The document describes a blog for middle school students in Colombia to learn English. It will compare the US, Germany, and Colombia through reading texts and videos about each country's geography, politics, economy, and demographics. Students will develop organizational, pragmatic, and strategic competencies through writing, listening, and speaking activities like fill-in-the-blank exercises, true/false questions, presentations, and using comparative charts. The goal is for students to gain a constructivist learning approach through self-instruction and interactive materials that incorporate grammar in context.

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POPULATION
Age: 12 -14 years old
Socio-economical level: Students ‘ socio-economical level is average. They are students from a contemporary
society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.
Relationship with English: Not large. The students lack proposals and time that promote foreign languages
(English) performing, like towards the language and knowledge from different cultures.

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INSTITUTION
Type: Middle private school.
English level: Students are exposed to English few hours a week. The students’ level of English changes from
student to student, there are ones that have very good level and others who do not.
Pedagogical approach: The school pedagogical approach is a traditional approach where the learning is
facilitated and lectures, presentations, and textbook are present. Grammar is brought more to the class than
anything else, leaving aside cultures and putting interaction with the language itself aside.
This blog will help students to work in a constructivism approach, where an individual learning is present and where students will have
self-instruction and materials. In addition, grammar will be put in content, giving students the opportunity to interact and to compare
several cultures.

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TOPIC
Different countries around the world
(USA, Germany, Colombia)
COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION
- Comparing places
- Describing different characteristics from each country
- Analyzing what the advantages and disadvantages from each country are

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SKILLS
Reading: Texts to give a general description of the country, texts to mention aspects such as
Geography, Politics, Economy, Demographics…
Writing: Fill in the blanks (superlatives, comparatives), writings with the purpose of analyzing,
reading comprehension questions, true or false questions.
Listening: Videos of native people talking about the country, videos that show different aspects of
the countries.
Speaking: Presentation summarizing the information presented in the blog.

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COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED
Organizational: writing paragraphs, adjectival comparison, adjective order, adjectives for places, parts of the
city, and prepositions of place.
Pragmatic: Culture, politeness, cities, countries, correct adjectives, politically.
Strategical: outline, use of glossary, comparative chart.

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What types of contents do you see in your blog?
o Different countries:
o Geography
o Economy
o Demographics
o Cultures (music, people…)
o Grammar (mostly superlatives and comparatives)