Scope and Sequence
Communicative Activity Understanding of self and others Social Practice of the Language To read a travel story to discover natural aspects and cultural expressions
Unit 5 How CanYou CompareYour Country to Others? Recreational and Literary Environment Achievements 1. Explore short travel stories. 2. Complete a guided reading. 3. Distinguish and compare natural and cultural similarities and differences. 4. Write sentences with descriptions and comparisons.
Teaching Guidelines 1. Anticipate content based on images and titles. Analyze topic, audience, and purpose. Compare common elements and structures of a travel story. Link stories and personal experiences or emotions. 2. Provide reading strategies. Analyze ways of checking meaning of new words and phrases. Reorder paragraphs of a story. Use diagrams to contrast actions according to time and place that they are carried out. Reflect on the author’s decisions reflected in a text and their effect on the reader. Organize natural aspects and cultural expressions with diagrams. 3. Use expressions to write about their own cultural expressions and natural aspects. Elaborate on descriptions, based on group contributions. Compare natural aspects and cultural expressions. Reformulate expressions when there are false starts or a lack of understanding. Promote opportunities for students to evaluate their preconceived ideas about other cultures and to discuss how what they have learned has changed these. 4. Write descriptive and comparative sentences following a model. Use a variety of resources to deal with uncertainty (asking the teacher, using a dictionary, asking other members of the team, etc.). Complete a diagram or chart with similarities and differences in natural aspects and cultural expressions. Review information to determine relevance. Check spelling by comparing words with others. Communicative Activity Search for and select information Social Practice of the Language To gather information about a topic to make cards and set up an exhibit Teaching Guidelines 1. Contrast function and purpose. Link the topic to personal interests. Retell the order in which information is presented. 2. Select topics for an exhibit. Choose appropriate reference sources from a list. Explore important printed resources to answer questions that guide information searches. 3. Understand the topic and general idea and check the meaning of words. Compare uses and forms to express passive structures. Select main ideas related to the topic of the exhibit. 4. Select and discard information according to relevance for an exhibit. Order main ideas into hierarchy to create cards. Paraphrase main ideas in writing. Organize sentences into a paragraph. Check spelling.
Unit 6 How CanYou Find and Share Information About a Topic? Academic and Educational Environment Achievements 1. Explore museum cards. 2. Look for information about a topic in different texts. 3. Analyze informative texts. 4. Record information. 5. Share information of museum cards.
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