UNIT 04

Title: FALLING INTO A WATERFALL (Unit 4)

Level: Third cycle (Y6)

Topic:  Outdoor recreational sports and other recreational activities.

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...

Linguistic structures:  I really enjoy this sport. // I feel like flying. // It’s the best feeling. // I do experiment fear a lot of times when kayaking. // I don’t want to die.

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 (10 minutes)
    a.1. Listening a video about an outdoor extreme sport. (2 minutes)
    a.2. Brain storming & Conversation: What is the topic of this unit? (8 minutes)

b. Initial Evaluation (Oral test): What outdoor activities do you know? (10 minutes)
c. Flashcards (Vocabulary presentation) (5 minutes)

d. Final task presentation:  (15 minutes)

e. End of class routine: Song (Cold water) (5 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. Reading aloud a text about an outdoor adventure. (15 minutes)

d. Dragon Hunters (10 minutes)

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

SESSION 4 (WRITING)

a. Warm-up activities: Listening a video about an Outdoor Center (3 minutes)

b. Answer these questions (12 minutes)

c. Complete a 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 find out more! Look for other outdoor recreations (20 minutes)

c. Write about your most dangerous outdoor adventures (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...