Explanation

Nowadays the use of technology applies for everything we do. Wherever we look at there is use of technology, so that we can say that everything we use deals with technologies. But what about teaching with technologies? Well, the ideal answer is that education is including technology as well. But it is not as advanced as the rest of the daily living.However, there is an increased where teacher are more self-confidence not just to use techonology, but also to integrate it into their planifications and classes themselves.

In this work, I prepared a unit based on "Transportation" with the aim of improving and training the four abilities altogether with the present simple, past simple and future simple. The question shoul be "how?" what has to do with the integration of technologies and internet resources.

As the Virtual Learning Environment (EVAs in Spanish) needs, this planification deals with a community level, in which there is a mixture of face-to-face classes and online interactions. In this way, students are able to surf on internet with boundaries the teacher gives, and also can express themselves in face-to-face activities.

Surfing on the internet, they have the chance to watch videos on internet, make comments inside the blog, "play" at the same time they learn in pages such as The British Council and National Geographic, amon others. Appling face-to-face activities, the students have the possibily to express in front of their classmates and teachers in a "normal" way of communication with the aim of improving oral and listening abilities in a traditional way which is usefull for daily life.

Future transportation

Check the video from youtube, choose one of the future transportations presented and then answer the following questions:

1. How do you think it will change the people's lives?
2. Will it be helpfull? or not?
3. Create imaginatively a kind of future transportation and describe how it will be and howmany years time it will be geting used by users.

3rd Class

Debate presentations of all the groups

Rubric for debate

This is the tool your teacher will use to evaluate your debate 

Look around the world

Click on the image below 

• Have a look of it

• Check the "background info"

• Check also the "Vocabulary"

• Get into groups of three and answer the questions

• Once you have developed your answers and checked them in the same webpage, you will have to debate in front of the class. You will have to choose among the next five topics. One group will be "for" and the other "against". Your teacher will be the mediator.

• Topics:

1. To use Chilean public transportation is better than particular transportation
2. Cicling paths are very well-built in our city
3. American people takes care more than Europeans about the pollution produced for public transportation
4. It is better American technologies in front of Assian
5. It is preferible using bikes than the underground or busses

Different kinds of current transportation

 

 Here we have a lot of transportation that are used daily.

Which of them do you prefer?

And why? Give your opinion a brief comment

Sounds of the transportation

Now we are going to do another activity class. Firstly we are going to watch the video until 1:58, and then we are going to watch it again in order you complete the vocabulary.

Then, we all are going to check the end of the video for you to compare you answers

2nd class: Curent transportation

Do you know the name of the current transportation?!

Right, so now try to complete the activities below

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/elementary-1/travel/transport/transport-1

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/label-the-picture/transport

Formative assessment

Do you know these tranports?

During the class:

• Look for the name of each of them
• Create a Story

How to create the story?

Using prezi, you must create a story with  at least 3 of the transports presented in no more than 10 slides. Use just images on each slide and a short sentence to describe the story using past simple.

How do you think transport was?

Just to start the class, create a comment to this entry, detailling how you think ancient transportation was in all over the world. Was it the same in everywhere? Where do you think transport was better? or worse?

Go on and comment everything you think of, if you do not agree with your partner, just reply them

Goal of the unit: Students are going to be able to deal with different kinds of transport around the world, using present simple, past simple and future.

Objectives:
At the end of the unit, students will:

• Recognise the transport that were used in ancient times.
• Argue why some transports are better than others.
• Can imagine of the future transports and explain them.

Grammar construction:

Students are able to use past simple, present simple and future simple.

Description:
The course is constituted of 30 students This unit will last three clasess of 90 minutes each one.
The class is composed for 9th grade students.