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RELACIÓN: 5%
SUSTENTACIÓN: 30%

  LICEO BICENTENARIO DE MOLINA

  MARÍA DEL TRÁNSITO DE LA CRUZ 
  DPTO. DE INGLÉS  
PONDERACIONES:
PP-PLL: 5%
INVESTIGACIÓN: 30%
DPC: 30%
RELACIÓN: 5%
SUSTENTACIÓN: 30%

Tema N° 2: The world of apps

Sector INGLÉS
Nivel OCTAVO AÑO
Tema The world of apps
Aprendizajes OA1: Demostrar comprensión de ideas generales e información explicita en textos orales adaptados y
Esperados auténticos simples, literarios y no literarios, en diversos formatos audiovisuales (como exposiciones
orales, conversaciones, entrevistas, descripciones, instrucciones, procedimientos, anécdotas,
narraciones, rimas, juegos de palabras y canciones), acerca de temas variados (experiencias
personales, temas de otras asignaturas, del contexto inmediato, de actualidad e interés global o de
otras culturas) y que contienen las funciones del año.

OA9: Demostrar comprensión de ideas generales e información explicita en textos adaptados y

auténticos simples, en formato impreso o digital, acerca de temas variados (como experiencias
personales, temas de otras asignaturas, del contexto inmediato, de actualidad e interés global o de
otras culturas) y que contienen las funciones del año.

OA14: Escribir una variedad de textos breves, como cuentos, correos electrónicos, folletos, rimas,
descripciones, biografías, instrucciones y resúmenes, utilizando los pasos del proceso de escritura
(organizar ideas, redactar, revisar, editar, publicar), ocasionalmente con apoyo, de acuerdo a un
modelo y a un criterio de evaluación, recurriendo a herramientas como el procesador de textos y
diccionario en línea.

Duración 3 MESES
Actividades Actividad 1: Before you start (Page 5)
Punto Partida
y Punto de 1. Read the title of the unit and look at the picture. Discuss what you think the topic of the
Llegada unit will be about.
2. What do you think about the ways human beings communicate nowadays?
3. How has life changed during the last years due to the use of apps?
4. What do you think you will learn in this unit about the new information and
communication technologies?

Actividad 2: Group work (Pages 6)

Oral
1. Look at the picture and discuss what it is all about.

Listening
2. Listen to the conversation and answer the questions below, Write the answers in your
notebook.
a. In the teenager’s own words, what’s an app?
b. What can people use apps for?
c. What’s an app from a technical point of view?
d. What’s the best thing about apps?

After Listening
3. In groups, discuss the following questions.
a. How do you think apps have changed people’s lives? Give examples.
b. Do you use apps? How many apps have you installed in your cellphone?
c. What apps do you use the most?

4. Pronunciation. Listen to the following words and repeat.

Actividades
Investigación Actividad 1: Speaking task (Page 7)

1. Look at the conversations below, paying attention to the expressions in bold.

2. In pairs, discuss the following questions.

a. Which quantifier refers to a large amount of thing?

b. Which quantifier refers to the total amount of things

3. Work in pairs. Create similar conversations using the quantifiers and the ideas in the
box below. (Smartphone – delivery apps – internet -learning tool – language apps -
videos)

4. With your partner, choose one of your conversations and present it to the class.
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Actividad 2: (Page 8, 9 and 10)

Before Reading

1. Look at the pictures below and talk about what you notice about them.

a. Mention the differences between the two cellphones. Consider aspects such as:

- Design
- Size of the screen
- Functions

b. What are the advantages of each model?

c. What are the disadvantages of each model?

2. Look at the following functions on the chart and tell your partner if they apply to each
cell phone or not. Discuss your answers as a class.

While Reading

3. Read the text below and answer the questions that follow in your notebooks.
a. Why are mobile applications an essential part of our life?
b. What features was the first mobile phone equipped with?
c. Why was then snake game so important?
d. What began a new era for the mobile industry?
e. What is the future of mobile applications?

4. Read the text again. Say which sentences on the left column is similar in meaning to
the one on the right column.
5. Put the events below in chronological order. Write the answers in your notebook.

After Reading

6. Speaking. In pairs make a list of the apps you know and tell your partner which of
these you think are the most popular and why.
7. Share your thoughts with the class.

Actividad 2: Reading and vocabulary (Page 11)

1. Read the text below and find examples of the following: (Types of apps – device –
unofficial sources – desktop apps)

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 Actividad 3: Language Focus (Page 12)

1. Look at the pictures below paying attention to the words ion bold.

a. What do the words below indicate?

b. Do we use a word after them? Why? Why not?

2. Complete the sentences with the correct possessive pronoun. Write the answers in
your notebook.

Actividad 4: (Page 13)

1. Read the comic strip below and discuss the answers to the following questions with a
partner.

a. What is it about?
b. Who are the characters?

2. Share your ideas with the class.

3. Discuss the following questions.
a. Do you think the situation ´resented in the comic strip is happening nowadays.
Why? Why not?
b. What do you think will happen in the future?
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Actividades
de Desarrollo Actividad 1: Writing task, A Comic Strip (Page 14)
Del
Pensamiento 1. Read the elements that make up a comic strip.
Complejo 2. In groups, decide the story you want to tell through a comic strip. Remember: the
topic is the use of apps.
3. In pairs, create your own comic strip. Use all the elements above.
4. Show your comic strip to the class.

Actividad 2: Final product (Pages 16 and 17)

1. Create your own app. Work in groups. Take into account the following:

a. Think of a need that you or people you know have.

b. Think and create the content.
c. Describe your app in very simple words.
d. Think about your target group.
e. Where will it be available?
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 f. Create a name for your app and design a logo
g. Encourage your classmates to download and use the app.

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Actividades Actividad 1:
de Relación 1. Choose the app you find more useful from the ones presented by your classmates and
write how it can contribute to our lives.
2. Write something interesting you learned during this unit that you didn’t know before.
3. After working on this unit, what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of
using an app?
4. How can we give a better use of digital applications?
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