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DIDACTIC UNIT 5: “Tour around the best places in the world”

� AUTORA: Mª Dolores Jiménez Rodríguez.

� DNI: 44959635 V.

� INTRODUCCIÓN: La presente unidad didáctica enseña al alumnado de 3º de Educación

Secundaria Obligatoria a hacer comparaciones entre personas y cosas diferentes que ellos/as ven cada día a través de un amplio abanico de actividades: conversación sobre una casa, diálogos, textos socioculturales, etc. Estos ejercicios también les permite revisar tiempos verbales ya estudiados, como el Presente Simple y el Presente Continuo y el verbo to be (ser o estar).

OBJETIVOS:

- Practicar la pronunciación de schwa /ə/ en –er and –est en adjetivos

comparativos y superlativos.

- Participar en tareas en pareja y en grupo.

- Escuchar y entender los textos de la unidad, uno sobre el Partenón de Atenas y

el otro sobre dos ciudades populares: Budapest y Praga.

- Usar diferentes fuentes de información (Internet, folletos para la tarea final).

- Escribir composiciones usando los contenidos de la unidad.

COMPETENCIAS BÁSICAS:

1. COMPETENCIA DE COMUNICACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA.

Esta unidad se centra en la categoría gramatical de los adjetivos en Inglés para hacer

comparaciones entre dos ó más cosas o personas.

2. COMPETENCIA EN EL CONOCIMIENTO Y LA INTERACCIÓN CON EL MUNDO FÍSICO. El alumnado va a describir lugares y personas de diferentes países usando los adjetivos

comparativos y superlativos.

3. TRATAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y COMPETENCIA DIGITAL.

Se pone en práctica en este caso a través de una página web acerca de Guinness World

Records para buscar ejemplos de adjetivos superlativos. Además también se hace uso de

la Sala de Informática para buscar monumentos populares en tres países distintos.

4. COMPETENCIA CULTURAL Y ARTÍSTICA.

Se manifiesta con frecuencia en esta unidad, pues se mencionan y trabajan con distintos

aspectos culturales de diversos países, como edificios (universidad, torre, museo,…) y


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gente conocida. En la tarea final, también se hace uso de distintas fuentes para diseñar

un póster turístico de diversos países.

5. COMPETENCIA PARA APRENDER A APRENDER.

Los alumnos tienen la oportunidad de usar el diccionario para aumentar su lista de

adjetivos y para hacer algunos ejercicios.

6. AUTONOMÍA E INICIATIVA PERSONAL.

Se lleva a cabo al realizar ejercicios individuales.

CONTENIDOS:

BLOQUE 1: Escuchar, hablar y conversar.

Escuchar un pequeño extracto sobre el Partenón de Atenas; conversar con el

compañero/a acerca de la gente de la clase y ciertos lugares de España.

BLOQUE 2: Leer y escribir.

Leer un texto sobre Praga y Budapest; escribir frases y párrafos cortos usando los

adjetivos comparativos y superlativos.

BLOQUE 3: Reflexión sobre la lengua y su aprendizaje.

Aprender algunos adjetivos y vocabulario de la unidad; practicar la pronunciación de /ə/

en la terminación –er/-est de los adjetivos comparativos y superlativos; revisar el

Presente Simple y Presente Continuo.

BLOQUE 4: Conocimiento social y cultural.

Leer información específica (edad, altura,…) de monumentos populares del mundo,

entre ellos Praga, Budapest y Gran Bretaña; buscar monumentos también conocidos en

el propio país de los alumnos/as.

CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN:

REFERIDOS A ESCUCHAR, HABLAR Y CONVERSAR.

Comprender textos orales y hacer un correcto uso de la gramática y vocabulario de la

unidad.

REFERIDOS A LEER Y ESCRIBIR.

Comprender textos escritos y desarrollar la habilidad lingüística de escribir al producir

breves frases y textos haciendo uso de adjetivos comparativos y superlativos.

REFERIDOS A LA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LA LENGUA Y SU APRENDIZAJE.


