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Task-based Learning (Christmas ) Unit plan English Language 2 grade Magic World School

Background This task-based unit serves to increase students motivation in learning English and to improve their speaking skills. It is adapted from Christmas Visit. In the design of this unit, much emphasis has been placed on contextualizing and personalizing the learning activities to provide students a purposeful situation to express their own ideas, feelings, preferences and opinions using the targeted language structure. Focus has also been put on strengthening the integration of the learning tasks to make the unit more coherent to give students better chances to produce specific language items recently introduced, sometimes in combination with the previously learned items. Instead of covering several grammar items at a time in one single unit, only one grammar item i.e. simple present tense is targeted to give students focused and repeated exposure to its varied uses. This strengthened consolidation, together with the incorporation of the controlled and semi-controlled speaking practice of different interaction patterns -whole-class, pair-work and individual can greatly improve students accuracy and confidence in speaking. It is also a new initiative of the school to implement a talk diary in this particular unit to increase students initiative to speak English in class. Besides, language arts materials like video and songs are infused into the unit to increase students interest to learn in this unit.

Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. Students will be able to develop awareness of their own initiatives in speaking. Students will be able to increase their confidence and competence in speaking. Students will be able to conceptualize their knowledge about Christmas and develop positive values towards the festival. Students will be able to

Apply the targeted Christmas words;

Introduction of the Unit Plan

task 1-- Knowing Santa Claus Task 2: Making Christmas Presents & Cards task 3 -- Making Christmas Wishes

2. To help students acquire knowledge about Santa Claus -- one of the Christmas symbols I.To teach the targeted Christmas words II.To bring out the moral concept of showing respect -Listening, reading -Speaking Christmas words -- (Santa Claus, white hair, long beard, red suit, Christmas tree, presents, Christmas Eve, reindeer, sleigh)]

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Ask students to fill in the Santa Claus Fact Sheet

Situation:

Santa Claus is planning to come to the school & he wants to know if the students in the school are well-behaved before making the decision, so he asks all students to do a self-reflection on their own behavior at home and at school in 2012. No. of lessons teaching objectives Language Skills Language Forms/Vocabulary Activities/ Procedures

Activities/ Procedures To enable students to use the vocabulary about food, drinks, presents learnt in the previous chapters I. To consolidate the use of present tense yes-no question to find out information

-Present tense yes-no question (second person) Do you ..? pictures, flashcards or powerpoint slides

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1.Revise vocabulary about food, drinks, presents covered in the previous chapters using

4. 5. a. b. c.

4.Divide students into groups of 2-3 5.Require each group to set not more than 5 questions to find out one category of Santas favorites among the 4 choices: Santas favorite food; Santas favorite drinks; Santas favorite present