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Pedagogical Module 1
My school
Curricular threads: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts
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Grammar: simple
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Values
Vocabulary words
that you need
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These words are related Book
School Classroom
to school and you will use
them during this module.
Look at their spelling,
learn how to spell them,
play games with the words,
Pencil Board
or write sentences in your Notebook
notebook.
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Lesson A
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2. Remember the verb TO BE that you studied last year
and complete the sentences with ideas related to your school.
• My teacher
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• The school’s principal
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Vocabulary
• You
excited. Very happy.
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shiny. Having a surface that
reflects light, something • My classmates
sparkly or bright.
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Oral Communication
Greetings and commands
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2. Fill in the blanks with the missing information in each sentence.
a. Eleanor is years old and she lives
with her mother and aunt.
b. is Frank´s sister.
Vocabulary
c. Frank has a favorite sport and it is .
to introduce. To tell someone
d. Eleanor´s teacher, Rose, is very your name.
with everybody.
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Reading
Before reading the story.
1. Complete the Venn diagram with your ideas. Remember that
the ideas in common go in the space that you have in the middle.
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After reading
3. Write True or False next to each sentence.
a. You go to school for two years,
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Writing
Simple present
A verb in the simple present tells about If the subject is the third person singular
a routine or a habit. (he, she, it) you have to add -s or -es to the verb.
I work at school. She goes to her Music class.
The boy jumps rope. Miguel borrows a pencil.
I get up at 7:00 AM every day. The dog eats a piece of bread.
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2. Write 3 sentences about your school.
Use the verbs in the simple present.
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• My school...
• My teacher...
• My classmates and I...
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Language Through the Arts
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Culture
According to the AMT, 1. Form groups of three. Each group prepares a big poster
people between 6 and 25 with the list of pedestrian safety rules. You can decorate your
years old have the most poster with drawings or pictures from magazines.
accidents crossing
the street. 2. Write a paragraph describing what do you do when you walk
to school in the morning and back to your house at the end
of your classes.
Vocabulary
crosswalk. A marked
place to cross the street.
unfamiliar. Strange.
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Oral Communication
1. Sit down with one of your classmates and talk about your
school. Ask each other about the things that you do in
school and your preferences. Then, in this box, write down
the things you hear from your friend.
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Social Studies
1. Choose one school from the list and find out what makes it
special and famous. Prepare a presentation for the class of 20-25
words and remember to use the school vocabulary you learned
in this module and the simple present tense in your sentences.
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Oral Communication
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1. Listen to the description about a school. Write TRUE or FALSE
next to each sentence.
a. Most kids do not like school very much.
b. School is one of the worst times in a person’s life.
c. You can never do science experiments.
d. You see and play with your friends five days a week.
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e. If you study you do not do well on the exams.
Math
1. Make a list with your teacher of the bulletin boards out in the halls, and
typical school objects that you can find tables and chairs inside your class. Then
inside and outside your classroom. Then complete the bar graph by coloring the
go outside and take a tour around your numbers and discover which objects you
school. Count all the doors, windows, have a lot of at your school.
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Name of object
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Oral Communication
Sit down with a classmate and use these cards to describe
your morning routine. Use the verbs in the simple present tense
and you can talk about yourself or any member of your family.
Example: I get up at 6:00 a.m. My mom makes the bed.
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Make the be
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Wash my hands
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Reading
Before reading
1. Review the simple present tense.
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eat sleep write go eats sleeps writes goes
(no need to add -s or -es) (add -s or -es)
2. Read about the Robinson family routine. Circle all the verbs
in the present tense that you find.
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My family loves order and everything clean breakfast and my father washes the dishes after
every morning. My mother makes the bed we eat our food. Then, my sister Susan takes out
before she goes to work. I set the table for our the garbage and finally we take the bus to school.
After reading
3. Now it is your turn. Write your family routine, using the verbs
from the box in the simple present tense. You can talk about you
and the members of your family.
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Writing
Walk around the classroom and ask your classmates questions
to find someone for each statement. Write their name under
each sentence.
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• …loves to read.
• …swims in a river.
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Assessment
Speaking Grammar
Choose a verb from the box and fill each blank with the verb
in the simple present.
finish come be like run
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their jobs, how they look,
and their hobbies. 5. Susy the new English teacher.
Writing
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Vocabulary
1. I was cutting many pictures and now I need the to paste them on my poster.
2. My has beautiful classrooms and a great playground.
3. My teacher writes sentences on the and I have to copy them.
4. María Elena is going to read a about cats and dogs.
5. Lcda. Marcia Arellano is the name of our new .
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Assessment My
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Reading
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Listening
1. Dictation: Listen to your teacher and write down the words from the vocabulary list.
a. d.
b. e.
c. f.
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Project 1
Make a booklet called
“My classmates”
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Materials
• 10 sheets of letter size paper (A4)
• 20 cm. of yarn
• Scissors Directions
• Hole puncher • Fold each sheet of paper in half and cut it.
• Pencil and colors • Put all the pieces together.
• Punch two holes on one side and put the wool through
the holes.
• Tie with a bow to hold the booklet together.
Tips
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Review My school
Vocabulary
Grammar
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Reading
4. Choose a verb from the box and write it in the simple present. Pay attention to the subject!
pay be stand up make be love know be
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Lesson C
Culture
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friendship provides.
What does friendship mean to you? Close your eyes for a moment
and think of all the words connected to being friends. Then write
them all around the circle.
Friendship
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Vocabulary 2. Now think of your own definition for the word friend and write
it down on these lines.
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pal. A friend.
