TITLE: THE BIGGEST VOLCANOES
Grade: Third cycle (Y6)
Topic: Volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Didactic main aim: To extend the pupils’ communicative competence by working at a semantic field close to the children’s interest: Volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Vocabulary: volcano, magma, lava, ashes, gas, vapour, steam, geyser, eruption, crater, vent, crack, pyroclastic flow, ash cloud, crystal, earthquake, landslide, wave, tsunami... // explode, melt, boil, vaporize, shake... // incandescent, red-hot, hot, hotter, hottest...
Linguistic 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. / Can you describe it?...
Socio-cultural aspects: The students will learn social and cultural aspects in volcanic areas of USA: Yellowstone and Hawaii Islands. They will study volcanic areas in Andalusia, Southern Spain (Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park).
Resources: Interactive whiteboard (IWB), tablets, teacher’s blog, flashcards, notebooks, the materials used in the model and characterization.
Timing: 7 sessions (45 minutes each one).
UNIT STRUCTURE
The four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) will be worked separately in this order in different sessions, although the oral interaction will always reinforce the concepts that the pupils have to learn in all sessions. Last input must be the first output, because when you express something with your own words you do not forget it as easily as it happens when you listen to something passively. In the fifth and the sixth session all the skills will be worked together and in the last session our students will be evaluated by doing a final task, though there are several activities along the unit which will be considered as partial tests of the students’ skills.
MOTIVATION
So, the first thing that has to be taken into account is the interests of the students of this age. They are teenagers and their interests are not as childish as in the first stages of Primary Education. They are eager for participating in the world as adults, but at the same time they are still children. For instance, they enjoy games a lot and when a topic is presented like a game they enjoy it much more.
Timing: 7 sessions (45 minutes each one).
UNIT STRUCTURE
The four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) will be worked separately in this order in different sessions, although the oral interaction will always reinforce the concepts that the pupils have to learn in all sessions. Last input must be the first output, because when you express something with your own words you do not forget it as easily as it happens when you listen to something passively. In the fifth and the sixth session all the skills will be worked together and in the last session our students will be evaluated by doing a final task, though there are several activities along the unit which will be considered as partial tests of the students’ skills.
MOTIVATION
So, the first thing that has to be taken into account is the interests of the students of this age. They are teenagers and their interests are not as childish as in the first stages of Primary Education. They are eager for participating in the world as adults, but at the same time they are still children. For instance, they enjoy games a lot and when a topic is presented like a game they enjoy it much more.
ACTIVITIES - Timing: 7 sessions (45 minutes each one).
SESSION 1 (LISTENING)
a. Warm-up activities: Guess what it is! (5 minutes)
b. Documentary video (Listening a video about Volcanoes). (3 minutes)
b. Documentary video (Listening a video about Volcanoes). (3 minutes)
c. Brainstorming: What do you know about this? (12 minutes)
d. Flashcards (Vocabulary presentation) (5 minutes)
e. Final task presentation: My favourite Volcanoes (14 minutes)
f. End of class routine: Song (Lava) (6 minutes)
d. Flashcards (Vocabulary presentation) (5 minutes)
e. Final task presentation: My favourite Volcanoes (14 minutes)
f. End of class routine: Song (Lava) (6 minutes)
SESSION 2 (SPEAKING)
a. Warm-up activities: Video Intro (listening) about how to built a vinegar volcano. (5 minutes)
b. Brainstorming: Can you build a "volcano" in other ways? How will you do it? (15 minutes)
c. Invisible words (10 minutes)
c. Invisible words (10 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...
Memory games (words-images), picture dictionary, picture dictation, ordering words...
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