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SYLLABUS DESIGN (CONTEXT (Group class and its diversity (From an emotional…

- - - - Educational reason: Our communicative competence will be increased with the incorporation of different codes
      - Cognitive reason: It helps broadening the representation of reality
      - Sociological reason: Language is the main mean of communication
      - Linguistic reason: young students are better prepared than adults to learn a language
      - Affective reason: learning a second language benefits from children´s spontaneity.
    - - Sociolinguistic competence
      - Strategic competence
      - Discursive competence
      - Sociocultural competence
      - Grammatical competence
- - - - They are organized in three blocks
        
        Specific subjects: Artistic Education, Physical Education, Second Foreign Language and Social Civid Values
        
        Elective subjects: they depend on the Autonomous Region
        
        Core subjects: Natural and Social Sciences, Spanish Language and Literature, Maths and first Foreign Language: English
- - - - Apparently, the mathematical competence might seem not to have a direct connection with the learning outcomes of this area.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Oral and Written production
        
        Using symbols to express everyday situations
        
        Expressing the information presented in symbols verbally
        
        Transforming qualitative information into quantitative data and vice versa
        
        Validating proposed hypothesis
        
        Scientific and technological notions and experiences
        
        Experiencing the basic functioning of electronic elements which reproduce sounds and image.
        
        Using ICT in the English class.
        
        Using an appropriate way scientific and technical instruments and tools when learning the English language.
        
        Organizing, understanding and integrating information.
        
        Creating different groupings attending to different commands.
        
        Analysing and interpreting given information.
        
        Classifying elements attending to different criteria
        
        Organising information according to a sequence
        
        Scientific and technological processes
        
        Identifying the variable elements that intervene in different processess
        
        Discovering the existent relation between the variables that take part in a certain process
        
        Establishing cause-effect relations
        
        Applying measures/strategies in order to contribute to a sustainable development: recycling
    - - The Foreign Language area helps develop this competence allowing students to organize their own learning and managing their time and information effectively. It implies acquiring, processing, assimilating new concepts and abilities.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Working habits
        
        Checking the students "school diary": examining the notes written down in the diary and revising the planning made.
        
        Having specific individual meetings with the students and their families based on personal needs or difficulties: performance in the area, inclusion in the class group, student's behaviour
        
        Using intellectual work techniques: underlining and highlighting, summarising, creating outlines...
        
        Keeping track of the ordinary/weekly/monthly study time by creating registry tools, bar charts were planned study time and real study time are registered and compared.
        
        Knowledge of oneself
        
        Filling in personal monitoring cards
        
        Promoting times for individual and collective reflection
        
        Carrying out self-assessment activities
        
        Doing volunteer activities: answering questions in class, doing homework activities
    - - Enriching and giving new strategies of understanding and expressing in order to develop the general communicative competence. Communicating in foreign languages is based on essential abilities to understand, express and interpret concepts, thoughts, facts and opinions both in oral and written way.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Oral understanding
        
        Orally expressing the content (main ideas) found in an oral presentation or listening task.
        
        Orally expressing the information found in written sources, graphs, drawings...
        
        Answering questions
        
        Transforming orally given information into different codes: written texts, drawings, outlines...
        
        Written production
        
        Summarizing contents
        
        Preparing papers related to current social topics
        
        Answering questions in a written form
        
        Doing dictations according to the curricular level of the students.
        
        Oral expression
        
        Discussions about current issues connected to the curriculum contents
        
        Individual, small group and large group presentations
        
        Individual and group readings about different topics
        
        Orally answering questions
        
        Written understanding
        
        Orally expressing the content (main ideas) found in a written text
        
        Transforming the information found in a written text into other codes: drawings, graphs.
        
        Creating summaries, mind maps and visual outlines of different topics
        
        Answering to questions related to a written text
    - - Technological and audio-visual means can be used in the tecahing-learning process as a quick and significant tool to gather information and work with it. Internet´s role must be emphasized in the access, production and information and communication exchange.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Designing simple programs for the treatment of the information: database
        
        Searching the meaning of new words and expressions through digital means.
        
        Establishing strategies to access and select information: internet search and social network participation
        
        Doing simple maintenance tasks: cleaning of computers, simple repairs
        
        Using new technologies to search information.
    - - Students are encouraged to make decisions autonomously in situations in which they have to surpass themselves, persevere and maintain a positive attitude.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Decision making
        
        Offering a choice of different type of activities: reinforcement, extension, synthesis, reflections, creativity...
        
        Sugesting dilemmas to discuss in English: economic growth vs. nature conservation, globalization vs. individual identities
        
        Activities with different alternatives: multiple choice questions, justifying answers...
        
        Offering students all type of real-life situations, in which they have to make a decision to better said situation: deciding hot to improve time dedicated to studying, how to distribute free time, how to help at home, how to solve family/school conflicts
        
        Initiative and creativity
        
        Carrying out activities which the students have suggested, showing initiative, with few guide orientations from the teacher and having the evaluation criteria set by the students.
        
        Expressing in an oral or written way the steps to follow in the suggested activities.
    - - Inherent characteristics of communication facilitate social relationships and favour inclusion and respects, at the same time as helping develop cooperation and solidarity.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Social and coexistence skills
        
        Doing pair activities in which peer tutoring is present
        
        Participating in group activities in the school: quizzes and competitions
        
        Carrying out cooperative work and interactive activities
        
        Understanding of the current world
        
        Carrying out projects about current affairs
        
        Identifying socially important people related to the English-speaking countries culture
        
        Doing projects about current issues related to the culture of English-speaking countries and other part s of the world
    - - The expressive component that allows a student to exteriorize their ideas through different means, including music of literature. The correct development of this area must help students understand cultural and linguistic diversity.
        
        Sample activities
        
        Creativity
        
        Using diverse materials in an innovative way
        
        Facilitating and encouraging the development of activities and tasks that come from the students
        
        Searching for alternative ways of solving conflicts
        
        Doing interdisciplinary projects
        
        Expanding information
        
        Use of technical and artistic languages
        
        Putting into practive procedures and techniques in the execution of individual and group projects