UNIT 06

Title: CLIMBING A FROZEN WATERFALL (Unit 6)

Level: Third cycle (Y6)

Topic:  Winter sports in Canada

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.

Timing: 7 sessions (45 minutes each one).

SESSION 1 (LISTENING)
a. Warm-up activities: Guess what it is! (10 minutes)
   a.1. Listening a video about a relevant Canadian landform:
          Niagara Falls. (4 minutes)
   a.2. Brainstoming: What is this unit about? (6 minutes)
b. Initial Test (7 minutes)
    What do you know about Canada? What winter sports do you know?
c. Listening to practise the oral comprehension. (10 minutes)
    c.1. Didactic video about the Canadian geography. (6 minutes)
    c.2. Video-flashcards about Winter Sports. (4 minutes)
d. Final task presentation: My favourite USA’s State. (10 minutes)
e. End of class routine.
    Listening the song of the unit: The Canada's song (twice/3 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...