CLIL UNIT "WHAT'S THE MATTER?"

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

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
2. Observe and describe changes produced in objects after watching the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRT3RmNrw4   
   
3. 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

4. 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

5. In groups, investigate which superheroes have the superpowers described in the article.
6. 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
7. With the conversation assistant’s help, describe changes produced in themselves orally

Lesson 4

8. 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

9. 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.
10. 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

11. 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

12. 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
13. Write a narration about it. Then give it to a partner to read and correct it (following a check list)

Lesson 10

14. Investigate in pairs about superheroes, choose one to learn about how he or she changes.
15. Write a narration about a superhero transformation, (one in Spanish and one in English)