A Tribute to New York - Navarra

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New York d) You are a cab driver in New York. How did you spend an ordinary day yesterday? 77
Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New York 9 9 ' Before we introduce the topic of New York, it is necessary to be aware of what our students know beforehand. As Barr et al. say “reading starts before we even look at the text”. We need to activate their previous knowledge, so that they can interact with the text(s) we will be working with, and therefore, understand them better. As an example, when I started working on this unit, I asked my bachillerato students to make a little historic memory exercise: to think about New York before 11 th Sept. 2001 for five minutes, in a kind of brainstorming activity. After that we put all the ideas together in a big poster, learning at the same time to arrange ideas in a sort of mind map. The result can be seen below. This brainstorming and mind map allowed the class to share their previous knowledge and it also allowed me to know what they knew about New York and what I could take for granted. For example, I found out that they know a lot from the stereotypes they get in films. And although some of their concepts were wrong, I think they knew a lot more about New York than I expected them to. 78
Page 1 and 2:
http://usuario.tiscali.es/a_tribute
Page 3 and 4:
Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New
Page 5 and 6:
Page 7 and 8:
Page 9 and 10:
Page 11 and 12:
Page 13 and 14:
Page 15 and 16:
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20:
Page 21 and 22:
Page 23 and 24:
Page 25 and 26:
Page 27 and 28: Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New
Page 77: Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New
Page 83: Pilar Santos Tambo A Tribute to New
show all

A Tribute to New York - Navarra

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?