UNIT 6 - CLIMBING A FROZEN WATERFALL

Title: CLIMBING A FROZEN WATERFALL (Unit 6)

Level: Third cycle (Y6)

Topic:  Mountain sports

Didactic main aim: To extend the pupils’ communicative competence by describing actions about topics in which the students are really interesting in: winter and mountain sports.

Vocabulary: Alpine skiing, bobsledding, luge, snowboarding, mountaineering, mountain biking, ice hockey, ice climbing, rock climbing... // drop, climb, ski... // cold, freezing, frozen...

Structures: Where does a polar bear live? // What's an iceberg? // Can you describe it?...

Socio-cultural aspects: The students will learn the most relevant geological features in Canada (Niagara Falls, Canadian Rockies and Arctic Ocean)

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. Listening (Video about Ice-climbing in Niagara Falls). (3 minutes)
c. Initial Test: What do you know about this? (17 minutes)
d. Flashcards (Video about Winter Sports) (4 minutes)
e. Final task presentation: My favourite USA’s State (10 minutes)
f. End of class routine: Song (Rocky Mountain way) (5 minutes)

SESSION 2 (SPEAKING)
a. Warm-up activities: Picture Intro (5 minutes)
b. Invisible words (10 minutes)
c. Sports 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 a map of Canada (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...