» Applying ICT to English

LESSONS

SECTION 1: TEACHER SUPPORT NOTES

• 8 GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR TEACHERS
• 9 APPLYING ICT TO OTHER CURRICULUM AREAS
• 10 USING THE INTERNET IN CLASS
• 11 POTENTIAL PROBLEMS OF APPLYING ICT
• 12 GUIDELINES FOR WEB-BASED HOMEWORK
• 13 USEFUL WEBSITES
• 14-16 ENGLISH PROGRAMMES OF STUDY
• 17 ICT PROGRAMMES OF STUDY

SECTION 2: WORKSHEETS TO AID COMPUTER-BASED RESEARCH

• 23 RESEARCH 1: WHAT'S ON THE NET? Students become acquainted with the main Internet applications.
• 25 RESEARCH 2: SEARCH ME! This page aims to provide students with an introduction to using search engines, focusing on the different techniques available and on how search engines compare with CD-ROM.
• 27 RESEARCH 3: INTERNET AND CD-ROM Students make a systematic comparison between information gathering on CD-ROM and Internet, and thereby make their own assessments of each.

SECTION 3: WORKSHEETS APPLYING ICT TO ENGLISH

Key Stage 3

• 33 SHAKESPEARE'S DATABASE Students create a database to help them study the roles and backgrounds of Shakespearean characters.
• 35 ACROSTIC POEMS Students learn WP skills to create acrostic poems about the social and moral issues surrounding the use of ICT.
• 37 IN OTHER WORDS Students learn the skills of using a thesaurus in a word-processing or DTP package, in order to make a hotel menu more attractive to its clientele.
• 39 HIDE AND SEEK Students use a word-processor table facility to create a wordsearch. This will help them identify the key characters and issues in a novel or play they are studying.
• 41 AUTHOR OF THE WEEK Students use appropriate software to create book reviews for display in a book shop.
• 43 HOUSE-HUNTING Students use a DTP or word-processing application to create an estate agent's profile of a house for sale.
• 45 MAKING SENSE Students learn to use cut and paste tools on a word processor, while developing sentence construction, grammar, and punctuation skills.
• 47 WHO'S WHO Students use CD-ROMs and the Internet to research the backgrounds of ten famous people.
• 49 KEEP IT SHORT Using a word-processing application, students employ the cut and paste tools, along with italic and bold, in order to explore summary writing, story construction and plot.
• 51 POETRY PUZZLE Students use the cut and paste tools of a word-processing package to explore and analyse form and structure in poetry.

Key Stage 4

• 53 ONCE UPON A TIME Students use a DTP application to create a survey of the reading interests of younger children.
• 55 BEDTIME TALES Students are asked to produce ideas for a successful children's book and then design its cover, using appropriate DTP packages.
• 57 SLIPPERY CHARACTERS Students learn to analyse the methodology of writing soap operas, by creating a table which compares the 'stock' roles used in current TV programmes.
• 59 REJECTED SCRIPTS Students learn to consider a writer's reasons for drafting and redrafting work, and to redraft a piece of work using a word-processing application.
• 61 PRIVATE DETECTIVES Students learn to analyse and explore characters in books and plays, by creating personal profile reports about them.
• 63 FRONT PAGE NEWS Students explore plot and characterisation by preparing a newspaper report on incidents in current texts being studied.
• 65 FAME AND FORTUNE Students study the lives of classical authors, and learn how to use CD-ROMs and the Internet as research tools.
• 67 READ ALL ABOUT IT Students learn about the layouts of newspaper front pages, using a spreadsheet to analyse pictures, stories and advertisements.
• 69 RIGHT OR WRONG? Students collate and analyse opinions they have collected on the subject of underage drinking. The information is collected using a questionnaire created on a word-processing or DTP application.
• 71 QUICK QUOTES GUIDE Students learn the background to well-known quotations from texts they have been studying, by creating a database of the quotations.

73- SECTION 4: WORKSHEETS PROVIDING GENERAL ICT SUPPORT