English Didactic II

January to April 2020

Make-up Activities

I) using the book “Techniques & Principles in Language Teaching” by Diane Larsen-
Freeman & Marti Anderson complete the following table. Use key-short sentences or
keywords to complete the spaces. (In pair) (10 points/second partial)

Methods Positive Language Limitations Techniques/ Use of the native

aspects Skills to Activities language
develop
The grammar the purpose of -Reading and . Only teacher -Translation of In grammar translation
translation helping students writing focus speaks. a literary classes, students learn
Method to read and Speaking or passage, grammatical rules and then
appreciate listening -Reading apply it
foreign comprehension
language
literature

Direct Method The direct listening and Expensive Reading aloud Is put simply as a
method allows speaking method Question and Teaching method that use only
the learner to reading and Limited answer the target language.
successfully writing suitability
express
themselves.
Audio-Lingual Drills students listening and Repetition can Dialogue The students be able to use
Method in the use of speaking before be very boring memorization the target language
grammatical reading and and meaningless Repetition communicatively
sentence writing drill
patterns Chain Drill
Help beginning listening, The Silent Way Sound-color It is based on the premise
level students speaking, method may put chart that the teacher should
Silent way gain basic reading, and the learning Peer be silent as much as possible
fluency in the writing itself at stake. correction in the classroom
target language Rods

Desuggestopedia Physical Speaking The use of de- Classroom Set-

surroundings Deciphering suggestopedia is up
and atmosphere improving expensive. Peripheral
in classroom are Infantilization learning
the vital factors learning; Positive
to make sure Suggestion is used to make the meaning
that "the Role-play of the dialog clear
students feel First Concert
comfortable and
confident
Total physical
• -The coordination Writing -It is not a very Using Using physical movement to
response of speech and Repetition creative method Commands to react to verbal.
action facilitates and Practice - It is easy to Direct
language overuse TPR. behavior
learning. - It is limited Role reversal
• -Grammar is Action
taught sequence
inductively.
• --Meaning is more
important than
form.

Communicative Being able to Speaking Fuzzy -Scrambled learn and practice the target
Language communicate Dramatizations It pays sentences language through the
required more insufficient -Language interaction with one another
Teaching than linguistic games and the instructor
attention to
 competence. the context in -Picture Strip
which Story
teaching and
learning take
place
Task-based has Speaking Students achieve -opinion- focuses on using
Language the advantage of Dynamics the task in the gap task authentic language and
getting students production stage
Teaching to use their
Participating without using -Reasoning- asking students to do
skills at their the gap task specific tasks using the
current level, communicative -unfocused language objective
developing functions. tasks
language -focused
through its use task

II) Develop one teaching resource. You have to do it. Do not get it from the internet or any
other source. Please do it by yourself. Take into account the topic, the grade, level of
English of the students, learning styles to be cover. Be prepared to explain the objectives
and use of the resource in our first class. (In pair) (10 points of the third partial)

Topic: The House ​Grade: 2nd Grade

Level: Beginners

Objectives:
*In this unit, the students will describe their homes to others and
will ask others about their homes.
* identify and describe rooms in their homes
*give information about their homes
*ask others questions about their homes.

Learning styles:
Draw a house, Sing a song about the house, and Watch a video.

Activity: Games (Marshal never miss), Song (House-Parts of the

House).

Resources: Computer , Speakers , Flashcards , Market , Board ,

Colors , Worksheet,
III) Watch the movie “Freedom Writers or The Ron Clark
Story”. (Individual Work) (15 points of the third partial)
This will be used on April 23 in class. It will be a written
rd

exercise based on the movie you watched.