Science Lesson: States of Matter

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What were you wearing, again?

Unit Theme: Clothes

Linguistic Objectives:

Students will be able to describe clothing (speaking and listening).

Students will be able to construct complete sentences using the present continuous tense (speaking).

Students will be able to correctly spell clothes and adjectives (reading and writing).

CLIL Objectives:  

Geography: hemispheres

Science: seasons

Social Studies: different cultures

Student Outcomes:

Students will learn how to use descriptions to communicate wants or needs.

Students will learn

Language:

• Structures: review of present continuous, review of adjective placement before noun
• Lexis: review of clothing, review and learn new adjectives

Materials: blackboard, chalk, world map

Outline of the Activities:

Warm-up Activity: the teacher spends five minutes talking with the students about what they did over the weekend.  (5 minutes)

Initial Phase: the teacher asks students to brainstorm all of the types of clothes that people wear in the winter.  Then the teacher asks for a list of adjectives that describe clothing.  The teacher has each student who responds write his/her answer on the board so that the students can consult the list during the class.  Then the teacher asks the students, “what am I wearing today?”  The students respond and the teacher copies “You are wearing…” on the board to serve as reference for the class work. (5-10 minutes)

Class Work:  The teacher divides the class into pairs and each pair sits together.  Each student is assigned a letter, either student A or student B.  The teacher gives each pair one minute to look at what the other student is wearing.  The students must memorize what their partners are wearing.  Then, student A begins by turning his/her back to their partner.  Student A must describe to student B what he/she is wearing by using complete sentences that include an adjective that describes the clothes e.g. “you are wearing a beautiful dress.”  If student A says something incorrect, student B must correct student A, for example if student B is wearing green boots and student A says he/she is wearing green sandals, student B must say “no, I am wearing green boots.”  When student A is finished describing student B they switch roles. (15-20 minutes)

Round-up:  The class as a whole participates in the game.  The teacher asks for one pair to volunteer to go in front of the class and repeat the activity.  If one of the students makes a mistake, the rest of the class has the opportunity to give clues or help correct mistakes. 

After the pair has finished, the teacher asks the class if it is winter in every part of the world.  The students will have already students seasons in the hemispheres in their science and geography classes so the teacher will review the concept of different seasons in different hemispheres with a world map.  He/She will explain that even though it is winter in Spain and people are wearing boots and coats, it is summer in the Southern hemisphere.  The teacher then asks the class, “what are people in the Southern hemisphere wearing today?”  The students must respond with “People in the Southern hemisphere (or a specific country if the students wish) are wearing…” and choose clothes that people wear in the summer.  The students make a list of summer clothes on the board next to the winter list.  (15 minutes)

Assessment Criteria:

During the partner work the teacher walks around the classroom listening to each pair completing the tasks and offers help to those who are struggling whether it be with remembering what the other student was wearing or sentence structure and grammar.

During the round-up the students have the chance to correct their classmates and the teacher listens to the corrections in case he/she has to correct them. 

The teacher takes notes on mistakes that many students are making, for example, if many students in the class are still saying the adjectives after the nouns, “you are wearing jeans red” he/she writes this down and then at the end of this class and the beginning of the next class he/she addresses them and asks students to correct the mistakes. 

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