This document provides instructions for an activity where students will write an essay on defining health and discuss factors that influence health, such as lifestyle habits, stress, and social relationships. Students are directed to research the topic using provided online resources and lecture videos, answer guiding questions, write the essay referencing grammatical concepts learned in class, and post their essay on a course blog for peer review.
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1. TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Collaborative Work 2
MARIA CAMILA ORTEGA
Tutor
RICARDO HERNÁNDEZ
NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY AND DISTANCE
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCIENCES
BACHELOR IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
2015
2. All students are required to use Web 2.0 tools and resources provided by teacher to
develop the following activity.
Objective: To improve literacy skills by using problem-solving activities, Web 2.0
tools and grammatical components.
Materials and sources: Video lecture and additional links, course book.
Expected product: The final product will be in the form of an essay. The essay
should be published in the course blog so that other students can access it and
teacher can review it.
To develop this activity you need to watch the video lecture. Please watch the
lecture the times you consider necessary and take notes. You can also research
aditional sources if you like.
Once you have read the lecture, you are going to answer the questions. The
questions will help you to recall the things you have learned and will be of great
usefulness in writing your essay.
4. Health is not merely the absence of disease. It includes mental as well as physical
state of a person. Health can be defined in different forms. We are focused on
health as the complete state of mental, physical and social well-being. Health is
determined by different factors. One of them is related with our habits. Exercising,
eating well, drinking water and avoiding alcohol and smoking can benefit a
person’s health. On the contrary, eating junk food, not getting enough sleep and
having a sedentary lifestyle can damage a person’s health and making him/her
develop many problems such as cardiovascular ones.
People can take care of their health in many ways; one of them is maintaining an
active lifestyle and strong social relationships. Also, the context in which a person
lives is of great importance in their health status. Stress is an aspect that can affect
a person’s health and if chronic can make a person develop depressive patterns.
You may wonder: “how can I improve my health?” As I said before is important to
get enough sleep, eating well and making exercise. The choices you make will
have an impact of your health status; take care of yourself and others. How do you
thing youngsters can have a better health status? And what are the habits they
need to put in practice to do it?
5. What Is Health? What Does Good Health Mean?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150999.php
Definition of Healthy Lifestyle
http://www.livestrong.com/article/412212-definition-of-healthy-lifestyle/
6. According to the lecture, How health can be defined?
Why the context in which the individual lives influences his/her health and
quality of life?
What are the habits people need to follow in order to improve their
health?
How stress can affect a person’s health?
From your own perspective talk about the habits that can damage a
person’s health condition.
How be can define ‘health determinants’?
Introduction stage: Teacher introduces the
following questions
7. Once you have answered the questions you are ready to start writing your essay.
Remember an essay is a way to expose your point of view, please try to be
creative in your writing and express your ideas by using arguments. You can also
look for aditional information. The following links are different ways of writing an
essay. Remember an essay should have an introduction, a body and a
conclusion. Your essay should reflect a deep understanding of the topic. Please
remember to carefully follow the evaluation rubric guideliness. You can use the
template given for the activity if you like.
How to write an essay: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Essay
The five-paragraph essay:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/five_par.htm
Presentation stage: Teacher gives students a presentation
of the activity and she specifies the activity requirements.
8. Dear student, you need to remember the things we practiced in the
classroom about verbal tenses and grammar. Remember to search in
the course book to practice the grammatical aspects required for
writing the essay. Review your notebook and search for grammatical
exercises we did in the classroom, this will help you to recall the things
you’ve learned.
9.
10. Once you have written the essay, you are going to post it on the course blog. Remember
to put your essay a title. All groups should post their essays on the blog, make sure to
create an entry. Each entry should be named: Groupnumber_EssayName, example:
Group 5_FactorsofHealth
Teacher is going to review each essay, for this reason the blog entries should be
organized. If you forgot how to enter the course blog, remeber you have to use the
course e-mail and password. Teacher is going to review each essay and grade them
according to the evaluation rubric. A group for extra study and instruction will be created
to help those students that need reinforcement in the activity. Teacher willl assign a group
leader and she will give her/him the e-mail password for entering to the course blog. The
leader must publish his/her group essay in the blog.
Production stage: Students are going to deliver
the final product as at the end of the activity.
12. Once all groups have posted their essays, you are required to post a
comment down each entry of the blog. The comment must be a revision
of your classmate’s essay. This revision must take into account the
criteria given in the evaluation rubric. Make a comment based on the
ideas your classmate’s stated. Remember to use Netiquette rules.
