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Complementos Surname: Gomez Garcia

para la Formación
Disciplinar de
21-04-18
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Name:Luis
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(inglés)
The teacher will show his/her B1 students this chart and he will explain briefly the
History of the English Language and the different periods.He will make reference to
the impact of different civilizations living in Britain and the most important historical
facts that influence the History of the English Language.He will also mention Roman
and Celtic invasions before the official start of English and some changes that the
language has undergone throughout its history.The teacher will make sure that the
students understand that these changes can affect different branches of the
language(syntax,lexis…)but he should not go deep into these changes.He will use no
more than fifteen minutes.
Then,the teacher will divide the students in groups of three or four(depending on the
number of students in class)and he will play the fist extract of the video “The History of
English in ten minutes”(available in www.youtube.com). For a better comprehension
he will play the video twice and offer the students the chance to read subtitles in
English.After the reproductionof the first chapter he will encourage the different groups
of students to answer some questions(for instance:How many words can you remember
from this period?,Why do you think that these words appear in this period?,Is English a
Germanic Language? Or Could you summarize this chapter?).In this way,the teacher
will play the ten extracts of this video and after each chapter he will go on with this
procedure of making questions to students,who shouls answer them with the help of
their groups,and they should do it orally.The doublé reproduction of the video lasts
twenty five minutes approximately and the teacher should spend fifteen minutes of the
class asking the students.
Dealing with some students with specific needs the teacher will make sure that they
also take part in the class.It would be advisable to prepare another kind of “more
visual” questions so that they can be
succesful due to the fact that the video shows the History with a touch of humour.For
those questions”for the students who have attention difficulties(ADHS),and they can be
with auditory problems it wouldbe recommendable to provide the pdf file with the
script of the text so that these students can follow the rythm of the class.In this way the
teacher makes sure that he is providing attention to diversity.

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Among the goals of this class we can highlight the next ones:
-To encourage students to learn new words and their origin and to learn about the
History of the English Language
-To develop their linguistic competence(students will improve communicative
skills,readind,listening,speaking…
-To promote collaborative learning

For the C1 level students the teacher will show two videos in class: the first one will be
“History of English Language”(available in Youtube.com).After the reproduction of the
video the students will be able to make a brief idea of the history and origins of the
language,as well as to recognize some changes that our language has undergone
troughout centuries. the teacher will encourage students to make some questions to
him/her related to possible doubts.Then,he will go deep into the content of the
video,making reference to the main historical, political and economical facts that
contribute to the evolution of the language and some other changes that affect
syntax,lexis,phonology and phonetics…The teacher will make sure that the students
understand these language changes(external and internal).In order to show this
evolution he can also show the students some example of changes belonging to the
different branches of the language(see www.History of English:Language Change and
Development-Linköping)for them to make a clear idea of the evolution of the
language.The duration of the video is nine minutes and in total the the teacher will not
spend more than forty minutes.
Then,the teacher will play the video “the History of English in ten minutes”(available in
www.youtube.com) and this way the students will be able to make a better idea about
the history of the language,and they will also learn about another interesting
facts…After the video the teacher will give a worksheet to his students with a list of
some meaningful words and language changes belonging to the different periods and
they should recognize what period they belong to and why.The students should finish
this exercise at home if they do not have time to finish in class.
Regarding the students with special needs,as they are University students,I suppose
that we refer to visual or auditory problems,in this case the teacher should provide the
script of the videos and he should also make sure that the students with visual
problems count on a special worksheet(adapted) for them to work.For some students
with High Capacities the teacher will increase the difficulty of the worksheet and he
could also include a text in Old English for them to translate and look for the major

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language changes that English has undergone.Using these strategies the teacher will
provide a right attention to diversity and make the students participate in class.
Among the goals of the class we can highlight:
-To encourage students to learn about the History of English Language,and the
influence of the different cultures living in Britain in present English
-To teach the students how to recognize the major language changes related to word
order,grammar,lexis…
-To improve the linguistic competence and the different English
skills(listening,reading…)
-To promote an acquisition of new words,familiarization with classic authors and texts

REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS

-History of English Language ( video obtenido de www.youtube.com)

-The History of English in ten minutes (video obtenido de www.youtube.com)
-www.History of English: Language Change and Development-Linköping.com

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