Assessment Task Using ICT

Authors: Mara Jos Acua

Pamela Humeres

Universidad Catlica de la Santsima Concepcin

English Pedagogy Programme
PPV

LESSON PLAN TBL

Unit:

Level:

Length of lesson:

Word Families

1st year of Highschool

90 min

Student-Teachers name:
Pamela Humeres B.
Mara Jos A.

Aim:

Students will be able to create a Prezi presentation about word families

Aids
Data
Whiteboard
Markers
Computers

Adapted from University of Sussex

Stages

Activities
What the teacher is going to do

Pre-task

Strategies

Time
(min)

What students are going to do

Teacher writes the objective on Students pay attention to

the whiteboard
teacher instructions
15 minutes
Teacher tells students that
class topic will be word
families
Teacher shows a PowerPoint
Presentation with examples of
word families
Teacher writes some words on Students classify the words
the whiteboard and asks written by the teacher
students to classify word
families in order to check
understanding

Task

After students have finished the

previous activity teacher tells
students that they will have to
create a Prezi presentation
about word families by using
an online dictionary (Only
Oxford
or
Cambridge

dictionaries are allowed)

Teacher points out that students
have to work in pairs and take
a computer from the Aula
Movil which is a shelf with
computers.

Students make pairs in order

to start working
Students take a computer in
order to look for word
families

Teacher tells students thay they

have 40 minutes to complete
the task
Teacher monitors students Students ask doubts about the
work and answer questions
task
Teacher tells students that she Students take into account
will evaluate design, creativity teacher instructions in order
and content.
to create a good product
Teacher points out that
presentations need to have at
least 10 different slides
Teacher tells students that there
are only 5 minutes left

Post- task

40 min

Teacher tells the students that Students prepare themselves

time is up and that they will to present their Prezi
have to present their Prezi in
front of the class
Teacher tells students that half
of them are going to present
this class and the other half will
present the following
Teacher asks for volunteers Students volunteer to present
first, and if there is no their product in front of the
volunteers left, teacher calls class
groups at random to come on
front of the class
Teacher
provides
some Students pay attention to the
feedback to the students after feedback given by the teacher
the presentations

35 minutes

Add a 2-paragraph reflection to explain the advantages and disadvantages of that ICT activity to assess that
language skill/system and how it relates-or not- to the Chilean classroom context.
We believed that these types of activities help students to improve their skills efficiently and that is easier to catch their
attention because there is something that they are not used to do in a common English class. In this task we mainly evaluate
pragmatics, but in a way that is completely different to the methodologies used to evaluate it in most of Chilean classroom. In
addition, most of Chilean schools have the resources used in this lesson, so it is not difficult to do this activity. We as
teachers need to be aware about the importance of the activities that we make in classes, ICTs are an innovative way to
motivate students to improve their performance in class.
If we talk about the advantages of this ICT activity to asses pragmatics it is possible to state that it is a different activity which
involves technological devices, Students are digital natives, so this activities allows us to work with students by using their
context. In addition, students can look for information in internet, which is much easier than using books. On the other hand,
students may get distracted, because there are too much interesting things to watch or read in internet, or they may use
information from pages that are not truthful.