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Oral Communication
Physical Education
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All the students stand up in
a circle outside the classroom
and the P.E. teacher says what
to do. If the teacher starts the
sentence with, “Simon says...”,
then you perform that action,
but if the sentence doesn’t
• Jump
have, “Simon says…” then you
do not perform that action. • Hop on your right foot
• Move like a robot
The student that doesn´t pay • Stamp your feet
attention and performs the • Move forward one step
action without the famous • Turn around
• Put your hands on your
beginning “Simon says…” • Wave goodbye
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stomach
loses and leaves the circle.
Then, he or she sits down • Cross your arms • Bend your knees
in silence.
• Shake your left hand • Clap your hands
The winner is the last student
• Stick your tongue out • Raise your left arm
standing with the teacher.
• Dance • Shake your body
Here are some ideas for
your teacher: • Swim • Say your name
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Reading
Read the article and complete this graphic
organizer with the correct information from
the text.
they need.
The local community pays for the school. Vocabulary
It is not on a street, but in front of the
ocean so students study enjoying the breeze. A fresh current of air.
breeze and waves! cane. A long and hard stem used for building
houses.
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waves. Movement of the water in the ocean.
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Writing
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1. Find five possessive pronouns in the word search
and then use them to complete the sentences.
2. Choose the correct possessive pronouns in each sentence and circle it.
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At the beginning of a
school year we all feel
very excited to go to
school and start using
our beautiful and new
school supplies. But as
the year goes by and
we arrive at the end,
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we usually end up with
half of our supplies
lost or destroyed, some
unfinished notebooks
and lots of colored 1. If you have a notebook with just a few pages used
pencils and markers and the rest is complete, take out those pages and reuse
missing from the box. the notebook next year.
Since we are now more 2. Put together three or four boxes of colored pencils and
concerned about taking organise the remaining pencils according to their color,
care of the environment, so you can use them until they are truly finished.
students from around
the world are starting to 3. Dry markers are bad! Remember to close the lid very well
recycle these materials to and put them in a dry and dark place until summer days
avoid sending everything are over.
to the landfill. Here are
4. Recycle any clean posterboards or sheets of paper
some ideas of ways we
for the next school year.
can reduce our waste
at school: Fuente: CLIL
1. Discuss this topic with your family and write a list of 5 other
school supplies that you can recycle.
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Vocabulary
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school supplies. All the
materials that we use in •
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waste. Garbage, things we 2. Now prepare a poster with big drawings for your list. Remember
don’t use anymore. to check your spelling and grammar before writing on the
missing. Something lost. posterboard. Give the poster to your teacher to display on the
bulletin board for every student to see and learn.
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Oral Communication
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My school protects the environment
1. Imagine that someone asks you to create a new
ecological school.
2. Write a list of 10 things that you would like
this school to have.
3. Prepare a Power point or poster presentation with the list
of all these characteristics that the school offers to students.
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4. Give your presentation to the class and explain what makes
your school so special and “green”.
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Lesson D
Pirates
Who are pirates? They travel
on ships and are very daring.
They are also bold. They take
treasures from people. Many
people are scared of them!
Are you?
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1. Create your own pirate. Give him or her a name. He or she can
be happy, angry, sad, funny, serious... First draw a picture.
Then write a description in 20-25 words.
Picture Description
Vocabulary
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Oral Communication
Let’s play!
Play with a partner. Throw the die. Move the number of spaces.
Complete the sentence with a subject that goes with the verb.
Take turns. The person who finishes first wins!
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Writing
1. Match the wh-words with the images. 2. Write about your school, your teacher, and
your friends. Complete the questions and then
a. Why b. When c. Where ask your friends and teacher for the answers
and write them on the lines. Pay attention
d. Who e. What f. to the order of the subject and verb.
How
When
1 2
?
What
3 4
?
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Who
5 6
?
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Reading
1. Read the story and answer all the wh-questions about it.
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Where do a ke the flow
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What is C
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Why doe
s Carla lik
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her grand
ma sings?
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Language Through the Arts
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1. Our friendship club
Start a new club at school. Complete the
following information on a piece of paper 2. Your club is against bullying. Create
as a draft and then prepare a booklet with a poster to stop bullying. Fist, do
all the information, a drawing of the members it on a piece of paper. Your teacher
of the club, and your “Club Pledge”. will correct it and then write a final
version on a posterboard to put on
a. Discuss and decide on a name for the wall at school.
your club.
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1
Your teacher will prepare mini
strips of paper with different
commands and will divide the
class in 2 groups.
2
Choose a player from your
team to start the game.
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choose a paper
to act out the
command to the 4
rest of the team. Each group will have 1 minute to guess the
command. If they are correct, the group
earns one point.
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Assessment
Reading
The best classroom in
1. Read the following description of a classroom the school
is mine because our te
and then draw it. acher Lorena
is the best. She is not
only a teacher but
also a writer, so the co
mputer on the desk
is hers. I have a friend
called Jason. He sits
next to me and we shar
e the sitting space,
so the big desk is his to
o! There are some
books about animals in
the Reading Corner
that belong to Carla an
d Sonia, so we can
say the books are their
s. There is a girl’s
backpack with a drawin
g of a unicorn next
to the door. Elena is in
the bathroom.
I think the backpack is
hers.
Listening
a. your feet.
b. Turn
c. Cross out your
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Assessment My school
Speaking Vocabulary
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Writing
Grammar
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Project 2
ok of rules
Pictionary bo
students will
Each one of the
ite sheets of
receive 5 A4 wh
e papers in
paper. Cut all th
em to form
half and staple th
the School
a mini book with
rule on a
Rules. Write each
d draw its
piece of paper an
cture.
corresponding pi
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