Unit 2: Climate

1° Medio

Lesson objectives

In this unit, students will know about different climates and situations around the world. Also, they will read and create newspaper articles, poems, compositions and a weather report.

Talking points:

Activity:You have to answer the three questions in groups of five.

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Wordpool:The students will have images and definitions of the

words (adapting) and also they will have to complete a crossword at the end of the unit

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Adding and adapting

Read it as an example in order to do the activity on the page 30.

Wordpool 1:

1. Havoc: widespread destruction, great confusion or disorder.2. Disorientated: cause (someone) to lose their sense of direction or feel confused.3. Founder: a person who founds an institution or settlement.4. Forage: food for horses and cattle.5. Distressed: extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain.6. Spines: part of a plant or animal that punctures.7. Dehydrated: lose or cause to lose a large amount of water.

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Wordpool number 2

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Activity:

You have to create a newspaper article considering the next rules:-Use Simple Present-Use Simple Past-Use vocabulary according to the unit- Draw a picture that represents the new vocabulary (for you) used in the article

Wordpool 2:

1. Decrease: make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity or degree.2. Reduce: make or become smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.3. Recycle: convert (waste) into reusable material.4. Contribute: give in order to help achieve or provide something.5. Mammal: a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class6. Programme: a planned series of events.7. Outlook: a person's point of view or attitude to life.

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Students have to answer this questions

Wordpool number 3

Wordpool 3:

1. Vulnerable: exposed to the risk of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

2. Inhabitants: a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.3. Desperately: feeling, showing, or involving despair.4. Refugees: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape

war, persecution, or natural disaster.5. Bleak: bare and exposed to the elements

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Wordpool number 4

Activity:

Read the text and work in groups of 6 to

answer the questions according to the text

Adapting

Wordpool 4:

1. Frustrating: cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.2. Architect: cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.3. Cyclone: a system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure.4. Fizz: (of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a hissing sound.5. Paradise: an ideal or idyllic place or state.6. Bow: the front end of a ship.7. Solar: relating to or determined by the sun or its rays.

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Students have to answer some of this questions.

Adapting

(See ppt) 2

Activity:In groups of five and choose one

of the next topics about landscape in Chile:

-North zone-Central zone-South zone -Antarctica-Isla de Pascua After that you have to prepare a presentation in which you have to speak about your topic. Consider:-Type of climate-Flora and fauna

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Wordpool number 5

Activity

You have to recite a poem in groups of 3 , each student

have to memorize 1 paragraph. Then you have to add an instrumental song or a relaxing video. You have to present this activity in front

of the class.

Adapting

Wordpool 5:

1. Cherry: a small, soft round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.2. Cheetah: a large swift-running spotted cat found in Africa and parts of Asia.3. Rumour: a currently circulating story or report of unverified or doubtful truth.4. Lava: hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock

resulting from cooling of this.5. To splutter: make a series of short explosive spitting or choking sounds.6. Scorched: become burnt or cause to become burnt on the surface or edges.

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Wordpool 6:

1. Cavern: a large cave or chamber in a cave.2. Storeys: a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level.3. Intense: of extreme force, degree, or strength.4. Background: part of a scene, picture, or description that forms a setting for the

main figures, events, etc.5. Barrage: an artificial barrier across a river, to prevent flooding or to aid irrigation or

navigation.6. Bowling: a round, deep dish or basin.7. Crazed: a widespread but short-lived enthusiasm for something.

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Wordpool number 7

Activity:

Watch and listen the next video and then you have to

record a new video about the weather forecast and then

show it in front of the class.

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Wordpool 7:

1. To funnel: guide or move through or as if through a funnel.2. Pressure: continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in

contact with it.3. To persist: continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite

of difficulty or opposition.4. Overnight: for the duration of a night.5. Moderate: average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.

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ACROSS 3. A person who founds an institution or settlement.4. Widespread destruction, great confusion or disorder.5. a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.6. Make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity or degree.7. Give in order to help achieve or provide something.8. A system of winds rotating inwards to an area of low barometric pressure10. Part of a plant or animal that punctures.11. Exposed to the risk of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.13. A small, soft round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.14. Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.

DOWN 1. Food for horses and cattle.2. of extreme force, degree, or strength.5. Convert (waste) into reusable material.9. (Of a liquid) produce bubbles of gas and make a hissing sound.12. An artificial barrier across a river, to prevent flooding or to aid irrigation or navigation.

Crossword of wordpool