UNIT 4 - FALLING INTO A WATERFALL

Title: FALLING INTO A WATERFALL (Unit 4)

Level: Third cycle (Y6)

Topic:  Extreme sports and other outdoors sports.

Didactic main aim: To extend the pupils’ communicative competence by describing actions about topics they are really interested in, such as extreme sports.

Vocabulary: Canoeing, kayaking, surfing, kitesurfing, parachuting, base jumping, volcano surfing... // fly, surf, climb... // dangerous, more dangerous than, the most dangerous, fast, faster, fastest...

Structures: When rock melts it becomes a thick liquid called magma. / When a volcano explode it expulses lava. / When a liquid becomes into gas it is called vaporization. / What is an eruption? // Can you describe it?...

Socio-cultural aspects: The students will learn how to describe very dynamic or speedy actions.

Resources: Written and oral descriptions, internet links, the written lyrics of the song of this unit, and videos.

ACTIVITIES - Timing: 7 sessions (45 minutes each one).

SESSION 1 (LISTENING)

a. Warm-up activities: Guess what it is! (6 minutes)

b. Documentary video (Listening a video about USA). (7 minutes)

c. Brainstorming: What do you know about this? (13 minutes)

d. Flashcards (Vocabulary presentation) (5 minutes)

e. Final task presentation: My favourite USA’s State (10 minutes)

f. End of class routine: Song (Anywhere else but here!) (4 minutes)

SESSION 2 (SPEAKING)

a. Warm-up activities: Picture Intro (5 minutes)

b. Invisible words (10 minutes)

c. USA’s Bingo. (15 minutes)

d. Bets. (10 minutes)

e. End of class routine: Singing and dancing (5 minutes)

SESSION 3 (READING)

a. Warm-up activities: Picture Intro (5 minutes)

b. Guess the magical formula! (10 minutes)

c. Terrifying stories (15 minutes)

d. Dragon Hunters (10 minutes)

e. End of class routine: Singing and dancing (5 minutes)

SESSION 4 (WRITING)

a. Warm-up activities: Picture Intro (5 minutes)

b. Short Reading (10 minutes)

c. Complete the story (10 minutes)

d. Crosswords. (10 minutes)

e. End of class routine: Fill in the gaps of the lyrics (10 minutes)

SESSION 5 (4 SKILLS)

a. Warm-up activities: What's happenning there? (5 minutes)

b. Let’s Investigate as a Scientist! (20 minutes)

c. Let’s make your Volcano model (with play dough) (15 minutes) 

d. End of class routine: 30 seconds (5 minutes)

SESSION 6 (EVALUATION)

a. Warm-up activities: What's happenning there? (5 minutes)

b. WRITTEN TEST

b1. CROSSWORDS (15 minutes)

b2. PICTURE DESCRIPTION (15 minutes)

c. End of class routine: 30 seconds (5 minutes)

SESSION 7 (EVALUATION)

a. Warm-up activities: What's happenning there? (5 minutes)

b. FINAL TASK: Oral Exposition (30 minutes)

c. PORTFOLIO (5 minutes)

d. SELF EVALUATION (5 minutes)

Attention to the diversity - Reinforcement activities

Memory games (words-images), picture dictionary, picture dictation, ordering words...