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● The curriculum being taught will be over introductions: how to introduce someone to another person and appropriate
responses
● Students will have covered vocabulary relating to careers and conversation questions for asking about someone’s job
● Students need to be engaged through more than just lecture and cloze assignments
1. /2. Interpersonal Communication: Learners 1. SWBAT introduce people 1. 25% -50% sample: A couple
interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, orally groups present their partner
2. SWBAT respond to activity to the class
signed, or written conversations to share
introductions orally 2. 25% -50% sample: A couple
information, reactions, feelings, and opinions. 3. SWBAT create sentences groups present their partner
introducing people in activity to the class
writing/through gesture 3.
3./4. Interpretive Communication: Learners 4. SWBAT identify similarities a. 10% sample: Mix and
understand, interpret, and analyze what is between pronouns in English match activity; a
heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics. and Spanish couple groups shares
their answers
b. 50% sample: Poll
Everywhere cloze
1./2.Presentational Communication: Learners
activity;corrections
present information, concepts, and ideas to made as a class
inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a 4. I don’t know if I will have an
variety of topics using appropriate media and assessment for this since the
pronouns are being introduced
adapting to various audiences of listeners,
later in the week.
readers, or viewers.
We will use the three low levels of Bloom’s taxonomy because this is the introduction to the material.
There will be Remembering with the mix and match activity.
There will be Understanding in the poll everywhere activity.
There will be Application in the blob activity.
Materials
Computer
Projector (and remote!)
Envelopes with practice sentences
Poll Everywhere with prompts from book
Cards with professions
Tape
Powerpoint with:
- table of phrases
- definition and example of an indirect object pronoun
- explanation of mix and match
- explanation of poll everywhere
- poll everywhere login
- explanation of blob game
- homework
- explanation of back-up activity
Academic Language
Indirect Object Pronoun: the pronoun for “to who or whom or what” an action is being done
If a student is struggling to remember the phrases, they can use their vocab list.
Keeping activities short and interactive is a form of differentiation to avoid long assignment time and poor attention
Assessing students from a small sample is a form of differentiation because it allows less confident students to express their
thoughts in small groups but doesn’t require whole group sharing.
The mix and match uses gesture to allow students who are not confident in writing or speaking to show what they know.