Creating a Handout



In the context of your professional practice, you will be asked to prepare handouts not only for your students but also for other courses. In other words, these courses might be completely different from the one you are specifically working on. Additionally, not only the teacher in charge of you could require materials but also some other teachers from the English department. As a result you might end up creating a handout for a 4to medio and a 2do básico during the same day, and this should not be a problem at all. The flexibility and adaptability to different contexts are essential skills for teachers nowadays in order to create materials.

Task
You will be asked to prepare a handout considering some of the aspects seen in the previous activity. Moreover, the context will be provided with all the contents that STS should know and exercise with. The Handouts, and their respective topics, will be assigned randomly. Each handout should be presented in 4 pages.

Handout Nº1

 * Context: Students from a 6ºto básico.
 * Contents: Page 1, Page 2
 * Requirements from the teacher: Please use images within the same context of the contents seen in this handout. Also I'd like a reading exercise with fill in the gaps. The students have to put the verbs in the correct form of present simple. Moreover, a writing exercise using pictures will be good. The students have to write the sentences in present continuous using the images.

Handout Nº2

 * Context: Students from a 2ºdo medio.
 * Contents: Page 1, Page 2
 * Requirements from the teacher: I'd like to have an exercise where the students have to write true sentences about themselves or their family using adverbs of frequency i.e.: “I never watch TV in the evenings". Moreover, a reading exercise in which the students have to complete a text with present simple, present continuous or past simple. Finally, use images to help the students to contextualize the content.

Handout 3

 * Context: Students from a 1ºro medio.
 * Contents: Page 1, Page 2
 * Requirements from the teacher: Please, include an exercise asking the students to turn adjectives into adverbs. Also, include a fill in the gaps exercise in which the students have to decide whether they use past simple or past continuous. Remember to use images.

Handout 4

 * Context: Students from a 4ºto medio.
 * Contents: Page 1
 * Requirements from the teacher: I'd love to have an exercise where the students can describe the location with a given map within the handout, so the students can exercise the phrases seen in class. Also, I'd like a matching exercise with images and job, and then an exercise asking the students to write full sentences about the same jobs, used in the previous exercise, using “who”. e.g: “A teacher is someone who teaches children”. The same can be done with which. You prepare an exercise where the students match images, and then write sentences about them using which, such as "A camera is something which you take pictures with". As you can see, images are mandatory for this exercise, so be careful with the images you use. Finally, please include a reading exercise to fill in the gaps with “who”, “which” and “where” and an exercise with multiple choices combining all the contents from the previous exercises.

Evaluation
Each handout is going to be evaluated according to the number of exercises designed by the students. The criteria for the evaluation is going to be two points for each of the following elements:

It is important to mention that the Teacher's Request and the Contents are not included in the total amount of points, owing to the fact that they serve for bonus points only if the student is able to complete the requirements. However, if the student is not able to fulfill the requests, h/she is going to be penalized and consequently some points will be discounted.

Teacher's Request

 * -5 Points: The student follows none of the requests made the teacher in the handout.
 * -3 Points: The student follows some of the requests made the teacher in the handout.
 * +1 Point: The student follows all the requests made the teacher in the handout.

Contents

 * -5 Points: The student includes none of the contents from the pages of the book.
 * -3 Points: The student includes some of the contents from the pages of the book.
 * +1 Point: The student includes all the contents from the pages of the book.

Advises

 * As teacher most of the time we can only photocopy materials, as a result everything will be black & white. Keep that in mind when you chose your images.
 * Similar to the previous point, your handout is going to be printed and then corrected. Thus, the correction is not going to be digital.
 * Please, remember that your handout should be 4 pages.