Scope and Sequence
Communicative Activity Recreational expression Social Practice of the Language To describe daily activities for others to try to guess
Unit 5 What Do Our Everyday Activities Say About Us? Recreational and Literary Environment Achievements 1. Explore and listen to descriptions. 2. Interpret descriptions. 3. Compose descriptions and play at describing activities. 4. Play at describing activities.
Teaching Guidelines 1. Follow the reading of descriptions about daily activities without mentioning the name of the activity. Suggest plausible alternatives to infer a daily activity. Contrast the purpose and audience for which the descriptions are intended. Establish differences between the way in which daily activities develop in their culture and in other cultures. 2. Ask questions about different aspects shown in descriptions. Compare sentence structure in descriptions. Complete descriptions using given repertoires of words and expressions. Organize words and expressions depending on the function they have in descriptions. 3. Select activities to be described. Classify ideas about aspects involved in the activities. Organize information from general to specific in order to compose a description. Examine ways to express descriptions depending on described aspects. Write descriptions using a wide repertoire of words and expressions. Determine rules to play at describing and guessing activities. 4. Rehearse saying the descriptions to adjust intonation and fluency. Ask and answer questions to go deep into descriptions. Suggest activities taking into account the descriptions. Ask for clarification when something is not understood. Use strategies to clarify information. Communicative Activity Search and selection of information Social Practice of the Language To ask and answer questions to obtain information about a specific topic Teaching Guidelines 1. Choose topics that arouse curiosity and interest from a list with visual resources. Use key words to recognize topics and widen word repertoires. Explore aspects of a topic in a graphic organizer. Clarify meaning of unknown words. Analyze ways to name aspects. 2. Analyze question intonation. Compare questions with other types of sentences. Examine question words. Ask questions about aspects of a topic based on a model. Practice pronunciation of words in questions. Classify types of questions. Clarify meaning of words. Check intonation when reading questions. 3. Analyze textual organization. Examine text structure. Recognize key words. Ask questions from a model. Answer questions with chosen information.
Unit 6 Why Is It Important to Ask Questions? Academic and Educational Environment Achievements 1 . Define aspects about a topic of interest. 2. Ask questions to obtain information. 3. Choose information that answers questions about specific aspects of a topic.
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