Professional Practice II – Worksheet 9 / 2024

Content oriented teaching in action

SAMPLE UNIT OF WORK

Unit of Work
Introductory Information
Level: A1

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Course: 6th A

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Age group: 10-11

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Number of students: 34

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School: (Name of the school) (to be filled in during internship)

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Course teacher: (name and surname) (to be filled in during internship)

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Description of the group: The students started learning English last year. Their command of

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the language is beginning to show some consistency. They are not used to speaking or being

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spoken to in English so they seek constant guidance from the teacher. As regards their

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attitude, they seem to be childish and noisy, even when working individually or in pairs.
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Despite the fact that they seem enthusiastic, they are used to being called on, and so they do
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not volunteer to participate themselves.
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As far as seating arrangement goes, students sit in pairs (most of them with someone from the
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opposite sex), in four rows of five double desks each.

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Classroom and available equipment: The classroom is upstairs, on the first floor. It has got
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three windows that allow plenty of light into the classroom. The walls are covered with
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posters, but none of the posters is in English. The room is quite big and the aisles between
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rows are wide enough for the teacher to walk up and down and monitor everybody’s work.
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There is no socket to be able to plug in a tape recorder.

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There is some basic equipment available in the school (tape recorder, TV and Video room) that
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Unit:
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1- TITLE: ANIMALS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE!

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THEME: ANIMALS
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SUB-THEMES: Animals and their Habitats.

Description and facts about animals.
Unusual facts about animals

2- FINAL ACTIVITY a. Title or Type of activity: Riddle book, by 6th A

Students will produce a riddle book, with curious facts about animals from different habitats.

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b. Procedure: Sts will receive an envelope with the picture of an animal and words related to
habitat, ability or the lack of them in the animal, physical appearance, eating habits and
curious facts about it. In pairs they will stick the picture on the inside of a folded sheet of
paper, and use the words to write guided facts about the animal on the outside of it. Then,
they will come to the front and read a fact each; the rest of the class will have to guess the
animal they are describing. Then the members of the group will show the picture to the whole
class. After this, the teacher will compile the riddle book.

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c. Sample of the final activity:

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3. LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE UNIT:

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Learners will be better able to:

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▪ describe an animal, giving basic information about habitat, diet and some unusual fact;
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▪ listen to a description and guess what animal is being referred to.

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4. EDUCATIONAL VALUE: Learners will come to the conclusion that all species must be
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respected and that each of them has characteristics that make them unique.

5. CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENT: Arts and crafts: making a poster - Natural Science:

learning about mammals, reptiles, etc habitats and habits. Physical education: moving
like certain animals Music: Songs about animals

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 6. LANGUAGE SYSTEMS

a) Lexical areas Vocabulary

Wild animals Lion, monkey, giraffe, elephant, fish, dolphin, whale, jellyfish,
camel, lizard, tiger, penguin, seal, hippo, zebra, kangaroo,
bear, snake, peacock.
Habitats Land, water, air, jungle, desert, mountain, forest, sea, river,

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grassland, ice

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Parts of the body Claws, tail, wings, beak, tentacles, feathers, fur legs, mouth,

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teeth, nose, eyes

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Feeding habits Grass, insects, meat, fruit, plants, garbage

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Actions Glow, imitate, climb, beat their wings, change colour, sting,

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jump, eat, swim, walk on their hind legs

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Descriptive words Blind, fast, gelatinous, tiny, camouflaged, colourful ….

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Procedural language: What do you call... in English? Can you lend me...? Who can help

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me .../ lend me...?
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b) Grammar/ structure c) Function/ meaning Exponent (example)

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Tenses: Present simple 3rd p Expressing Facts, Lions live in the grasslands.
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plural (aff) habits

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To be (present, affirmative) Expressing states They are brave.

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Questions (receptive) Asking for Where do penguins live? (receptively)

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Have got (aff ; neg) Describing physical Crocodiles have got claws.
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features They haven’t got skin.

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Modal verbs: Can /can´t Expressing ability/ Jellyfish can glow in the dark.
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lack of ability Penguins can’t fly.

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Morphology: plural form (regular Monkey- monkeys

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and irregular) Fish- fish

Punctuation: commas and stops. Where do quails live?

Quails live on the ground, in grassy
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d) Phonology Example
Cluster /dz/ Jungle - jellyfish - giraffe
“s” and “z” for plurals Dolphins swim near ships at sea

e) Discourse features Example

Conjunctions: Addition: and Crocodiles live on land and in the water.
Reference: Pronouns: They They live in the sea.

