TEAM-Teaching Materials (TEAM) is a non-profit outreach project at the School of Modern Foreign Languages (FALEM) of the Institute of Arts and Communication (ILC), at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA).
Besides the coordinator, Prof. PhD Tatiana S. de Macedo, the project currently has a collaborator teacher, Prof. Rinaldo de Souza Mescouto Filho, and volunteers from the English Language Teaching Undergraduate Program of FALEM- ILC/UFPA.
During the first two years of the project (2016-2018), TEAM aimed at creating EFL activities, games, and texts to be shared with Brazilian EFL teachers of Ensino Fundamental and Médio. The work of the next two years (2019-2021) focused on the production of texts to be employed as pedagogical resources. The third version of the project (2021-2023) aims at the production of activities, games, summaries, reviews and essays that are also supposed to be employed as pedagogical resources. Although the texts are planned to be used by EFL teachers of Ensino Fundamental and Médio (the target audience), the site is open to whoever wishes to use the materials for educational purposes.
The activities and games were created for EFL learning and teaching situations and are supposed to be used in classes with 30 to 50 students.
The listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities were organized into pre-, while-, and post-stages, according to Hedge (2000)*.
Although all teachers are welcome to our site, the target audience of the activities we created are Brazilian EFL teachers of Ensino Fundamental and Médio.
Materials are based on guidelines of Brazil’s Base Nacional Comum Curricular.
All pictures, videos, audio materials, and texts fully displayed are from public domain sites. The audio and visual materials that are not public domain have their links provided.
The activities and games are organized into categories according to the lexical-grammatical elements that are used in the language production throughout the activity/game. For instance, an activity listed on “Simple Present” brings situations in which the students are supposed to use the Simple Present tense to communicate.
The activities and the games must not be used for commercial purposes.
*HEDGE, T. Teaching and learning in the language classroom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Extra Materials tab contains texts on subjects that range from EFL theories to culture and the Links tab brings suggestions of sites we consider useful to EFL teaching and learning.
The texts must not be used for commercial purposes.
The Food for Thought tab contains one-paragraph texts, summaries, reviews, and essays that are supposed to be used as pedagogical resources by EFL teachers.
The texts must not be used for commercial purposes.
The TEAM Events tab contains the records of events created and/or organized by the TEAM members.
We express our sincere gratitude
- to our university and the faculty of ILC, FALEM, and the School of Journalism and Communication (FACOM-UFPA). We also would like to thank the members of the outreach project Academia Amazônia (UFPA) and of the Center of Information and Communication Technology (CTIC-UFPA);
- to those who inspired us and/or shared their time and precious words of advice with us: Prof. PhD Alda Cristina Silva da Costa, Prof. PhD Cristina Vasconcelos Porto, Prof. MSc Izabel Maria da Silva, Prof. PhD Johwyson Rodrigues, Miss Krissia Mikaelly Lopes Menezes, Mr. Luan Eiji Arima, Prof. PhD Marcus de Souza Araújo, Mr. Nelson Nunes, Prof. PhD Reinildes Dias, Mr. Renato Wilson Chaves Lima Junior, Prof. PhD Rosane Albino Steinbrenner, Prof. PhD Rosinda Ramos, Prof. PhD Vera Lucia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva, and Prof. PhD Walkyria Magno e Silva;
- to the members of the Oficina de Criação (FACOM-ILC/UFPA) for creating our logo and all visual materials related to it: Prof. PhD Lívia Lopes Barbosa (Coordinator), Mr. Renato Brito Araújo (Supervisor) and the student-members Adriane Jackson de Vasconcelos, Amanda Lima da Paixão, Danyllo Melo Pereira Bemerguy, Jessika Nancy Siqueira Araújo, Katryna Oliveira Fernandes da Silva, Lívia Fialho de Andrade, Luiz Manoel Nazaré Vilhena, and Rodrigo Monteiro de Almeida.