O ensino de inglês em escolas públicas além do verbo To Be: utilizando a língua como instrumento de construção de sentidos

Abstract

Brazilian public education presents so many challenges that teachers of different subjects need to find strategies to overcome them. The lack of teaching resources, the precarious conditions of the school environment - among other problems - directly impact the teaching-learning process of all areas, including English. In addition to these challenges, teachers need to deal with another one: students see no reason in learning this language, as they are supposed to never use it. Therefore, this work aims to discuss English teaching in public schools from the perspective of the construction of meanings in order to allow students to recognize, while they interact with others and, consequently, with the world, different types of family. To this end, using autoethnography, the experience of preparing a lesson plan - choice of theme, grammatical content, material research and activities - will be reported. The lesson plans were prepared for the 6th grade of a public school in Sergipe during my participation in the Pedagogical Residency Program of the Federal University of Sergipe.