ENGLISH SAMPLE UNIT FORMAT

Carlos Alfonso Pulgarn

Niyen Alexander Bayona
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Unit overview: Welcome Overall aims or objective
to my city address, places,
and street.
Language objective: Students will be able to use
Present continuous, simple past and adjectives to
The purpose for this unit is articulate the sentences they will be use to
to motivate students to
mention the most important places in Bogot.
talk about important
information of their city; Communication: Students will be able to talk
this information will be
about the most emblematic places in Bogot City.
for tourist in a vacation
time.
Learning objective: Students will learn a lot of
vocabulary related to places, food and tourist.
In this case the city will
be Bogot, Colombia.
ASSESSMENT:

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

At the end of this unit,

students in groups of four
people will develop a
project in which they are
going to invite people to
visit Bogot city. (

Take into account technological resources

cant use in every class.
Although the room looks packed, we can use
other spaces in the school.
Because of the number of students, is necessary to
work
in groups.

El que no sale nunca de su tierra

est lleno de prejuicios. -Carlo
Goldoni- Dramaturgo italiano
(1707-1793)

LESSON AIM
OR OBJECTIVE
LESSON 1.
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AND

Present
Continuous
( establish a
relation
between this
grammatical
aspect and
tourism)

LESSON 2.
Simple Past
(establish a
relation
between this
grammatical
aspect and
tourism)
Using
creative
activities
LESSON 3.
To recognize
vocabulary
about places,
adjectives
and do short
conversations
about it.

STAGES AND MAIN

PROCEDURES
-Firstly students will do an activity in which they
recognize what could be the interest of other people to
visit Bogot. ( Warming up: students identified what
are the most emblematic places in Bogot)
-After that the teacher are going to explain present
continuous, using many examples.
- Teacher explains the final project for this unit. (The
final project will consist, that students will prepare a
presentation in which they invite foreign people to
visit Bogot; they can use information about
museums, parks, shopping centers, sports, nature, and
those kind of things that motivate people to visit a new
place.

-Students in groups are going to plan a celebration to

a friend who visits Bogot the first time.
-Teacher is going to explain the topic in the virtual
room. ( Using videos, and songs with lyrics)
- Now students in groups of three are going to talk
about the travel they remember a lot.( They are going
to narrate an anecdote, using simple past)

RESOURCE
S
Using pictures
from
magazines,
newspapers
and books.
Picture Maps

Computers.
( Internet:
YouTube for
music videos:
the songs will
be to explain
simple past)
Gestural and
Tactile mode

-Initially, teacher use flash cards, some will have the

adjective (a word) and others a picture, the students
should to associate the correct adjectives with the
picture who represent it.
- Students are going to choose a place that they prefer
from Bogot, after that they will do a poll in which
they select five places to talk about it.

Flash Cards
Colors
Highlighters
Markers
Papers

- After, they will do a debate, the middle of the group

will to promote arguments in favor of this place and
the other part of students are not in favor of this
place.
-Also in this day students are going to make up their
groups.

LESSON AIM
OR OBJECTIVE

LESSON 4.
Preparation
for the
project

STAGES AND MAIN PROCEDURES

-This class will be only for ultimate details for the

project.
-In this space the teacher is going to invite a touristic
guide.
- The groups will be distributed; each one of them will
have 10 minutes.
-Students are going to prepare pictures, colors,
billboards for exhibition. ( The idea is that images
express that the students wants to transmit)

RESOURCES

Informational
Brochure.
( With
information
about
museums,
parks and
places of
interest)

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Our process of meaning are frequently multimodal

bringing together written, visual, spatial, tactile,
gestural, audio and oral modes. ( Literacies as
multimodal designs for meaning)

PEDAGOGICAL AND
THEORETICAL
RATIONALE

In our unit we are going to implement representation

process; to create a critical thinking to make sense of
things and actions.
Another important concept for us as teachers is
meaning-making because it motivate us to be dynamics
and innovative.

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