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Documents 21st
February 2002: Electronic Systems / English lesson Activity
1
(speaking)
You
have read the text about hard disks and magnetic tapes at home (I hope!!!!!!).
Now let’s try to put together everything we know about this storage
devices. Use the information from the text and all the other information
you have. Let’s follow this scheme: Hard
disk’s definition, description and location Hard disk’s types How information is stored in a hard
disk Activity
2
(speaking)
Now
we’ll speak about magnetic tapes. What do you know about them?
Activity
3
(speaking)
Think
of what you can do with the following storage devices. Give one
appropriate use with clear justification
for (think of their capacity, their characteristics, and their….price!): a)
floppy
disks b)
hard
disks c)
CD-ROMs Activity
4
- pair work (reading and writing)
Read
the paragraph “CD-ROM” and
find: -
What
is the storage capacity of a CD-ROM? -
Which
are the types of files it can store? -
Which
is faster in transferring data, a hard disk or a CD-ROM? -
What
does the name CD-ROM suggest? -
Do
CD-ROMs have many tracks like magnetic tapes? -
What
is the function of the laser beam? 19thst February 2002: History / English lesson 1)
Brainstorming
Say
all the English terms you know related to the word
“RELIGION”
2)
Match these terms with their definitions taken from The Oxford Talking
Dictionary Religion Christianity Paradise Hell Judaism Gospel Koran God Islam Bible
a)
A
superhuman person regarded as having power over nature and human fortunes;
a deity. b)
Belief
in some superhuman power or powers, entitled to obedience, reverence, and
worship c)
The
religion of the Jews, with a belief in one God and a basis in Mosaic and
rabbinical teachings. d)
the
Christian sacred writings collected as the Old and New Testaments e)
Heaven,
in Christian and Muslim theology. f)
The
infernal regions regarded as a place of torment or punishment g)
The
doctrines of Christ and his disciples h)
The
religious system established through the prophet Muhammad; the Muslim
religion. i)
The
sacred book of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the word of God as
revealed in Arabic to Muhammad j)
The
record of Jesus' life and teaching, contained in the first four books of
the New Testament
3)
Pair work. Write a definition of:
a) Monotheistic religion
b) Polytheistic religion a)_____________________________________________________________________________ b)_____________________________________________________________________________ 4)
These are some keywords referring to three important monotheistic
religions; Insert them in the right column (some of them can be inserted
in more than one column) synagogue
/ Old Testament / Jesus Christ / Allah / God / Bethlehem / New Testament /
imam /
rabbi / mosque / church / Jerusalem / Mohammed / Abraham / priest /
5)
Observe the chart you have completed in activity 4); Are there any key
words repeated in the three columns? If yes, what does it mean? At
home have a look at your history book and find some information about the
three religions; we’ll speak about them next time. CLASS
IV (Electronics course) Teaching
plan: English
and Information Technology module
Duration:
this is a course of 14 hours that will be carried out in the second school
term (February-June) for one hour a week. The lessons will be held by the
two teachers of English and Information Technology who will be co-present
in the class. Description:
this
module is based on an approach according to which some school subjects (or
parts of them) can be taught in English so that the students can use the
foreign language in the same way they use their mother tongue at school,
that is to say with the purpose of learning. Such an approach is often
defined CBI (Content Based Instruction). The
characteristics of the module will be essentially three: 1)
the
Information Technology content will be the focus of the lessons 2)
the
content will be presented through authentic materials developed in English 3)
the
students’ language and content learning needs will be the focus of the
teaching actions. The
module is composed of units on topics concerning what the students have
already learned in Italian, even if partially. The lessons in English will
be concerned in deepening and developing some of their relevant items, so
that the foreign language will be used by the students both to get to know
new information and to acquire further knowledge on them. English will be
the language used during the lessons with the purpose of directly
acquiring new knowledge about the contents related to the subject matter
and indirectly improving the language mastery. The only person in class
who is allowed to use Italian
will be the subject matter teacher, who will have the role of the content
expert. Obviously, since the students’ mastery of the English language
is limited, the use of Italian will be tolerated in some points of the
lessons, especially when the purpose is task explanation or work
organization. In conclusion the objectives are using English during at
least 80% of the lesson and reducing the use of Italian as much as
possible . Language objectives
Information
Technology objectives
Cross-curricular
objectives
Pre-requisites
Students’
outcomes At
the end of this module most of the students will be able to analyse
authentic textsconcerning a scientific and technical topic of which they
already had some previous knowledge. They will be able to find the
key-points and the framework of the argumentative text in with the points
are organized and the key-words necessary for the personal processing of
the information. Finally they will be able to produce oral and written
work in which they autonomously will reorganize all the information in a
coherent and quite correct form. Some
students
will not be able to do all this, however they will be able to comprehend
the essential information contained in the materials, to find the
key-words, and to produce study documents on which they will base their
personal re-elaboration in form of oral or written reports, simple but
coherent. Some
students
will have furtherly developed these skills and will be able to: analyse
authentic texts about the topics of which they had some previous knowledge.
