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In your English class, you’ll have the opportunity of
participating in a
collaborative and cooperative experience that will give you the chance to
meet and work with your classmates. Here you have some of the steps you’ll
have to follow to have a great learning adventure. |
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you need to join a group. (4 students per group). |
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You’ll have to select a Main Topic for your project. |
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a. Name a leader responsible for the group.
What's a leader?
b. Assign specific responsibilities within the group.
c. Write rules and sign a group contract.
d. Each student is expected to participate actively in the project.
e. Talk to your teacher if conflicts come up.
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a. As a group decide on a main topic (something
you can relate to all the units in your level).
b. Select a title for your presentation.
c. Each member of the group should chose two units from the book and try to
relate the main topic to the selected units. (Get the plan book of your book
and read about the lessons you selected. Your group or tutor can help you
with this part)
d. After selecting your units, think of an interesting title for your part
of the presentation.
e. Write your name and school. |
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Level I |
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Level II |
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Here you have an example of a project for
level III: |
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Name of the project |
contents
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Presented by/ School |
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Let us tell
you about us! We’re from Venezuela! |
a) How we
say hello in Venezuela! Greeting Customs (unit 1)
b) Most
popular jobs in Venezuela. (unit 2) |
Maria Gomez
Engineering
School. |
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a) Spending
habits in Venezuela (unit 3)
b)
Venezuelan
favorites:
Music, movies, TV programs, sports (unit 4) |
Jose
Hernandez
Law School. |
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a)
Venezuelan families (unit 5)
b) Most
popular sports in Venezuela. A day in the life of a Venezuelan athlete.
(unit 6) |
Patricia
Mendoza
Accounting
School. |
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a) Where
did Venezuelan go last vacation? A pool. (unit 7)
b) Stores,
neighbourhoods and places in Maracaibo (unit 8) |
Janet
Ocando
Engineering
School. |
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Level V |
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3.
Make sure you and your group have
all the materials for this project. You can get the material from
your community of practice To register to the
community you need a Yahoo account. Once you have registered there go to Files and look for the “project folder”
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4.
Complete worksheet 1 and hand it in to your teacher. |
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5. Find a tutor:
a. Tutors can be contacted through e-mail, you don't have to meet him or her
face to face.
b. Tutors should be English speakers (students, teachers, relatives, friends,
classmates, etc).
c. Try to be in contact with your tutor during the whole project. Not only
once.
d. Fill worksheet 2 and show it to your teacher. Don’t forget to get your
tutor personal info and a picture. |
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The
ESL Center offers you walk in tutoring (Builfing F, first floor) and online
tutoring through Yahoo messenger to get more info add teacher Doris de
Martins to your messenger list (doris3m) or go to
www.doris3meflcenter.bravehost.com. Also you can go to lab tutoring: |
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Monday |
01:30 –
03:00 P.M |
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Tuesday |
06:30 –
08:00 P.M |
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Wednesday |
01:30 –
03:00 P.M |
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Thursday |
01:30 –
03:00 P.M |
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Friday |
03:30 –
05:00 P.M |
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6.
Assignment tasks will be evaluated within the different terms.
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7.
The
Final project is 15% of the final evaluation. |
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If you have
any questions, you can contact me at
doris3m@yahoo.com or your tutors. |
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