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Pronunciar correctamente la terminación –er/-est de los adjetivos comparativos y

superlativos y dar una correcta entonación a las frases.

REFERIDOS AL CONOCIMIENTO CULTURAL Y SOCIAL.

Valorar la propia cultura así como la(s) ajena(s).

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VOCABULARY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ: According to what you see and your opinion...

1) Who is the strongest man? 2) What’s the most modern house?

3) What’s the furthest country from Spain? 4) What’s the highest cathedral in the world?

USA of America Germany France St Peter’s Rome Notre Dame Prot.

Cathedral

(Italy) 136.57 m (Paris) 32 m (Germ.) 161.53

m

5) Who’s the most beautiful woman? 6) Who is the fattest person?

7) What’s the oldest university in the world?

Cambridge Univ. Yale Univ. Moscow State Univ.


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VOCABULARY Read the following adjectives and classify them as referring to people, places or both.

SHORT --- NICE --- MODERN --- FAT --- THIN --- FAR --- BIG --- GOOD --- EXPENSIVE --- OLD --- TALL --- SMALL --- WEAK --- BEAUTIFUL --- BAD ---

STRONG

PEOPLE PLACES PEOPLE & PLACES


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WRITING Match adjectives in A to their opposites in B. Then write sentences using opposite adjectives in the affirmative and negative forms of the Present Simple and Present Continuous.

A B good bad small ugly clean noisy short thin old big

beautiful cheap fat tall

expensive dirty quiet modern


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SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING In pairs, ask your partner about physical description of some people in your class using some of the previous adjectives.


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GRAMMAR PRACTICE Make comparisons following the example below and looking at the pictures of famous people and buildings. In case of doubt, you can have a look at the use and form of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectievs in the sheet your teacher will give you.


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Example: “Angelina Jolie is younger than Sofia Loren”. a) Eiffel Tower is ____________ (HIGH) ____________ Tower of Pisa.

b) Claudia Schiffer _____________ (FAT) ______________ Renée

Zellweger.

c) The White House is _______________ (MODERN) _____________

Batlló House in Barcelona.

d) Charles of England is _______________ (YOUNG) _____________

Juan Carlos I of Spain.

e) Meryl Streep is ______________ (GOOD) actress _____________

Julia Roberts.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE Look at these buildings, monuments and buildings and make comparisons using adjectives + -er/more... than, less... than and as... as.

A) GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, PRADO MUSEUM,


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Bilbao (Spain) Madrid (Spain)

B) PLAZA DE CIBELES, BUDDHIST TEMPLE,

Madrid (Spain) Kyoto (Japan)

C) SPAIN� AMERICA SPAIN� AFRICA

D) STATUE OF LIBERTY, THE THINKER, New York (US) Paris (France)

E) ANDALUSIA ENGLAND


GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Read this information about Great Britain (lake, river, mountain, bridge, castle, hotel) and complete the sentences with the superlative form of adjectives in brackets.


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LAKE (big)

The _____________ lake in Britain

is Loch Lomond in Scotland. It has a

surface area of 71.2 square

kilometres.

RIVER (long)

The ______________ river in

Britain is the Severn. The Severn is

355 kilometres long and empties

into the Bristol Channel.

MOUNTAIN (high)

The ______________ mountain in

Britain is Ben Nevis in Scotland. It

is 1,392 metres high.

BRIDGE (long)

The ________________ bridge in

Britain –and in the world- is the

Humber Suspension Bridge. It

stretches across the estuary of the

River Humber and is 1,410 metres

long.

CASTLE (big)

The _______________ castle in

Britain is Windsor Castle. It is also

the _______________ inhabited

castle in the world.

HOTEL (expensive)

The _______________ rooms in

Britain are the luxury suites at the

Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London.

Now, read sentences on the right of each picture and translate them into Spanish.

SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING

Survey. Ask your partner questions about lakes, rivers, castles, etc. in Spain using the superlative. You can ask this question: “What’s the biggest... in Spain?”


