Dsla. Mòdul 3. Pràctica 3. Internet i la llengua anglesa a secundària


	In love with Shakespeare

	In Love with Shakespeare is a didactic unit for Batxillerat. It can be done as a whole or selecting some of the units and doing them on their own. The main objectives here are to develop communicative strategies, both spoken and written, and to get to know some aspects of English culture (basically history and literature), with the aid of ITC. In other words, this is a clear example of Content and Language Integrated Learning - C.L.I.L.

	Practice it!

	1. To start the activities, go to http://www.xtec.net/aulanet/ud/angles/love/index.html and click on Students. This will take you to the following screen: When you pass your mouse over it, the different units appear. Click on the first one, Tudor England.

	2. Start by learning about the context in which Shakespeare lived: the monarchy (Context), the city of London (Tudor London) and the way they dressed (Tudor dresses). Again, pass the mouse over the screen and click on Context. Here students will learn about the Tudors. By searching the web sites provided, they must find out about Henry VIII, his wives and how Elizabeth I accessed the throne. They must also identify the main characters in Tudor history in a number of portraits.

	3. Now click on Tudor London. Students complete a description of the city at that time after reading a website, learn about London monuments and place them in a map and do a short writing activity.

	4. Finally, click on Tudor dresses. In the first place, students must learn the vocabulary of clothing in Elizabethan times, Then, they must write a complete description of an Elizabethan character.

	5. The teachers section is divided into Introducció, with the justification and the theory behind CLIL. Objectius, the objectives. Continguts, (fets i conceptes, procediments, actituds, valors i normes) Temporització: the timing and activities for each of the 15 sessions. Didàctica: some methodology on group work and use of ITC. Teacher's notes for each of the sessions and the answer keys. Avaluació. Notes on the type of evaluation required for each activity (individual, group, initial, formative...).

	Activity framework

	Methodology. Students work in groups of maximum four people, although some activities must be done as a whole class (e.g watching the videos or the oral presentations). Most of the exercises must be done at the computer, and students must make sure they save their work in order to print it and hand it in at the end. If time allows, their final project is to be presented orally before the class. Resources. The DVDs Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love Optionally, Cds or floppies so that students save their work at the end of each session. Timing. the activities done as a whole take a term. If done separately, one or two sessions may be enough to complete a unit.
	Use the map of the web to access the different activities in a faster way.

	Additional info

	Mystery in the Middle Ages. This is a Crèdit Variable for 4t ESO in which the students create the characters, settings and plot in order to write a play which they will then perform.