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22/06/2020
EFL: Skills Name: Natalia

A pedagogical proposal for teaching the four macro skills using motivational strategies
Teacher`s name: Natalia Zuñiga Patiño School: IED Nicolàs de Federmàn (Guataquì, Cundinamarca)
Class grade: 9th grade-middle school Time: 60 minutes. (each session)
Students: 16 Age of the students: 11-13
Topic: Friendship Level: A2
In the order to achieve the motivation of the learning process of the four macro skills, this
pedagogical proposal will use different strategies such as positive feedback to reinforce his/her own self
stem. Then, he/she could feel secure to participate and practice his/her production skills inside the group
though all he sessions. Moreover, the sessions are going to start with a game or a fun activity in order to
create and interest and expectation of the student of what is going to learn; and with purpose to
promote the speaking skill during the whole class and all sessions. Also, the proposal will have different
materials; in this way the students will be more interested and don’t feel bored in any session because
the activities and the material will be different because they will be learning in different ways. Moreover,
the classes will use different visuals such as songs, TV shows and real articles and others with the
intention of showing the language culture and achieve the students interest.
The topic which was chosen is “Friendship”, this topic is interesting for teenagers, because with
this, it could be easily to get the interest and in this way the motivation to learn it, and through that it will
be easily to achieve the formal aspects of the language and to work on the macro skills., because it will be
doing with a topic that has a lot of value to them. In this way, through the different lesson students will
learn and study about different friendships; children, teenagers, grown-ups, among others.
LESSON 1: Children’s friendship
OBJECTIVES COMPETENCES SKILLS
-To describe how is children’s friendship through the Linguistic It will be worked the four
production skills. competence macro skills: listening,
-To recognize who children develop their friendships Sociolinguistic speaking, reading and
and how it changes when they grow up. competence writing:
-To use proper expression to give opinions about a
topic: friendship.
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CONTENTS MATERIAL AND RESOURCES
Children`s friendship: 1. Video: Child
-Verbs: open, hide, break down, stand Friendships / Stand by
-Nouns: scars, wings, tears, heaven, emotions, faith, shine. You.
-adjectives: brave and alone. 2. Lyrics: Rachel Platten
-Expressions to give opinions: I think…,I believe…,In my opinion…,I - Stand By You
would say…,My impression…,I have the feeling that…
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Warm up: trough a game hangman the teacher will introduce some ASSESSMENT TOOLS
words of the vocabulary (students will remember some words, learn Participation is assessed
and they will practice spelling and pronunciation. This activity will take during the whole lesson. 20%
15 minutes.
Speaking: Students will watch the video and listen the song Child’s Listening accuracy 20%
friendship, stand by you. Then, they will answer the following
questions (orally) by pairs, they must use expressions to give opinions. Speaking fluency 20%.
The teacher will introduce some expressions. Then, they will share their
answers with the rest of the class. This activity will take 15 minutes. Understand and get the main
 Which feelings are showing the children in the ideas 20%.
video?
 According to the video, Give their opinion or ideas
 How do children show their feelings? clearly 20%
 According to the video, do children support between
them? Which situations does the video show? The students will be
Listening: Students will watch the video and listen the song. Their evaluated through a rubric.
attention must be focused on the song. The teacher will play the song
twice. First, they must write words that they understood. Then, they
will answer this question on little paper. What do you think that means
“I’m gonna stand by you”, expression which is constantly repeated on
the song? The students will give to the teacher the paper. And she/he
will choose tree papers and she/he will read them aloud. The other
students must guess who did write down. The best answer will be
pasted it on the English wall. This activity will take 10 minutes.
Reading: Students will receive a worksheet with the song lyrics. First,
they will do a scanning of the song, they will try to identify words that
they’ve already know and share with the class. Then, will share with the
rest of the class, what do they think that is the main topic of the song.
They must use expression to give opinions. This activity will take 10
minutes.
Writing: Students will create a short paragraph where they explain why
when children grow up are afraid to show feelings to their friends
(especially when they are teenagers. This activity will take 10 minutes.
The teacher will choose 5 paragraph and they are going to be on the
English wall. It will be different students from the other activity. This
activity will take 10 minutes.

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LESSON 2: Teenagers’ friendship
OBJECTIVES COMPETENCES SKILLS
-To discuss about the values that a Linguistic competence It will be worked the four
friendship must have, specially a friendship Sociolinguistic macro skills: listening,
between teenagers. competence speaking, reading and
To give correctly recommendations about Pragmatic competence writing:
different topic: specially relate to
friendship.

