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Parts of the
human body
JUSTIFICATION
- First of all, this didactic unit is in accordance with quality education organic of
law of improvement. Moreover, the topic of parts of the body is a suitable and
easy topic for students of primary-school who are beginning learn to English,
it can also encourage the immersion of learners in the English language,
because if they study their body parts they will relate them with other
associated topics like clothing, emotions, colours so they can feel more
motivated to learn more vocabulary and it encourages their learning.
CLASS CONTEXT
In our class there are twenty- five students, four students have learning
problems, two of them could suffer from fact of ADHD (attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder). Moreover, in our class there are several children that
present smaller difficulty to learn the contents, so they have a level beyond
the rest. The rest of the class has got an average level medium of learning
without cognitive difficulties.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- The main objective is:
- Primary education will help to develop boys and girls capacities which allow
them:
- Remember and perform the vocabulary about human body parts,
colours, emotions and clothing.
- Differentiate the most common adjectives of human being in the
English language.
- Perform short texts in written and oral way.
- Differentiate and perform the vocalic sounds of the vowels in English.
- Relate words or concepts in the English language.
- Be able to carry out a conversation using the easiest tenses and the
vocabulary proposed in this didactic unit.
- Remember and apply the words of courtesy and greeting which are
most frequent in the English language.
- Develop self-sufficient work or work in group, encourage the effort and
sense of responsibility in the student.
- Description of people, personal data, activities, places, objects, habits and plans.
- Fictional narratives of past events either remote or recent, current or poems and
riddles.
Strategies
- Customs and attitudes based on respect the tolerance: identifying significant and
representative samples heritage of their cultural, artistic, musical and children's
literature.
High frequency Oral Vocabulary
Syntactic Structures
- Linguistic competence
- Learning to learn
- Social and civic competences
- Initiative and entrepreneurship
- Cultural awareness and expression.
Block 2. Production of oral texts: expression and interaction.
Communicative Functions
Strategies
- Body: nose, ears, eyes, mouth, head, shoulder, knee and toes.
- Colours.
- Emotions: happy, sad, angry, surprised.
- Clothing: trousers, dress and shirt.
Syntactic Structures
Communicative Functions
Strategies
- Linguistic competence.
- Learning to learn.
- Social and civic competencies.
- Initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Cultural awareness and expression.
Communicative Functions
Strategies
- 2LE.BL4.4. Using playing through the game and experimentation, written some
words of high frequency lexicon on everyday situations and habitual and specific
themes, related to their own interests, experiences and needs.
- Achievement indicators 2LE.BL4.4:
- 2LE.BL4.4.1.Uses by reproducing, through very simple models, a
limited repertory of high-frequency written lexicon, related to his/her
own experiences and needs in both personal and educational
aspects.
Key Competences
- Linguistic competence.
- Learning to learn.
- Social and civic competencies.
- Initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Cultural awareness and expression.
Methodology
The proposed activities in this didactic unit are designed so that the students will
be able to get a certain knowledge in the English language, by learning: common
vocabulary and the easiest tenses.
But mainly, with this didactic unit we expect to motivate students and facilitate
their immersion in the English language through games, songs and easy
exercises, to make their learning of the English language a gratifying experience
instead of an obligation.
To adapt the attention diversity plan and facilitate the learning of all the student
body, in this didactic unit we have keep to in mind different strategy. As in our
class there are twenty students and four of them have learning difficulties, we
will adapt our didactic unit and we require them only a determined number of
words of the vocabulary, in the case of the students who have ADHD
(attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) we introduce the exercises in a different
way, for instance we could draw a circle in the most important words of the
exercise or in words of the basic vocabulary.
On the other hand, in the case of children who are outstanding and have more
level than the rest, we could suggest to teach more vocabulary or to teach
phrasal verbs related to the human body parts or other verbs, so as not to
demotivate them in class
Evaluation. Criteria and instruments
(Figure 1)
ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION
Activity name:
- Singing and learning parts of the human body.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In this exercise children can learn parts of theirs body
through a song chosen by the teacher. Moreover, while the song plays they
can point to their body parts to learn this topic better.
Material/s needed for the activity:
- In this activity it is necessary a device to listen to song about body parts and
a funny song of human body parts like appears in this address and a lot of
attention must be paid by students.
- The song that can be used is:
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
Sing a song,
Its a very neat song
A song that tells us all about our
ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE
Activity name:
- Guess what the monster lacks.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In the first line the teacher shows to students a lot of
monsters pictures in the screen of the class and gives out flashcards with
drawings of parts of the body with the corresponding word. The students
must be ready to respond because when a monster appear in the screen
which missing a part of its body they will have to raise their flashcard if in
this appears the part that the monster lacks Moreover the teacher can
correct the student if children fail with some parts of the body.
- Material/s needed for the activity:
The material needed are flashcards with drawings of body parts and posters with
a monster printed.
The image that the teacher can use like example could be:
Type of Grouping:
This activity can be developed for whole class, because it is the best way to
make students cooperate and participate among them, on the other hand, to
carry out this activity, is necessary a high motivation by students.
Estimated time for activity:
The estimated time to perform this activity would be fifteen minutes
approximately.
ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION
Activity name:
- Choose the correct printable.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students then she begins
the session class. In this activity the teacher plays a listening to students
and gives out a printable in which they can see different characters. The
listening must describe one of the printables that the teacher has given to
children. Then the children have to choose one of them, but to do this
exercise the students cant be helped by their teacher.
