Teaching demo: Teaching language through content

Teaching Demo: Teaching language through content
Content focus: The Discovery of the Americas.
Grade level: 2do Medio.

1. Write objectives on the board.
Content objective: History: The discovery of the americas.
Language objective: Listening comprehension, Writting past tenses.

In groups of four people each of them go to de URL and listening for the first time the video, the teacher asks for doubts. Now teacher gives the following questions to each group:


1. How was the skin of the people in the eastern side?
2. How did they think the earth was?
3. How did Colombus think the earth was like?
4. What was the name of the queen who supported Colombus trip?
5. Where did Colombus Wanted to go?
6. What were the name of the three ships Colombus had?
7. When the travel started?
8. How many months lasted the travel?
9. What name Colombus put to the island?
10. Where Colombus really was?
11. How many voyages did Colombus made after his fisrt travel?

In the computer students work freely stoping and rewinding as they wish to find the answers, to complete the questions they will have twenty minutes. To finish the activity, the teacher provides the right answers.