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.

French Revolution: task 3

Year: 2nd  - Secondary School
Theme: French Revolution
Cross -curricular link: History - Fench Revolution
Final Task: Creation of a puzzle so as to show French Revolution vs May Revolution
Aims
Content: to explore about historical characters and the importance of hanving knowlegde of the past.
Language: to find out and use vocabulary related to historical facts. Use the past simple tense and practice
                 listening, reading and writing skills.
Teaching sequence:
Pre-task: Teacher will invite sts to look at the pictures and describe them. Teacher will ask: Which picture belongs to May Revolution? What about the other pictures? What can you see?What happened first?Sts will predict what the pictures are about, French Revolution and May Revolution.


































Core task
Exercise 1
Teacher will write on the board: French revolution -criollos - liberal ideas-Spanish king - war - independent -king's name - government.Sts will use words to create a word cloud using Wordle.



Exercise 2
Sts will use the words from ex 1 to complete some sentences.Teacher will draw sts attention to the form of the past simple tense and the vocabulary related to the historical facts.

-The ideals of ......................................... in 1789 spread to the Americas.
-The..................................................of influential thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau had a strong impact on young criollos.
-Towards 1810, Spain was at ..............................................with France.The .................................was
taken prisoner by the French.
-As a consequence the criollos from Rio de la Plata thought that this was their chance to become part of the
...........................................
-As the Spanish king was in jail, they considered that their viceroy could no longer rule in the ......................
-After having some secret meetings with some Spanish people, the asked Cisneros to resign. Then the first government was formed
Final task
Teacher will invite sts to create a puzzle using JIGSAWPLANET to compare and contrast the past events. Teacher will encourage sts to think about the importance of the different aspects of the culture and history.
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=showpuzzle&pid=0c468d56ecc0&ret=%2F

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