Cátedra I

Methodology

English

Unit  III

8th grade

Topic Life in other countries

General Outcomes

Reading comprehension

In this unit: it is expected that students can read comprehensively informative, descriptive and narrative texts, short and simple texts related with “ Life in other countries”  to extract explicit information, and to comprehend and understand the principal ideas of the texts, the meaning of the thematic vocabulary and new words.

Specific  Outcomes

Reading comprehension

To read and demonstrate comprehension of information and principal ideas explicitly statled  in informative, descriptive and narrative texts, short and simple related with “ Life in other countries”.  Recognizing  vocabulary, identifying comparative expressions, recognizing possibility and ability expressions in past and present, recognizing frequency indicators in actions, recognizing comparative expressions.

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to:

Identify general meaning

Distinguish main and secondary ideas

Predicts content

Orally express

Materials

World map

Whiteboard

Class book

Marker

Data

Procedure

The teacher greets students, checks the attendance, and then projects a word map in the whiteboard. Then the teacher shows icons of different countries like: Eiffel Tower in France, The Obelisco in Argentina, Statue of Liberty in the United States and The Big Ben in England.

The teacher asks each student to read aloud the icons history( two sentences each student).

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

The Eiffel Tower is a puddled iron laticce tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889 as the entrance arch on the World´s Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the biggest building in Paris and the most visited paid monument in the world: millions of people ascend it every year. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower  

The Big ben in London, England

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is generally extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower( officially known simply as Clock Tower) as well. The clock tower holds the largest four faced chiming clock in the world and is the third tallest free standing clock tower. It celebrated its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009, during which celebratory events took place. The tower was completed in 1858 and has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England, often in the establishing shot films set in the city.

The Obelisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Obelisco de Buenos Aires( English: The Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República, in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio, it was built to commemorate the fourth centenary of the first fundation of the city.
In order to enrich the surrounding of the iconic monument, the goberment of the city started the project Punto Obelisco, creating a zone full of LED signs. Since the Obelisk of the city is always associated with the night and entertainment of Buenos Aires, this project creates a zone similar to Times Square in New York and Picadilly Circus in London.

Statue of Liberty in New York, USA

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.

History of the icons provided by Wikipedia.

Then the teacher have to ask students what country would they like to know.

Body

Indicators:

Form the comparative form of a one syllable adjective adding ER

Form the superlative form of a one syllable adjective adding EST

                                                                Comparative                         Superlative      

old	older	oldest
long	longer	longest

E.G.  Argentina is longer than France.

With two or more syllable adjectives you form the comparative with MORE

With two or more syllable adjectives you form the superlative with MOST

                                                                    Comparative                        Superlative

peaceful	More peaceful	Most peaceful
dangerous	More dangerous	Most dangerous

E.G   The United States is more dangerous than England.

Closure

The teacher asks a reflection on the different topics

Assessment method

The teacher asks students about what they understood.