The unit Means of Transports
is directed to 5th primary students who are taught Science in
English for two years. Here you can see the unit with objectives, contents and
all the activities.
Unit: Transport and
Communication
Level: 5th year
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1. Learning outcomes / Evaluation
criteria
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Identification of some vehicles that travel by land, air and sea.
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Differentiation between private and public transport.
- Doing a
piece of guided writing about a future form of transport.
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Hypothesize the outcome of an investigation.
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2. Subject Content
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- Means of transport.
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3. Language Content
/ Communication
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Vocabulary
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Transport: communication, means of transport,
goods, vehicle, travel, planes, helicopters, air, ferries, cargo ships, sea,
cars, trains, buses, lorries, motorbikes, vans, bikes,, land, metro trains,
people, taxi
Land transport: land, vehicle, wheels, road,
rail, noise pollution, air pollution
Air and sea
transport: plane,
helicopter, fastest, ocean liner
Private transport, public transport
People transports and good transports
Safety on the road
Advantage, disadvantage
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Structures
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Passive: are used by, can be used by
Comparatives: faster, cheaper, better, less,
fastest, slowest
Superlative: greatest
Going to to describe future actions
Adverbs of frequency ending in –ly: weekly, daily, monthly
Questions words: Wh-
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Discourse type
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- Listen and read
- Say chants and songs
- Classify transports
- Match
- Investigate
- Make bar graph
- Identification of transports
- Comparisons
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Language skills
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Reading
Listening
Speaking
Writing
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4. Contextual (cultural)
element
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Connects the unit with transports they may
use
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5. Cognitive (thinking) processes
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Understand, differentiate, identify,
investigate, recognise
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6. (a) Task(s)
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Draw and write about a future means of
transport they or people would use, taking into account all the
characteristics it can have, the places it can reach, what would it be good
for, and the precautions one must take.
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6. (b) Activities
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- Poster activity to introduce the unit.
- Watch a video about different transports:
- Make a spider diagram with TRANSPORT in the
middle.
- Game: Spelling of the different transports:
- Classify different transports: land, air,
sea. Make a chart.
- Guessing game: listen to the sounds and
guess
- Make train tickets. First they read a
complete one and answer the questions. Then they listen to the information of
another one and fill the gaps. Finally they make their own.
- Talk about the possibilities of how to go
to school. Survey on how they travel to school and display the result in a graph.
They ask each other.
- Show different transports and talk about
public and private: advantages and disadvantages.
- Talk about faster or slower transports.
- Different situations and they have to talk
about the best form of travelling for each situation.
- Different written activities about the
unit.
- Make a poster with the does and don’ts on
the road.
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7. Methodology
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Organization and class distribution / timing
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5 sessions. There will be group activity
(mind map, survey), individual
activity (listening), in pairs (poster)
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Resources / Materials
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- Poster about means of transport.
- Photos of means of transport.
- Worksheets of MacMillan Natural and Social
Science 3.
- Written activities from MacMillan natural
and Social Science 3
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Key Competences
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Linguistic (when talking and writing), social
(relationship with their peers), mathematical (graph), learn to learn, interaction
with the physical world (in all the unit), autonomy and personal initiative (to
make the posters and the writings), social skills and citizenship, artistic
(posters)
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8. Evaluation (criteria and
instruments)
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Identifies of some vehicles that travel by land, air and sea.
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Differentiates between private and public transport.
- Writes about
a future form of transport.
- Hypothesizes the outcome of an
investigation.
It will be evaluated how they complete a mind
map about forms of transport (land, air, sea).
Matching of different sentences about private and public, for goods or people
transports,
Writing about advantages and disadvantages of
one transport or the other according to different situations.
Explain orally the good and bad behavior on
the road.
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And the sessions will go as follows:
FIRST SESSION
First activity, after the introduction with the poster we'll make a mindmap with bubbl.us:
Flashcards with photos and names of means of tranports.
We'll talk about them: What is it? It’s a …. / Where
do they travel? By sea, on land, air / We use them to …
A graph with the classification of transports: Air / Land / Sea
The graph will be read:
Cars travel by land.
Lorries travel by …
Planes travel by …
Read text 1
Talk about:
- I use a bus to …
- I use a car to …
- I use a bike to …
SECOND
SESSION
Read text 2
Questions: What do land vehicles usually
have? How do they travel? What is a disadvantage of land vehicle?...
Survey about how they go to school. A chrt will be made and we'll talk about the results: How many people travel to school by car / by bus/ by bike/ walking?
THIRD SESSION
Comparison of means of transport: What is the fastest/
slowest/ quickest? To go to Madrid, what is the fastest/ the best/…?
Make train tickets. First they
read a complete one and answer the questions. Then they listen to the
information of another one and fill the gaps. Finally they make their own.
Worksheet from MacMillan
Natural and Social Science 3
For homework they can draw what they have to do and
don’t on the road.
FOURTH
SESSION
Review previous sessions with a guessing game:
- It has two
wheels. I cannot go on motorways. Children can ride it (bike)
- It is the
fastest form of land transport (train)
- It has two
wheels but it is faster than a bike (motorbike)
- It has more
than four wheels and carries many people (bus)
- It transports
goods on land (lorry)
- It goes
underground along a railway track (metro train)
Use the poster to introduce sea and air transport: has
anyone ever travelled by aeroplane/ ship/ helicopter? How many people can
travel in one plane?
Put the word cards on the poster.
Read text 3
Make questions about the reading.
Read text 4
Thinking activity: is a plane or a helicopter better
for rescuing people in danger?
Advantages and disadvantages of using private
transport:
They will follow the example:
The advantages of using
private transport are …
The disadvantages of using
private transport are …
Students talk in groups of three or four about the
best one to use in different situations:
To go a short distance in the
local area on a sunny day.
To travel in the town centre.
To transport a lot of good to
America.
Etc
After they'll do the following activity: Look at some photos and explain which measn of trasnport is best for each situation.
Listening about some children taht go to school. They have to fill a worksheet. (Class worsheet 2)
The folllowing activities will be made at home:
Some definitions and some sentences to say if they are true or false.
FIFTH SESSION
Before doing the poster they’ll do the following
activity as a kind of revision:
They will make a poster of their future means of
transport taking into account all they learned during the previous sessions.
They’ll draw it and then describe it.
