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The General Objective number seven for the Primary Education in Andalusia establishes “to value the foreign language and languages in general as a way of communication between people from different nationalities and origins, developing a positive attitude through multilingual and multicultural diversity integrated in our community”. Attending to this, I would introduce my students one of the most important and famous American authors in children´s literature, Dr. Seuss.

 

As we celebrate Book´s Day on 23rd April because of the anniversary of the death of Cervantes and Shakespeare, in United States of America, “Read Across America” is celebrated on 2nd March, and it started to honour the birthday date of Dr. Seuss.

 

In order to connect the General Objectives with the use of Time Toast, I would mention the objective number 5 “to learn how to use with progressive autonomy all the resources within their reach, including new technologies to obtain information and to communicate in the foreign language”.

 

Saying this, I would be able to set the following learning objectives inside the classroom:

§  To learn about English literature.

§  To bring American culture to the class.

§  To provide my students with practical use of technology.

§  To practice and use English in a meaningful and motivating way.

 

My students enjoy each activity that involves the use of ICT, it increases their motivation and, normally, they are quite independent when working online. To use Time Toast will probably enhance their digital competence at the same time reading skills.

 

I would set the timing for this activity inside the last fortnight of the first term, once all the didactic units have been taught. Taken advantage of this time of the year, Christmas time, I would present one of Dr. Seuss´ most famous stories, the Grinch. Even there would be a chance to watch in class one of the many movies there are about this typical Christmas character.

Next step will be search on Internet other books form this author and present the Time Toast webpage and a brief presentation of how it works.

By creating a time line using the computer class and the white board, I will illustrate my students with the main features, how to download images, how to upload them, etc. I could use the tutorial that already exists on this course.

 

I could predict some likely problems that it may happen in class. The main one it could be that the whole webpage/interface is in English. Even when they are used to use apps in English, they could struggle through their usage. Furthermore, there is no computer room in my school, so the learners would have to bring their own devices and not all of them have the chance to own one, therefore, collaborative work (pairs-groups of three) will be necessary in order to fix probable issues.  

 

Another difficulty could be the time my student could spend signing up themselves, searching all those pictures, downloading all of them… so I would plan the activity for, at least, two or three sessions/classes.

Here it is the link:

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2442358




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