Product and Assessing my Learning Process
Assessing my Learning Process Descriptive Value Scale Use the descriptive value scale to evaluate your classmates’ comparative chart. Once all groups have finished, you could ask students to evaluate their classmates’ comparative chart. Show them how to use the scale provided. Self-evaluation 1. Work in pairs. Say how can you compare and describe a country’s natural features and cultural aspects. Give an example of each. Organize students in pairs. Read the instructions out loud. Monitor and provide support as needed. Regroup students into groups of four and ask them to discuss their responses. Give students a minute to reflect on how successfully they completed the activity. Elicit reflections from the different groups. 2. Look back through the lessons and check what you have learned to learn, to know, and to do. After that, you can go to page 115 again and check. Tell students to go to page 115 to check the themes presented in the Appendix so they can recall what they learned. 3. In your notebook, write what you think was difficult to achieve. Check the tips given at the end of each lesson and explain how they may help you to improve. Invite students to reread the tips given at the end of each lesson and reflect on how these tips may help them to improve. Have them write their conclusions in their notebook. Make sure to record which students need help so that you may design strategies to support them. How can you compare your country to others? Ask students to answer this question again, using the new language and knowledge they have acquired in this unit. Ask them to discuss the question in pairs first, and then let them form groups of four to share their ideas.
Comparative Chart Do the following activities:
• Have all your cards with useful expressions, diagrams, and sentences ready. • Work in small groups. • Compare the expressions, diagrams, and sentences you wrote. Choose the ones you want to use. • Make a comparative chart that compares your country with others.
Self-evaluation 1 Work in pairs. Say how you can compare and describe a country’s natural features and cultural aspects. Give an example of each. 2 Look back through the lessons and check what you have learned to learn, to know, and to do. A er that, you can go to page 115 again and check. • Work with another group. Use your chart to describe similarities and differences between your country and other countries. Assessing my Learning Process Descriptive Value Scale Use the descriptive value scale to evaluate your classmates’ comparative chart. 1 = Excellent 2 = Good 3 = Needs a little help 4 = Needs a lot of help 1 2 3 4 The information is relevant. The information is descriptive. The chart includes similarities and di erences. The information is written correctly.
3 In your notebook, write what you think was di cult to achieve. Check the tips given at the end of each lesson and explain how they may help you improve.
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Comparative Chart In this session, students will create a comparative chart that compares their country with another or others. Encourage them to use all the language in their portfolio to help them with the task. Tell them to pool together all the words and expressions, descriptive sentences, and comparative sentences they wrote and decide together on the final information to include. Remind them that they can find some tips of steps to follow in the Appendix on p. 115 to help them with the task. You can also suggest that they look at the model comparative chart in Lesson 4 to help them. Remember you always have the option to adapt the product to your class’s needs and interests. If students are not confident enough to come to the front of the class, first put them into pairs and ask them to practice. You can then regroup and ask them to practice again and again, until they feel more confident.
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