Correct answer: Carl is blonde and have blue eyes. He also wear a green
skirt, blue trousers and red trainers. Moreover he seem very happy.
Type of Grouping:
This activity is individual because it requires a lot of concentration.
Estimated time for activity:
The time necessary to perform this activity is twenty minutes.
ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION
Activity name:
Pronounce well so cool.
Detailed description of the activity:
First of all the teacher says good morning to the students then she begins the
session class. The teacher will show a list of words with similar pronunciation
(like bait, date, eight, grate, late, mate, skate) or (beat, cheat, eat, greet, heat),
and will pronounce all these words. The students will have to say the same
words together in class to remember the correct pronunciation. The teacher
can improve the realization of this exercise by using a song that includes some
of these words.
Material/s needed for the activity:
- In this activity is necessary a list with words with similar pronunciation like
this:
INGLS PRONUNCIACIN ESPAOL
face feis cara
hate heit odio
pain pein dolor
nails neils uas
brain brein cerebro
vein vein vena
raincoat rinkut impermeable
grey grei gris
Straight Streit Recto
Wait Weit Esperar
Eyes Ai Ojos
ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE
Activity name:
- Are there in the box?
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In this activity the teacher has a box and begin take out
duds or figures body parts of her, as students have say the name of this
figure or clothing, in the case of clothing, they can say where they get wear
this duds.
Material/s needed for the activity:
To do this exercise the teacher need a big box with a lot of things related with
body human like or clothing. A big box and a lot of motivation.
Type of Grouping:
This activity can do in whole group.
Estimated time for activity:
- The necessary time to complete this activity will be a fifteen minutes.
ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION
Activity name:
- Guess the character.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In this session the teacher will show to the students
flashcards with images of body parts with the corresponding word or faces
that reflect sadness, happiness, annoyance. Later the students must repeat
these words.
Material/s needed for the activity:
Flashcards with images of body parts or angry, happy or sad faces.
Type of Grouping:
Whole class work.
Estimated time for activity:
We can spend five minutes.
ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE
Activity name:
Reading a story.
Detailed description of the activity:
First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins the
session class. The teacher will read a short story as the same time that the
students read their own text. Then the teacher teacher will ask the students
some questions about the story to check that students understood the story.
Material/s needed for the activity:
- Books for the teacher and students.
- A possible example of this text could be:
- Andy is a happy boy he has big eyes and round face. Her hair is
chestnut, he has brown eyes and dark skin. Andy wear casual clothes,
blue trousers, white shirt and black trainers. Our friend is always happy
but he is sometimes its angry because her brother borrow him her red
t-shirt.
- A possible question to students could be:
- How is the colour Andys trousers?
Type of Grouping:
- Individual.
Estimated time for activity:
- The time necessary to do this activity is fifteen minutes.
ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION
Activity name:
Magic words.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In this activity the teacher will do a presentation with the
typical phrases or words of courtesy like thanks, goodbye, hello, good
morning.. The teacher can tell the students that with these words and a
smile they can achieve a lot of things therefore they are magic.
- The teacher will give out a page for her students with all these words on the
edge and on the other corner there can be a little text, therefore they will
mark with an arrow the word and text related.
ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION
Activity name:
Write your presentation.
Detailed description of the activity:
- First of all the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins
the session class. In this activity students must write an introduction about
themselves, so they have to describe aspects about their body or personal
features. The teacher can give out a model as an example for students to
facilitate them their performance.
Material/s needed for the activity:
A page to do the introduction for each student. We can also need a model of
example to guide students. A possible example could be:
IM ..(tall, short)
MY HAIR IS...(blonde, dark, chestnut)
MY EYES ARE. (blue, green, chestnut)
IM A...(girl/boy)
Type of Grouping:
This activity must be done individually for each student because it requires a
lot of concentration.
Estimated time for activity:
The time need to do this exercise is five minutes approximately.
ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE
Activity name:
Fill in the gap.
Detailed description of the activity:
First of all, the teacher says the good morning to students, then she begins
the session class. To do this exercise the teacher gives out some activities
where the student will have to fill up the blank spaces with the words
mentioned previously, the topics that appear will be the parts of body again, or
other topics about and emotions, clothing or colours.
Type of Grouping:
- This activity is individual because it requires a lot of concentration.
Estimated time for activity:
- The necessary time to do this activity is fifteen minutes.
ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION
Activity name:
Describe the child.
Detailed description of the activity:
First of all, the teacher says good morning to the students, then she begins the
session class. Later the teacher shows a picture of a child which the students
will have to describe.
Material/s needed for the activity:
The material necessary to do this exercise is a model of example like this to
help students, but this model will be different from the picture which the teacher
showed at the beginning.
A possible example to do this activity could be:
- Im Matthias, I have green eyes and dark hair, I am a little short and I have a
thin mouth. I also have a long neck and strong legs to play basketball.I
normally wear casual clothes like t-shirt, jeans and dark shirts. I am
easygoing and I always try to be happy.
Type of Grouping:
- The type of grouping could be pair work to improve cooperatioin and
collaboration among students.
Estimated time for activity:
- The necessary time to complete this activity will be twenty minutes.
References:
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PVYQrB5So.
- http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/vocabulary/2v3-body-vocabulary.php.
- REAL DECRETO 126/2014, de 28 de febrero, por el que se establece el
currculo bsico de la EP.
- DECRETO 108/2014, de 4 de julio, del Consell, por el que se establece
el currculo de la Educacin Primaria en la Comunitat Valenciana.