UNIT 8

UNIT 8

Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body

SECOND TERM

From: January, 27 To: February, 9

INDEX

SESSION 1

SESSION 2

SESSION 3

SESSION 4

SESSION 5

SESSION 6

SESSION 7

SESSION 8

SESSION 9

SESSION 1:

Introduction

Speaking: Guess the topic of the lesson by looking at the pictures. Then complete the chart.

Warm up (10')

Watching a video (5')

'How playing sports benefits your body and your brain'.

Play Plickers to check previous kowledge.

CHECK PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE (25')

Create a magazine article promoting the benefits of doing sports. Road safety video campaign.

Explain the project (15')

• Act. 1 Warm up Speaking: Look at the pictures and guess the topic of our lesson.

SESSION 1

• Act. 2: Watch the TED Talk: 'How playing sports benefits your body ... and your brain '.

Once the topic have been introduced. Work in teams to complete the chart with as many words as you can. You have two minutes to complete the challenge.

• Act. 3: Play Plickers

SESSION 2:

Grammar: Past Simple vs. Past Perfect. Temporal Expressions.

‘Find someone who...' game‘Find someone who...' game to use Infinitives and Gerunds

Warm up (15')

Check and reinforce understanding of the grammar topic from the Flipped Classroom while doing interactive exercises on Nearpod which really engage students to the explanation.

Grammar (25')

Practice with different paper based exercices: Multiple choice, correct the mistakes and complete the sentences.

Exercices practicE (15')

• Act. 2: Grammar explanation in Nearpod while practicing with interactive activities.

SESSION 2

• Act. 1: Warm up. Board Game that focuses on gerund and infinitive.

RULES: 1: Pair Up 2: Rock-Paper-Scissors 3: If you win by Paper->move 3 spaces Scissors->2 spaces Rock-> 1 space 4: If you cannot answer the question correctly, your opponent can choose either moving 1 space forward or having you move 1 space back.

Reinforcement and extension online exercices

SESSION 3 :

Vocabulary and Phonetics

Learn English with TV series: Prepositions.

Warm up (15')

At home they have previously watched a video of the "o" sound /ɒ/ and /ɔː/, reinforce the pronunctiation and solve doubts.

Phonetics (10')

Exercise practice (15')

Practice pronunciation with the teacher assistant.

Learn about American culture and the holiday of Thanksgiving.

EPHEMERIS

SESSION 3

• Act. 2. Flipped Classroom

• Act. 1: Learning English with TV series

• Act. 3. Phonetic Exercices:

SESSION 4:

Reading

Speaking 'How Risky?'

Warm up (15')

Reading and infering the meaning of different traffic signs.

READIng (10')

Read, summarize and answer the questions about the text.

READIng test (35')

• Act. 1: Speaking ‘How risky?’ You have to consider the level of risk involved in day-to-day activities written in your cards, discuss the scenarios and assess the level of risk. After discussion, divide the statements into three piles. Then do a whole-group discussion.

• “Low risk – I would do this.”
• “Could be risky – Not a good idea.”
• “Very risky – Never do it. “

SESSION 4

• Act. 2: Reading Road Signs. Reading the meaning and explanation of different Road sings in U.K. After it, in pairs, they have to ask each other the meaning of different signs by showing just the sign and hiding the meaning

• Act. 3: Reading test. Read a text about Josh’s accident and do the exercises based on it and the comments from the characters involved.

SESSION 5:

Listening and Vocabulary

Speaking: answer different questions about sports and keeping fit.

Warm up (10')

Write down vocabulary words related sports, equipment and places.

New Vocabulary(20')

Listen for main ideas and for details.

Listening test (25')

SESSION 5

• Act. 1: Warm up: Anwer these questions: Do you keep fit? How? Do you know how to play any unusual sports? Do you do any winter sports? Which ones? Which sports do you like to watch on TV? Which sports do you dislike? Why?

• Act. 2: Vocabulary Exercices

• Act. 4. Listening test:

SESSION 6:

Reading Plan

Students will exchange opinions about the book they are reading. And select at least two questions from the ones given by the teacher.

Warm up (5')

WHILE reading activitY (10')

Answer 'while reading' questions about the text selected before.

Reading (30')

Students continue reading individually.

SESSION 6

Reading Plan Students will be checked their levels at the beginning of the course in order to assess a reading proficiency. They will be assessed basic or advanced level

• Act. 3: BEFORE READING ACTIVITY They select a 'While Reading' question from the different examples they are given and take a post-it to write the question down and answer it at the back. Then they glue it on their cardboard.

• Basic level: Emma retold by Margaret Tarner.
• Intermediate: The Jumping frog by Mark Twin.
• Advanced level: Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

SESSION 7:

Speaking and Writing

Warm up (10')

Hangman - dice of fortune.

Discuss the different quotes about road safety.

Speaking (5')

Writing (25')

How to write a magazine article.

They will use the time left in this session to prepare the project.

project Time

• Act. 2: Speaking: Read the quotes from young people about their attitudes to road safety. In small groups, discuss their views. Are they right? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

SESSION 7

• Act. 1: Warm up

Dice of fortune game - Hangman.A word or expression from the unit is written on the blackboard with blanks spaces that students have to guess, as in hangman .They choose a letter and role the dice. There is a value assigned for each number of the dice that students should know:

• 1 – 10 points

• 2 – 20 points
• 3 – 30 points
• 4 – Bankrupt
• 5 – 100 points
• 6 – Play again

• Act. 3. Writing following instructions.

SESSION 8:

Project exposition

Create a road safety campaign with an animated presentation or cartoon video, it can be focused on some of the following messages: - Stop, Look and Listen. 􏰀- Don't Drink and drive. 􏰀- Be bright. 􏰀- Always wear a seat belt. - Keep a long distance relationship.

PRoject

Create a sport section for your magazine.

Magazine

SESSION 8

PROJECT. Create a sport section for your magazine using Flipsnack

Create a road safety campaign with an animated presentation or cartoon video in Powtoon

SESSION 9:

Review and evaluation

Warm up (5')

Doubts Bag. Students write their doubts down and another student try to answer the question

Play Jeopardy to review the content of the unit in groups.

JEOPARDY (25')

Quick test to check the degree of adqusition of objectives, competences and contents.

Test (20')

exit ticket (5')

• Act. 4. EXIT TICKET: Formative assessment tool to check how my students have understood the contents.

SESSION 9

• Act. 2. JEOPARDY

1. What was the most important thing you learned in this lesson? 2. What was the most challenging part of this lesson? 3. How would you use what you learned in the real world? 4. From 1 to 10, how successful have you been in this unit? 5. What can the teacher can do to help you improve?

conclusion

Thank you