We are going to Ireland

We are going to Ireland

UNIT 6

Bachillerato

Level: 1st year

N. of students : 20

Evaluation: 2nd term

Unit of Work: We are going to Ireland

Timing: 6 sessions + final task

Material: OHP, CD player, blackboard, photocopies, computers, dictionaries,…

FINAL TASK : Planning a Trip to Ireland

PUPILS’ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: knowledge about Ireland and different ways to express futurity

AIMS:

General Objectives

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

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

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

Specific Objectives

· to understand oral and written information about travelling

· to enlarge students’ prior knowldege about Ireland and reflect upon its socio-cultural effects.

· To write small paragraphs about their city

· To share orla and written information and opinions with their classmates and teachers.

UNIT CONTENTS:

COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

Ø Scanning and skimming of given texts and listening activities

Ø To make use of comm strategies: asking for clarification, confirming undersanding…

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

Ø To use learning strategies to communicate with other classmates, with the teacher and with native speakers

Ø To take notes from a chat conversation in order to apply it for further activities

Ø To think about their own learning process

LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS

A. FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR

B. VOCABULARY

C. PHONETICS

· Planning a travel to Ireland

· Differentiate when to use going to + verb and will

· When to use may/ might

· Conditional sentences (1st type) and temporal expressions

· Asking for and giving information

· Asking for clarification and making yourself understood

· To know specific voc. related to Ireland and planning a trip

· Features of a town

  • Pronunciation of the contract form won’t
  • To appreciate rhythm and intonation patterns of spoken English

SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS.

· Showing respect when communicating with native speakers

· To appreciate English as a way of knowing about Ireland traditions and customs: St. Patrick’s Day…

· Correct use of the Internet as a way of speaking with native speakers

· Getting to know differnet Irish cities

CROSS-CURRICULAR THEMES

· Education for Peace

· Moral and Civic Ed.

Education for understanding other cultures

To show respect and curiosity about other people’s culture and their way of living

To foster attitudes of respect for human rights , recognition of pluralism and a wider diversity of values.

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Geography and History

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY

Remedial work

· Graded exercises.

· Paying attention to slow learners

Further work

· Act out dialogue by heart

· Make another dialogue

· Final Task

EVALUATION

Initial

Formative

Summative assessment

Peer evaluation

Self-evaluation

Brainstorming about Ireland

Teacher’s Observation Notebook

Producation Stage

Final Task

Assessment activity

Final-Task evaluation sheet

Self-assessment sheet.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

PUPILS

TEACHING PROCESS

Communicative skills

Reflection on Language

Sociocultural Aspects

· Extract global and specific information from written and oral texts.

· Make use of comm strategies: asking for clarification…

· Participate in class conversation actively

· Write short descriptions of a city

· Accuracy and neatness of their productions.

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

· Use language functions according to grammatical rules

· Show interest in knowing about the Irish culture

· Behaviour and degree of participation and co-operation

· Value the use of English as a way of getting to know Irish people and culture

· Appreciate the contact with native speakers.

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?