TASK ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ LIFE

TASK: ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ LIFE

ü  Aim: At the end of the task students will be able to give information about political issues reporting about Hugo Chavez life, taking as tool of information the internet.

ü  Population: pre-intermediate to intermediate learners, teenagers specifically.

Task: students will write a paragraph (ten lines) in which they will express their thoughts about political issues related the way Hugo Chavez governed his country while he was alive, things he did and things he did not.

Stage one: read basic information about Hugo Chavez life, where he was born, his parents, his studies, etc. (his biography)

Stage two: go to this web page http://learningenglish.voanews.com/ look for the article Remembering Hugo Chavez, listen, read and take some notes about the information here presented.

Stage three: write on your own words a perception about the life and death of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, mention some chronological events.

Stage four: the writing must be uploaded to the group’s blog.

Criteria for assessing students’ performance

Each criteria will be graded from one to five, the sum of all criteria will be divided into eight (8) and the result will be the global grade.

CRITERIA	GRADE FROM 1 TO 5
Ideas were expressed in a clear and organized way. It was easy to figure out what the text was about.
Ideas were expressed in a pretty clear manner, but the organization could have been better.
The letter is 10 or more sentences.
Student makes no errors in capitalization and punctuation.
Student makes 3-4 errors in capitalization and punctuation.
The text contains at least 5 accurate facts about the topic.
The text contains 1-2 accurate facts about the topic.
The text contains no accurate facts about the topic.
TOTAL GRADE