Looks Good on You!

Looks Good on You!

UNIT 3

 

Level:1st year Bachillerato

N. of students : 20

Evaluation: 1st.

Unit of Work: Unit three: Looks Good on You!

Timing: 5 sessions.

Material: photocopies, cassette, computers, the Internet, OHP…

FINAL TASK: Write a biography about a person you know – a close friend or relative.

PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: voc related to relations, fashion, popular people ,pres perf and past perf …

AIMS of the unit

General Objectives

Reflect on the function of language in communication in order to improve their own productions.

Specific Objectives

Present and Past Perfect.

Speak about human relations.

Speak and write about popular people and those around them.

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS:

· Obtain global and specific information in oral and written texts.

· Oral interaction with others.

· Prepare a discussion in groups in a coherent and cohesive way.

· Write a biography using adverbs of degree and connectors

· Read and understand how we describe other people

· To make use of comm strategies: asking for clarification, confirming understanding,…

· Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding contextual clues

LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS

A. FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR

B. VOCABULARY

C. PHONETICS

· Describing physical appereance.

· Phrasal Verbs: get on, put up with,…

· Prepositions. Intensifiers.

· Time expressions.

· Present Perfect and Past Perfect

· Vocabulary related to physical appereance, personality and relationships, e.g. emotions and moods

· Rhythm and intonation.

· Weak forms.(aux. And prepositons)

SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS.

– Identification of the English speaking countries’ models of beauty,

– Importance of paying attention to their own utterances.

– Development of a critical conscience that values adequately the information coming from the cultures of the foreign countries.

– Use of suitable lexis in different situations (greetings, farewells, …)

CROSS-CURRICULAR THEMES

Moral and Civic Education

Education for equality of sexes

· Students will learn how humans relate to each other. (Session 3)

· Clothes, fashion, models, … (Sessionn 1)

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

History.

Physical Education.

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY

Reinforcement work

· Graded and guided exercises.

· Paying attention to slow learners

Amplification work

· Research work for advanced students.

EVALUATION

Initial

Formative

Summative assessment

Self-evaluation

Flashcard

Criteria for looking good.

Practice stage

Teacher’s Observation Notebook.

Production stage.

Radio recording: Final Task.

Self-assessment sheet

EVALUATION CRITERIA

PUPILS

TEACHING PROCESS

Communicative skills

Reflection on Language

Sociocultural Aspects

· To extract global and specific information from written and oral texts.

· Produce their own written work

· Oral interaction with coherence and cohesion

· Interpret and assume the previous knowledge and out it into practice.

· Accuracy and neatness of their productions.

· Show respect to other cultures and foreign people.

· Behaviour and degree of participation and co-operation

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?