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7. LANGUAGE SKILLS

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Skills Text form

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Reading Captions, encyclopedia entry, textbook entry

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Listening Songs, short talk, riddles

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Speaking Games, classroom interaction

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Writing Captions, riddles.

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9. OTHER SKILLS
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10.RESOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

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❧ Worrall, A., 2005. English Adventure 2, Pupils and Activity Books; Essex: Pearson
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Longman.
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❧ Hicks, D. & A. Littlejohn, 2003. Primary Colours 2; Pupils and activity book; Cambridge;
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Cambridge University Press.

❧ Bowler B. & S. Parminter, 1998. Network 1; Pupils and activity book; Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
❧ Armendáriz, A., S. Luppi & S. Rettaroli, 1999. Content with Content. Buenos Aires:
Kapelusz.
❧ Holden, S. 2004. Animals Portfolio. Brazil: Macmillan.

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 ❧ Littlejohn A & D. Hicks, 1996. Cambridge English for Schools, Starter. Gt Britain:
Cambridge University Press.

11. PREVIEW OF TEACHING SEQUENCES

Seq. N° Subtheme Language Systems (and contents in each)
1 Animals and their Habitats Lexis: Wild animals and habitats
Grammar: Present simple for states (chunk)
Questions (receptive Morphology: plural form

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Function: Expressing States – Sharing information

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Phonology: Cluster /dz/ “s” and “z” for plurals

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2 Description and facts about Lexis: Parts of the body – Descriptive words –

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animals Feeding habits
Grammar: Have got - Present Simple

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Function: Expressing facts and habits

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Phonology: Cluster /dz/ “s” and “z” for plurals

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Discourse features: And - Pronoun: they

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3 Unusual facts about animals Lexis: Actions
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Grammar: Present Simple - Can / Can’t
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Function: Expressing ability / lack of ability

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Phonology: Cluster /dz/ “s” and “z” for plurals

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INTEGRATION SEQUENCE Games and riddles

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FINAL ACTIVITY Riddle book, by 6th A

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the unit: simple present to express facts, habits and states.

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Content and activity-oriented teaching in action

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Planning Sequence 1
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☞ In the Unit of Work, we have completed a Preview of Teaching Sequences in which we

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have distributed the contents mentioned in Section 5: Language Systems (Lexis, Grammar,
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Functions, Phonology, Discourse)

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☞ Now we go to the planning of each sequence

It is important to organize and arrange the contents of the sequence in logical order, so that
you make sure that students can progress systematically and coherently throughout the unit
towards the final outcome: the Final Activity.

Provide a general idea of how you are planning to distribute and organize the contents of the
unit (thematic, language and learning contents), taking into account the language demands of

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 the subthemes you are going to work with. You need to consider how you will arrange the
information to be presented, taking into account:

▪ Thematic organization;
▪ Language demands;
▪ Cognitive challenge;
▪ Progression in learning.

You should build up sequence of activities on the same sub-theme, each one arising out of
the previous one.

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You will need to:
● arrange the thematic new information from the known to the unknown, from the easier

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to the more complex;

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● see which language skills you need to develop, and which language systems are
demanded to deal with the new contents;

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● think of the successive learning outcomes that each lesson will deal with, in order to
deal with new contents and recycle them accordingly, integrating them with further

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new contents;
● And finally choose the activities that suit these needs.

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Sequence #1: Animals and their Habitats

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Learning outcome Activities Systems (N and R)

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It should be stated in terms of State whether they are Lexis:

communicative or thematic aspects Content-oriented, Grammar:
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of the lesson, not in relation to the Skill-oriented (which skill), Functions:

language students will Extension or consolidation Phonology:
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learn/practice. activities and if you will Discourse features:

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Learners will be better able

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Lesson 1 identify some wild animals. Introduction to the Lexis: Wild animals
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Unit and explanation

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Simple of live
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expressing states.
Discourse: and
Lesson 3 classify wild animals Prep Stage Lexis: Wild animals,
according to their habitats Focus on Lexis, Habitats
State where animals live phonology and plural Phonology: Cluster
forms /dz/ - “s” and “z”
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 Lesson 4 identify which animals live in Extension activities: Lexis: Wild animals,
each habitat. Masks - Game Habitats
Grammar: Present
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Function: expressing
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LESSON # 1

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Theme: ANIMALS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE!
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Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson students will be able to identify some wild
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1) Recycled: Names of some animals and habitats

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2) New: Names of wild animals

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begin with the development of the unit in a number of ways: carry out a content-oriented activity
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to introduce thematically related information and / or expose students to input through a listening
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Introduction to the unit

T: Hello children! How are you today?
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T: I’ve got a surprise activity now. Pay attention! You will listen to some sounds. After you
listen to them, you will tell me about them.
T plays a CD with animal sounds (lion, bird, monkey, horse among others).
T: Ok, what did you hear?
S: sonidos de animales
T: fine! What animal sounds did you hear?
S: Lion!
S: Bird.

