Clothes for all the seasons
The teaching unit I designed was implemented in the English sessions, during the
third term and with three different 4th grade groups. It consists in 8 sessions, and
each group had two English hours per week, so I was implementing it during four
weeks.
It aims to get students to increase their range of vocabulary about clothes and complements and to make them able to hold a conversation about the clothes they are wearing or asking whose something is. It is also a review of the parts of the body and the name of the four seasons, as students relate the clothes to the time of the year when we usually wear them.
The final product consisted in a group performance where students had to perform a book story with realia after adapting and personalising it.
The driving question of the teaching unit was the folowing one:
The learning objectives and its corresponding assessement criteria of the teaching unit are:
The key contents and curriculum connections of this teaching unit are compiled below:
ENGLISH CURRICULUM SUBJECT-MATTER
CURRICULUM
Finally, in the following grid, you can take a quick look of the whole project overview: sessions, purposes, activities and organisation.
If you wish to take a look to the whole teaching unit design document, which includes the materials created for the implementation, the timings, dealing with diversity, etc. you can click here.
GRAMMAR
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Present continuous (He/she is wearing…)
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Adjectives position
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“Whose” questions
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Certain structures: “the word has … letters”; “we wear this on…”, “we usually wear this when…”
Which are the clothes we usually wear in each season of the year?
LEXICAL
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Clothing: jacket, coat, cardigan, jumper, sweatshirt, T-shirt, shirt, blouse, dress, top, jeans, leggings, skirt, trousers, trainers, shoes, boots, underwear, socks, cap, gloves, scarf, woolly hat, glasses, umbrella, wallet, keys.
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Parts of the body (head, trunk, arms, legs, face, feet, hands)
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Seasons of the year (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn)
LITERATURE
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Reading an English book (The washing line)
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Performing the book story
WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPRESSION
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Definition of a piece of clothing
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Description of what a person is wearing
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English pronunciation (of the new words learnt)
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English spelling (of the vocabulary and grammar structures to be learnt)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Use of technological tools
ARTS AND CRAFTS
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Expression of ideas through visual materials
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Design and creation of manipulative elements
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Manipulation of arts and crafts tools
