Objective: In this Unit, you will be able to identify some of the traits that characterize outstanding people. Furthermore, you will be able to describe their personality and narrate some of their contributions to society.
In class
1. Let’s discuss your answers based on the Personal plan of work preparation 👈👈
2. Use the checklist below to see if your personal plan of work goal matches a SMART goal:
Does this goal make sense? Is it clear? YES____ NO____
Is the goal measurable? Can you track your progress? YES____ NO____
Is this goal challenging but not impossible? YES____ NO____
Is this goal functional and necessary for you? YES____ NO____
Can you achieve this goal in a month and a half? YES____ NO____
Another important fact about learning is to be aware of our learning style, do you know what your learning style is?
3. Listen to the audio below and let’s talk about it:
Homework
1. Set your SMART goal to learn English in a month and a half.
2. Complete the learning styles exercise and answer these questions: which is your learning style? what strategies do you use to learn the language?
Feb 20th
Homework
Complete the learning styles exercise and answer these questions: which is your learning style? What strategies do you use to learn the language?
Study without tears
Read the strategies below and classify them according to a learning style.
Read the descriptions of the people below and decide on a word to describe their personality:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/237295
Homework
Read the previous descriptions and tell us how you describe your personality. Include examples and details.
Feb 22nd
In class
Warm up
Let’s practice your vocabulary related to personality traits through a game:
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/20273186/personality
Reading activity
Read and answer some questions about people who want to become flatmates:
Role-play
Imagine you are a student living abroad and looking for a person to become
your flatmate. Discuss in small groups these questions: What are your best
and worst qualities? Why? Who is your best match? Why?
Homework
1. Study this lesson to learn more about the use of adjectives in English:
2. Listening exercise: keep on practicing your listening with this audio about personality traits. Click HERE
3. Trae escrito tu SMART goal con respecto al aprendizaje del inglés para este mes y medio.
Feb 27th
In class
1. Download a copy of the Personal Plan of Work report and write your SMART goal Version 1 in the file.
2. Create an English Folder for our class with your name in your own Drive and upload your Personal Plan of Work there. Then share your folder with me aljimenezqu (Give me a permission to be editor of your folder) Copy the link and paste it HERE
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZPH3QJd3NyWm_84v-jyGFk0kTuQP31JoA-EtBdUKp0/edit?usp=sharing
3. Please open the Language Workshop below and develop all the proposed activities (Summative assessment 5%):
Feb 29th
In class
1. Let’s check the Language Workshop 1 answers. How did you do? If you keep struggling with the use of simple present, use this digital resource to review that topic:
2. We have studied different adjectives to describe personality, but do you really know how to use adjectives in English? Do you know their characteristics?
Grammar topic : Adjectives
Let’s learn the use of adjectives in English:
Study these lessons in order to learn how to compare two or more objects in English:
COMPARATIVES
https://www.inglesmundial.com/Intermedio/Leccion13/Gramatica.html
SUPERLATIVES
https://www.inglesmundial.com/Intermedio/Leccion14/Gramatica.html
3. Music time! Let’s listen to a song and identify the words used to describe personality
https://lyricstraining.com/play/supertramp/the-logical-song/g21St7mmI2
Homework March 5th
Complete your Personal Plan of Work Format by planning the activities you will develop each week. Then look for a learning strategy to apply each week.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZPH3QJd3NyWm_84v-jyGFk0kTuQP31JoA-EtBdUKp0/edit?usp=sharing
Extra
Complete the exercise below to practice the use of superlative vs comparative:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-specific-purposes-esp/357961
March 5th
Complete your Personal Plan of Work Format by planning the activities you will develop each week. Then look for a learning strategy to apply each week.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZPH3QJd3NyWm_84v-jyGFk0kTuQP31JoA-EtBdUKp0/edit?usp=sharing
Grammmar
Complete the exercise below to practice the use of superlative vs comparative:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-specific-purposes-esp/357961
Listening
Listen to the audio and complete the text with the missing words:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-animal/988036
Prepare for a speaking practice
Watch this video and identify the main differences between women and men:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jlFsnlmLmyg&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Write ten complete sentences describing men vs women differences.
March 7th
Review
Complete the text with the most suitable adjective in brackets. You can use the base form of the adjective, its comparative or its superlative.
After watching the video below, identify the main differences between women and men:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jlFsnlmLmyg&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Write ten complete sentences describing men vs women differences.
3. Reading
Read about the benefits of listening to music and answer some questions about it:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/149839
What’s your favorite music? artist ? or band?
Homework
Listening
Let's listen to a song by Daft Punk and practice our listening.
Simple past
Study this lesson on how to use the simple past to narrate moments in life and take notes.
Amazing actions introduction
Actions are more powerful than words, and significant changes start with a small step. When speaking about actions, we usually use a text to narrate a series of events.
1. Watch the video and pay attention to the milestones of Shaloo's life.
In order to practice what you are going to learn at this level, you will work on a podcasting project called "On the beat". The podcast: On the beat was conceived as a virtual environment where both hosts and guests could meet up in a cozy and comfortable atmosphere to talk about musicians and their social impact.
This semester UN Radio invited students to participate in this space by recording a 6-minute podcast about their favorite bands or musicians and their social impact. This project will be divided into four project tasks.
Read about the benefits of listening to music and answer some questions about it:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/149839
What’s your favorite music? artist ? or band?
March 14th
Warm-up
As we saw last class, the simple past is the most common structure used when narrating moments. Let’s play the game below to check your understanding of the structures:
Pronunciation practice
One of the challenges we have as Spanish speakers is to learn the pronunciation of final -ed words in English. Watch this lesson on how to pronounce the final -ed in English and take notes.
Video: Final -ed pronunciation
Take this quiz to check your understanding.
Quiz: Final -ed pronunciation
Simple past spin the wheel game
Play this game with your classmates to practice the simple past structure.
https://wordwall.net/resource/3790114/past-simple-wheel
Class project
Read about the benefits of listening to music and answer some questions about it:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/149839
What’s your favorite music? artist ? or band?
Homework March 19th
Individual task: Choose an artist or band that you would like to present in an episode of our podcast project On the beat. Remember your candidates can sing in any language as long as their music has a social impact. Next class we will start working on a summative assessment (10%), so it is important you participate in our class.Start working on our project task 1: Our candidate's profile. Do the proposed exercises to learn more about how to write your candidate's profile.
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