Friday, December 3, 2021

English V - Week 12 - Financial Habits

  English V - Week 12 - Financial Habits




Introduction: In today's class we will begin Chapter 12 by discussing the topic of money and financial responsibility. We will read about the financial habits of a foreign country and then propose a list of rules to teach young people in Costa Rica to live more financially responsible lives. 









Task 1: Discussion Questions
Discuss the following questions with your partners. Be sure to start the timer.
  • Do you consider yourself to be a financially responsible person? Why or why not?
  • Do you think the average Costa Rica has good habits with money and spending?
  • What are the most common things that people spend their money on?
  • What portion of your salary do you think people should save? What portion should they spend on their bills? What portion should they use for fun?
  • Do you think it is possible for an adult to live in 2021 without debts (deudas)? Why or why not?
  • It is aguinaldo season in Costa Rica. In the United States, we do not have this benefit. What does the aguinaldo mean for the average Costa Rican? 
  • How do people spend it? What do you do with your aguinaldo?

  • Money Vocabulary: Click your group link below and follow the instructions in the document. 




Task 2: Exploring Income Inequality
What makes a society equal? One of the indicators is the distance between the the society's richest and poorest citizens. This income inequality is measured using a statistical tools call the Gini Index.
  • What countries do you think are more equal? More unequal? Why?
  • What world regions do you think have more equal countries? More unequal countries?
  • Do you think Costa Rica is more equal or more unqual than most countries in this region?
  • CLICK HERE to view a map organized using the Gini Index. Were your answers to the previous questions correct?
  • Move to Task 3.






Task 3: Reading Practice
Go in your book to page 142 and complete the following exercises.
  • Exercises 3, 4, and 5.






Task 4: Rules for Healthy Financial Habits
Work with your partners to propose your "10 Commandments" (mandamientos) for developing healthy financial habits. Click your group link below and follow the instructions.






Task 5: Work on Final Project
Last week you began working on your final project by creating a survey to learn about the public's perceptions about education in Costa Rica. This week you are going to analyze the results of the survey and begin creating your proposal for an innovative educational system. 



  • Group 3: Freddy, Heyner, Kevin Torrentes, Vivian





Instructions: At the end of this project, you will give a presentation to the class with your proposal for ways of innovating the educational experience in Costa Rica. However, you must design your proposal and based on data collected from a survey. 
  • Create a Survey: Create a survey using Google Forms to do learn about public peceptions about the educational system. The survey should have three sections:
    • The Present System: satisfaction with different aspects of the traditional educational experience (content, methodolgy, rules, evaluation, infrastructure, etc.)
    • Innovative Content: the life skills, knowledge and abilities that the public thinks should be included in an innovative educational curriculum
    • Innovative Actions: the kinds of activities the public thinks would be enjoyable and effective for learners in an innovative educational experience
  • Collect the Data: Your teacher will send the surveys to another group of students to complete.
  • Analyze the Data: Look at the results of the survey and analyze the data. What patterns do you see? What discoveries do you make about public perceptions that will influence your proposal?
  • Create a Commercial: Create an advertisement for your proposal for innovation in education. Your advertisement should be a 2 minute commercial which you will "perform" live in class. The commercial should be very well organized, have graphic support, and all group members must participate in the live performance. In the commercial we should learn the name of the proposed educational system, its characteristics, reasons why schools should adopt it.
  • Present the Proposal: In class you will give a 10-15 minute group presentation about your research project. Your presentation will have five parts:
    • An introduction describing the purpose of your research project.
    • Description of your survey questions and why you asked them.
    • Analysis of the data you collected.
    • Performance of the commercial.
    • 3-4 discussion questions to ask the audience about the topic of your presentation.





Planning Schedule
  • Week 11: Create Survey
  • Week 12: Analyze Results
  • Week 13: Create commercial and presentation
  • Week 14: Present the results of your project





Analyze the Results
When you look at the results of the survey ask yourselves the following questions:
  • What do these results tell us?
  • What generalizations can we make?
  • What contradictions do we notice?
  • What information did we expect to find? What did we actually find?
  • Is anything surprising?
  • What do we want our class to know about these results?
  • How can this information influence our proposal for innovation?
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