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LISTENING : “THE PARTHENON” Pre-Listening task.


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Tell your partner everything you know about the Parthenon in Athens (location, date, material it’s made up, style,...). While-Listening task. Listen to your teacher. He/She is going to read you about the Parthenon. Then, fill in the gaps of these sentences and short text about it.

Post-Listening task. Write a short paragraph describing a popular monument in the village or city you live. You can follow the model of the text in this exercise.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Read the information about these popular buildings and write sentences using the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.

“THE PARTHENON” - The Parthenon was built by _________________ and

_________________ between _______________ -

________________. It is located in ________________, Greece, on

the historic ________________.

- It is made up of bearing masonry and _________________.

The temple stands on the conventional ______________

______________, below which the foundation _______________ originally

created for its predecessor remained visible on the west, south and east

sides of the building... The cella consisted of ______________

_____________ end to end with hexastyle prostyle porches... Inside the

colonnades, towards the end, there stood the ______________

_______________ and ____________ statue of Athena Parthenos, the

work of Phidias, representing Athena fully armed with _____________,

______________, aegis and, accompanied by a snake, and holding in her

extended right arm a statue of ____________. The ceiling was of wood,

with painted and guilded decoration. Light was admitted, as normally in

Greek temples, only through the doorway when the _________________

_______________ were opened.


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EIFFEL TOWER TOWER OF PISA TOWER OF LONDON

Paris (France) Pisa (Italy) London (England)

Architect: G. Eiffel Architect: unknown Architect: unknown

Date: 1887-1889 Date: 1063-1350 Date: 1070-1090

Height: 295 m Height: 54 m Height: 28 m

Material: exposed iron Material: bearing masonry, Material: bearing masonry

cut stone, white marble

Climate: temperate Climate: mediterranean Climate: temperate

NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL SAINT PAUL’S CATHEDRAL SEVILLE CATHEDRAL

Paris (France) London (England) Seville (Spain)

Architect: Maurice de Sully Architect: Christopher Wren Architect: unknown

Date: 1163-1250 Date: 1675-1710 Date: 1402-1523

Height: 43 m Height: 108 m Height: 37 m

Width: 41 m Width: 300 m Width: 83 m

MME. TUSSAUD MUSEUM THE LOUVRE MUSEUM THE PRADO MUSEUM

London (England) Paris (France) Madrid (Spain)

Architect: Marie de Tussaud Architect: Philip Augustus Architect: Juan de Villanueva

Date: 1835 Date: 1190-1202 Date: 1637

Entry: £ 12.50 Entry: € 5-7.50 Entry: € 6 Facilities: drinks & snacks,... Facilities: book shops,... Facilities: café, baby changer,...


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PRONUNCIATION

Read these sentences paying special attention to pronunciation and intonation of sentences.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY SORBONNE UNIVERSITY BARCELONA UNIVERSITY

Cambridge, Mass. (US) Paris (France) Barcelona (Spain)

Foundation: 1636 Foundation: 13th century Foundation: 1968

Undegraduate students: 6,715 Undegraduate students: 13,900 Undergraduate students: 38,000

Library holding: 11,000,000 volumes Library holding: 2,500,000 doc. Library holding: 7,000,000 items

Average cost of living for 1 Average cost of living for 1 Average cost of living for 1

academic year: £ 45,620 academic year: € 900-1,300/month academic year: £ 24,103


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a) – New York is less safe than London.

- No, it isn’t. New York is more dangerous.

b) – The streets of Paris are cleaner than the streets of Rome.

- No, they aren’t. They are much dirtier.

c) – Paris is as big as Madrid.

- No, it isn’t. Madrid is the biggest one.

d) The buildings in Rome are less modern than the buildings in New York.

e) The tallest girl in my classroom is Gema. She is even taller than our

teacher!

f) Australia is one of the furthest countries from America. Spain is nearer

to America than to Australia.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Choose the correct sentence. Put V and X.

1. a) John is more short than Peter.


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b) John is shorter than Peter.

