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 articulate the sentences they will be use to
is 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)

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LESSON AIM OR
OBJECTIVE
LESSON 1.

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)

Present Continuous
( establish a
relation between
this grammatical
-After that the teacher are going to explain present
aspect and tourism) continuous, using many examples.

RESOURCES

Using pictures from

magazines,
newspapers and
books.
Picture Maps

- 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.

LESSON 2.
Simple Past
(establish a
relation between
this grammatical
aspect and tourism)
Using creative
activities

-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)

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

LESSON 3.
To recognize
vocabulary about
places, adjectives
and do short
conversations
about it.

-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.
- 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.

Flash Cards
Colors
Highlighters
Markers
Papers

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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)

LESSON 5
Projects
presentations

_ This final class of the unit will be for present the

projects and to receive feedback from the teacher.
-First teacher is going to organize time: each group
has 8 minutes for the presentations.

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.