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T: Good! Now, some of these animals live in a house, with us. They are…

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S: Mascotas.

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T: Yes, they are called pets. And some of them are wild animals.

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S: Salvajes.

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T: Yes! Where do monkeys live?

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S: Jungla.

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T: Yes, they live in the JUNGLE. And what about tigers?

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T: Tigers live in the grasslands, it is a big dry area with bushes and low trees. T. shows a
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T: Some animals live in hot deserts, some in forests, some in high mountains, and some live in
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our houses as pets. Teacher shows pictures while she says this. And...do you know any curious
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T: Yes, that's right! Bats are blind. During this unit we are going to learn about animals, their
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habitats, their physical appearance (gesture), and more curious facts about them. You will
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T: Ok, listen to the following riddle… T reads the riddle

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T: They are crows, look at the picture. (T shows the sample of the FA) Now, what are riddles?
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animals, shall we?
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T: OK, in this case I will show you a word and you will have to see what animal picture
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represents it! Can anybody explain what you have to do?

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T: That’s it! So, let’s get started!

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(The students will refer to the pictures by mentioning numbers; e.g. picture 1)
T: OK, the first word we’ve got is…
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T: What picture represents it, Mati?
S: Number 2!
T: Great!

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Presentation stage

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T (while she shows some flashcards of the animals that appeared in the previous game): OK!

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T: Yes! In English we say crocodile, can you repeat it?
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T: Fine! Elephants, zebras and giraffes come from Africa. Birds generally live in trees but many
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birds like peacocks live on land and some penguins in the sea and on ice.
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T: Yes, they are! But they cannot fly! Kangaroos, instead, live in the grassland. Seals live in the
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sea. And where do jellyfish live? In the sea or in the grassland?

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Activity stage
Guessing Game
T: Now look at the pictures. You are going to work in pairs and match the leg or feet (gesture)
of the animal with the name of the animal, and you will say one characteristic, for example
what colour they are, the size…all right? You can find the names of the animals on the board.
What are you going to do? (Check understanding and do one together).

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S: Hay que unir los pies con el nombre del animal y decir algo de ellos.
T: For example, let’s do number 1 together. What animal is it?
S: elephant!
T: great, and what can we say about the elephant? What colour is it?
S: grey.
T: It’s grey, fine and what else can we say? Is it big or small?
S: big
T: Yes, great! So now you can start. If you don’t know the name of the animal, you can look at

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T: Ok! Let´s check the answers together! Let´s see number two. What did you write Jane?
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S: Mono?
T: What's the word for mono in English? (pointing at the board)
S: Monkey?
T: Yes! And have you ever seen a monkey? Alguno vio un mono alguna vez? And have you
ever seen a monkey?
S: yes
T: and what else did you write?
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S: is funny
T: yes! It’s funny.
The teacher goes on asking.
T: Who would like to do number six?
S: Me! (Susan). Es una foca!
T: Mmm. A seal? Let´s see! Does it have feet?
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T: So? Can it be a seal? ¿Puede ser una foca?

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T: Now you are going to work in three groups. I will give each group four puzzles but they are
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Consolidation activity: Video

T: One last thing for today. Let’s look at a short video and see whether you can identify any of
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Feedback:
T: Well, did you see any familiar animals?

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Sts call out the animals they were able to identify, and teacher writes names on the board.

LESSON # 2
Student teacher/s:
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T: All right, this time we're going to play in pairs - vamos a jugar de a dos - we're going to play
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T: Let’s look at the pictures of habitats. Who can tell me the names of these places?
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T: Yes, what was the word for camello in English?
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Look at the pictures of the animals in their habitats. Do you recognise all the animals? (Check)
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T: You are going to listen to a woman talking. Listen and then tell me where she works.
T: So, what do you have to do?
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T: That's right! You're going to tell me where she works and what she talks about.
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Good morning everyone. Welcome to the world’s greatest Natural Science Museum. My name

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Let's see, what do we have to do?

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T: Yes, that's right. So, before we listen again, look at the sentences and the pictures. T gives
students 40 seconds to have a look at the information, before she plays the tape again.

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 Museum audio guide: Habitats
1. They live in forests and grassland.

