PROYECTO FINAL CRISTINA CABANILLAS MARISCAL
DIDACTIC UNIT "FAIRY TALES"
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
2º ESO
1.INTRODUCTION.
1.1.Content.
1.2 Objectives.
1.3 Competences
1.4.Tasks.
2.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES, TASKS, MATERIALS AND TOOLS.
3. LINKS TO ACTIVITIES.
NTRODUCTION
1.1. Contents
- The knowledge of the origins of fairy tales and its importance in literature.
- The main elements in a classic tale: narrator, characters, time
and space,
- Cultural aspects of those countries where English is spoken.
- Elements of cohesion and coherence in written and oral discourse.
- Time relations in the narrative text.
- The Simple past tense in the English language.
-Attention and respect for those messages expressed in English.
- Individual work, answering questions about the lesson and working on an individual project.
- The encouragement of the autonomous work, the creativity when doing the final task and the active participation in the class.
1.2 Objectives.To raise literature awareness regarding the written origins from traditional fairy tales
To increase the students interest in literary reading as a source of leisure and pleasure.
To understand global information from written and oral texts.
To read texts to obtain information in a comprehensive way.
- To show global understanding of the stories.
- Recognizing and comparing some socio-cultural elements contained in the texts.
- To work with the Past Simple and the Past Continuous
- Tense to tell about events in the past time and actions tha happened at the same time.
1.3. Basic Competences:.
1. Linguistic Competence. This unit focuses on teaching the Past Simple tense and its uses. By means of this tense, students will be able to talk about events in the past in general. The pronunciation of the verbal ending -ed is also taught.
2. Digital and Information Processes. Students will use different web pages and applications to do different activities.
3. Social and Civic Competence. Students will show respect to people and things in the past.
4. Competence and Attitudes to continue learning in an autonomous way. Students contribute to increase the new vocabulary and begin to read autonomously.
1.4. Tasks.
- Warming up. Speaking. Answering some questions.
- Speaking and Reading. Answering questions in pairs.
- Vocabulary presentation. Listening and repeating the words.
- Wordsearch.
- Vocabulary practice in Quizlet.
- Listening. Choosing the correct answer.
- Reading comprehension. Vocabulary matching. True-false questions and answering the questions.
- Grammar presentation. Irregular verbs review. Past Tense review.
- Grannar tasks. Matching exercise; filling the blanks exercise; rewriting the tense into past simple; Puzzle.
- Extra grammar practice. Past tense and irregular verbs to be practiceed in Quizlet and in the British county app.
- Pre-writing activities. Reading and listening a story. Guided writing task.
- Final writing task. Writing a short story or invented fairy tale in Storybird.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES, TASKS, MATERIALS AND TOOLS.
Warming-up activity.
Speaking. Answering some questions. The students are presented a kind of poster with a famous saying by Einstein. Then they have to answer some questions about the topic which is going to be dealt with in this didactic unit:
What is a fairy tale?
Did you know any fairy tale?
Whis is your favourite one?
Which are the main elements in a fairy tale?
2. Speaking and Reading.
2.1. Answering questions in pairs. Students must read these two posters where basic information about fairy tales is given, such as:
Main characteristics of fairy ales.
Purpose of this type of writings.
Examples of fairy tales.
Main elements of a fairy tale: mistreated character, fantasy; talking animals; royalty; magic and spells; fairies; villains and heroes; happy endings.
2.2 Then, they will answer some more questions. In pairs, each student will ask and answer the questions. They¨ll be monitorized by the teacher all the time.
Name all the evil characters you remember in fairy tales.
Name all the good characters you remember in fairy tales.
Is there any fairy tale in which the main characters are animals?
Is there any fairy tale which has a sad ending instead of a happy one?
Students will be showed different pictures with the vocabulary related to the topic. They will listen to their pronunciation and they will repeat the words
Then, they will practice this vocabulary in a word search.
An extra task could be sent to be done at home, as homework, depending on the rhythm of the class.
Students will have previously signed up in google classroom. There, they will receive different tasks by the teacher, to be usually done at home. This time, they will practice "fairy tales " vocabulary. This task has been prepared through quizlet app.
Here are the links to these activities
https://classroom.google.com/c/ODIyNTk0MzI3Nlpa
https://quizlet.com/cristina7840/folders/fairy-tales-vocab
https://quizlet.com/cristina7840/folders/fairy-tales-vocabulary
4 Listening.
https://youtu.be/rNLtXjBlN28 (The best collection of fairy tales). The students will listen to this collection of short stories and then will work through the listening comprehension exercises: choose the correct answer.
(In my didactic unit I have included the transcription of this listening, just in case the teacher needs it ). This transcription could be given to the students once they have listened to the story at least twice.
After reading this story students will work on the vocabulary of the text. They will have to write the correct word under each picture.
True- false questions. Students will answer these questions to check their understanding of the text.
Answer the questions. Students will answer these questions with the information taken from the text.
Extra reading activity. Students could read and listen some more short stories in this page: https://www.englishclub.com/kids/stories/
In this page they can both read and listen, and then practice their understanding of the stories through a great variety of reading comprehension exercises.
6. Grammar presentation.
Students will review irregular verbs
Past Tense review. They will review past tense form and they will practice it through different tasks:
Find the verbs in the text and write them in the boxes.
Matching exercise. Match the verbs with their past tense form.
filling the blanks exercise
Write the past simple of the verbs in brackets to complete the sentences.
rewriting the tense into past simple
Puzzle. Fill in the puzzle with the simple past forms of the verbs in the clues. Then group the verbs into regular and irregular verb
Extra grammar practice. Students go to this link and practice more past simple tense exercises:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/verbs/past-tense/past-simple
Then, in google classroom they can go on practisingpast tense exercises, through agendaweb page.
https://classroom.google.com/c/ODIyNTk0MzI3Nlpa
7. Writing.
Pre- writing task. Students will read and listen to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Then, they are asked to write a short paragraph following these questions: imagine you find magical seeds, what grows from the seeds? What do you do with your magic plant?
Then, students will re-read the story of Cinderella one more time. Then they will be able to write another short paragraph following these questions: imagine you are going to the royal ball, what are you going to wear? Who are you going to see?
Writing task. Final project. Students, in pairs, are going to write an invented short story in the applicantion named Storybird. There, they will choose the pictures they want for their story and once it is finished, it will be published and shared with the rest of the class.
This is the link to the app, where I have started to write a draft of a story that could be used as an example of the one they have to write:
https://storybird.com/books/3sn8psbkff/edit/
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
pinterest app
googleclassroom app
quizlet app
storybird app
youtube
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