Steam Device
Overview
Welcome to our Virtual Learning Scenario. This program has been designed to enhanced your English language skills. Through engaging activities, interactive lessons, and practical exercises, we aim to improve your vocabulary, grammar reading comprehension, and speaking abilities. Get ready to explore the issues related to the architecture in the city of Neiva and in the rest of the world. Expand your knowledge, boost your confidence, and equip you with the language skills necessary for success in your academic and professional life.
Introduction
Welcome to our Virtual Learning Scenario. This program has been designed to enhanced your English language skills. Through engaging activities, interactive lessons, and practical exercises, we aim to improve your vocabulary, grammar reading comprehension, and speaking abilities. Get ready to explore the issues related to the architecture in the city of Neiva and in the rest of the world. Expand your knowledge, boost your confidence, and equip you with the language skills necessary for success in your academic and professional life.
VLC Goals
ICT Goals:
- One of the main aims of ICT is to help students to become competent and confident users who can use the basic knowledge and skills acquired to assist them in their daily lives. It aims to help learners to have an open and flexible mind. This will help them to adjust to the inevitable future changes.
- It aims to equip learners with the appropriate social skills required to cooperate with fellow ICT learners for a more productive learning experience.
- It aims to assist students to appreciate the beauty and diversity of culture. It also aims to help students become well-cultured citizens of the modern world.
- It aims to assist students to grow personally by facilitating different methods of learning.
English goals
- Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
- Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
Vocabulary bank
Here you will find some words that may be unfamiliar to you during the lesson:
Building (Edificio): a structure with walls and a roof, such as a house or factory
Construction (construcción): the work of building or making something, especially buildings, bridges, etc.
Stadium (estadio): a large closed area of land with rows of seats around the sides and often with no roof, used for sports events and musical performances.
Rink (pista de patinaje): a large, flat surface, of ice or other hard material, for skating or the area or building that contains this.
Neighborhood (vecindario): an area of a city, town, etc.
Delay (retrasar): to make something happen at a later time than originally planned or expected.
Investment (Inversión): the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage, or the money, effort, time, etc. used to do this
Oral production
Activity: Presentation of the problem of white elephants and unfinished buildings to students
Task 1: After introducing students to the topic and the problems, we will ask the students to tell us about their experiences with this type of structure. The objective is that the students develop their oral competences.
Task 2: After they tell us their experiences with unfinished buildings, they now have to tell us what they know or understand about white elephants, abandoned buildings and unfinished buildings as well as to observe and analyze their previous knowledge of the topic.
Oral interaction
Activity: Students have to watch the following video about unfinished buildings in Neiva and some the most famous ones.
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NizIUHhZEe7ace6AYFyUXYaKhLrWtC5X/view?usp=drive_link
Task 1: Role Play. We are going to assign roles to each student, such as local residents, government officials, architects, and environmentalists. We will ask them to engage in a role play activity where they discuss the future of the white elephants. Each participant should present their perspective, share their concerns, and propose potential solutions.
Task 2: We are going to conduct a debate on the topic of repurposing the white elephants after the Olympic Winter Games. The students are going to be divided into two teams: one supporting repurposing, and the other opposing it. Each team should research and prepare strong arguments and counter-arguments. During the debate, participants present their arguments, engage in rebuttals, and respond to questions from the opposing team and the audience.
Reading comprehension
Read this presentation about Unfinished buildings and some examples of them in the city of Neiva.
NEIVA, A CITY FULL OF UNFINISHED BUILDINGS.
Task 1: Now with the information provided in the presentation, we are going to play the next game called "Fill in the blanks".
Go to this link: Fill in the blanks Game
Task 2: Now let's play Who wants to be a millionaire. The questions are related to the previous reading.
You will have access to the game in the document below.
Listening comprehension
Listen to the following audio which talks about the great white elephant leaving the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea to learn more about white elephants outside of Colombia.
Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRldMBR5cgOtKrX0SA0AhzIbBjoczG2l/view?usp=drive link
Task 1: Answer the following question and share it with your peers taking into account what you remember about the audio.
- What were some of the reasons mentioned in the audio documentary for the white elephants after the 2018 Olympic Winter Games?
- How did the white elephants impact the local community and economy?
- Were there any proposed plans or solutions mentioned in the audio for repurposing the white elephants?
Task 2: Taking into account the information in the audio above, now let's play a kahoot game to demonstrate your knowledge about the white elephants and unfinished buildings.
Click on the link to play and wait for the game pin: https://kahoot.it
Writing production
Activity: Writing at an opinion forum.
For this activity we are going to make a forum using the online platform Microsoft Teams.
Link:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3aZN1hxlZQsTibh_dhDIXAhFbfyHDM5vHMWgtHDycyEM41%40thread.tacv2/General?groupId=7eac4d7a-115c-473e-acd7-004b831f9278&tenantId=4d96191b-021d-40c0-bbf2-e24bd37759be
Instructions:
Task 1: You have to write a commentary about white elephants, taking into account all the information given above. In the following classroom link they can make this comment in the activity defined as an opinion forum.
Task 2: In addition to the above comment, give a short opinion about how these white elephants could be avoided and what we can do as a society so that these spaces can be finished or in what other ways we can use them.
Writing interaction
Activity: We are going to comment on a partner's opinion.
We are going to use the same forum: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3aZN1hxlZQsTibh_dhDIXAhFbfyHDM5vHMWgtHDycyEM41%40thread.tacv2/General?groupId=7eac4d7a-115c-473e-acd7-004b831f9278&tenantId=4d96191b-021d-40c0-bbf2-e24bd37759be
Task 1: As in the previous activity each student had to participate in the forum postulating their own opinion regarding the unfinished buildings. Now, they have to reply to a partner's opinion, and comment whatever you think about his or her opinion.
Task 2: Finally, as a partner replies to your opinion, you have to support your opinion against the comments of your peers. Demonstrating your ability to debate an issue in writing and reinforcing your opinion.
VLS Assessment
NOW LET'S EVALUATE YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE WITH THIS KAHOOT
Click on this link and wait for the Game Pin: https://kahoot.it