University of Costa Rica/ MEP/ TCU-501 Third Gradelemo.ucr.ac.cr/501/grade_3/Third Grade/Unit 6/Unit...

University of Costa Rica/ MEP/ TCU-501

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_____________________________________________________________________________ I: Individual, G: Groups, R: Rows, P: Pairs, W: Whole class, C: Circle Hmwk: Homework L: Listening, S: Speaking, R: Reading VL: Verbal Linguistic, Inter: Interpersonal, Intra: Intrapersonal, LM: Logical Mathematical, VS: Visual Spatial, N: Naturalistic, B: Bodily, M: Musical

UNIT 6: MY SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Contents: School activities Transversal theme: Human rights for democracy and peace

Functions:

1. Identifying and describing school activities.

2. Expressing likes and dislikes

3. Expressing preferences about different activities.

4. Identifying the names of the different elements in the classroom

5. Learning about the vocabulary of the community helpers

6. Practicing the verbal skills

7. Recognizing the community helpers in the bingo cards within the teacher word

pronunciation.

8. Understanding the importance of a profession and encouraging students to be a

professional.

Activity 1

Wall chart of my community Function: Identifying community services

Content: My community- community services

Seating arrangement: W

Skills: L/S/R

MI: VL, Intra, VS

Time: 15’

Material: Handout 1


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Instructions: 1. Sit the whole class in front of the board where

the wall chart is placed.

2. Review the vocabulary before start, Church,

School, Post Office,

Park, Supermarket, Restaurant and Hospital

3. The Teacher has to take the seven community

services’ images

4. Give one of the images to one student

5. The student who has the image will put the

image in the right place

in the wall chart

6. Each student has to say a short sentence using

the image

Activity 2

School activities

Function: Identifying and describing school

activities.

Content: Duties: Do the homework, study for the

test, clean the classroom, and behave well at

school, etc. Actions: play soccer, draw, play the

guitar, read, paint, etc.

Seating arrangement: G

Skills: L/S

MI: VL, Inter, Intra, VS, B

Time: 40’

Materials: Handout 2: School activities, duties and more.


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Procedure:

1. Ask students about the school activities

they do. Review the vocabulary and

expressions from previous classes.

2. Give students handout 1: School activities,

duties and more. Show the pictures to the

students and explain each activity. In pairs,

they have to look at the pictures and

choose from the box and write the

appropriate sentence (description of the

activity) under each activity.

3. After that, they have to continue with part B

in which they have to arrange the

sentences in the correct order and write it

next to it.

4. Finally, students will continue with part c in

which they have to answer the questions

and write the answer under the question.

At the end, teacher will check everything orally and all students have to participate.

Activity 3 Occupations Domino

Function: Identifying and learning jobs occupations

Content: Jobs and occupations

Seating arrangement: C

Skills: L/S/R


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MI: VL, Intra, VS

Time: 15’

Materials: A domino chart with 20 dominoes pieces.

(removable pieces with Velcro) Handout 3

Procedure:

1. Have the whole class sit in a circle

2. The teacher has to review the vocabulary.

Doctor, nurse, teacher, carpenter, cook,

dentist, firefighter, farmer, cashier, waitress.

3. Give a removable image of a job occupation to

each student

4. Each student has to match the image with the

name of the occupation

5. The students have to put the image in the right

place

6. The students have to repeat the words in order to learn new vocabulary

7. Finally, the domino chart must be filled with all the images

Activity 4

Occupations Crossword!

Function: Identifying the names of the occupations

of the people of my community

Content: Occupations

Seating arrangement: I

Skills: R

MI: Intra/VL


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Time: 10

Materials: Handout 4 and 4.1

Procedure:

1. Have the students sit individually

2. Give the students the handouts

3. Have the teacher read the instructions to

the students

4. Have the students complete the handout.

5. Have the teacher check the answers

Activity 5

Community helpers in the news

Function: Learning about the vocabulary of the

community helpers

Content: Community helpers

Seating arrangement: G

Skills: L/S/R

MI: VL/Intra

Time: 2 h (or the whole class)

Materials: newspapers, scissors, glue

Procedure:

1. Have the students in groups of 4.

2. Have students look through the

newspaper or magazines for words and

pictures of community workers.

