Unit 5: Maria and America Level: 4th of ESO

-Websites: British Council,

Attention to Digital Projects Didactic ISL collective
Key Competences CLC, DC, L2L, CAE
diversity measures Role Activities resources - Books

Assessable activities
Write a journal Role play talk about driving education End of unit EXAM
Contents
Comprehension strategies: High-frequency lexis:
- Understanding key information (oral and written texts) - Monuments.
- Forming reasonable hypothesis (oral and written texts) - American and British English.
- Techniques of active listening
- Expressing messages clearly
- Assessment of oral and written comprehension Syntactic-discursive structures:
- For and since.
Production and interaction strategies: - Present perfect/past simple.
- Planning communication along and collaboratively - Connectors.
- Adapting oral and written texts to appropriate register
- Expressing messages clearly Stress, rhythm & intonation
- Assessment of oral and written production - H sound.
- Dealing with missing language elements using linguistic and
paralinguistic elements. Graphemes & Spelling patterns
- Spelling rules /punctuation
Sociocultural/Sociolinguistic aspects: - Written texts on digital platform
- Social Formulae for everyday social contact
- Norms of courtesy Transversal elements:
- Cultural manifestations - Respect for diversity & knowledge of other cultures
- Using ICT responsibly
- Equality between people.
Communicative Functions: - American Culture.
- Write a journal. - Critical and alternative thinking
- Talk about driving education. - Recognising personal strengths and weaknesses

Unit Objectives (performance Le Teaching-Learning activities Assessment Criteria

 indicators)
-Identifies essential information of
conversations and readings in podcasts
and videos (1.1.1/ 1.1.3)
-Distinguishes the main ideas in different
texts. (3.1.1/ 3.1.3)
-Infers the meaning of less common words
about monuments and American and
British English (1.4.1 / 3.5.1)
-Distinguishes the communicative function
of writing a journal.1.3.1 / 3.4.1)
-Identifies the morphosyntactic and
discursive structures present perfect/
past simple and since and for(1.3.3 /
3.4.3 )
-Produces dialogues using appropriate
morphosyntactic and lexical structures for
the level (see above) (2.2.1 /2.2.2)
5/6
-Produces oral texts with clear
pronunciation and appropriate stress
pattern (2.5.1)
-Produces formal and informal texts with
the help of dictionaries using appropriate
morphosyntactic structures and lexis for
the level (see above) (4.1.1/ 4.3.3)
-Looks for information in digital media
(5.1.1)
-Assess with guidance the final product
(5.5.2)
- Takes on different roles (5.7.1)
son
- Reading: Introduction of the unit.
1
- Vocabulary: Match pictures.
- Listening: Specific information.
- Grammar: Fill in gaps.
2
- Reading: Specific information.
- Speaking: Positive and negative aspects.
- Grammar: Fill in gaps.
3
- Listening: specific information.
- Vocabulary: Complete the sentences.
- Reading: specific information.
- Grammar: Connectors.
4
- Write a journal.
- Pronunciation. /H/
- Warm up: Watch a video answer
questions.
- Search for information.
-Write a short description.
- Open a google site.
- Role play: Book a hotel.
7 structured, coherent texts.
- Progress Check
8 - Exam
BL1.1- To identify essential information using
active listening
BL1.2-To recognise differences in speech
patterns.
BL 3.1-To identify essential information in
written texts
BL 1.4-To distinguish lexis and idioms in oral
texts
BL 3.5-To infer the meaning of new words in
written texts
BL 1.3.- To distinguish the communicative
function of oral texts
BL3.4-To distinguish communicative functions
and morphosyntactic structures, spelling &
punctuation in texts.
BL 2.1/2.2- To produce dialogues to suit
functional communicative purpose using
morphosyntactic structures and frequently used
lexis creatively.
BL2.4 To use well-structured linguistic strategies
BL 2.5- To enunciate clearly stress patterns
BL 4.1 - To produce formal and informal,
BL4.3 To produce written texts using functional
language, spelling/punctuation norms and lexis
BL 5.1-To look for and select information from
digital media
BL5.6 To identify skills and competences
related to studies