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LEVEL: A1-A2 / 6th Grade
COMPETÈNCIA 4: Aplicar estratègies per obtenir informació bàsica i comprendre textos escrits senzills o adaptats de la vida quotidiana, dels mitjans de comunicació i de l’àmbit escolar.
COMPETÈNCIA 8. Produir textos senzills amb adequació a la situació comunicativa i amb l’ajut de suports.
OBJECTIVE: To represent in a visual way main ideas or concepts and relate them to secondary ones through lines, colors or images.
KEY CONTENTS:
Topcis: London buses and means of transport / Language: the present simple, adjectives to descrive, the expositive text / Skills and strategies: getting specific information in writing texts (hypothesis, inferences, key and secondary ideas) planning and writing expositive texts
TASK: Design a Mind Map about means of transport in your city in order to choose which suits better your needs.
"Buses in London"
1.1. Before reading
a) On your own, Complete the KWL chart and make a list of means of transport in your city.
b) Then, watch the video. Is there anything missing? Are London means of transport familiar to you?
c) Check the Word Map in order to understand the text.
1.2. While reading
Read the text carefully and write under every picture the type of bus.
1.3. After reading
Complete the following sentences - each is about the text "Buses in London".
a) Approximate number or bus routes______________________
b) The Double-Decker buses are used for___________________
c) Cities around the world where we can see double-decker buses____________________________________________________
d) Places where we can buy a bus ticket __________________________
e) Buses in London are boarded_________________________________
f) Places where buses display their route number___________________________
g) In the open-top double-decker buses you have an unlimited__________________
h) Hybrid double-decker buses use___________________________
1.4. Complete the fact file about bus fares in London, New York and Montreal.
Browse the following two websites and find information about bus fares in New York and Montreal. Then, complete the fact file.
1.5. Task
Design a Mind Map to develop the idea of means of transport in the city of Barcelona. The target word in the central box is PUBLIC MEANS OF TRANSPORT IN BARCELONA. The words or phrases to put in the other boxes should answer the following questions: "Which means of transport are there?", Are they air, water or land transports? are they short or long distance transports? Are they used by town people, tourists, or by both? Are they cheap or expensive?, Are they used for mass transit?
Pooplet
Digital app to design Mind Maps
Mindmester
Digital app to design Mind Maps
Templates
Templates (.doc) to design Mind Maps
Mind Maps
How to make a mind map with Microsoft Office
Rubrics
Rubrics - The expositive text (Catalan)
1.6. Send your Answers Worksheet to your teacher and share with us your Mind Map.
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