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-To design an advertisement about a value

that all friendships must have.
CONTENTS MATERIAL AND RESOURCES
-Feelings and emotions: sad, happy, embarrassed, annoyed, among 1. Video: a friend in
others. need (British council).
-Values relate with friendship: priority, self-disclosure, touch, affection, 2. Transcription of the
loyalty, independence, acceptance, and willingness to change. video (gaps). British
-Expressions to give an advice: You should…,You could…,You council.
probably…,Why don’t you…?,My suggestion….,My advice…
ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT CRITERIA –
Warm up: The class will be divided in four groups. In a piece of paper, ASSESSMENT TOOLS
they must write a list of the most important thing about friendship (E.g. Participation is assessed
trust). It will win the group which has written more words. This activity during the whole lesson. 20%
will take 5 minutes.
Speaking: Taking into account the list of the most important things of Listening accuracy 20%
the vocabulary the students will discuss in the groups which one is the
most important, they will discuss why. Then, the will mention in which Speaking fluency 20%.
situation they could feel bad with a friend. Other students will try to
give advices so the student don’t feel bad. (The idea is that students Understand and get the main
talk about trust in a friendship The teacher will be passing group by ideas 20%.
group making a positive feedback of the correct use of the English. This
activity will take 20 minutes. Give their opinion or ideas
Listening: Students will listen a video, they cannot watch the TV during clearly 20%
this activity, they will have the dialogue (scrip) with some gaps, which
they will listen and they must complete the missing words. The teacher The students will be
will play the video three times. This activity will have 10 minutes. evaluated through a rubric
Reading: Students will read the script of the conversation (they already
have it from the previous activity). And they will say what is Gemma’s
problem and which is Makayla’s advice, Through the activities the
students will see which expression may use to give advices, also the
teacher will give then other expressions. This activity will have 15
minutes.
Writing: Student will do and add about how to have a good friendship.
This activity will be developed by groups of four students. The add must
have a slogan, a picture and short message. Finally, there will be post in
the school’s board. This activity will have 15 minutes.

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LESSON 3: adult’s friendship
OBJECTIVES COMPETENCES SKILLS
-To identify the main characteristics Linguistic competence It will be worked the four
about an adult`s friendship. Sociolinguistic competence macro skills: listening,
-To generate discussion respecting your Pragmatic competence speaking, reading and
peer opinions using a proper English, writing:
orally and written.
-To create a mind map that can

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summarize the main ideas about an

adult’s friendship.
CONTENTS MATERIAL AND RESOURCES
-Adults’ friendship: values and tips. Article: How Friendships
-Expressions to give opinions: I think…, I believe…, In my opinion… Change in Adulthood, Julie
-Expressions to agree. I couldn’t agree more…, I agree with..., You have Beck..
a point there…, I’m afraid I agree with…, You have a point there…
-Expressing disagreeing: I don’t think so, I’m afraid I disagree, That’s not
always true, I totally disagree
ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT CRITERIA –
Warm up: Thought a dictation the teacher will say essential trials to ASSESSMENT TOOLS
have a good friendship. Students will listen and copy, the first who wins Participation is assessed
will receive a chocolate (Ferrero Roche). This activity will take 5 during the whole lesson. 20%
minutes.
Reading: students will read the article about friendship in adulthood. Listening accuracy 20%
First, they will have two minutes to do scanning and look for familiar
words. Then, they will share with the rest of the class about the Speaking fluency 20%.
possible main idea of the test. Later, they will read the text individually.
They will answer the following questions. As is a long reading the Understand and get the main
students will have 15 minutes to read it. ideas 20%.
-Which are the differences between teenagers’ friendship and
adults’ friendship? Give their opinion or ideas
-What do you think that is the most important in adult’s clearly 20%
friendship.
They will answer the question written. The students will be
Speaking: using the same questions and another information of the evaluated through a rubric
text, students will develop a discussion about the adults’ friendship.
They must give their opinion (then they must use expression to give
opinion, but as in a discussion they also must responds to the opinion
agreeing or disagreeing. The teacher will moderate the conversation,
she/he will make comments to encourage students about their opinion
and the fluency in this way the students will feel more comfortable and
security of what are saying and how are saying it. The activity will be
developed in 15 minutes.
Listening: through the discussion students must pay attention to their
peers and must write some of the peers’ opinion, at the end they will
tell to the teacher their peers opinion, saying also who said that. The
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Writing: In a big card, students will do a mind map about the most
important items about a friendship in the adulthood. The activity will
be developed by groups of four students. The activity will be developed
in 15 minutes.

