Our environment 2

Our environment 2

UNIT 2

 

Level:1st year Bachillerato

N. of students : 20

Evaluation: 1st.

Unit of Work: Our environment

Timing: 5 sessions.

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

FINAL TASK: Record a presentation of news.

PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:vocabulary related to environment, simple past and past continuous.

AIMS of the unit

General Objectives

Use comprehension strategies that allow the inference of unknown meaning through context.

Specific Objectives

§ Speak about past actions

§ Use quantifiers according to countable and non countable nouns

§ To read and reflect on the environment

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS:

§ To debate in oral form the best solution in order to defend the environment

§ To write a composition with a balanced argument

§ To establish the logical order of sentences in order to make a coherent whole

§ Predicting and deducing information from oral texts

§ Texts related to environmental issues

§ Scanning and skimming of given texts and listening activities

§ 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

· Past Simple and Past Continuous.

· Countable and non-countable nouns.

· Obligation and prohibition

· Adjectives related to environment.

· Prepositions of place.

· Use of regular verbs past ending –ed: /t/ /d/ /id/

SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS.

· Identification of habits of everyday life in other countries.

· Knowledege of International environmental organisations.

CROSS-CURRICULAR THEMES

Respect for the environment

· Students will look at the way man is affecting the world and will make proposals as to how it can be improved.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Biology and Geology.

Technology and Computer Science.

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY

Remedial work

· More guided exercises.

· Description of two pictures

· Write a summary using connectors.

Further work

· Films and environment composition.

EVALUATION

Initial

Formative

Summative assessment

Self-evaluation

Guessing

Practice stage

Teacher’s Observation Notebook.

Production stage.

Progress check.

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

· Recognise cohesive devices to make an argument/ description.

· Accuracy and neatness of their productions.

· Reflect on the functioning of language through induction of deduction of the rules.

· Show respect to other cultures and foreign people.

· Behaviour and degree of participation and co-operation

· Interpret aspects of other cultures through the use of newspapers articles and the Internet referring to environmental problems.

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?

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