Foreign+Language


 * Subject: Foreign Language **



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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Technology: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">PowerPoint
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Curriculum standard: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">6th Grade: Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature and language of culture: Compare and contrast corresponding idiomatic expressions in English and the target language
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Description: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The students will create a PowerPoint presentation that shows English idioms and how they would be written in Spanish. For example, the idiom “pulling your leg” is “tomar el pelo” in Spanish. The PowerPoint must include pictures that go with the idioms. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Supporting research: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">An article, available for download in PDF format from the Computer Source database explains how PowerPoint can be a very important technology in classrooms. The author explains how the technology is so important and the reasons for assigning the technology.
 * APA citation: Patten, K. (2001). PowerPoint: Why I Assign It and Why You Should Too! //Book Report, vol. 19,// 47-48.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tried and True or New and Innovative: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">**TT:** This activity is tried and true because Powerpoint has been used in classrooms for many years. The use of Powerpoint is widespread not only in educational settings, but also in business.