martes, 7 de diciembre de 2010

Listening assessment:

Grade: 8th grade.
Topic: College life.
Communicative function: present simple, question Wh.



Presentation Stage:
Listening the audio and then answer the following questions.
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1. What does the man want to do after he graduates?
a) He wants to become a teacher.
b) He hopes to go on to graduate school.
c) He'd like to work at a hotel.

2. What is the woman majoring in?
a) History
b) French
c) Computer science

3. How does the woman pay for college?
a) She has a part-time job
b) She received a scholarship
c) Her parents are paying for it.

4. Where does the man work part-time?
a) At a bakery
b) In  a library
c) At a restaurant.

5. What thing did the man NOT say about his job?
a) His co-workers are friendly.
b) He works long hours.
c) The pay is okay.

Practice Stage 1:
Matching

He                                Part-time job
She                               Work at a hotel
                                    Computer science
                                     Scholarship


Practice Stage 2:
Listen to the recording again and complete with the missing information.

1. I was in the                                     so I thought I'd drop by.
2. Come on in.                              a seat.
3. And I haven't had time to                          .
4. What do you want to do once you                                        .
5. but I think I'd like to work for a hotel or travel                                         in this area.

Productive Stage:
According to the audio, write What do you want to do after you graduate? Only in  a few lines.

viernes, 5 de noviembre de 2010

Writting assessment: Music

Grade: 7th grade.
Topic: The music.
Communicative function: Present Simple, afirmative, answer.

Presentation Stage:
How to write in English!!

1. Think before you type
  • Addressee
  • Purpose
  • Have a model
2. Planification
  • Brainstorming
  • Make a draw about your topic
  • Conceptual map
  • Make a draft
3. While you write
  • Think in the sentence and if they have sense, you can write.
  • Be carefull with the orthography
4. When you finish read the text often

5. Revision
  • It is complete
  • Detail enough
  • According order
  • If it is clear.
Practice stage 1:

Answer the following questions.

1. Do you listen to music?

2. What kind of music do you like?

3. Who is your favourite singer?

4. Who is your favourite band?

5. Have you seen in a concert?

Practice stage 2:


What does mean for you, listen your favourite singer or band? (remember presentation stage). Please in more than 2 lines.



Productive stage:
You have to write a resume about your favourite singer or band. (remember presentation stage)
For example: 
I like Red Hot Chili Peppers, because they sing very well, their tunes are amazing and the vocalist is beautiful.
They are americans, and they came to Chile in two times, but I never have seen them....

Rubric
1: no
2: more or less
3: yes

jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010

Reading Assessment: Simple Past

Grade: 7th grade.
Topic: Simple past.
Communicative function:  Affirmative sentences

Reading comprehension:

A ball for my dog
My dog found a ball. It was a yellow ball. My dog loved to chew. He chewed the yellow ball.
My dog found another ball. It was a red ball. My dog loved to play. He played with the red ball.
My dog found another ball. It was a blue ball. My dog loved to run. He run after the blue ball when I threw it.

Activity 1: Reordering the sentences.

1. run/loved/My/to/dog
2. yellow/He/ the/chewed/ball
3. blue/It/a/was/ball
4. dog/loved/My/play/to

Activity 2: word search. Find some past verbs.

Words:
  • played
  • found
  • loved
  • run
  • ball
  • chewed
  • was




Productive stage: choose the best option.

1. How many balls are there in text??

a) 1      b) 2      c) 3

2.  Which is the color of the second ball?

a) red     b)  blue    c) green

3. The dog loved...

a) run    b) chewed   c) a and b

4. What did the dog find?

a) a bone   b) a ball    c) a bread


miércoles, 6 de octubre de 2010

Speaking Assessment: Simple Present

Grade: 7th grade
Topic: Simple Present. Affirmative and negative Answer- Question. Do-Does.

My mother the other day question me: Gloria Do you like to eat icecream? No, I do not like, I like to eat an apple, and my brother does not like to eat icecream. We prefer eat a fruit. We do not eat fast food.
but my sister only eats rice, she does not like to eat a fruit. And after question me many things:
Do you like eat fruit?   yes, I do.
Do you like fast food? No, I do not.
Does she like eat vegetables?No, she does not.





Activity one:
Make the next questions to your classmate and after change the role.

Do you play football?     - Yes, I do    - No, I don`t
Do you watch TV in the morning?     - Yes, I do   -No, I don`t
Do you have a sister?    -Yes, I do     - No, I don`t
Does she go to school?  - Yes, she does   - No, she doesn`t
Do you have a brother?  -Yes, I do      -No, I do
Does he go to school?   -Yes, he does    - No, he doesn`t
Do you live with your grandparents?   -Yes, I do     -No, I don`t

Activity two:

In pairs, one student asks to the other something about her/his life:
example: Do you like to play basquetball?

Presentation stage:
You have to do a formal presentation about your personal life, following the examples above.



1: no
2: more or less
3: yes

jueves, 30 de septiembre de 2010

The brief on what summative evaluations are

  • Evaluation is a collection of activities for can konow if the student  acquired konowledge.
  • Summative evaluation is a mean to measure, at a particular point in time, student learning relative to content standards.
  • Summative evaluation are tools to help measure the effectiveness of programs, school improvement goals, alignment of curriculum, or student placement in specific programs.
  • Assessment in education is the process of gathering, interpreting, recording and using information about pupils´ responses to an educational task.

viernes, 24 de septiembre de 2010

The Brief on What a Portafolio is

  • We can think of  a portfolio as a kind of scrapbook or photo album that record the progress and activities of the program.
  • Portfolio is a way to examine and measure progress by documenting the progress of learning.
  • Each student has to clear her or his individual needs and goals.
  • The portfolio is the way where the students can show what they know and can do.
  • Information is collected from various sources, through multiple methods, contents of portfolio can include drawings, photos, video, audio tape, writing o other work samples, computer disks and copies of standardized or program-specific tests.

My Testing Goals

Through the activities that I will go to present in this blog, I would like that my students, can understand my teaching philosophy, and that they can understand the different ways of evaluation, in special the differents skills that are present in this portafolio (writting, listening, reading, speaking), also I would like that they can understand my perspective of assessment, and what kind of actitivities I will do.
The goals of this online portafolio, are that my students learn something about my method of theaching, and that can a helpful medio of learn, with a responsible use of this.
Other goal is promote the use of internet, and the good use of the tecnology. I would like that they have a costumes of work with this new tool and work in this every day with motivation and happiness.
Finally with my blog I would like change the test by formative assessment, because the students can show me they can be responsible, and constant in the blogwork, if they see all days their blog and post, and work constantly, they would obtain a good final result.

jueves, 23 de septiembre de 2010

My teaching philosophy

Dears!!
I am studying for be teacher because my mother is teacher and always I have wanted to be like her.
I like teaching, I like form people with values, personal identity, with a form criterion, thinking people, I would like form people that have voice, that tell me all their doubt, and that they can express their feeling, thinking, also I would like, the students do not think and do not learn only for a number, also for know more about something, for learn english, for learn a new culture, because learning a new language, we form part of a new cultute, with all its implication.
I do not know who I will teach english, really  I do not know what method I will use and what techniques I will use, but I am sure that I will trait to give the best of me for can guide to the students to the correct answers and all the needs that they can have.