This document outlines a lesson plan using media as a tool to teach English, social values, and cross-curricular content. Students are divided into four groups, with each assigned a different medium (TV, blog, radio, newspaper) to present a social issue. Objectives include improving English skills, understanding how to use different media, and increasing social awareness. Students will be evaluated on their creative work, language use, cooperation, and effort in presenting their media project. The goal is to engage students through an interactive methodology that combines language learning with other subjects.

1. English, media and social values Máster de Profesorado en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas de la Universidad de Jaén BE COOL, BE UPDATED!! Agudo Román, Rocío Alberto Lechuga, Rocío Sánchez Hernández, Alicia Teruel Perabá, Begoña

2. STATE OF THE ART Media as a didactic tool in order to enrich and support knowledge from different subjects. Positive results: - Collins and Hammond (Teaching and Learning with Multimedia): “The results are visually impressive and the capacity of multimedia to engage young people.” - Ledesma Marin enumerates: to teach the use of technological equipments, to focus on language study and narrative techniques, to appreciate the aesthetic of media messages, to teach how to be critical of information and to have social awareness, etc. - To take advantage of the wide variety of opportunities and positive aspects that media offer students in their learning process.

3. JUSTIFICATION Media as main theme  information is the most powerful tool. Students’ task  use and understand the information. Connected with BOJA. Dynamic methodology  groups working each one with a different medium, exploiting the four skills and developing four different social topics. Link between the media and the information Social values and social awareness.

4. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Jabalcuz state high school, Jaén IT center 2nd year of Bachillerato Intermediate level 24 students Previous knowledge: - features of the language used in the different media - grammar and vocabulary related to specialised language

5. OBJECTIVES

6. CONTENTS

7. PROCEDURE FirstSession Four groups of six people. Each team uses a different medium and social topic: - Binge drinking: youth and alcohol  TV Advert - Sports: influence of sports on the society  Blog - Multicultural co-existence: racism and cultural differences Radio - New technologies: addiction to mobile phones, iPODs and the Internet  Newspaper

9. Persuasive language

10. Informal register

11. Transmission of a value: responsibility

12. Preparation: a speaker represents his/her group, and the rest of the members have to participate activelyTV Advert

14. Pictures to illustrate the text

15. Lunch a final question to make the bloggers participate actively

16. Transmission of a value: companionship

18. Clear voice and language

19. Formal register

20. Keeping the audience’s attention

21. Creating a mental image in the audience’ mind

22. Transmission of a value: tolerance

23. Preparation: - Informative headline, summarizing the piece of new, introduced by the newsreader - Development of the piece of new, by two presenters - Discussion about the topic, by three critics

25. Formal written style

26. Well-organised texts: headline, subhead, lead and critics

27. Transmission of a value: courage

29. EXPECTED RESULTS To fulfil the objectives. To work in a cooperative way. To combine traditional and technological tools. To acquire linguistic and stylistic knowledge. To become conscious of the reality of the world. To develop different skills (This activity will be positive if it is done again in more sessions with rotation of the media).

30. EVALUATION Final work exposed : - Creativity developed in the production of the news - Correct use of the language in the formal register - Correct use of passivevoice in complextextstructure - Adaptation of the message to the standars of the media. Attitude in cooperative work - Effort and participation.

31. CONCLUSION The aim was to combine cross-curricular contents in the English classroom (English language, Spanish language and Citizenship) The methodology and the topics used let us reach the objectives set. We expect to apply communicative methodology and dynamic working to other fields of knowledge at school. Changing the traditional grammar method into a new communicative method.

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