UNIT 6
Bachillerato | Level: 1st year | N. of students : 20 | Evaluation: 2nd term |
Unit of Work: We are going to Ireland | Timing: 6 sessions + final task | ||
Material: OHP, CD player, blackboard, photocopies, computers, dictionaries,… | |||
FINAL TASK : Planning a Trip to Ireland | |||
PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: knowledge about Ireland and different ways to express futurity |
AIMS:
General Objectives | · Understand and interpret critically oral, written and visual texts. · Use comprehension strategies that allow the inference of unknown meaning through context · Read general texts or adequated to their interests without a dictionary |
Specific Objectives | · to understand oral and written information about travelling · to enlarge students’ prior knowldege about Ireland and reflect upon its socio-cultural effects. · To write small paragraphs about their city · To share orla and written information and opinions with their classmates and teachers. |
UNIT CONTENTS:
COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
Ø Scanning and skimming of given texts and listening activities Ø To make use of comm strategies: asking for clarification, confirming undersanding… Ø Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding contextual clues | Ø To use learning strategies to communicate with other classmates, with the teacher and with native speakers Ø To take notes from a chat conversation in order to apply it for further activities Ø To think about their own learning process |
LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS
A. FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR | B. VOCABULARY | C. PHONETICS |
· Planning a travel to Ireland · Differentiate when to use going to + verb and will · When to use may/ might · Conditional sentences (1st type) and temporal expressions · Asking for and giving information · Asking for clarification and making yourself understood | · To know specific voc. related to Ireland and planning a trip · Features of a town |
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SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS.
· Showing respect when communicating with native speakers · To appreciate English as a way of knowing about Ireland traditions and customs: St. Patrick’s Day… · Correct use of the Internet as a way of speaking with native speakers · Getting to know differnet Irish cities |
CROSS-CURRICULAR THEMES
· Education for Peace · Moral and Civic Ed. | Education for understanding other cultures To show respect and curiosity about other people’s culture and their way of living To foster attitudes of respect for human rights , recognition of pluralism and a wider diversity of values. |
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Geography and History |
ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY
Remedial work | · Graded exercises. · Paying attention to slow learners |
Further work | · Act out dialogue by heart · Make another dialogue · Final Task |
EVALUATION
Initial | Formative | Summative assessment | Peer evaluation | Self-evaluation |
Brainstorming about Ireland | Teacher’s Observation Notebook | Producation Stage Final Task Assessment activity | Final-Task evaluation sheet | Self-assessment sheet. |
EVALUATION CRITERIA | |||||||
PUPILS | TEACHING PROCESS | ||||||
| q Class management. q Teaching methods. q Materials. q Interaction between children. q Interaction between class and the teacher. q Involvement of the individual learner. |
OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS: |
· Were children absorbed in the activities? |
· Did class management work effectively? |
· Were my aims achieved? |
· What aspects were most successful? |
· How can I reinforce their learning? |
· Has any other extra activity been performed? Was it successful? |