SECUENCIA DIDÁCTICA

The Great Irish Legends

Topics Ireland Republic: Location, music, people, holidays and festivals.

The Saint Patrick Story and the symbols: The Shamrock, the Leprechauns, and the Blarney Stone

Past tense Activities at home

Context Students of eighth grade. They live in 2 and 3 social level. They are between 12 and 14 years old.

Time four weeks - two hours per week

Objective To recognize and value the importance of the traditions related to the culture of the English country Ireland.

Specific Objectives

To develop listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and cultural skills through different kinds of exercises.

To understand why some of these legends are considered as national holidays in the United States.

Place Classroom, English Lab

SchoolMaterials

Workguide, cds, tv set, internet

ACTIVITIES OF DIDACTIC SEQUENCE

Activity

Description Time

Product

One(in

pairs)

The students have to access some links to find out information of the Ireland

One week

Oral presentations: Coherence and logical arrangement

Republic. Then, they make oral Presentations about: location, capital, official languages, famous people, traditions, holidays and festivals.

of the ideas.

Two(Group work)

For good readers and writers:The students ask and answer questions after reading a text about the St. Patrick Story

One week

Evaluation in competition:Personal opinions of the legend by answering questions. They have to explain their answers.

Three(Group work)

How to plan a writing:The students write short paragraphs taking into account the coherence and the language elements in the ideas.

One week

In papers, they write their favorite ideas of the assigned legend and the diagram of the key words.

Four(Group work)

Are games a waste of time?The students write directions on a board game that include rules about the studied topics: Ireland’s legends and general information (descriptions and guessing words)

Oneweek

Work group: The word game: Free and written.

four(Group work)

Feedback:Editing and correction work done.

one week

Work group: They present a report of the feedback

Evaluation

Cognitive Performance

Understand vocabulary and grammar to communicate using the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing).

Procedural Performance

Use web pages to look for material.

Apply technology to make presentations.

Attitudinal performance

Be responsible for working in group.

Be attended to the commands.

Be creative using language to communicate.

Behave well with others.