Lesson Plan 5083

Name:

Teresa Nagore Lacasa

Subject:

Business in the Economy

Language:

English

Level:

Baccalaureate 2^nd year

1.       Understand the nature of economic activity

2.       Identify the basic aspects of the economic organization that solves the company, as well as the functions that the company develops in the market economy.

3.       Identify the basic aspects of the economic organization that solves the company, as well as the functions that the company develops in the market economy.

4.       Know the different functional areas of the company and classify the activities that are carried out within the company according to these areas.

5.       Describe the economic functioning of the company and the production cycle that takes place in it.

6.       Recognize the different components of the company, applying them to the reality of specific companies

7.       Value the figure of the entrepreneur

1.       Gain the necessary confidence and skills

2.       Consolidate the students oral expression and interaction skill as well as their grammar and vocabulary

3.       Use of the appropriate linguistic exponent for economic class

1.       Searching through internet in order to:

-         recognize and learn new vocabulary

-         consolidate the students’ knowledge

-         improve grammar skills

2.       Watching videos related to the subject in order to improve the students listening skill

1.       Classification and description of the means of production, economic agents and coordination mechanisms or markets

2.       Use graphs to show the relationships between economic agents, value creation and the production cycle

3.       Use of comparative tables for the study and analysis of the different theories about the entrepreneur, the company and the different types of market attending the competition

4.       Classification and differentiation of the different areas of the company and its components

5.       Differentiation of the different objectives of the company and the causes that originate them

6.       Use of concept maps to synthesize the reality of the company and its different dimensions

7.       Application of the different contents to reality through close examples extracted from the media 

1.       Define and identify the different resources and economic agents, and how they interact with each other.

2.       Define, distinguish and relate the different parts of the production cycle, the functional areas and the elements that make up the company

3.       Characterize the functioning of the markets and the different types that exist according to their competence.

4.       Explain the causes of the different types of objectives that arise in the company from the social groups that act in it.

5.       Describe the different theories about the company and the figure of the entrepreneur.

Factors to consider

Yes/No

Describe how this will be included in the lesson

Content – Learning outcomes

Yes

·         Economic activity and business

·         The functions of the company in the economy

·         The company and the entrepreneur

·         The operation of the company

·         The components of the company

·         The objectives of the company

·         Theories about the company

·         The company and the market types

·         The Valencian business culture

Communication (groups, pairs, peers, teacher-student etc.)

Yes

In groups

Teacher-student

Cognition (methodology, mental processes, multimodality)

Yes

·         Identify the operation of the company

·         List the components of the company

·         Classify different types of markets

·         Compare  corporate culture Valencia with the rest of Spain

·         Information processing skills

·         Gather information on the company in different media

·         Processing information regarding the company

·         Communicate information concerning the company

·         Learning strategies: Ask questions, seek clarification, apply a rule, take notes ...

Cultural issues

Yes

·         Knowing  the corporate culture of Valencia’s Companies

Language demands and language support (grammar, vocabulary, when, why and how, text structure, text organisation)

Yes

Vocabulary: 1- Noun: profit, tax, company, … 2- Adjectives: big, small, … 3- Verbs: be, take, have, sale,… 4- Prepositions: in, under, up, around,…

Structure: Conditionals, comparatives,…

Language in the area of business economics which is necessary to learn the contents

Language to learn the area: collaborated speech, reading and writing skills, linguistic cognitive abilities

Language learner can learn the area of business economics

Materials selection (what to use, why and how)

Yes

Text book: to follow the content

Magazine, newspaper, videos related with business, internet: to do the activities (watching, listening and reading)

Teacher’s role (engaging students, providing input, providing support)

Yes

1- Engaging the students providing different materials (articles, videos, …, 2- Identify students linguistic difficulties, 3- Ability to use communication methods in order to facilitated the understanding of meaning, 4- Ability to adapt different materials, 5- Ability to choose complementary materials on the issue

Student’s role (how is this lesson learner-centred?)

Yes

Dynamic, the student should participated in all the activities and be proactive

Thinking skills (factual Qs, why/how Qs, hypothesis, synthesis, prediction. Does it support Higher Order Thinking?

Yes

Creating, checking, comparing, organizing, finding, ,comparing, explaining, classifying, summarizing,

recognizing, listing, describing, identifying

Scaffolding  and variety of input/ text, audio, video etc. (support for input and/or output)

Yes

Textbook, Multidict.net, Video, Internet

Magazines and newspapers,..