2. a) That Italian man is thinner than the Spanish one.

b) That Italian man is thinner that the Spanish one.

3. a) Budapest is one of the importantest cultural capitals in Europe.

b) Budapest is one of the most important cultural capitals in Europe.

4. a) Living in a hotel is more comfortable than living in a cottage.

b) Living is a hotel is comfortable than living in a cottage.

5. a) The Old Town Hall in Prague is the most popular than the mineral

waters of Budapest.

b) The Old Town Hall in Prague is more popular than the mineral waters

of Budapest.

WRITING Make a list of the words related to buildings and adjectives you have learnt so far and make a short description of some places of your town or village you live in.


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READING READING READING READING :“BUDAPEST AND PRAGUE”. Pre-Reading task. What do you know about Budapest and Prague? Write on your notebook everything you know about them (their most popular monuments, location, etc.). Then, compare what you have written with that by your partner.


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While-Reading task. Take the sheet your teacher is going to give you and follow the instructions to read one of the two texts on the paper. Then, answer this Comprehension Check: 1) What do you see in the photos of your city? 2) How many people live there? 3) What is the name of its rivers? 4) How many bridges are there? 5) What is the best way to get round the city? Post-Reading task. Compare your answers with other partners in class that have read the other text different from yours. Make use of the comparative form of adjectives to talk about these two European cities: Prague and Budapest. Do the same with other two cities of villages you know very well in writing and hand it to your teacher. UNIT 5UNIT 5UNIT 5UNIT 5/session/session/session/session 7. 7. 7. 7.

Computer Room.

Go to the Web Page http://www.guinessworldrecords.com and, in the main page, click on Enter Guiness World Records. Then, look at the chart saying HUMAN BODY and click on it. As you have made some physical descriptions in this unit, in this page, you’ll see some records regarding human body, like age and youth, body parts, etc. Take notes about amazing data using the superlative.


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In pairs, choose three of the following countries and surf the Internet to

look for some of the most popular monuments. Make sentences using the superlative. Countries you can select are the following: Egypt, India, Brasil, China, USA, Moscow, Holland. You can make use of this Web Page http://www.greatbuildings.com. On it, you will find a lot of information about architecture of the three countries you chose from those given to you and some of the most popular buildings. Go to the square saying Name of place and write on it your three countries (one by one). Then, click on Search for places... and you will get information about their buildings and other data about them, like architect, location, date, style,...

Once you have done this activity, go round the class and, in pairs, find other three students that have chosen the same countries as you and your partner. All the information you get will be useful for the final task, which will be in group of five students. UNIT 5UNIT 5UNIT 5UNIT 5/session/session/session/sessions 8s 8s 8s 8----9.9.9.9.

GROUPGROUPGROUPGROUP WORK WORK WORK WORK

TOURIST POSTER


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Work in group of five students and get brochures from a travel agency or from the net that serve you as a model to do your poster. In it, you must include pictures of monuments that you can visit in those places and other information about them like location, facilities, main tourist attractions, etc. Then, put all these data on three different cards and, finally, on a separate sheet, make comparisons and emphasize the most important features of each of them. At the end, you must make an oral presentation. Three students will talk about the three different places, another one will say three of the four sentences comparing some aspects of the countries, and the last one will make use of the superlative in order to focus on the most relevant features to a higher degree than those of the two other countries.

Contents you must make use of for the final task are the following:

� Comparative form of adjectives: o Equality. o Inferiority. o Superiority.

� Superlative form of adjectives.

Your teacher will show two brochures that may serve you as a model for you to do the final task. Have a look at them.


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� BIBLIOGRAFÍA: La mayoría del trabajo realizado ha sido de elaboración propia. Es decir, se ha hecho un gran esfuerzo por conseguir actividades originales. No obstante, también se ha hecho uso de diversas fuentes para hacer posible esta unidad didáctica.

o Soars, Liz & John. 1996. Headway Elementary B. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

o http://www.guinessworldrecords.com o http://www.greatbuildings.com

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