They will be able to find the key-points and the framework of the
argumentative text in with the points are organized and the key-words
necessary for the personal processing of the information. Finally they
will be able to enrich all this with personal contributions derived from
the study of the topics in other disciplines or from other personal
experiences. Formative
assessing The
students will actively take part in the lessons in activities of preparation
and presentation (brain-storming, making hypotheses about the content of the materials
presented by observing the graphic format of the texts,
hypotheses on the necessary lexis and grammar structures, etc.), analysis/comprehension
os the materials ( gist, key-points, specific information, key-words,
transfer from a kind of language to another, etc.), activities of re-eleboration
/expansion/ productione/presentation(written and/or oral)
carried out individually, in pairs or in group.. In
these activities, that will be extremely interactive (teachers-students,
student-student) both the teachers and the students will get the necessary
feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of one’s teaching or learning,
and negotiate, from time to time, the necessary changes. Final
assessment The final assessment will have
the double purpose of evaluating the content acquisition and the language
improvement. At
the end of each unit the level reached by each student will be measured
through the evaluation of the presentation of the topic the students will
carry out, individually or in group, according to the type of
communication they will produce (written text/oral presentation/interview/article
for the school journal, etc).
Materials
The material will
be authentic, that is with an original communicative purpose and not
designed for language learning (Web pages from educational or commercial
sites, monolingual dictionaries, textbooks, encyclopaedias, newspapers and
magazines, CDROMs, videos, recordings, etc.), that result suitable with
respect to both the content and the language levels of knowledge. They
will be presented through
graded activities that will respect the level of the students’ language
mastery. Units
Unità
1 :
Computer’s storage
devices and internal storage of data
Unità
2
: Computer’s input and output devices Some
written texts produced by the students about different topics Class IV Electronics age: 17-18 Characteristics
of the reign of Louis XIV in France
“In
France Louis XIV founded the absolute monarchy. He continued the work of
his father, Louis XIII. He was helped by Cardinal Richelieu because when
he ascended to the throne of France he was only five years old. When
Richelieu died, Cardinal Mazarin became the king’s right hand. When
Louis XIV was a child, some nobles organized an open rebellion, called
Fronde, so when he became king, Louis XIV ordered the construction of the
Palace of Versailles and took all the nobles to live in this palace for
controlling them”. “When
Henry IV was murdered, Louis III became king. Louis XIII entrusted the
government to the Cardinal Richelieu. When king Louis XIII died, his son
Louis XIV succeded to him. Louis XIV was only five years old when he
succeded to his father. Louis XIV establishe an absolute monarchy. When he
was a child some nobles organized a rebellion. This rebellion was called
the Fronde. Louis XIV decided to make the centre of his absolute monarchy
in the palace of Versailles, because in this way he controlled the nobles
who lived there. He said a famous sentence: “I am the state” Louis XIV
was called “the king sun”. This name indicated his important power.” “Louis
XIV was the son of Louis XIII, who had become king after the assassination
of Henry IV. Louis XIII was supported by Cardinal Richelieu, who
controlled many activities in France. After the death of Louis XIII, Louis
XIV became king at the age of five. During Louis XIV’s youth, in France
there was a rebellion of the nobles, called the Fronde. This episode
changed his life, in fact he decided to control the nobles with his eyes.
