WHAT’S THE MATTER?
This is a CLIL
Didactic Unit designed to fourth level students, in Primary Education. It
includes different subjects: English, Natural Science, Lengua Castellana and
Arts.
In this
Unit students are supposed to learn how to write a narration following a
structure and key words (Lengua Castellana and English). They should recognise
some properties of materials and identify the different changes produced in
them (Natural Science). They also are supposed to learn the difference between
cool and warm colours, and how changing colours, the image also changes (Arts).
All these
different objectives are joined together in the final task, a tricky and with a
high level of motivation between the students: Writing a narrative describing
how superheroes change.
The unit
will take 10 lessons of 45 minutes: 4 Natural Science lessons, 3 Lengua
Castellana lessons, 2 English lessons, and 1 Arts lesson.
Lesson 1
- Learn the basic vocabulary of
the lesson with the conversation assistant’s help. Using class objects and
some photos, recognise some properties of materials
- Observe and describe changes produced in objects after watching the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT3RmNrw4
- While some students write down
sentences describing the changes observed in the video, others will select
online activities related to changes on matter (from the sources provided
in the blog: science boot camp, ixl,
BBC Bitersize) They have to practice them and see if they are related
to the lesson.
Lesson 2
- In pairs practice online
activities. First the two activities from Educaplay in the blog, and the activities selected by the
students in the previous activity. In the meantime the speedy students
will try to “translate” into Spanish one of the superpowers in the article
“How to be a superhero” https://es.scribd.com/document/327770993/How-to-Be-a-Superhero
Lesson 3
- In groups, investigate which
superheroes have the superpowers described in the article.
- Review all the vocabulary
worked before, and practice the activities proposed in the document
“What’s the matter?” https://es.scribd.com/document/328166549/Whats-the-Matter
- With the conversation assistant’s help, describe changes produced in themselves orally
Lesson 4
- After studying changes in
colours, and work on cool and warm colours, students have to make a
composition with their own photos in four different moments of their life,
showing how they have changed.
Lesson 5
- Explain the steps to write a
narrative text. https://es.scribd.com/document/328053783/NARRAR-UN-SUCESO-pdf After that write a narration in Spanish
about an event happened to them.
- After reading some narrations,
in groups, find some basic narration structures and key words to be used
on them. Write down them in a chart.
Lesson 7
- Write a little narration about
an event happened to them using the structures learnt in English. Speedy
students can investigate on internet if the information about superpowers
in the article is true or false.
Lesson 8 and 9
- Watch two scenes about Ant
Man’s transformation, and then orally
describe the changes produced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5FYeciGgaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQzlEimV4mo
- Write a narration about it.
Then give it to a partner to read and correct it (following a check list)
Lesson 10
- Investigate in pairs about superheroes, choose one to learn about how he or she changes.
- Write a narration about a superhero transformation, (one in Spanish and one in English)