2. They live in forests and jungles.

3. These animals live in the grasslands.

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LESSON # 3
Student teacher/s:
School:
Course: 6th Form
Period: ---
Date: ---
Theme: ANIMALS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE!

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T: Right! Repeat after me: Giraffe (T. demonstrates the pronunciation of /dz/ and stresses the
word accurately: /dʒɪˈrɑːf/ Ponemos la punta de la lengua atrás de los dientes y lo decimos.
Let's try together!
Sts repeat.

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T: Fine! And what other name of animal begins with /dʒ/? T. shows a picture of jellyfish to
help them.
Sts say the name.

T: Right, it begins with /dʒ/ like /dʒɪˈrɑːf/. We say /ˈdʒel.i.fɪʃ/

Sts repeat.
St. Miss, jungle empieza igual!

T: That’s very bright of you! Jungle /ˈdʒʌŋ.ɡ l/ ə

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Seals /siːlz/ hippos /ˈhɪp.əʊz/ zebras /ˈzeb.rəz/ penguins /ˈpeŋ.ɡwɪnz/

Ss answer.
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fish and jellyfish in another column.
If I talk about one fish or many fish I say the same word.
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Ss. No cambia?
T: No, for one or many I use fish and for jellyfish, it's the same. T writes this on board.
So we have some that end in s when there are many, and some that do not change, right?
T: So, as you said, animals live in different places ¿Pueden vivir en cualquier lado los animales?
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T: So the place where animals and plants live is called habitat. What habitats do different
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Systems oriented activity for practice:

Scrambled habitats. Where do they live?
1. Crocodiles live in the ………….
2. Camels live in the …………..
3. Tigers live in the ………..

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 4. The Polar bear lives on …………..
5. The Spider monkey lives in the ……………
6. The Striped dolphin lives in the ………

FOR THE TEACHER’S INFORMATION:

If the word is a plural word ending in "-s," there are definite patterns that you can follow. (Note that the
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Teaching aids: Craft material – Chalk – Outside space for game

Prep stage

Read the entire lesson. What would be an appropriate short prep stage for this
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Extension Activity: Art and craft
Part 1: (Note: The teacher will have asked students the previous class to bring material and
will have brought some material herself)
T: Now we’re going to make animal masks. (T. shows her own.) We’re going to use
construction paper, broad-tip markers, scissors (T shows each element as she mentions them)
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S: Tenemos que ir a nuestro hábitat cuando lo escuchamos.

T: When all the animals are in their habitats, we will say their names. What happens if an
animal gets lost and goes to the wrong habitat? ¿Y si se pierde un animal y va al hábitat
equivocado? Well he’s out! Queda fuera! OK? Let’s play
Game: To make it more interesting, the T will tell a brief story including names of habitats, but
without naming the animals. Something like: I am travelling on a super fast airplane and do
you know what I can see? First, wow! A big, wide river! …
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Feedback:
T: Great work! Did you like the game?
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T: What was your favourite part?
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T: And was it difficult or easy to play? ¿Les pareció difícil?
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 Lesson 6

Lesson 7

LESSON # 5
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T: And where do penguins live? Can you remember?

Ss: Polar Regions! Ice! Cold sea!
T: Now we are going to play a memory game. I will start one sentence (eg: I can see one lion),
then one student repeats my sentence and adds another animal increasing the number of the
animals by one, for example José says “I can see one lion and two zebras”, then another
student repeats José’s sentence and adds another animal, for example “I can see one lion, two
zebras and three monkeys”, right? Who can explain what we have to do?

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S: Vamos a jugar un juego de memoria. Vos decís I can see a lion y yo digo lo que vos decís y
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…………………………… activity 1 (what kind of activity is it?)

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T: Now, you will colour the animal labels I will give you with the same colour you used for the
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S. Tenemos que colorear las partes del cuerpo del tigre del mismo color que el tigre.
T: Right, the labels of the parts of the body - las etiquetas de las partes del cuerpo.

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So the labels for the tiger are orange. And for the elephant? De que color serán las etiquetas
de las partes del cuerpo del elefante? What colour are the labels of the parts of the body of the
elephant?
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T Grey! Yes. And the crocodile's labels?
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Course: 6th Form

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Theme: ANIMALS HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE!
Final activity: (a brief reminder of the F.A. in a sentence or two)
Teaching sequence: (Number and name of subtheme)
Learning outcomes: (what you expect sts to have achieved by the end of the lesson)
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Linguistic content: (related to systems which will be worked on during the lesson)
1) Recycled:
2) New:
Language skills: Reading
(Classwork habits)
(Other skills)
Teaching aids: Pictures

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Prep Stage

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T: Look at the blackboard please. What can you see in the picture?
Ss: A tiger! ¿Por qué hay flechas en el dibujo?

