UNIVERSITY OF PAMPLONA

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH II
TEACHING METHODOLOGY SEQUENCE

GROUP: A & B LEVEL: B1 CLASS N: 4

DATE: June 9th
TEACHER: OBSERVER: FINAL GRADE:
Daniel Fernando Gelvez Capacho Karen Garay

TOPICS: Technology in modern society and perfect tenses

COMPETENCES: Speaking, listening, reading and writing PREVIOUS SEQUENCE: The use of future forms.

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVE: LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE: SOCIO-CULTURALOBJECTIVE:

To express a point of view related to To understand the use of the perfect
the use of technology in modern tenses, namely, present, past and
society. future.
To differentiate the uses of simple and
continuous tenses
To become acquainted with certain
facts related to the use of technology
in the UK and the USA.
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STAGES DESCRIPTION OF TIME SKILLS MATERIAL

THE ACTIVITY (min)
Check  The teacher asks students to give their 5 min
Homework written productions to their classmates.
For the next day, students have to
respond the e-mail.

7 min Grammar Exercise of future

 To check the understanding of the future
forms
forms seen in the previous class, the
teacher proposes a written exercise (see https://www.e-
grammar.org/download/will-
annex 1). The teacher displays the
going-to-present-
document on the flat screen TV for continuous-exercise-3.pdf
students to watch, they have seven
minutes to complete the exercise.

Kahoot game related

 Subsequently, the teacher asks students 5 min General culture
to inventors and
Warm up to open their computers to play a game in inventions
Kahoot! (see annex 2). The game is
https://play.kahoot.it/#/lobb
related to famous inventions from history y?quizId=4c76bce6-77c2-
and their inventions. There are ten 450f-a13e-4411b595e60a
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questions in this quiz; the purpose of this

activity is to assess students’ knowledge
about general culture.
Explanation  Afterwards, the teacher asks students to 5 min Listening Course book Cutting
of the topic open the course book on page 58 and Edge Upper
tells them to focus on the first exercise of Intermediate, page 58.
the listening section (see annex 3). The
teacher pronounces the periods and asks
students to repeat after him.
5 min Grammar
Explanation of perfect
 Subsequently, the teacher uses the
tenses
whiteboard to write present perfect, past
perfect and future perfect. The teacher https://www.mometrix.com/
academy/present-perfect-
writes down the main use of these tenses
past-perfect-and-future-
with one example per tense (see annex perfect-verb-tenses/
4).

7 min Grammar
 To check the understanding of theses First exercise of the
tenses, the teacher asks students to work language focus of the
on the first exercise of the language focus book Cutting Edge
of page 58 of the course book (see annex Upper Intermediate,
5). They have seven minutes to complete page 58
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the exercise.
Grammar List of verbs, special
10 min
 Subsequently, the teacher asks students dice and markers.
to form four groups of five to six people.
The students have to put a name to their
groups. The purpose of the activity is to
check students’ understanding of the use
of the three perfect tenses. The teacher
has a bag full of verbs, each member of
groups has to go to the front of the class,
roll a special dice (it has the letters C, R, L
and three dots; C represents present
perfect, R represents past perfect and L
represents future perfect) and write a
sentence on the whiteboard using the
tense and the verb (see annex 6). The
group which writes grammatically correct
sentences the most, wins. First exercise of the
Grammar language focus of the
5 min
 Afterwards, the teacher asks students to book Cutting Edge
complete the first exercise of the practice Upper Intermediate,
section of page 59 of the course book (see page 59
annex 7). The students have five minutes.
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 Afterwards the teacher gives students a

ten-minute break for them to have a cup
of coffee or to go to the bathroom.

Production  The teacher writes a quote on the board: 60 min Speaking, reading, Slides concerning
“The difference between technology and addiction to
Activities
slavery is that slaves are fully aware that technology in the UK
they are not free”.
https://drive.google.co
The teachers asks students collectively
m/file/d/1wriuTUKQx0
what they think about this quote and the
YmpMkP6CVqoSziFXHI
role of technology in our lives.
O7dx/view?
Subsequently, the teacher uses some
usp=sharing
slides to show students some statistics
about the use of some devices in the UK Black Mirror, Season
and the USA (see annex 8). The teacher 2, Episode 2 “White
asks students what they think about these Bear”
facts and if they think, it is similar in their https://www.netflix.com/co/
native country. Afterwards, the teacher title/70264888
shows an excerpt of the second episode
Expressions used in a
of the second season of the Netflix series
debate
Black Mirror, “White Bear” (see annex 9).
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After playing the video, the teacher asks http://www.teflsites.com/Ex

pressions%20for
students what they think about the video,
%20Discussion%20and
about the portrayal of the use of %20Debate%20new.pdf
technology in that society. Consequently,
the teacher divides the group into two
subgroups; each member will debate
about the role of technology in modern
society. The teacher tells the students
that in this debate, one member of each
group will go to the front of the class and
debate about the aforementioned topic,
however, before starting the discussion,
the teacher asks both students to choose
heads or tails. The winner can choose
whether he/she will be in favor or against
the use of technology in modern society.
For students to be prepared, the teacher
gives them fifteen minutes to search on
the Internet arguments related to the
topic. Similarly, he uploads a document
for students to become acquainted with
expressions used in debates (see annex
10). After the time is over, the teacher
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asks which students want to start

debating. If no one wants to start, the
teacher uses the attendance list to do it.
After all the students have passed, the
teacher asks if the students have other
remarks. Later on, he gives final
comments about the activity
Evaluation  To check students’ listening skills the quiz 12 min Listening Listening quiz
proposes a true-or-false quiz (see annex http://learnenglishteens.briti
11). shcouncil.org/sites/teens/fil
es/whats_in_a_name_-
_exercises_1.pdf

http://b779011024006a6071
c1-
5c160b94f727c0d27cbeccc8
54542bc6.r78.cf1.rackcdn.co
m/B2_what
%27s_in_a_name.mp3

Homework  The teacher asks students to write a 5 min Writing

description about the invention they think
has been more influential to humanity
and why.
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Appendix

Annex 1

Future forms exercise

https://www.e-grammar.org/download/will-going-to-present-continuous-exercise-3.pdf

Annex 2

Kahoot game related to inventors and inventions

https://play.kahoot.it/#/lobby?quizId=4c76bce6-77c2-450f-a13e-4411b595e60a

Annex 3

First exercise of the listening section of the book Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate, page 58
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Annex 4

Explanation of perfect tenses

https://www.mometrix.com/academy/present-perfect-past-perfect-and-future-perfect-verb-tenses/
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Annex 5

First exercise of the language focus of the book Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate, page 58
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Annex 6

List of verbs, special dice and markers.

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Annex 7

First exercise of the language focus of the book Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate, page 59
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Annex 8

Slides concerning addiction to technology in the UK

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wriuTUKQx0YmpMkP6CVqoSziFXHIO7dx/view?usp=sharing

Annex 9

Black Mirror, Season 2, Episode 2 “White Bear”

https://www.netflix.com/co/title/70264888

Annex 10

Expressions used in a debate

http://www.teflsites.com/Expressions%20for%20Discussion%20and%20Debate%20new.pdf

Annex 11

Listening quiz
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/sites/teens/files/whats_in_a_name_-_exercises_1.pdf

http://b779011024006a6071c1-5c160b94f727c0d27cbeccc854542bc6.r78.cf1.rackcdn.com/B2_what%27s_in_a_name.mp3
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