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INDEX
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DIDACTIC UNITS |
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1º ESO |
NAME OF THE UNIT |
LEXICAL CONTENT / TOPIC |
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT / FUNCTIONS |
CULTURAL REFERENCES / GAMES |
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E A S Y |
HELLO | Greetings, goodbyes and useful phrases |
Greeting people Classroom communication |
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| COLOURS | Colours |
Colour the clown (individual game) Little Red Riding Hood |
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| NUMBERS | Numbers from 1 to 20 | |||
| MY THINGS | School items | Whose is ...? Introducing the verb to be |
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| THE ALPHABET | The alphabet |
Naming letters |
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| DOMINOES | Food (1) | Food dominoes (individual game) | ||
| MY FAMILY | Family members | |||
| MY BODY | Parts of the body | The Present Simple of the verb to have | ||
| MY COUNTRY | Countries of the EU Nationalities |
The Present Simple of the verb to be | EU countries and their nationals | |
| THE TIME | Telling the time | Telling the time | ||
| MY CLOTHES | Clothes | |||
| REVISION QUIZZES | Revision of previous units | |||
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MY PETS | Pets | Prepositions of place The verb "to have" |
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MY DAY |
Action verbs School subjects Days of the week |
Affirmative form of the Present Simple | ||
| SPORTS | Sports and Hobbies The verb "to like" |
Negative form of the Present Simple | ||
| THE WEATHER | The weather Months and seasons |
Interrogative form of the Present Simple | ||
MY TOWN |
Buildings | Interrogative pronouns | ||
| WHERE IS...? | Buildings, Prepositions of Place | Interrogative form of the Present Simple | Where is Frodo? (individual game) | |
MY HOUSE |
Rooms, furniture | The affirmative and negative forms of the verb "there to be" | ||
MY FRIENDS |
Descriptive adjectives | Introduction to the Present Continuous | Drag the captions (individual game) | |
D I F F I C U L T |
MY ACTIVITIES | Action verbs | Affirmative and negative forms of the Present Continuous | |
| TRANSPORT | Means of transport | How to form the plural of nouns How? Prepositions "by", "in", "on". |
How many... are there in the city? | |
| OUR EATING HABITS | How do we eat? Food (2) |
The verb "MUST" Some / any / a lot |
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| DO'S & DON'T'S | The imperative mood: orders and prohibitions | Must / Mustn't | Mr Bean's prohibitions What traffic signs say |
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| MY FEELINGS | Expressing feelings |
Adjectives Why? How? |
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| MY DEN | Bedroom furniture |
interrogative form of "there to be" a / an / some / any |
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| MUSIC | Musical instruments Expressing possession |
Possessive adjectives |
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| PROFESSIONS | Professions and their tools Expressing possession |
Possessive pronouns |
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3º
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NAME
OF THE UNIT
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LEXICAL
CONTENT / TOPIC
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GRAMMATICAL
CONTENT / FUNCTIONS
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CULTURAL
REFERENCES / GAMES
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A S Y |
HELLO | Greetings,
goodbyes and useful phrases |
Greeting
people Classroom communication |
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| COLOURS | Colours |
Present
Simple of the verb to be (3rd person singular) |
Colour
the clown (individual game) Little Red Riding Hood |
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| NUMBERS | Numbers from 1 to 10 | Present Simple of the verb to be (3rd person singular) | The hangman (individual game) | |
| MY CLASSROOM | School items and adjectives | Spelling | School items (individual wordgame) | |
| THE ALPHABET | The
alphabet |
Naming
letters |
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| DOMINOES | Food | Food
dominoes (individual game) The word collector 1 (pair game) |
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| THE COLLECTOR | The household | The word collector 2 (pair game) | ||
| THE WEATHER | The weather | The verb to be (Present and Past Simple, 3rd person singular) | ||
| CLOTHES | Clothes. The verb to wear. Winter and summer. | Present Continuous (introduction) | ||
| OUR BODY | Parts of the body | |||
| DEMONSTRATIVES | This, these, that, those | Demonstrative
adjectives. The Present Continuous (introduction) |
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THE TIME | Telling the time | Telling the time | Get 15 points (individual game) |
| NATIONALITIES | Nationalities |
The Present Simple of the verb to be | EU countries, their flags and their nationals | |
| PROFESSIONS | Professions |
The Present Simple of the verb to be (2) | Puzzle (individual game) Footballers (individual game) |
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| WORDSQUARE | Nationalities Professions |
Wordsquares Paint the EU flags (individual game) |
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| WALLY | The city : buildings and directions | Giving directions | Where is Wally? (individual game) | |
| DESCRIPTIONS1 | Descriptive
lexicon Friends and mates |
Attributive