3. Have students use the words and pictures

they found to create a collage.

4. Tell the students to present in front of the

rest of classmates their collages.

Have the students compile a list of all the

community workers they found as a class.


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Activity 6

Interviewing the community

Function: Practice the verbal skills

Content: Class instructions

Seating arrangement: Hmwk

Skills: L/S/W

MI: VL/Intra

Time: 2 hr (the whole class)

Materials: notebook, pencil, interviewing questions

Handout 5

Procedure:

1. Tell the students to visit in their community

a post office, fire station or police station.

2. Tell them to ask to the community helper

about their jobs and careers and the

importance of their job in the community.

3. Discuss with children the role of given

community helper

4. Have the students present the results of

their interview.

Activity 7

Community helper bingo

Function: Recognizing the community helpers in

the bingo cards within the teacher word

pronunciation



Skills: L/S

MI: VL/Inter


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Time: 30 min

Materials: Handout 6

Procedure:

1. Give each student a bingo card.

2. Choose one student to start the activity

3. Start saying the words

4. Tell the students to complete the bingo

cards.

5. Tell the student to say “BINGO” once they

complete all the pictures in the card.

6. Give them a candy for their work.

Activity 8

What do you want to be when You grow up?

Function: Understanding the importance of a

profession and encouraging students to be a

professional



Skills: L/S

MI: VL/Inter

Time: 45 min

Materials: Handout 7, Career Vocabulary,

student`s picture

Procedure:

This activity must be after all of the activities to

know if students could have understood the

community helpers topic.


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1. Give each student hand out 2.

2. Use the career vocabulary to explain them

the jobs related to community helpers

topic.

3. Tell them to complete the picture frame

(hand out 2) with their own picture.

4. Tell the students to paste the frame chart

in a board to remain them what they want

to be when they grow up.


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HANDOUT 1


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HANDOUT 2

School Activities, Duties and More. A. . Look at the pictures. Choose from the box and write the appropriate

sentence under each activity.

_____________________ _______________________ _____________________

___________________ ____________________ ___________________

___________________ ____________________ ____________________

*Do homework. *Study for the test. *Clean the classroom. *Behave well at

school. *Take the school bus. *Play soccer. *Draw. *Read.* Paint. *Play

music. *Take the test. *Play games


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____________________ _____________________ _____________________

B. Arrange the following sentences in the correct order and write it next to

it.

1. don’t like I tests: ________________________________ 2. favorite is game my hopscotch: _____________________ 3. class like I English: _______________________________ 4. always test study I for a:___________________________ 5. school Carlos the takes bus: _______________________

C. Answer the following questions. Write the answer under the question.

1. Do you like to study? 2. What is your favorite subject? 3. Where do you study? 4. Who help you with your homework? 5. What games do you play at school? 6. Mention three school activities that you like. 7. Describe one school activity that you do.


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HANDOUT 3 DOMINO PIECES: 13cm x 6cm

Insert a word (different from the image to match with another piece)

Insert Image

DOMINO CHART: 1,20 cm x 60cm


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HANDOUT 4

Occupations Crossword! Instructions: Fill the spaces below according to the name and description of each occupation.

HANDOUT 2


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HANDOUT 4.1: Answer Key Instructions: Fill the spaces below according to the name and description of each occupation.

ACROSS

1. Dentist

2. Astronaut

4. Chef

6. Builder

8. Farmer

11. Journalist

13. Nurse

14. Hairdresser

15. Teacher

16. Singer

17. Police Officer

18. Scientist

19. Mechanic

DOWN

1. Doctor

3. Firefighter

5. Butcher

7. Veterinarian

9. Fisher

10. Lawyer

12. Painter


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HANDOUT 5

Interview Questions

Jobs and Careers Interview

What is your job?

Describe a typical work week.

How many hours do you work?

Tell me about yourself.

Tell me the importance of your job for our community?


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HANDOUT 6

Bingo Cards


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Hand out 7

Picture frame

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