LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH

LITERACIES AND ELT- SECOND TERM PROJECT
ONLINE MAGANIZE UNIT
By: Claudia Reyes 26062255, Catalina Garca 26121752, Caterine Gamba (26121750), Marian Garnica (26101252)
Case1
Population: 10th grade, public school in Bogota.
Number of students: 42 students (22 girls and 120 boys)
Age: 15 to 17 years old.
Classroom characteristics:
The room is not very big and looks packed.
Equipment and internet available when requested.
Organized in single rows with desks and chairs.
Classes are from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm. There are two 20- minutes break at 9:15 am and 11:30 am. Every week, they have 6 hours of English,
8 of Math, 8 of Social Sciences, 4 of Spanish, 4 of arts, 6 of social service, and 4 of physical education.
Most students enjoy music and sports.
Students like working in small groups.
Language level:
Students can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and
family information, shopping, local geography, employment). They can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct
exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. They can describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment and
matters in areas of immediate need.

UNIT OVERVIEW

OVERALL AIMS OR OBJECTIVE

Students are going to design, develop and publish during this unit a
Students will develop understanding about improving the
digital online magazine.
English skills and using online resources in order to create an
Students are going to develop different music and sports topics into the
online magazine.
magazine, using collaborative work because they will have to work in
Students will develop understanding about learning how to use
small groups of 4 students, each group is going to make online research
one of the tree online software given by the teacher to design
to learn how to create a digital magazine and create different interesting
the magazine.
articles about the specific topic that the group have to develop, topics
Students will develop understanding about using collaborative
that are all relate to music or sport.
work to complete the requirement of this unit.
The idea to create an online magazine related to music and sports.
Students will develop understanding about learn to create
Those topic were coming from the students because they got interesting
articles.
in this class of topics and we as a teacher consider that they will work
hard if do things they they love.
ASSESSMENT
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS
During the unit students will:

To design, develop and publish an online magazine using

resources online.
To use different specific English skills in order to create articles
relate to the topics.
To make collaborative work with their partners.
To recollect different online information about music and sports,
in order to complete the magazine.
To use significant images to represent the main magazines
topics.
LESSON AIM OR OBJECTIVE.

The level of English.

Vocabulary as a main tool for a better understanding of the

websites, that the students have to use to carry out the activity.

The creativity and availability of time to design the magazine

with the specifications established.

STAGES AND MAIN PROCEDURES.

RESOURCES.

Lesson 1.
Understand the vocabulary refers Before beginning the magazines design teacher is going
to how to design an online to introduce new vocabulary referent to magazines
magazine.
design.

Power
point
vocabulary).
Video beam.
Notebooks.

presentation

Computers.
Internet.
Video tutorial.
Online Software to create magazine.

Decide the sub-topics of the In groups of 4 students. They will have a brainstormed to
magazine.
select the sub-topics that they want to include into their
magazine.
Choose the language arts for
those sub-topics.
After that, students will select the language arts that each
group will use or need for create their sub-topics that must
have into the magazine.
Lesson 2.

Learn how to use basic software

to design and publish an online
magazine.
Choose one software to start to
create a magazine.
Learn how to use appropriate
images and copyright in online
magazine.
Design the magazines covert and
its name.

This class will be developing in the lab room, where each

student will have access to internet, through a video
tutorial students will learn the basic steps to manage any
of the three software given by the teacher.

Students will have to use collaborative work to design the http://www.yumpu.com

cover and name magazine; during the process they will http://issuu.com/explore
http://www.youblisher.com
learn how to select the appropriate images and copyright.
Teacher is going to check and support the students on the
cover process at the end of the session.

(new

Exercise.
Students have to design and
upload the cover of their
magazine.
Give and receive feedback from
their partner.
Lesson 3.

Learn how to write an article.

Write an article using one of the
sub-topics using an appropriate
image.
Exercise
Upload at least two articles into
the magazine.
Give and receive feedback from
their partner.

Teacher is going to explain how to write an article, using

steps by steps and web examples of other online
magazines.
Students will create the first article based on one sub-topic
and follow the previous indications given by the teacher
about article written. In this step is really important that
students use all their English skill to make a good work.

Video about how to write an article step

by step.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1g7oNGw-Xs

Web magazine examples using

http://magzus.com/read/rolling_stone_780_novem
ber_2016_australia/

Finally, students will upload at least two articles into the

magazine. Also they will give and receive feedback from
their partners.

Online Software to create magazine.

Internet.
Computers.

This last section will be development into the lab

classroom; the idea is the students will finish the designing

Internet.
Computers.

Lesson 4.
Student will finish their writing,
designing and publishing their

online magazine in the class.

their magazine and the time to publishing it.

Students will use all the previous

knowledge learned about
magazine design.
Lesson 5.

Students will check the English grammar used into the

article.

Students will present their online

magazine to their partners.

In the final session students will present their final online

magazine, they have to explain the steps, why they
choose the sub-topics, beside students have to be
carefully to the English grammar use.

Teacher is going to give a grade

based on:
*Magazines design.
*Image quality.
*Use of English into the articles.
*Oral English using to explain the
magazine.

Pedagogical and theoretical rationale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1g7oNGw-Xs
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112005155320/unrestricted/Marquez_II_thesis.pdf
http://magzus.com/read/rolling_stone_780_november_201
6_australia/
http://www.yumpu.com

Online software to create magazine.

Video beam.
Internet.
Computer.
Online magazines.

http://issuu.com/explore
http://www.youblisher.com