and predicative adjectives Possessive adjectives |
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| ADJECTIVES | Descriptive lexicon | Antonyms | The adjective-eating monster (individual game) | |
| THE EURO | Numbers from 1 to 100 | How much...? | The euro | |
| CATEGORIES | Lexicon:general revision | Four different games to categorize lexical items | ||
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I F F I C U L T |
PREPOSITIONS1 | Bedroom furniture | Prepositions of place | |
| VERBS | Action verbs | The
infinitive and the gerund How to form the gerund |
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| VERB CATCH | Verbs (2) | Regular and irregular verbs | Catch the verbs (3 individual games) | |
QUESTIONS |
What, who, when, how, why... | The
interrogative form Interrogative pronouns Subject pronouns Possessive adjectives and pronouns |
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| DESCRIPTIONS2 | Descriptive lexicon | Describing someone | Draw yourself (individual game) | |
| PRESENT CONTINUOUS | Verbs (3) | The Present Continuous (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms) | Meet Jamie | |
| PRESENT SIMPLE | Verbs
( 4) Professions (2) |
The
Present Simple (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms) Use of the indefinite article before professions |
What does a ... do? | |
| THERE IS / THERE ARE | The kitchen | There
to be Some, any & no Countable and uncountable nouns |
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| THE BURGLARY | Verbs ( 5) |
The Past Simple (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms) of the verb to be |
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| WOODSTOCK | Verbs ( 6) |
The Past Simple (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms) of regular verbs |
The Woodstock Festival | |
| IRREGULAR PASTS | Verbs ( 7) |
The Past Simple (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms) of irregular verbs |
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| OUR WORLD | Regular and irregular comparatives |
Comparisson of adjectives |
The world we live in | |
| WILD ANIMALS | Regular superlatives |
Rules for the formation of the superlative |
An animal quiz (individual game) | |
| THE RAT-RACE | Ordinal numbers |
How to write and "say" the date |
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4º
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NAME
OF THE UNIT
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LEXICAL
CONTENT /TOPIC
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GRAMMATICAL
CONTENT / FUNCTIONS
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CULTURAL
REFERENCES / GAMES
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A S Y |
SPELLINGS | Words difficult to spell | Spelling | How do you spell...? (Audio game) |
| COMMUNICATE | Language use | Social, communicative and expressive use of English | ||
| POSSESSION | The family |
The Saxon
Genitive |
The British Royal Family | |
| PRESENT TENSES | Verbs
(Past Participles) Professions (2) Yet, still, already, for, since |
The
Present Continuous The Present Simple The Present Perfect |
The Past Participle (individual game) | |
| PREPOSITIONS2 | The
kitchen In, On, At |
Prepositions
of place and direction Prepositions of time (in, on, at) |
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| THE TRAFFIC | The
traffic |
Introduction to modal verbs | The signs game (individual game) | |
| MERLIN | The household | Prepositions of place | Merlin (individual game) | |
| RELATIVES | Defining and explaining | Defining
relative clauses Non-defining relative clauses Relative pronouns Omision of the relative pronoun |
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N T E R M E D I A T E |
THE -ED SUFFIX | Pronounciation of the -ed suffix | Introduction to the Past Simple (regular verbs) | |
| VERB TREE | Irregular verbs (1) | Introduction to the Past Simple (irregular verbs 1) | Verb tree (individual game) | |
| VERB WHACK | Irregular verbs (2) | Introduction to the Past Simple (irregular verbs 2) | Whack-a-verb (individual game) | |
| VERB BURST | Irregular verbs (3) | Introduction to the Past Simple (irregular verbs 3) | Burst-a-verb (individual game) | |
| CROSSWORD | Revision irregular verbs | Introduction to the Past Simple (irregular verbs 4) | Crossword puzzle (individual game) | |
| PAST TENSES | Talking about the past | The
Past Simple The Past Continuous The Past Perfect |
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I F F I C U L T |
THE ARTICLE | The, a, an | The
definite article The indefinite article Omision of the article |
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| SOME... | Some, any, no & every compounds | Use of 3rd person singular | ||
| ANOTHER... | Other, others, another, the other, the others... | |||
| COMPARISON | Comparing things | Expression of degree: the comparative and the superlative | ||
| THE JUGGLER | Revision | Personal
pronouns Possessive adjectives and pronouns |
The juggler (individual game) | |
| SNAKES AND LADDERS | Expressing indefinite quantity | Too, too much, too many, enough | Snakes and ladders (individual game) | |
| PHONEMES 1 | Phonemes | |||
| PHONEMES 2 | Phonemes | |||
| VOWEL SOUNDS | Phonemes | |||
| DIPTHONGS | Phonemes | |||
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1º
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NAME
OF THE UNIT
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LEXICAL
CONTENT / TOPIC
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GRAMMATICAL
CONTENT / FUNCTION
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CULTURAL
REFERENCES / GAMES
