domingo, 29 de noviembre de 2015

TASK 1 STUDENTS' NEEDS

The level of Secondary Education I have chosen is 1st ESO.
In this level, in the English subject students are required to:
-Be able to excuse themselves, express their gratitude for something and farewells.
-Use non-verbal expressions to complement their speaking.
-Show respect to other people from different cultures.
-Read, act and sing songs, texts, role-play.
-Ask for information or any object needed. 
-Describe objects, places...
-Narrate past and present events.
-Explain future projects.
-Ask and give personal information, places, timetables, prices, quantities...
-Ask for permission to do something.
-Express knowledge, doubts, security, satisfaction and the contraries.
.Express wills, prohibitions and orders.
-Be able to express their feelings and their mood.
-Reflect about their own learning and the use of language to communicate.
-Be able to talk about their surroundings and where they live, daily routines, family, friends, work, free time, sports, holidays, trips, health, shopping, diet, food, transport, metalanguage, climate, environment, icts, literary language, classroom language, rhythm, stress and intonation of the language.
In order to do that they should learn about:
-Countable, uncountable and compound nouns.
-Personal pronouns.
-Articles.
-Adjectives
-Possessives.
-Possessive genitive
-Existence:There is/ are. There was/were.
-Quality: too, really, a little.
-Quantity: Plurals, cardinal and ordinal numbers, quantity adverbs. A lot, a few.
-Adverbs of manner: easily, hard.
-Affirmative sentences.
-Negative sentences: no, never, no, no problem.
-Interrogative sentences: wh questions.
-Exclamatory: That's fun, great.
-Expression of time: present simple and continuous, past simple, going to, will.
-Expression of aspect, modality: can, perhaps, need, have got, don't, can, could, going to, present continuous, 
-Expression of temporary relationships: five to ten, from, since, before, already, after, 
-Expression of spacial relationships:Place prepositions and adverbs, position, distance, movement, destination, direction.
-Expression of logical relationships: and, too, also, but, because, for, as/not.

Now, I am going to explain the subject I have chosen and what they are required to do in a 1st ESO class that is Biology and Geology.

In this level students would be required to:
-Talk about the origins of the universe. It comes from... It was discovered... years ago.
-Solar system characteristics. It is composed by... The planets are... They are made of... Their color is... Their shape is...
-The Earth, its movements. Does it move around the other planets? How does it function?
-Terrestrial materials. The different elements by which it is composed. Atmosphere,hydrosphere...
-Structure and composition. The first section is made of,...
-Rocks and minerals. Characteristics, It is round, it is made of... Its colour is...
-Pollution, The pollution is produced by,,, How can we help to preserve the atmosphere?
-Water. How much quantity of water do we have in the Earth? What do we need it for?
-Living organisms and the importance of them. How can we eliminate the water pollution? We can establish more bins in the streets or in the beaches...
-Vital functions. Where do we come from? 
-Nutrition. Carnivorous and herbivorous animals. What do they eat? If you are carnivour, do you eat plants? And meat?
-Vertebrates and Invertebrates. Do vertebrate animals have bones?
-Different plants and animals.

Just to finish I would like to underline the differences that we find in the English subject for 1st ESO contents and the contents that they are required to study in Biology and Geology.
Do you think that it would be possible to adapt therir level to the subject?

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