UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGGICA NACIONAL

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
DEPARTAMENTO DE LENGUAS ESPAOL/LENGUAS

NAME OF THE COURSE: Enfasis en lengua inglesa I

SUBMITTED BY: Sergio Andrs Padilla Guzmn

FINAL PROPOSAL
Subject: Philosophy
Category: High school
Level: 10th grade (sophomore)
Student age range: 15-16
JUSTIFICATION
When you think of a public school in Colombia with a bilingual curriculum what you find is a socalled intensive English program which neither has a clear design nor counts with the required
profile of hired teachers and to top it off, the institution does not make the gradual modifications
in terms of quality and quantity of the type of bilingual education for this pedagogical mediation.
Regarding the proposal for the transition of foreign language to bilingual education, I deem of
utmost importance the use of the language in a real context through the immersion bilingual
education where the usage of the second language is favored because its main goal is to
communicate and to produce proficient speakers, different from a staged context where the
subjects of the program are focused on the formal aspects of the language. In a Colombian school
environment the way to facilitate the learning of a second language not only depends on the
contents of the curriculum, but as well on the cognitive development of the student, his/her age
and above all on the degree of mastery of the mother tongue and its different abilities of reading,
writing, listening and speaking. To learn a second language in context means that the learning
itself goes beyond the production of correct sentences therefore the learning of a second
language is a means to communicate and interact with other people instead of being the outcome.
CLASSROOM EXEMPLIFICATION
Warm Up: The teacher is going to encourage the students to play a variation of the game
Shopping Bag to test the students memory skills. The purpose of this is to contextualize and to
give the students ground to relate the topic at hand with the previous one, as well as to prompt
them not to forget what they learned before. This activity will take up 15 minutes of the class.
Procedure:
1. The teacher starts by saying the following sentence: The last class we learned about
modernism.*
2. The teacher chooses haphazardly from the roll the next student who must repeat the
sentence said by the teacher and add another theme or topic they learned the last class.
e.g.: The last class we learned about modernism and mass culture.

3. Each student in turn repeats the sentence and adds another category. The students have
to concentrate hard to remember all the topics in the correct order.
Pre-Task: The teacher is going to hand out the text An Ethnologist at Disneyland which is a
chapter of the book An Impossible Voyage by Marc Aug.**
Afterwards, the teacher is going to ask the students to skim through the text and to underline key
words and to circle those they do not know or understand. This will take 25 minutes tops.
Task: After the teacher has clarified the unknown vocabulary and pointed out what the students
have to take into consideration, the students are going to proceed to do the reading. The reading
must be done within 30 minutes tops.***
In this period the students are allowed to call the teacher for question-solving purposes.
Once the reading time is up, the teacher will lead the discussion about what there is to highlight of
the text and then they (altogether) will categorize the semiotic and philosophic concepts found.
The students are expected to do so in 20 minutes.
Post-Task: Subsequently, the teacher is going to ask the students to make groups of 4 people and
he is going to give them a photo of people visiting Disneyland and a concept of above at random.
Finally, the students are going to lay out their thoughts to the whole group and the teacher is
going to sum up from those interventions. This final step is likely to take 30 minutes.

* Not necessarily modernism, but the prior topic the class covered depending on the actual
curriculum.
** This text can be worked on because the place Disneyland has major implications not only in
the American culture but around the globe.

*** The text is only 6 pages long.