jueves, 26 de febrero de 2009

Unidad de aprendizaje

El presente documento es una unidad de aprendizaje diseñada siguiendo el Modelo T el que se enmarca y se fundamenta en el paradigma socio - cognitivo y en los nuevos modelos de aprender a aprender como desarrollo de capacidades y valores (en Educared por Román Martiniano) Aqui no se aprecia como realmente es. En Inglés tenemos dos capacidades: Expresión y Comprensión y cada una de ellas tiene sus destrezas.
Si se analiza la unidad se darán cuenta que esta, está diseñada de tal forma que permite un ágil desarrollo de las clases, por ende nuestras sesiones son de un corte muy práctico y dinámico.



LEARNING UNIT 1 - 2009

LEVEL: 6th grade
GRADE: SECTIONS: A, B, C, D
TEACHERS:-Luz Núñez
TERM: 4 WEEKS
TITLE OF THE UNIT: Earning Money
AREA: ENGLISH
BOOK: Pop up now
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CONTENTS

Earning money

- Review: Daily routines.
- Part Time jobs.
- Present Simple and Present Continuous.
- Frequency adverbs
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous
- While+ Past Continuous+ Past Simple
- Past Continuous+when+ past Simple
- Money in the past.
- Wh questions
- Writing Sequences.
- Comparative degree
- Storyline: Snails anyone 1?

LEARNING METHODS

Discrimination of specific information about the frequency of daily activities.

Production of oral texts to ask for and give personal information, through a dialogue.

Interpretation of specific information about teenagers who have part-time job through a set of exercises.

Production of oral texts to ask for and give information about how to earn money through a conversation.

Use of vocabulary and structures to talk about past events in progress, by reading about some experiences.

Production of oral texts to give information about lucky or unlucky experiences by sharing your ideas.

Production of written texts to describe lucky or unlucky experiences by writing an anecdote.

Interpretation of specific information from the text “A very fine trip” by solving a set of exercises

Discrimination of specific information from a dialogue in a clothes shop, by listening to the CD.

Use of vocabulary and structures to describe comparative degree actions at the moment of speaking, by doing a set of exercises.

Interpretation specific information about money in the past from the reading “Money in the past” solving a set of activities.

Production of written texts to imitate sounds words and phrases through a dictation.

Production of written texts preparing and decorating your own money by using color paper.

Interpretation of specific information from the text “Henry Ford” by solving a set of exercises.

Interpretation of specific information about part time-jobs and raising money from the reading “ Snails, anyone 1”, through a set of exercises

Use of vocabulary and structures to talk about an action that was interrupted by another action by ordering events.

Use of vocabulary and structures to describe daily routines, past events and actions that were interrupted by another action through a set of exercises.

Production of oral texts describe past events about money, through a dialogue.

Listening and discrimination of phonemes by using The English Adventures Program and use vocabulary and grammar structures to reinforce previous knowledge by using the Backpack CD-ROM.

Interpretation of information from the Reading Plan book: “Oliver Twist”



CAPACITIES - SKILLS AIMS

1. Expression

1.1. Produce oral texts
1.2. Use vocabulary and structures
1.3. Produce written texts

2. Comprehension
2.1 Listen and discriminate
2.2. Interpret

VALUES-ATTITUDES

RESPONSIBILITY
 Hand in the homework on time.

RESPECT
 Pay attention to the teacher’s explanation.
 Show respect to others’ opinions and differences.

ASSERTIVENESS AND TOLERANCE
 Listen attentively to the teacher and other students´ opinions.
 Be tolerant to other student’s mistakes and opinions.

AUTONOMY
 Follow instructions.
 Work carefully and neatly.
 Make your best effort when working.

ACTIVITIES as LEARNING STRATEGIES
(skill + content + method + attitude)

Activity 1

Discriminate specific information about the frequency of daily activities, by listening attentively to the CD.

1. Look at the picture on B p 4 and think about how often Bruce is late.

2. Listen and complete the table using frequency adverbs. B p 4

Activity 2

Produce oral texts to ask for and give personal information, through a dialogue.

1. Talk to your partner about yourself.

2. Get in pairs and prepare a dialogue using frequency adverbs.

3. In pairs ask and answer questions about your daily routines.

4. Present the dialogue in front of the class.

Activity 3

Interpret specific information about teenagers who have part-time jobs through a set of exercises, by following instructions.

  1. Read carefully and look at the pictures. (B p 5)
  2. Match each reading with the correct picture.
  3. Share your answers with one classmate.

Activity 4

Produce oral texts to ask for and give information about how to earn money through a conversation, making your best effort when working.

  1. Choose a partner and ask: What do you do to earn money?(B p 5)
  2. Answer the question working in front of the class.
  3. Complete exercises 1 and 2.(WB p 3)

Activity 5

Use vocabulary and structures to talk about past events in progress, by reading about some experiences.

  1. Read about Rick’s and Susan’s experiences. (B p 6)
  2. Identify the past continuous tense in reading texts. (Bp6 act. 1)
  3. Contrast past simple and past continuous sentences in the readings.
  4. Answer the questions using past simple and past continuous. (Bp6 act. 2)
  5. Complete exercise 2 (WB p 4)

Activity 6

Produce oral texts to give information about lucky or unlucky experiences, by sharing your ideas, showing respect to others’ opinions and differences.

