UNIT 03

Title: A HALLOWEEN PARTY (Unit 3)

GRADE

This didactic unit have been designed for a sixth grade class in Primary Education.

DIDACTIC MAIN AIM: To extend the pupils’ communicative competence by describing actions about topics they are really interested in, such as Halloween.

VOCABULARY: Pumpkin, Jack-o-lantern, ghost, witch, skeleton, goblin, vampire, haunted house, zombie ... // hollow out, carve out, scare, to be afraid of... // dead, rotten, scary, horrible, spooky...

LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES: 

SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS: The students will learn fictional characters, recipes and traditions related to a typical Anglo-Saxon celebration: Halloween.

RESOURCES: Interactive whiteboard (IWB), tablets, teacher’s blog, flashcards, notebooks, the materials used in the model and characterization of the typical supernatural figures of Halloween.

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.

UNIT STRUCTURE

Al the Units of this Didactic planning have been structured in 7 sessions.

Each session will last 45 minutes.

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.

SESSION 1 (LISTENING)
a. Warm-up activities (10 minutes)
    a.1. Listening a video which gives us a clue to guess the topic of this unit: Ghostbusters trailer (3 minutes)
    a.2. Brainstorming conversation: Guess the topic of this unit. (7 minutes)
b. Initial evaluation: What do you know about Halloween? (Oral test/10 minutes).
c. Listening, oral reproduction and comprehension (10 minutes).
    c.1. Flashcards: Vocabulary presentation > Listening & Oral reproduction (twice/5 minutes).
    c.2. Listening a video about how to create your Jack-o-lantern. (5 minutes)
d. Final task presentation: My favourite Halloween Monsters (10 minutes).
e. End of class routine: Listening to the Song of the Unit (Ghostbusters (twice: 5 minutes).

SESSION 2 (SPEAKING)

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

b. Which one is missing? (10 minutes)

c. Sea Monsters 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. Invisible words (10 minutes)

c. Terrifying stories (15 minutes)

d. Show what you know, pirate! (10 minutes)

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

Session 4 (WRITING)

a. Warm-up activities: Listening a video about how to create your Jack-o-lantern (5 minutes).

b. Answer these questions (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. Dramatized Reading (15 minutes)

c. Guess the magical formula! (10 minutes)

d. Create your Sea Monster! (10 minutes)

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

SESSION 6 (4 SKILLS)

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

b. Let’s Investigate as a Scientist! (25 minutes)

c. Crosswords (10 minutes)

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

SESSION 7 (4 SKILLS)

a. PORTFOLIO (5 minutes)

b. FINAL TASK: Oral Exposition (20 minutes)

c. WRITTEN TEST (15 minutes)

d. SELF EVALUATION (5 minutes)