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T: Tiger, that's right! It's a beautiful animal! Now look, these are arrows (T points to them).

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We are going to complete this drawing together. Which parts of the body did we work on last
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Ss: leg, body, head …
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T: Fine! Now, we are going to learn other parts of the body but pay attention!! Some of these
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parts of the body don’t have the same name for people and for animals, we don’t say “the
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tiger’s hand”, there’s another word for it… (same with skin/fur) and there are other physical
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characteristics we are going to learn. For example, do you know what to call these lines that
the tiger has on its fur? Now, we are going to complete the picture. There are some cards
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under some of your desks (T mimes). You will have to find them and come to the front with
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the cards. We are going to stick the cards on the poster. What do you have to do?
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Ss: We stick cards on the poster!

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Ss: Under the desks!

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T: Ok, fine. You can start now.

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T: Fine. What do you know about tigers?
Ss: They are black and orange.

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T: And what do you call these black lines (T points to the poster)?

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Ss: stripes.
T: Stripes. Good. Have tigers got a long or a short tail?

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Ss: long.
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T: Where do tigers live? Do you know?
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T: Ok. We will find out in the following activity. What do they eat?
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Ss: meat.
T: Ok. Fine.
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Skill-oriented activity: Reading

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T: Now, we are going to read an encyclopaedia entry about a tiger. Look at the list of words
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Ss: Stripes, leg, nose…

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T: Ok, and what information do you think we will find in the text?
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T: They live in the mountains. Does this appear in the text?
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SS: Yes, dice que viven en las mountains in Siberia and the Himalayas. Dónde es eso, Miss?
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T: and how does this information help us understand what this encyclopaedia entry is about?
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T: Now we are going to play a game. I’m going to read a sentence about the tiger, and you will
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consult the text and tell me if my sentence is correct or not, OK? You are going to play in pairs,
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and you will raise your hand when you have the answer, OK?
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T: Let’s do the first one as an example. Tigers live in Asia. Is it correct?

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T: Great! Very good! Where does it say so in the text? (sts quote the sentence)
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1. Tigers live in Asia

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2. Tigers live around twenty years.

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3. Tigers haven’t got good eyes.

4. They have got sharp claws.
5. Tigers sleep at night
6. They kill small mammals.
7. Tigers eat very little meat.
8. They can’t swim.
9. Tigers catch fish.
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Feedback
T: Did you like the game?
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T: Was it difficult?
S: No.
T: What sentence was the most difficult for you?
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Focus stage: Present simple for facts and habits

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Analysis

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Ss: Tigers!

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remember about tigers?

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Ss: The fur is orange and black!
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Ss: They live in Asia.

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Ss: They kill animals!

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and will write the information in suitable columns – sentences with have got / to be / with
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actions in the present)

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Let’s look at this sentence: Tigers sleep and rest in the day (T points to the sentence on
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the bb). What information are we giving about tigers? A characteristic, a fact - un dato -, a
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regular activity, an activity they are doing now? (make gesture)

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Ss: lo que hacen todos los días! Es un dato de los tigres. Una característica
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T: good! So this sentence expresses a regular activity, a characteristic that tigers have.
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What other sentences in the text also express facts about tigers and their regular
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activities? Ss: (provide answers)

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Ss: porque hablamos de todos los tigres del mundo!

T: fine, so that’s why we say Tigers sleep all day. When we talk about a species – una
especie – we use the plural. And what are we saying about them? Are we mentioning
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Ss. Their habits!
T: good! What if we talk about one tiger in particular? What do we know about the Malayan
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T: Well, it lives in Asia, and it eats mainly pigs. The Malayan tiger eats pigs. (T writes this
sentence on the bb). Look at this sentence: are we talking about the tiger’s habits too?
Ss: yeeees!
T: so these sentences express the same idea but they are different, right? What is
different?
Ss: una habla de muchos tigres y la otra de uno solo
T: fine! How can you tell? Como se dan cuenta?

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S: Cuando habla de un tigre, dice eats, lives…

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T; Aha, so what is the difference?

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S: Que tiene s y cuando habla de muchos no tiene s.

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T: Can anyone say an example? For instance: Elephants eat leaves. What about the killer
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S: Qué es?
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Austral: Southern right whale.

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Learning outcome Activities Systems (N and R)

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It should be stated in terms of State whether they are Grammar:
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language students will Extension activities or
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