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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

Present continuous (He/she is wearing…)
Adjectives position
“Whose” questions
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

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.

Parts of the body (head, trunk, arms, legs, face, feet, hands)

Seasons of the year (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn)

LITERATURE

Reading an English book (The washing line)
Performing the book story

WRITTEN AND ORAL EXPRESSION

Definition of a piece of clothing
Description of what a person is wearing
English pronunciation (of the new words learnt)
English spelling (of the vocabulary and grammar structures to be learnt)

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Use of technological tools

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Expression of ideas through visual materials
Design and creation of manipulative elements
Manipulation of arts and crafts tools