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PASSIVE VOICE | General knowledge | The passive voice | Who... by? (individual trivial-like game) |
| REPORTED SPEECH | Reporting
what is said |
The reported speech | The
doctor said... (individual game) Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre |
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| THE FUTURE | Expressing spontaneous decisions or pre-plans | The
Future Simple The future with "going to" |
Lost in the Desert (individual game) | |
| MODAL VERBS | Expressing ability, possibility, deduction, advice, duty... | Modal verbs | ||
| CONDITIONAL1 | Expressing
condition (real) Ecology |
Conditional clauses type 1 | The ecological conditional (individual game) | |
| CONDITIONAL2 | Expressing condition (real, hypothetical and impossible) | Conditional clauses (types 1, 2 & 3) | The conditional game (individual game) | |
| SOUNDS | Discriminating vowel sounds | Minimal pairs | Bin or bean? (individual game) | |
| ADVERB CLAUSES | Cohesion and links | Subordinate clauses | ||
| INFINITIVES | Helen's diary | Verbs followed by infinitive or gerund | ||
| DO & MAKE | Do and make | Differences between do and make | ||
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U L T U R E |
IDIOMS1 | Idiomatic expressions | Colours and its connotations | |
| IDIOMS2 | Idiomatic expressions | |||
| YOUR HEALTH | Tattoos, piercings, fast food and diet | Text commentary (Explanatory text) | Cross-curricular issue: health education | |
| RECIPES | Recipes elaborated by students | Descriptive/instructive text | ||
| THE UK | Information about Britain | Looking for data/information on the net | Culture of English speaking countries | |
| THE BBC | The History of the BBC | Explanatory text | Culture of English speaking countries | |
| BRITISH EDUCATION | The British Education System | Literary/Explanatory texts | Culture
of English speaking countries Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling) |
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| THE USA | The USA political system | Explanatory text | Culture of English speaking countries | |
| AUSTRALIA | Australia and the Great Shearers' Strike | Explanatory/Narrative
texts Past Simple revision |
Culture of English speaking countries | |
| FALSE FRIENDS | False friends of the Spanish speaker | |||
| TRIVIAL1 | Famous men and women | Trivial-like individual game | ||
| TRIVIAL2 | Games of logic | Trivial-like individual game | ||
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2º
BAT
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NAME
OF THE UNIT
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LEXICAL
CONTENT / TOPIC
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TYPE
OF TEXT
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CULTURAL
REFERENCES / TYPE OF ISSUE
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S S U E S |
AFGHANISTAN |
The plight of Aghan women |
Text commentary (Descriptive text) | Cross-curricular issue: Gender equity |
| CHILD LABOUR | Child
labour Street children Child soldiers |
Text commentary (Descriptive/Explanatory texts) | Cross-curricular issue: Children rights | |
| DEATH PENALTY | Articles
of the Declaration of Human Rights The death penalty |
Text commentary (Explanatory, argumentative, literary and dialogic texts) | Cross-curricular
issue:
Human rights Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) The Little Prince (A. de Saint Exupéry) |
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| ANOREXIA | Eating disorders | Text commentary (Explanatory/narrative texts) | Cross-curricular
issue: Health
Education Quiz |
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| CLONING | Animal and human cloning | Text commentary (Explanatory/Argumentative texts) | Cross-curricular issue:The ethics of human progress | |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | What is domestic violence? | Text commentary (Explanatory, Literary and narrative texts) | Cross-curricular
issue: Gender-based violence Shirley Valentine (Willy Russell) |
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| ROAD SAFETY | Road safety and the effects alcohol, drugs, misuse of safety systems, weather and mechanical failure | Text commentary (Explanatory text) | Cross-curricular issue: Road safety | |
| GLOBAL WARNING | The greenhouse effect | Text commentary (Explanatory text) |
Cross-curricular
issue: Ecology |
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| TEEN VIOLENCE | Senseless violence in teenagers | Text commentary (Narrative/explanatory texts) | Cross-curricular issue: Respect for others | |
| DRUGS | Alcohol, tobacco, ecstasy, cocaine, glue, etc | Text commentary (Explanatory text) | Cross-curricular issue: Health education | |
| GENDER EQUALITY | Gender
equity and gender equality The fight for equality |
Text
commentary (Explanatory text) Literary texts |
Cross-curricular
issue: Gender equality Virginia Woolf's "A room of one's own" Charlotte Brontë's "Shirley" |
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| FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION | Clitoridectomy and infibularion | Text commentary (Explanatory/narrative texts) | Cross-curricular issue: Human rights / Gender equity | |
| INMIGRATION | Inmigration: facts and prejudices | Text commentary (Explanatory/argumentative texts) | Cross-curricular
issue: Human rights Audio: Scattered people |
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| WAR | The war on Iraq | Text
commentary (Argumentative texts) Phrasal verbs |
Cross-curricular
issue: Peace education Terry Jones: an article in the Observer |
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