Lcda. Jenyfer Rivera - Mgtr. Hugo Vargas
GENERAL TOPIC: Exploring Human Diversity, Comprehensive Sustainability
Objective: O.EFL 3.10 Demonstrate an ability to use English as a means to interact socially and work cooperatively in pairs and groups.
WEEK #1 Orientation week
Skills: Effective communication and active listening.
TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES.- During orientation week, new students will have the opportunity to meet their professors and tour the institutions.
Icebreakers:
The snowball: One student starts by saying their name and something they like, then throws a paper ball to the next, who repeats the previous information and adds their own.
Getting to know each other:
Guided tour of the school: If possible, take a guided tour of the school facilities to familiarize students with the available spaces and resources.
Creating a collaborative mural: Students work together to create a mural that represents the group's values and expectations.
Group project presentations: Divide students into teams to work on a short project that allows them to get to know each other better and develop collaboration skills.
Activities to foster mutual understanding:
Partner interviews: Students interview a partner and then share what they learned with the group.
Developing social skills:
Cooperative games: Play games that promote cooperation and teamwork, such as building a tower with recycled materials or solving a puzzle together.
Debating relevant topics: Propose topics of interest to students and encourage a respectful and constructive debate.
WEEK #2 Diagnostic week
Skills: EFL 4.1.5. Apply self-correcting and self-monitoring strategies in social and classroom interactions. (Example: asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, exploring alternative pronunciations or wording, etc.)
EFL 4.3.6. Apply learning strategies to examine and interpret a variety of written materials using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, context clues, note taking and finding words in a dictionary.
Motivation:
General instructions on the evaluation, explanation of each question to be answered and answering doubts.
Activities:
Do different activities with themes from the previous year, using digital resources.
Evaluation:
Write Assessment
CE.EFL.4.3. Interact with others using self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies as well as appropriate nonverbal and oral communication features.
CE.EFL.4.13. Apply learning strategies such as using prior knowledge and graphic organizers to interpret new information in a text, and assess this information according to the organization, subject area and purpose of the text, using different criteria, including ICT tools.
WEEK #3,4,5 Leveling weeks
Skills: EFL 4.2.1. Understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority within the personal and educational domains, provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated. (Example: daily life, free time, school activities, etc.)
EFL 4.2.2. Use a series of phrases and sentences to describe aspects of personal background, immediate environment and matters of immediate need in simple terms using grammatical structures learnt in class (although there may be frequent errors with tenses, personal pronouns, prepositions, etc.)
EFL 4.1.2. Recognize and demonstrate an appreciation of some commonalities and distinctions across cultures and groups (differentiated by gender, ability, generations, etc.) including the students’ own.
Motivation: Listen to short songs and repeat the choir.
Activities:
Listening: Listen to short songs and complete a fill-in-the-blank with the missing words.Listen to descriptions of pictures and choose the correct picture.
Speaking: Short interviews in pairs on familiar topics (hobbies, family, etc.).
Reading: Read short texts (news, short stories) and answer comprehension questions. Identify the main idea of a text. Complete sentences with the right words.
Writing: Write a short paragraph on a familiar topic. Complete a form with personal information. Write a letter or email to an imaginary friend.
Grammar: Identify and correct grammatical errors in sentences. Complete sentences with the correct forms of verbs. Use linking words to connect ideas in a text.
Vocabulary: Match words with their definitions. Complete crosswords or word searches. Use new words in sentences.
Evaluation: Oral lessons, write lesson, exposition, quizzies
CE.EFL.4.6. Listening for Meaning: Understand and follow the main idea in spoken texts set in familiar everyday contexts, provided speech is clear and articulate, and deduce the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases using context clues and/or prior knowledge.
CE.EFL.4.8. Production – Accuracy and Intelligibility: Communicate needs and information clearly and in simple terms, using grammatical structures learned in class (although there may be frequent errors), effectively and without undue effort. Demonstrate an ability to make appropriate use of new words and expressions in social interactions.
CE.EFL.4.9. Production – Fluency: Use simple language to describe, compare and make statements about familiar everyday topics such as objects, possessions and routines in structured situations and short conversations. Interaction is with reasonable ease, provided speech is given clearly, slowly and directly.
WEEK #6,7,8,9 Approach weeks - THE INVENTIONS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD
Skills: EFL 4.1.2. Recognize and demonstrate an appreciation of some commonalities and distinctions across cultures and groups (differentiated by gender, ability, generations, etc.) including the students’ own.
EFL 4.2.11. Give short, basic descriptions of everyday activities and events within familiar contexts and use simple descriptive language to compare and make brief statements about objects and possessions. (Example: family, school, living conditions, personal belongings, etc.)
EFL 4.3.2. Make use of clues such as titles, illustrations, organization, text outline and layout, etc. to identify and understand relevant information in written level-appropriate text types.
EFL 4.1.5. Apply self-correcting and self-monitoring strategies in social and classroom interactions. (Example: asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, exploring alternative pronunciations or wording, etc.)
EFL 4.2.1. Understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority within the personal and educational domains, provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated. (Example: daily life, free time, school activities, etc.)
Motivation: Guess the Invention, Invention Timeline, My Ideal Invention, The Famous Inventor.
Activities:
Lesson 1: Cultural Awareness: Inventors and inventions - An exclusive place for my vacation.Read the conversation between Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and Tim Berners-Lee. Use your dictionary to find the meaning of unfamiliar words. Take turns doing the dialogues page. 11. Draw or design a creative postcard that represents one of your vacation.
Lesson 2: Oral cummunication: New technologies and new discoveries - The best experiences of my vacations.List the latest technological advances Enter the website: https://goo.su/F98fnO Technological and scientific advancements of the 21st century. Review a dialogue with a classmate and practice for an oral presentation page. 29 Enter the website: https://goo.su/zPgzU watch the video and answer the questions.
Lesson 3: Reading: The innovatots: Chaging the World wih STEAM Science - Vacations filled with extreme adventures. Read the lecture about The Innovators: Changing the World with STEAM Science Answer the questions page. 16. Read reading: Vacations filled with extreme adventures Create a collage of extreme adventures lived by each one of you.
Lesson 4: Writing and Phonics: The Simple Past tense (affirmative, negative, affirmative) - Past progressive tense. Understand the use of the Simple Past. Enter the website: https://goo.su/iMqqaT Watch the video Learn about the uses of the past simple Write five sentences in English using the past simple tense to express a duration in the past Write five sentences in English using the past simple tense to express habits in the past. Understand the use of the past simple and past progressive tense Observe the synoptic table on the past simple and past progressive tense Put the verbs into the correct tense. (Simple Past or Past Progressive). Page. 35 and 36.
Assessment: Lesson 5: Language through the arts: Presentations and sketches - My vacation Diary.
Formative: oral lesson, write lesson, quizzies, expositions.
Summative: Project and test
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