Optional homework upon student request
9)Other details:
Teacher will be using different tools during these 2 weeks such as technology, family pictures, outdoor activities, movies.
Assessment
By the end of the unit, students will be able to describe/give details of everything in their environment (home, city, class, father, friend etc.) and will be able to express daily life activities. All of the above will be done by using images, providing related vocabulary, creating real life situations, role plays and modern technology. The assessment will be divides into
A-Formative assessment through projects, daily activities and homework
B-Summative assessment : Through their standard test
Lesson planning
Lesson # One
Describe a person you like
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Name of the lesson: Describe a person you like
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Objective: students will be able to describe a person
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ELD: E1 – restate in a simple sentence the main idea of oral presentation in subject / matter content.
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Assessment: White board feedback during the lesson
Vocabulary rehearsal and correcting misconceptions
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Time: 50 minutes
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Material: pictures of family members, friends and/or public figures
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Target vocabulary: body, face, arms, color, hair, weight, age
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will get students engaged by asking them about family members, past teacher and/or public figure.
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A description of the activity: students will be provided with pictures and will be asked to work in pairs in order to find the discrepancies.
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Examples of questions: what do you see this person is doing in your picture? Does the person have a mustache?
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Worksheet: images from (Look Again) book
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Source of idea course text book : activity provided by understanding by design
Lesson # 2
Your home
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Name of the lesson: Your home
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Objective: students will be able to describe places such as home, classroom.
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ELD: EI – restate in a simple sentence the main idea of oral presentation.
EI – prepare and deliver short oral presentation.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: using possessive adjectives in sentence of their own.
Ability of describing student’s house
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Material: images of rooms, pictures of classroom and houses.
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Target vocabulary: furniture, color, size, shapes, model.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will get students engaged by asking them about their own homes, classrooms and churches.
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A description of the activity: teacher will provide each student with a group of furniture images and ask him to design his dream house and present it to the class
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Examples of questions: can you describe your home? Can you describe your classroom? Can you describe your favorite restaurant?
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Worksheet: each student will be provided with a picture of several furniture items and will be using it during the activity.
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Source of idea: DLI
Lesson # 3
Your city
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Name of the lesson: Your city
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Objective: students will be able to describe their own cities, hometowns, streets.
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ELD: EI – use simple sentences to create a draft of a short essay that follows an outline
Prepare and deliver short oral presentation.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: construct consistent standard English Grammatical forms and sounds
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Material: images of famous cities, pictures of students hometowns.
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Target vocabulary: narrow, wide, busy, crowded, traffic jam, clean.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will ask students to talk about their streets.
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A description of the activity: teacher will show a power point presentation about famous cities and then will ask students to work in pairs and draw a picture of their city and write a short paragraph describing the city and its most famous places.
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Examples of questions: can you describe your street? What do you like about your city? Which city would you like to live in?
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Worksheet: power point presentation
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Source of idea: course text book : activity provided by understanding by design
Lesson # 4
What is that?
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Name of the lesson: What is that?
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Objective: students will be able to describe objects from daily life.
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ELD: EI – restate in a simple sentence the main idea of oral presentation.`
EI – prepare and deliver short oral presentation.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: Higher thinker order of the ability to classify object and its use.
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Material: objects in classroom and images from home.
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Target vocabulary: color, size, hard, soft, new, old.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will use a hook by asking students what in his bag.
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A description of the activity: teacher will provide a student with a bag that has 3 objects that other students cannot see. Student will describe the object and other students will try to predicate what is in the bag.
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Examples of questions: what do you think in the bag? What are the objects we use while eating?
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Worksheet: paper bags with several objects
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Source of idea: (Designing Tasks for the communicative classroom, Nunan , David (1989))
Lesson # 5
Your hobby
1-Name of the lesson: your hobby
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Objective: students will be able to express their hobbies.
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ELD: EI – restate in a simple sentence the main idea of oral presentation.
EI – prepare and deliver short oral presentation.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: Ask and answer questions using phrases or simple sentences
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Material: power point presentation.
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Target vocabulary: reading, swimming, watching movies, boxing.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will ask what kind of sport they play in school.
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A description of the activity: teacher will ask students to bring a total of 10 pictures of their favorite hobby such as sports and work in groups to describe each picture and what do they like about this hobby?
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Examples of questions: what’s your favorite hobby? Who’s your favorite player? What’s your favorite book? What’s your favorite TV show?
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Worksheet: picture portfolio
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Source of idea: activity provided by instructor group discussion in class # 609
Lesson # 6
Your school day
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Name of the lesson: Your school day
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Objective: students will be able to talk about a regular day in school.
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ELD: EI – prepare and deliver short oral presentation.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment : using plural form in greeting people and applying gestures in speaking.
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Material: video clip.
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Target vocabulary: books, recess, teacher, classroom, start, end.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will ask about what each student have done yesterday in school.
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A description of the activity: students will be provided with sequence of images while working in groups and will be asked to arrange the images chronologically. Students then will be asked to present these images in front of the class and talk about it.
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Examples of questions: what did you do yesterday in school? What do you typically do during recess?
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Worksheet: sequence of images
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Source of idea: activity provided by (The Mind’s Eye)
lesson # 7
Your weekend.
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Name of the lesson: Your weekend.
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Objective: students will be able to talk about their weekend activities.
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ELD: EI – begin to be understood when speaking, but may have some inconsistent use of Standard English grammatical forms and sounds.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: Read narrative and expository text aloud with the correct pacing, intonation, and expression about their weekend.
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Material: reading a short story about a weekend of another student.
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Target vocabulary: morning, evening, sleep, saw, went, and visited.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will ask students about their favorite places to visit.
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A description of the activity: students will be asked to work in groups and compose a story of a weekend starting with (last weekend I ….). Students are allowed to see only the previous line. At the end, each group will read their story to the class.
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Examples of questions: what did you do last weekend? Where did you go last weekend?
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Worksheet: composing a story
12)Source of idea: activity provided by class # 609 –group discussion
Lesson # 8
Your summer vacation
1) Name of the lesson: Your summer vacation.
2)Objective: students will be able to talk about their summer vacation activities.
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ELD: EI – begin to be understood when speaking, but may have some inconsistent use of Standard English grammatical forms and sounds.
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Time: 50 minutes
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Assessment: Write simple words commonly used in classroom and construct sentences using new vocabulary about summer vacation
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Material: family pictures from the last summer vacation.
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Target vocabulary: visited, travelled, enjoyed, hot, ocean, swimming pool.
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Accessing prior knowledge: teacher will show pictures of his family vacation.
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A description of the activity: seminar activity leads by students. Class will be sitting in one circle, each student will be given 10 minutes to talk about his family vacation while providing pictures from this vacation to other students. Students may ask student questions about the activities and the best moments in this vacation.
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Examples of questions: where did you go in the summer? How did you like the place? What’s your plan for next summer vacation?
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Worksheet: N/A
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Source of idea: Gamal Kalini
References
Wiggins & McTighe, (2nd ed.; 2006) Understanding by Design; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Alexandria, VA)
Nunan. D.(1989) ,Designing tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge University Press