then students will practices comparative adjectives when they compare them.
Finally, the Sport journalism section offers the student the final challenge in which students will show how much they have learnt about the topic. They will have to create a video in which they are going to play different roles, journalism and famous athlete. In this video one is going to interview the other.