1. Prepare a short oral text about lucky/unlucky experience.

2. Talk with a partner.

3. Share your experiences with the whole class.

Activity 7

Produce written texts to describe lucky or unlucky experiences by writing an anecdote, handing in the work on time.

1. Brainstorm general ideas lucky/unlucky experience.

2. Prepare a spider gram

3. Write a draft of a composition, using the information from the spider gram

4. Finish your writing and read it to the class.

Activity 8

Interpret specific information from the text “A very fine trip” by solving a set of exercises, paying attention to the T’s explanation.

  1. Read the heading and predict the reading: WS
  2. Read the text in silence to check predictions.
  3. Highlight the most important ideas.
  4. Solve and complete the exercises in the WS.

Activity 9

Discriminate specific information from a dialogue in a clothes shop, by listening to the CD.

1. Listen to the CD and say what the conversation is about. (B p 7)

2. Listen again and answer the questions in ex.2 page 7.

3. Share your answers with a partner.

4. Complete exercise 1 (WB p 5)

Activity 10

Use vocabulary and structures to describe comparative degree actions at the moment of speaking, by doing a set of exercises and making your best effort when working.

  1. Look at the pictures and compare them using a list of adjectives given by the T. (act. 3 B p 7)
  2. Look at the clothes they are wearing and make sentences as in the example.
  3. Present the exercise to the class.

Activity 11

Interpret specific information about money in the past from the reading “ Money in the past” solving a set of activities, working carefully and neatly.

1. Read the text silently.(B p 8)

2. Read the same text in pairs.

3. Ask and answer the given questions.

4. Join a reading group and share the answers. (groups of 4)

5. Read and complete activity 1 (WB p 6)

Activity 12

Produce written texts to imitate sounds, words and phrases through a dictation by following instructions.

1) Listen to the words or phrases the T says.

2) Write them correctly.

Activity 13

Produce written texts related to money issues using colour paper, paying attention to the teacher’s instructions.

  1. Think of a name for you currency.
  2. Cut your notes and decorate them.
  3. Make your coins.
  4. Decide the prices of: a bar of chocolate, a bike and a computer.
  5. Write one paragraph about the importance of your money.
  6. Complete act. 1 (WB p 7)

Activity 14

Interpret specific information from the text “Henry Ford” by solving a set of exercises, paying attention to the T’s explanation.

  1. Read the heading and predict the reading: WS
  2. Read the text in silence to check predictions.
  3. Highlight the most important ideas.
  4. Solve and complete the exercises in the WS.

Activity 15

Interpret specific information about part time-jobs and raising money from the reading “Snails, anyone 1”, through a set of exercises, showing respect to other students’ opinions.

  1. Listen to the CD.
  2. Listen a second time and identify new words.
  3. Look at the picture and describe what’s happening.
  4. Work in a reading work enjoying the story.
  5. Complete the given activity. (B p 10)
  6. Answer T or F (WB p 8)

Activity 16

Use vocabulary and structures to talk about an action that was interrupted by another action, by ordering events carefully and neatly.

1. Look at the pictures. ( B p 11)

2. Unscramble the sentences.

3. Complete exercise 2 (B p 11)

4. Write sentences using the given verbs.(WB p 17)

5. Complete sentences with the words in the box. (WB p 17)

Activity 17

Use vocabulary and structures to describe daily routines, past events and actions that were interrupted by another action, through a set of exercises by following instructions and being honest.

  1. Read the instructions carefully: test.
  2. Solve the exercises and answer the questions silently and individually.

Activity 18

Produce oral texts to describe past events related to money, through a dialogue being tolerant to other student’s mistakes and opinions.

1. Get in groups of three and brainstorm according to T’s instructions ideas.

2. Write a dialogue using the new ideas and a dictionary.

3. Practice in class

Present your work in front of the class


Activity 19
Listen and discriminate phonemes by using The English Adventures Program and use vocabulary and grammar structures to reinforce previous knowledge by using the Backpack CD-ROM.

1. Listen to teacher’s instructions.
2. Click on the links provided by the program.
3. Do the exercises set by the program.

Activity 20
Interpret information from the Reading Plan book: Oliver Twist

1. Predict the theme of the story according to its title.
2. Scan and skim information.
3. Read aloud.
4. Get the main idea.
5. Answer comprehension questions.
6. Answer general questions.
7. Use new vocabulary in context.

New Vocabulary
-deliver
-part – time job
-earn
-chores
-rubbish
-take an order
-pocket money
-clear the table
-lucky-unlucky
-fitting room
-fit
-flyers
-mow the lawn
-give out
-flyer

VERBS
win-won
speak-spoke


CRITERIA

Capacities
1. Expression
2. Comprehension

Values

 Responsibility
 Respect
 Assertiveness and Tolerance
 Autonomy

ACHIEVEMENT INDICATORS

Skills:
1.1 Produce oral texts
1.2 Use vocabulary and grammar
1.3 Produce written texts
2.1 Discriminate
2.2 Interpret

Attitudes:
 Be punctual.
 Hand in the homework on time.
 Pay attention to the teacher’s explanation.
 Show respect to others’ opinions
and differences.
 Listen attentively to the teacher
and other students´ opinions.
 Be tolerant to other student’s
mistakes and opinions.
 Follow instructions.
 Work carefully and neatly.
 Make your best effort when working.

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