Children's Rights in Argentina: task 2

Year 2nd Secondary School

Theme: Children's Rights

Cross-curricular link: Construccion Ciudadana

Final Task: Creation of a word cloud using Wordle.

Aims

Content: to explore about the importance of being responsible for others. Positive and negative attitudes.

              Awareness of identity and individuality.

Language: to use vocabulary related to Children's rights. Recycling of Verb to be, have got, imperatives and

                present simple.

Teaching sequence

Pre-task: Teacher will invite sts to listen to a song "We are the World".Teacher will ask: Are children's rights respected by grown ups? Then teacher will encourage sts to suggest ways in which they can help make these rights known and respected. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qyHPloWTkI

Core task:

Exercise 1

Sts will look for the words and use the sentences in exercise 2 as clues

Find 7 words. They appear in any direcction

The sentences in exercise 2 will guide you

Exercise 2

Teacher will give children cerds on which the first or second part of a sentence describing a right is written. Sts must use the words in ex 1to complete their sentences, they write them on their netbooks.

-All children have the right to have a name, nationality and ...........................................

-To receive .............................................

-To receive ..................................., medical care and to live in a ..........................................

-To express their .................................freely and to be listened to.

-To grow up in ................................... and to ask for and eceive information.

-Not to be ........................................

-To be protected from any physical ...........................................

-Not to be a victim of ..........................................

-To enjoy freedom of thoughts, ...................................and religion.

-To play, have adequate rest and to practise ........................................

-To participate in the cultural and .......................................of their community.

Final Task: Teacher will elicit ideas about what sts ideal country would be like. Then teacher tells sts they are going to write rights. Teacher will invite sts to use the vocabulary to create a  word cloud using WORDLE.