UNIT Nº 01

“The Exchange Program”

1. LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Speaking: Produces complete messages and engages in structured spoken interactions about themselves and
other people and tell about interests and personal information.
Listening: Understands the purpose and Identifies specific information in an oral text (about different present
activities and interests).
Reading: Reads for the main idea and specific information, predicting information from words and pictures,
and connecting the reading to their own ideas and experiences.
Writing: Writes a paragraph about a personal description / personal profile (using present tenses) following
the steps of the writing process (brainstorming, outlining, drafting, peer editing and publishing).

2. PRODUCTS:

 Oral Product: The first entry on students’ own vlog (video blog), greeting, introducing themselves to
the audience, talking about their personality and describing their routines as exchange students.
 Written Product: A paragraph to post on their Facebook page, greeting and reasons for your post,
telling people about themselves, describing their new cities and what they are doing there.

N° TASK SKILL
1 The teacher introduces the Unit Situation.

Students read about Elena Martinez’s life and they will discuss and write if
2 Reading
their lives are similar or different from Elena’s.

Students will listen to two people talking in a TV show and roleplay an

Listening
3 interview describing their cities and talking about their lives.

Students introduce their relatives to their friends from the exchange program,
Speaking
4 talking about their personalities, interests, and what they are doing in a photo.

Students will write an e-mail to their families describing what they usually do
Writing
5 every day and what they are doing now.

Students will listen to people talking about themselves and create a interview
Listening
6 to ask and answer about personal information.

Learners will write a short article about someone's life for a magazine about
Writing
7 exchange students.

Students review everything learned. Oral product is prepared. Students

Speaking Practice
8 practice and receive feedback based on the rubrics.

Oral products are presented. Oral Product

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Students review everything learned. Written product is made. Written Product

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