LESSON 4: Bromances
OBJECTIVES COMPETENCES SKILLS

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-To define what is bromance through the Linguistic competence It will be worked the four macro
production communicative skills. Sociolinguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading
-To express students’ ideas and opinions competence and writing:
about how current male-male Pragmatic
relationships. competence
-To design an ad that can promote a
male-male relationship without chauvinist
ideas.
CONTENTS MATERIAL AND RESOURCES
-Male-male relationship (vocabulary) 1. Video: multibromances -|
-Expressions to give ideas and opinions: I think…, I believe…, In my I've got you brother.
opinion…, I would say…, My impression…, I have the feeling that…, 2. Article: Men often happier
I have no doubt that ..., I’m sure that … with their ‘bromance’
than their romance.
3. Video: Chandler & Joey
Bromance Moments -
Chandler and Joey
Friendship Moments
ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT CRITERIA –
Warm up: students will watch a video about bromances that are ASSESSMENT TOOLS
shown in different TV shows. Later, the teacher will ask to the Participation is assessed during
students if they know and taking into account the video. What is a the whole lesson. 20%
bromance? The students must try give a concept. This activity will
take 5 minutes. Listening accuracy 20%
Reading: Students will read a text about how in the current days
men prefer a bromance over a romance; the students will develop Speaking fluency 20%.
the reading by pairs. First the teacher will ask about a scanning and
identify familiar words and they must share with the rest of the Understand and get the main
class. Then, the will read the text. The will have 15 minutes to read ideas 20%.
the article.
Speaking: After, the students have read the article. Students will be Give their opinion or ideas clearly
will organized by groups (girls and boys will be mixed). They will 20%
discuss the following ideas. What a bromance is, why men
nowadays prefer a romance over romances and which are boys’ The students will be evaluated
and girls’ opinion about bromances. This activity will take 10 through a rubric
minutes.
Listening: Students will watch the video about “Chandler and Joey
bromance
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and they must choose one of the moments to explain with his/her
own words.
Writing: Students will design an add that promotes positively
bromances. They will do it the activity by pairs. They must do on a
computer because all the ads will be published on the school’s
home page.

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LESSON 5: Man’s best friend

OBJECTIVES COMPETENCES SKILLS
-To determine which are the reasons of Linguistic competence It will be worked the four
thinking that human and dogs are the best Sociolinguistic macro skills: listening,
friends. competence speaking, reading and
-To give original examples that explain why Pragmatic competence writing:
dogs are man’s best friend.
-To preset a video where the students show
his/her dog and explain why is his/her best
friend.
CONTENTS MATERIAL AND RESOURCES
-Relationship between men and dogs. Video: The Bond Between
-Feelings and emotions. Man's Best Friend and Their
-Personality adjectives. Owner.
-Expression to give reasons: because…, since (reason), because of…, as
a consequence of…, due to…
ACTIVITIES: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA –
Warm up: students as a homework had to bring a picture of him/her ASSESSMENT TOOLS
with his/her dog), (everyone has a dog). The teacher will receive the Participation is assessed
pictures, she/he will choose one and is going to describe the student during the whole lesson. 20%
and his/her pet. The other students must guess how are in the picture.
The teacher will do it the first time, the other students will pass and Listening accuracy 20%
describe other pictures to be guessed. This activity will take 10 minutes.
Listening: students will watch a video about how dogs are connects to Speaking fluency 20%.
its owner. Before, students listen the video the teacher will ask to the
students why humans are so close to dogs. Then, the teacher will Understand and get the main
introduce some words from the video to understand it easily. Then, ideas 20%.
they will watch the video. Then, they will make a picture that shows
that explains the close bond between man and dog. This activity will Give their opinion or ideas
take 20 minutes. clearly 20%
Writing: according to the video dogs are close to human because they
can perceive human’s feelings. Write three situations where your dog The students will be
have helped you to feel better. This activity will take 10 minutes. evaluated through a rubric
Reading: students will develop the reading “Why Are Dogs Called
‘Man’s Best Friend’? Before starting the activity students by pair will
share their opinion (they already have learnt expressions to give
opinions) by pairs about why we say dogs are our best friends. Then,
the students
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why dogs are man’s best friend. This activity will take 20 minutes.
Speaking: Students will record a video with his/her pet where he
explains why is his/her best friend. He must upload the video on
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REFERENCES
A friend in need. (n.d.). British Council. Retrieved from
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/speaking/intermediate-b1-speaking/friend-need

Beck, J. (2020, April 23). How Friendships Change When You Become an Adult. Retrieved from
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-friendships-change-over-time-in-
adulthood/411466/

Alan Mozes © 2017 The New York Times. Men Often Happier with Their 'Bromance' than Their Romance.
26 Apr. 2018, www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/men-often-happier-with-their-bromance-than-their-
romance.
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Why Are Dogs Called 'Man's Best Friend'? The Dog People by Rover.com, 5 Dec. 2019,
www.rover.com/blog/dogs-called-mans-best-friend/.

Elysiancollabs. Child Friendships | Stand By You. [video file]. Taken from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXQBdJ3ngqM
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Mia Winchester. Multibromances || I've got you brother. [video file]. Taken from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yg5if14awE

Chronicle TV. Chandler & Joey Bromance Moments // Chandler and Joey Friendship Moments. Taken
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0PN-6-NO64
ABC News. The Bond Between Man's Best Friend and Their Owner. Taken from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4ATOeWA-A

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