THE ENGLISH ADVENTURE
BY CLARA ARGÜELLES MARTÍNEZ
EMAIL: CLARA.ARGUELLESMARTINEZ@EDUCA.MADRID.ORG
unit 5:Liverpool street
Listening
Queen Elizabeth II has told the teacher that near Liverpool Street station, historians have discovered that Shakespeare lived in a House. Shakespeare is very important playwriter, poet and actor from United Kingdom. He wrote important works like Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
Flashcards of vocabulary of rooms and parts of the house
Listening and exercise of a description of the house of Shakespeare.
Game of pairs: Each student has a picture of a house with gaps. They have to ask questions to know which rooms are missing.
Speaking
Flashcards of places in the city and prepositions of place.
In pairs students must say what its written in the flashcards and complete the city map with the information from them.
In pairs, one student has a city map and the other has a list of things to do.​Student must tell the peer that what he has to do and the place. The peer must give directions on the best way is to get to the place.
Reading
​Teacher shows flashcards with a picture of the preposition and the students must say which one is.
Students read WhatsApp messages between Mister Clock and The Guard. Students must decide out of 4 images where The Guard is.
Students read WhatsApp messages where Mister Clock gives directions to The Guard to get where he is. Students must follow the directions and tell where Mister Clock is.
Writing
Queen Elizabeth II lives in a castle, and she wants to know where they live.
Flashcards of different types of houses.
Students throw the dice with the different types of houses. They must write a description of the selected house following the description they have read.
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Later, students write a description of their house.
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I live in….
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There is/are….
Promotion of reading + Education in values
Teacher gives the student a picture of different city means of transport and how much each pollute.
Whole class reads the book "Zoom! Zoom! Sound of things that go in the city" by Robert Burleigh and answer some comprehension questions.
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What means of transport appear in the book?
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What means of transport do you use?
Project
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Problem: Queen Elizabeth II wants to create 5 new cities in United Kingdom. She is looking for options. She wants our classmates to design and describe their own invented city.
In groups, they design their own city.
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Name of the city
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Map of the city
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Places in the city
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Means of transport
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Description of the city
Teacher tells them they must:
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Think about green areas, where to do sports and about culture.
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Every city must have a town hall, a police station and a school.
ICT (Information & Communication Tecnhology)
The Guard wants to travel the world and he wants to visit 4 English-speaking cities, 4 places to visit and in which means of transport should he move around.
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Students read in the English classroom website a leaflet of the 4 cities and decide the city, the 4 places to visit and in which means of transport should he move around.
Students write an email explaining their decision.
Review: Board Game
