Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

UNIT 4

 

Level:1st year Bachillerato

N. of students : 20

Evaluation: 1st.

Unit of Work: Unit four: Merry Christmas

Timing: 5 sessions.+ final task

clip_image001 Material: photocopies, cassette, computers, the internet, OHP… Graded Version of A Christmas Carol

FINAL TASK: theatrical performance.

PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: vocabulary of Christmas, festivities, past simple, connectors, …

AIMS of the unit

Specific Objectives

  1. To understand oral and written information about Charles Dickens time and work
  2. To share oral and written information as well as opinions about the topic
  3. To enlarge student’s prior knowledge about the topic
  4. To encourage a critical and positive attitude towards reading, and analysing different literary texts

General Objectives

  • To write small paragraphs and descriptions
  • To use different grammatical structures and lexical items in the appropriate contexts
  • To read and understand information about the topic

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS:

clip_image002 searching for specific and general information (skimming and scanning)

clip_image002[1] listening to a biography about Charles Dickens

clip_image002[2] Creating a bibliography card

clip_image002[3] Doing a theatrical performance about “A Christmas Carol”

clip_image002[4] Listening for specific information

clip_image002[5] Relating words and pictures

LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS

A. FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR

B. VOCABULARY

C. PHONETICS

· word order ( Christmas +…)

· wh-questions

· like +ing

· use of connectors in stories

· simple past in narration

· Use of descriptive devices

· Vocabulary related to Christmas and festivities in different cultures

· English rhythm and intonation

SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS.

clip_image002[6] getting to know English literature apart from our own.

clip_image002[7] typical traditions in British/ American Christmas

clip_image002[8] Forster an appreciative attitude towards the literature and culture of the foreign literature

CROSS-CURRICULAR THEMES

Moral and Civic Education

· Foster an active, reflexive and critical participation in various contexts of oral communication

· Participate actively in the classroom activities

· Understand pair work and group work as a way to foster learning

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

clip_image001[1] Language and Literature, Music

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY

Remedial work

· Graded open ended exercises and tasks.

· Paying attention to slow learners

Further work

· Reinforcement and research work.

· Final task

EVALUATION

Initial

Formative

Summative assessment

Self-evaluation

Guessing Game

Practice stage

Teacher’s Observation Notebook.

Production stage.

Final Task

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 various texs and the Internet.

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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