Second Term Implementation

September 12th

I have indicated my colleagues the topics we are going to be developing along these three folwoing sessions before second term exams. I have shown them the general contents and the drafts of the learning guides, so, through Virtual Sabana in the forum they are fgoing to tell me how the consider they should be used and how to improve them.

Date	Activity	Purpose
September 12th	6. Two Cities	Students are going to be able to write a descriptive paragraph in which they compare and contrast two cities, by using linking words such as and, but, both and neither.
September 17th	7. Learning guide No. 3: My best friend	Guide Sts on how to elaborate a descriptive paragraph to introduce their best friend.
September 24th	8. My classmates	Students are going to use PN to write a descriptive text about their peers in the English class. They must properly use the simple present tense, likes and dislikes and frequency adverbs and time expressions.
October 1st	9. Tourism & Transport	By writing descriptive paragraphs, Sts will use PN to elaborate a brochure inviting people to know their cities. They will talk about tourism and transport in their city.

September 16th

Today L, W, CR, LG, and even S and JF arrived to class with much of the learning guide solved by themselves. They brought some ideas regarding their towns and the trasport and tourism. They are starting to use the connecting words by themselkves, though this time they do not seem to find the connection between the present simple and describing transport and tourism.

On the contrarty, A, C C, L and even CM have been absent from many classes and their improvements have not been enough. They are not using the strategy and they dedicate no time to practice by themselves. While most Sts were working on their compositions. Most students have already learnt the rhetorical structure and use paragraphs adequately, introducing and concluding the elements that they are going to describe. Grammar continues presenting difficulty but there is much more fluency in the Sts' written discourse.