Lesson
2. Vote for an activity you want to describe. Circle your choice in the previous activity. Have teams vote to select only one activity to be described. Suggest that they do it in a low voice to avoid that the other teams may hear. Monitor walking around and encouraging students to speak in English all the time. 3. With your team, decide which information to draw related to the activity you chose. Then, label your drawings. To have teams classify ideas about aspects involved in the activities and relax a bit, invite them to draw relevant information related to the activity they chose. Monitor to offer help if they require it when labeling their drawings. Learning to Do 115 Go to page 115 in the Activity Book and ask volunteers to read the tips and examples provided to describe an activity whose aim is to be guessed by another person. 4. Organize the information you wrote in the previous activity. Ask teams to organize the information they already have about the activity they chose from general to specific in order to compose a description. Explain that in this step they will only write the words they used to label their drawings. Monitor walking around and check their work. Differentiated Instruction Activity 4: Use the Flow Map Strategy with the information provided in the Appendix to help students visualize it from general to specific.
Lesson
1 Write a list of activities all of you do every day.
(Possible answers)
prepare a meal
dance
draw
tidy up my room
play soccer
sweep
2 Vote for an activity you want to describe. Circle your choice in the previous activity. (Answers may vary.) 3 With your team, decide which information to draw related to the activity you chose. Then, label your drawings. (Possible answers)
Time
Place
Clothing/Equipment
Tools
Extra details
team
sports center
evening
no tools are used
uniform, shin guard
4 Organize the information you wrote in the previous activity. 115 a b c d e evening no tools are used sports center team uniform, shin guard (Possible answers)
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Achievement
Compose descriptions and play at describing activities.
Teaching Guidelines
• 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. Development How would you classify relevant information about an activity? Write on the board the question: How would you classify relevant information about an activity? and encourage students to share their ideas about the categories they would use. 1. Write a list of activities all of you do every day. Organize the class into teams and explain to students that they will continue working with these same partners the rest of the unit. Read instructions aloud and have teams write their lists. Tell them they may include activities they like or activities they don’t like. Monitor while they work to offer help if required and to check.
Unit 5
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