Tea and Coffee 2

Bachillerato

Level: 1^st year

N. of students : 20

Evaluation: 3^rd term

Unit of Work: Tea and Coffee

Timing: 5 sessions + final task

Material: CD player, blackboard, photocopies, computers (althia room)

FINAL TASK : make a multicultural calendar

PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: vocabulary related to the English speaking world, the passive voice…

General Objectives

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

· Understand and interpret critically oral, written and visual texts.

· Value the FL as a means to have access to other knowledge and cultures

· Read general texts or adequated to their interests without a dictionary

Specific Objectives

· Expose learners to diff pieces of input related to English speaking countries.

· Express and understand linguistic and phonological diff between BrE & AmE

· To encourage a positive attitude towards other people and their culture

· To interact with others and to participate in the exchange of information

· To produce comprehensive written text using the acquired linguistic devices

· To contrast oral texts in terms of their phonetic varieties

· To exchange information with other students

· 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

· To understand and seek information in written texts

· To produce oral and written text

· Texts related to environmental issues

· Scanning and skimming of given texts and listening activities

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

A. FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR

B. VOCABULARY

C. PHONETICS

· To use the passive voice

· To ask and give information about other cultures and countries

· To tell how to make a recipe

· Countries and nationalities

· British and American vocabulary differences

• Basic characteristics of British and American English

· To locate English speaking countries in a map

· To show respect to other cultures and languages

· Importance showing respect to other cultures and languages

· Development of a critical conscience that values adequately the information coming from the cultures of the foreign countries. – comparing with us – looking for festivities, traditions, food,…

· Correct use of ICT as a way of communicating with native speakers.

· To locate English speaking countries in the map

Moral and Civic Education

Students will learn about other countries, showing respect for different cultures

Geography and History.

· Graded and guided tasks.- To find particular improving opportunities for weaker and advance students (Green coloured for fast learners; Violet coloured for average students and yellow coloured for slower students)

· Group/ pair work.- Students are distributed attending to their learning possibilities

Initial

Formative

Summative assessment

Peer evaluation

Self-evaluation

– Warm-up

– Previously knowledge test

– Teacher’s Observation Notebook

– Practice stage

– Final Task.

– Final test

– Production Stage.

Final task evaluation sheet

Self-assessment sheet. (end of each session and end of unit)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

PUPILS

TEACHING PROCESS EVALUATION

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?