| Level | Number of students | Time | Objectives of the class |
| • Students from EFL teacher trainee literature courses from IPC. | 25 students | 2 hours | Approach the literary text “Do you speak English?” by Simon Collings. Use the four basic skills. Guide students through a formalist approach to describe the text. Compare the social issues of the story to their own. |
For this class:
- Enough copies for each student of the story “Do you speak English?”
- Find pictures that could possibly represent the physical features of the story and characters: a dirty bare foot boy in shorts, American tourists, a typical Brazilian, a dead fish, a dirty stream, squalid shacks, buildings and a rod.
- Prepare material for the students with basic terms and examples of plot, character, setting, point of view, imagery, metaphor, theme and society.
During the class:
- Talk about tourism in Venezuela. Here are some questions which could guide the conversation. Have you ever done tourism? Have you ever met a tourist? What opinion have they given about Venezuela? Where do most tourists in Venezuela come from? What touristic places do you know in Caracas/Venezuela? Why are they considered touristic places? What places aren’t considered touristic places? Do you imagine a tourist in a non-touristic area? 15 min.
- The teacher presents the images to the students and let them place the figures to order/form a scene. If they don’t come to an agreement, tell them to leave the figures as they are. 5 min.
- Have the students read the story and discuss in pairs. 15 min.
- Have them now arrange the figures according to what they read in the story. 5 min.
- The students shall be presented the material with the definitions and examples. 10 min.
- The students, in groups of 3, are to extract, from the text, an example for each term. 15 min.
- They then exchange there excerpts with another group to peer correct the examples. They then check any corrections made and clear doubts. The teacher will ask if these terms helped picture the story better. 10 min.
- The teacher asks the students about the story: What is the story about? Where does it take place? Who are in the story? Who is telling the story? How do they imagine the place? In what country do they think the story takes place? Why? What is the message behind the story? 20 min.
- The teacher then focuses on society. What features determine the society in the story? Can they relate it to any place in Caracas/Venezuela? 10 min.
- The students will write a paragraph saying how similar/dissimilar the society in the story is to their own. 15 min.
1 comentario:
Johann you have planned two very good classes, with the idea of practicing not only language skills, but also culture awareness and literary appreciation. You have included cognitive, emotional and axiological components. Congrats on a work well-done.
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