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Title: Task-based Learning (Christmas)
Type: Unit plan
KLA: English Language
Level: 2 grade
School: 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 exposureto 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. Students will be able to develop awareness of their own
initiatives in speaking.
2. Students will be able to increase their confidence and
competence in speaking.
3. Students will be able to conceptualize their knowledge about
Christmas and develop positive values towards the festival.
4. Students will be able to
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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)]
1. Ask students to fill in the Santa Claus Fact Sheet
Situation:
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Santa Claus is planning to come to the school & he wants to
know if the studen ts 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 ..? 1.
1.Revise vocabulary about food, drinks, presents covered in the
previous chapters using
pictures, flashcards or powerpoint slides
4. 4.Divide students into groups of 2-3
5. 5.Require each group to set not more than 5 questions to find
out one category of Santas favorites among the 4 choices:
a. Santas favorite food;
b. Santas favorite drinks;
c. Santas favorite present