He moved his court from Paris to Versailles, where he lived with all the
nobles. In this way, he could control them and founded a strong absolute
monarchy. The life at court was magnificent, there were games, plays and
dances and Louis XIV did not have problems of rebellion from the nobles.” Class V Electronics Age: 18-19 Semiconductor
materials
“A
semiconductor is a chemical material, that can be an insulator or a
conductor, so, when it behaves as an insulator the current doesn’t pass,
while when it behaves as a conductor the current passes through it. A
semiconductor, at a very low temperature, behaves as an insulator. On the
contrary, at room temperature, it behaves as a conductor. Silicon is the
most used semiconductor in electronics, because it is less expensive than
other semiconductor materials and, since in nature we can find
big quantities of it. The crystal structure of silicon consists of
a regular repetitions in three dimensions of a unit cell having the form
of a tetrahedron with an atom at each vertex. When a semiconductor has the
pure crystal structure, it’s called intrinsic semiconductor. On the
contrary, when a semiconductor has the doped crystal structure, it’s
called extrinsic semiconductor. Semiconductors are doped for increasing
their conductivity”.
“A
semiconductor is a particular material, because it has particular
electrical characteristics. In fact in nature there are three types of
materials with respect to conductivity: -
conductors:
through wich the current passes easily; -
insulators:
through which the current doesn’t pass; -
semiconductors:
that can be insulator When
the semiconductor’s temperature is very low every covalent bond in their
atoms is complete, so there aren’t free electrons and there can’t be
the phenomenon of conduction. On
the contrary, when the semiconductor’s temperature is high, the heat
energy breaks some bonds and the covalent bonds are incomplete, so there
are free electrons for the conduction. Silicon is the most used in
Electronics because it is presents in big amounts in nature and because it
is cheap. It has a crystal structure composed of a repetition of
tedrahedrons. At every vertex of each tedrahedron there is an atom with
four free electrons, so this material has valence electrons; in fact this
materials are called tetravalent.There are intrinsic and extrinsic
semiconductors: a semiconductor is intrinsic when it is used pure, and
extrinsic when it is doped. The semiconductors are doped to increase the
conductivity. A p-type semiconductor is doped with trivalent material or
impurity, while the n-type semiconductor is doped with pentavalent
impurity”. Class
I Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico
age: 14-15
Write
a text in which you describe the planet Earth for a scientific magazine of
the planet AzmarX210: “In
the solar system there are 9 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, but life is only on the Earth. The inside
of the planet Earth is divided in: inner core, outer core, lower mantle,
atmosphere, upper mantle and earth’s crust. On the Earth’s crust there
are oceans, seas and continents. The continents are 5: Europe, America,
Asia, Africa, Oceania. The big oceans are three: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian.
The sun is the star of our solar system and it gives the light and the
heat to the Earth and life depends on the sun. The Earth has a natural
satellite and its name is Moon. The Moon has an influence on the tides.
The tides are movements of the sea.” Write a
text in which you describe the planet Earth to convince the inhabitants of
the planet AzmarX210 to visit our planet:
“Dear
people of AzmarX210, have you ever visited the planet earth? No???!!!! And
then? Why don’t you come? It is FANTASTIC! There
are a lot of amazing landscapes: high mountains, big oceans, seas, jungles
and forests, deserts and glaciers and they are all wonderful. The people
of the earth are very friendly with tourists! Do you like eating metals?
No problem, we have got a lot of types of metal! And we cook them very
well. On the Earth there are a lot of metal restaurants. Come to the Earth!!!!!” Class
I Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico
age:
14-15
Translating
mathematical equations into words Invent
a situation that can be mathematically expressed by this equation: t + 3 =
8
“In
a castle there are 8 monsters. 3 are vampires and the others are zombies.
How many are the zombies?” “This
afternoon the temperature is 8° C and it is 3° C more than this morning.
Which was the temperature of this morning?” “Yesterday
in the camping site there were 3 tents. Today there are 8 tents. How many
new tents have arrived?”
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