A world of cities

A world of cities

Mahatma Gandhi was convinced that, in front of the incorrupt countryside, the cities had concrete blood. That would make people unhappy. Time has not proved him right. The cities of the planet do not fail to attract new citizens. In 1900, only 13% of the world's population lived there; by 2050, urban dwellers will account for 66% of the world's population, according to the London School of Economics (LSE).

The World of cities, a Didactic Unit that belongs to the programme of subject Geography, 3^rd course of level ESO, explores a world in continuous transformation but, from a CLIL perspective, our aim is to show students a battle between words: words between themselves and words in two languages. From a cognitive perspective, through our DU we seek to establish through the different activities that propose a doctrinal precision on the use of geographical concepts (globalization, political and socioeconomic relations, population movements), while promoting, as linguistic competence, both the lexical precision and the oral and written exposition of temporal concepts as well as from the same constructions (since there are synthetic denominations and others that resort to syntagms to refer to the same period).

 

Activities carried out individually or collectively refer to projection of videos in English to recognise the capitals of the world, creation of original maps of continents filled with data from their countries, reading of texts adapted in English with gaps, quizs to calculate life expectancy using different population densities or 3D animations to show the differences between large urban concentrations and demographic voids. Finally, as a complementary work, one can resort to films with an interesting point of view of the changing world or to videos from which to extract the concepts.The most revealing self-sufficiency exercises in learning are a text in which to fill in gasps and a Self-Assessment chart, in which the knowledge on which one has worked is summarised.

Here you can see the final project with all the tasks and materials to use and implement them:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12db1K9tfBwXV1HFFbSXZthu5G6ynqZB3/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/134BiHwVHWRMsLT2dKrMvhPWNVkYaKJao/view?usp=sharing

Macarena I. García Manso.