Teaching activities to promote the study of Martí’s works through the English lesson in Fourth Grade

Abstract

The following major paper is based on a research done at the “Julio Antonio Mella” Elementary School in the city of Sancti Spiritus, in fourth grade, in order to promote the reading and study of Marti`s works in the English lessons. This research showed that as the state of knowledge of fourth grade students at the “Julio Antonio Mella” Elementary School was diagnosed regarding this topic it was seen that the students were interested in learning Marti's works and the English language. To give the students more opportunities to learn about Marti's works a series of activities were applied in this research to promote the study of his works. These activities are flexible, comprehensible, they motivate the students to learn about Marti, they deal with vocabulary about him, and they foment the communicative approach. The students used a very important language like English when doing the activities. It can be said that the development of patriotic values was accomplished by means of this research. The activities proved their validity so that the students would be motivated to learn about Marti. These activities were mainly applied to promote the study of Marti's works by means of English lessons. Therefore, the theme of this research and its main purpose is the promotion of Marti’s works using the English lesson in the fourth grade.