Friday, December 10, 2021

English V - Week 13 - Innovative Business Ideas

  English V - Week 13 - Innovative Business Ideas




Introduction: In today's class we will continue Chapter 13 by discussing the DIY subculture and ideas for innovative business ideas to offer different services.



Warm Up: Holiday Puzzle
Work with your partners to complete the Christmas Sudoku puzzle. The idea of the puzzle is to put pictures in all the squares so that each row, column, and 2x3 rectangle contains ONE and ONLY ONE example of each picture. Can you solve it in time? Click the link below and find the page for your group.

Christmas Sudoku: CLICK HERE














Task 1: Group Discussion
Discuss the following questions with your partners. 
  • Do you like to do repairs on your house or car or do you prefer to pay someone for this service?
  • Are you good at fixing things or remodeling? Why or why not?
  • Now go to the quiz below and follow the instructions. Be sure to go to your section of the document.







Task 3: Listening Practice
Click the link below and use your screen annotations to draw lines connecting the words on the left and right to identify as many services as you can. Then discuss the questions below.
  • Word List - CLICK HERE
    • Which of these things do people generally do themselves?
    • Which of these services might people pay someone else to do?
    • Which services do you think involve the most skills and ability?

Go to page 144 in your book and do the following exercises.
  • CLICK HERE to access your e-book.
    • Pg. 144 exercises 3, 4, 5, 
    • Pg. 145 exercise 8








Task 4: Why DIY when you could have someone else do it?
Create your proposal for an innovative business idea that offers unique services that people really need. Think of chores, tasks, and responsibilities that people don't like to do but are not commonly available to pay for.









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 create your commercial and your Google Slides presentation. 



Project Instructions

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




Create Your Commercial and Presentation
Use your group links to access your planning documents. Remember your commercial should contain the following information.
  • What is our proposal for an innovative educational system, school, or method?
  • What is the name of our organization?
  • What slogan (lema) do we want to use?
  • How can we start the commercial in a fun way that will catch the audience's attention?
  • Who is going to begin? What will he/she say?
  • What graphics or images will we use to support our commercial?
  • Do we want to include music or sound effects? How can we do that?
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