Overview of Long -term planning

Duration: From: February 29th To: March 23rd

Group(s): Level 3
Overview of the four-week period
(usually two classes per week)
Main goals:
Offer the students an opportunity to communicate genuinely in English. For the students to learn about life in Canada and
share about life in Jujuy.
ESL Competencies to be developed:
C1: Interacts Orally In English
Evaluation Criteria:
Key Features targeted:
Participation in oral
Initiates, reacts to, maintains
interaction + Articulation of
and ends oral interaction.
the message
C3: Writes and produces texts
Key Features targeted
Evaluation Criteria
Uses a personalized production Formulation of texts.
process.

Observable evidence:
Use of English at all times +
accuracy of language

Tools
Evaluation grid (Made by
me)

Observable evidence
Accuracy of the language
repertoire.

Tools
Evaluation grid (Made by
me)

Cross-curricular Competency (ies) Pick one that you will GIVE FEEDBACK ON
o Communicates appropriately
Targeted learning for this period (from Related Content/Progression of Learning
Language Repertoire: Functional language
Ask for / offer feedback
(List some expressions you will encourage students to Give opinion
use when interacting orally)
Language Repertoire: Vocabulary
School, subjects, schedule, weather, electronic devices,
(List vocabulary words you will focus on)
Language Conventions: Focus on Form/Grammar
Simple past and simple present (Students will be put in situations
(Grammar and forms will you teach either explicitly or
where they will need to use it)
implicitly?)
Strategies: (List strategies you will teach students how Activate prior knowledge (They already know it)
to use and provide practice)
Develop cultural understanding

Group: ___03_________

3. March 7th (am)

2. March 2nd (am)

1. February
29th (am)

Date

Dates: ______ February 29th to March 23rd ______

Goals

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Group
discussions
about the given
themes

Advantages
and
disadvantag
es of the
Internet?

What can
damage your
computer?

Social
Media?

Make the
students
compare things
they can see
and make them
analyse a
situation.

Discussion
about what
devices they
use.

Walk around
and compare
your phone
with others

Show about
basic history
of
computers.

Give some use

to previous
knowledge.
Turn some
previous
knowledge in
Spanish into
knowledge in
English.

Colours and
nouns memory
game (Theme:
School)

Make students
formulate
questions of
their own
choosing and
give
spontaneous
answers to the
others
questions.

My phone is
older than
yours

Show the
nouns for a
couple
seconds, hide
them and let
the students
remember.
(play a second
time and ask
the students to
remember the
colour of each
word as well)

Match different
school
subjects with
its
specifications:
Students are
assigned a
specific one
and have to
find their
matching
person by
asking
questions.

Activity 4
CyberBullying:
Video

Can cars be
considered
as electronic
devices?
Read and
discuss text
about the
google selfdriving car.
Two teams
Make the
(Escuela de
students
Minas and
come up
other High
with how
schools)
it is in
Each one of
Canada.
them asks
questions to
the other team
to try to
describe the
most
accurately
their schools.

Activity 5
CyberBullying:
Discussion

Materials?
PowerPoint
Computer
Projector
Speakers

Exit card:
Name one
thing you
would like to
know about
Canada.

PowerPoint

Show the
students
details about
education in
Canada /
Quebec.

Small papers
with school
subjects and
specifications
on it.

Computer
Projector
Speakers

PowerPoint
Computer
Projector
Board and
markers

Date

Goals

Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 3

Activity 4

Activity 5

Materials?

Make the
student analyse
and compare
things they
know with some
they dont.

Show
pictures of
the students
with their
high school
uniform.
(they have
sent it to me
by e-mail)

Game: In
teams of two.
Students place
different
aspects of
schools either
in Argentina or
in Quebec.
(On the
handout)

Correct the
game and give
the right
information to
the students
about schools
in Quebec.
Ask the
students about
schools for
them.

Students
write their
favourite
activities
on a piece
of paper.
They pick
one of the
papers
from the
bag
They walk
around and
ask Is X
your
favourite
activity?
Students
share what
was on
their paper.
(Inside /
Outside
circle)

Show a
video of
skiing.

Computer

8. March 23rd (am)

7. March 21st (am)

6. March 16th
(am)

5. March 14th (am)

4. March 9th (am)

Make them ask

questions to
their peers.

Give some
different input to
the students and
make them
share their
opinion on it.
Make the
students use
what they have
seen in order to
create
something on
their own.
Make the
students use the
vocabulary they
have been
working on
since the
beginning of the
course in a
more relaxed
way.
Get the students
to demonstrate
how much they
can
communicate
after all the
practice during
the workshop.

Show a series of weird jobs

Students write
on a piece of
paper which
one they
prefer and
why.

Projector
Handouts and
small cards for
the game
Speakers

Small
discussion
on jobs in
general with
the students.

PowerPoint
Computer
Projector
Speakers

Remind the
weird jobs
that were
mentioned
last class

Students have to invent a weird job and have to share it with

the rest of the group.

Board and
markers

Students
share their
recipe.

Students
name
different
themes we
have seen
during the
course

Exit card:
One thing
you liked
and one
thing you
disliked
about the
course.

Board and
markers

Students will
fill in a
survey
distributed
by the other
teachers.

Computer

Scategories
game

Students will present their chosen subject.

Think pair
share: What
was your
favorite part
of the
course?

Exit cards

Projector
Survey