UNIT No. 9 -BE CAREFUL!8 sessions (55’/Session) –7th

-8th

weeks 2nd

Term

Key competences developed: Linguistic competence - Digital competence - Social

civic competence - Learning to learn - Entrepreneurship

Major topics:

Road safety

Domestic accidents

Area aims:

1-2-3-4-7-9-10

ID-Links:

Values education:

Materials:Handouts, worksheets, audio

and video clips, computers, dictionaries,

webpages

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To make SS familiar with road safety education – To learn and use vocabulary related to domestic

accidents and daily routines - To talk about actions and their consequences- To ask for and give advice and

opinions- To express suggestions and invitations- To listen and match vocabulary items and images- To

read short passages for gist and detail about road safety issues- To follow up on a graded reader- To write

about a hypothesis- To learn and apply grammar rules on present perfect and yet/already - To develop SS’s

key competences - To foster SS’s self- assessment

Oral and written skills

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Listening: Matching words about

domestic accidents with the correct picture

in the order they are said – Watching a

video for detail in order to answer

questions about Muscle Car – Listening to

Drive my car to complete the lyrics.

Oral production: Giving words

to create a word map about Road

safety – Giving the names of

object used in the kitchen –

Describing Ancient Egypt Art

pictures related to Star Gate

Oral interaction: Discussing about traffic

advertisements - Talking

about driving enemies -

Sharing opinions about

how to avoid accidents.

Reading: Reading for gist to answer questions about

motor industry in Britain - Scanning information to

answer questions about Road Safety education –

Searching for information on the web about the

Traffic Department of the Metropolitan Police.

Writing: Composing a short paragraph about

students´ experiences with domestic accidents -

Writing sentences describing people actions -

Creating sentences about hypothesis (If I had a

car…)

Language awareness

Functions and linguistic exponent: Expressing actions which have recently happened - Talking about actions and their consequences - Asking

for and giving advice and opinions - Making suggestions and invitations – Using conditional II sentences –

Present Perfect with just, already, yet, still.

Vocabulary:Traffic and domestic accidents

Road safety – Parts of a car

Pronunciation: Would-wouldn’t

Simple and compound verbs

Reflection upon learning: Differences between conditional sentences in English and Spanish

Contrast between expression of recent events in Spanish and English

Sociocultural aspects and intercultural awareness

Road safety education in the UK – Ancient Egypt

ACTIVITIES

Session 1:Traffic jam

1:R/WIW15’Reading for detail to answer questions on car industry in UK

2:RIW10’Looking for specific words in the previous text according to given definitions

3:OPGW15’Creating a word map about what road safetyis

4:OIGW15’Discussing the messages of road safety advertisements

Session 2: Web road (on-line based)

1:RPW10’Reading for detail to answer questions on road safety police units and their importance in our

society (http://www.fife.police.uk)

2:RPW15’ Searching on the given for website information about bikes and motorbikes road safety

3:R/OIPW15’Talking about the relationship between drinking and driving, drugs, mobile phones...

4:RPW15’Using the given website to answer questions about pedestrians’ behaviour

Session 3:Domestic accidents

1:LGW10’ Listening for detail to match given words to pictures

2:RIW15’Reading for detail to underline expression related to accidents

3:OIGW15’Discussing about domestic accidents and their consequences

4:WIW15’Writing a short composition about an experience with domestic accidents

Session 4:A bath or a shower?

1:R/WIW10’Inducing and applying grammar rules about the present perfect with yet and already

2:LIW/GW10’Matching daily routine vocabulary with pictures and listening to correct them

3:RIW10’Identifying the correct present perfect structure according to given pictures

4:OI/RPW15’Establishing the correct order of yet/already sentences

5:R/WIW10’Writing sentences applying grammar rules about the use of still, yet, andalready.

Session 5: I have done recently…

1:R/WIW15’Applying present perfect rules with just for expressing recent events.

2:W/OPIW10’ Reviewing kitchen objects vocabulary by matching pictures and correct words

3:WIW15’Writing sentences to describe what people have just done in the other pictures

4:W/OIPW15’Asking questions to other students about recent actions.

Session 6: If I had a car…

1:L/WPW15’Watching a video on Muscle Car to answer questions on it

2:WIW/PW15’Writing conditional II sentences about the possibility of having a car

3:W/OIPW15’Using conditional II structures in written and oral context to express possibility

4:RIW10’Looking for words related to parts of a car in a crossword

Session 7: If I were a police traffic officer…

1:RIW15’Reading informationfor detail from the Met Police site to answer questions.

2:W/OPIW/PW10’Answering a questionnaire about traffic using the London police web.

3:WPW15’ Writing about the possibility of being a police officer using 2nd

conditionals.

4:L/WIW15’Listening for detail to complete the lyrics of Drive my car

Session 8:Star Gate (III)

1:RIW10’Reading for gist to give characters’ descriptions

2:R/WIW15’Answering questions about the plot of the story

3:OIGW15’Discussing about arranged marriage in the story

4:OPPW15’Describing characteristics of Ancient Egyptian pictures

Attention

to diversity

I will use an activity bank accessible in the self-access corner I intend to create in the FL

classroom, so as to provide my students with reinforcement, remedial and extension activities for

concepts and procedures not acquired, in order to consolidate knowledge and competences, and to

cater for both fast finishers, slow learners and any other students with special ed. needs.

Samples S 1/Act 1: SS will have a multiple choice exercise to choose the correct answer.

S 6/Act 1: SS will be provided with aguided answers exercise to choose the correct one.

Evaluation

criteria

The evaluation criteria for this unit respond to the level of accomplishment of the specific aims

detailed above, bearing in mind the overall improvement of the students' communicative

competence, through the integration of elements such as the inclusion of the four blocks of

contents, the balance between the five skills established by the CEFRL and the attention to

diversity in the group in all its varieties.

Evaluation oriented tasks & activities:

S2/A1: Reading for detail to answer questions on road safety

S3/A4: Writing a short composition about domestic accidents

S4/A4: Establishing the correct order of yet/already sentences

S5/A1: Applying present perfect with just for recent events.

Dossier - oriented tasks: S1/A3: Giving ideas

about what is Road Safety

S3/A4: Writing a short composition about

domestic accidents- S6/A2: Writing about the

possibility of having a car

Unit portfolio descriptors: I can talk about experiences with domestic accidents and recent events - I can use

conditional sentences to express opinions and hypothesis - I can talk about road safety education - I can the

Internet as tool in class- I can read and understand passages of a graded reader