Unit 1- English in use

1. UNIT 1: SAM´S WORLD
INTRODUCTION: This didactic unit has been elaborated to introduce the contents of this
topic and to teach the students the four skills by means of everyday communicative
situations.
TIMING: six sessions of one hour. This didactic unit is carried out in the first term before
Christmas.
CENTRE OF INTEREST: personal information.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To learn the form and use of the verb to be.
2. To learn the form and use of the indefinite article: a, an.
3. To learn the numbers in English.
4. To learn the times in English.
5. To practise the vocabulary of school subjects, cities, days of the week, months and
numbers.
6. To do a roleplay exchanging personal information.
KEY COMPETENCES:
Linguistic Competence because this unit deals with the learning of vocabulary and the
structures of the English Language; Mathematical Competence because this unit deals
with numbers and mathematical expressions; Digital Competence and the Treatment of
Information because this unit deals with the information and comunication technologies
and Competence on Learning to Learn and on Autonomy and Personal Initiative
Competence because the students are stimulated to establish strategies, for example,
when learning numbers and also this unit deals with the creativity in relation to the
flexibility when the students make their personal information card.
CONTENTS:
1. Listening, speaking and talking: students listen to different texts of the unit as well
as to a song related to the vocabulary and grammatical structures of the unit; students
roleplay a dialogue exchanging personal information; oral greetings and introductions.
2. Reading and writing: students have to predict the vocabulary from the activities
carried out in class; students write an e-mail talking about personal information to a
penpal; students write their own timetable.
3. Language awareness: students have to revise the affirmative, negative and
interrogative forms of the verb to be; students will learn the form and uses of the indefinite
article; new vocabulary about school subjects, colours, cities, countries, nationalities, days
of the week and months will be developed in class.
VALUE CONTENTS:

2. Education for Equal Opportunities between the sexes and Sociocivic Education.
INTERDISCIPLINARITY:
Castilian Language, French Language and Maths.
ACTIVITIES:
First session
VOCABULARY
1. Find the school subjects by matching the two halves. Write the subjects here:
2. Find eight school subjects:

3. 3. Write your own timetable and answer the questions:
1. They have English every day except on Wednesday.
2. They have Geography on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
3. There are three hours of natural science before the break.
4. They have two hours of Art each week. At the end of the week he hasn´t got
any Art lessons.
5. They have P.E. Before Geography.
6. They do Music on the same day as Maths.
QUESTIONS:
1. Which subjects do you study in your school?
2. What´s your favourite subject? Why?
3. What is your least favourite subject?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1 English English
2 Spanish Natural
language Science
3 P.E. Maths English
B R E A K
4 French Maths
5 Geography P.E. Geography
6 Art Geography
4. Write the numbers:
1. irytht-neves:___________________________________________.
2. wentyt:________________________________________________.
3. ihtge:_________________________________________________.
4. derdnuh:______________________________________________.
5. ifyft-vief:______________________________________________.
Go to www.hotpotatoes.com/ matching/
READING

4. 2nd session
1. Read the speech bubbles. Then match the nationalities to the students:
English Romanian Ecuadorian Moroccan
2. Write True and False statements, then answer them:
1. Jack lives in Spain. False
2. Tatal has got two brothers and one sister.
3. Alfonso comes from Ecuador.
4. Radu speaks Romanian.
5. Tatal and Alfonso are friends.
3. Write sentences about you and your friends.
For example: My name is Pedro and I´m twelve years old. I´m from Spain.
1._______________________________.
2._______________________________.
3._______________________________.

5. 4._______________________________.
5._______________________________.
Third session
GRAMMAR
LISTENING
Fourth session
1. Go to www.youtube.com to listen to a song called Hello Goodbye by the
Beatles to practise greetings and introductions. Then, fill in the blanks:
You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go .................................., oh no
You say goodbye and I say
Hello hello
I don't ....................................... why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don't know, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello Greatest hit Abbey Road
(Hello goodbye) Hello ….................................................
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
(Hello goodbye hello goodbye) Hello hello
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye
(Hello goodbye) I say hello/goodbye
Why why why why why why do you say goodbye ..............................., oh no?
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

6. You say yes (I say yes) I say no (But I may mean no)
You say stop (I can stay) and I say go go go (Till it's time to go), oh
Oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello hello
Hella heba helloa
go hello goodbye know
2. Listening: Write the days and the months in the correct order. Then listen
and repeat:
DAYS
......................Tuesday,......................Thursday,........................Saturday,..........................
MONTHS
September August November June July January May December March April
February October
SPEAKING
Fifth session
Geetings and introductions
1. Listen and repeat:
Kevin: Hi, I´m Kevin.
Sam: Hello, Kevin. I´m Sam and this is my friend Robert.
Kevin: Nice to meet you, Robert.
Robert: Nice to meet you too.
2. Practise this dialogue with your friends using your names.
3. Roleplay: ask and answer questions about yourself with your partner:
For example:
Leyla: Hello. I´m Leyla. What´s your name?
Adam: Hi. My name.............................................................Adam.
Leyla: Is that an English name?
Adam: No, it................................................................................
Leyla: And... What´s your surname?
Adam: My surname is Garcia.
Leyla: O.K. Are you British?
Adam: No, I´m not. I´m............................................................. And you?

7. Leyla: I´m from Morocco.
Adam:..................................................................................................?
Leyla: I´m an actress. And you?
Adam: I´m............................................................................................
Leyla: By the way, What´s your favourite food?
Adam: My favourite food is a meat pie.
Leyla: Are you married?
Adam: No I´m not. I am single.
Leyla: Goodbye.
Adam: Goodbye.
WRITING
Sixth session
1. 2
2. Complete the sentences using ´m,´s or ´re: 4. Complete the sentences using ´m not,

8. aren´t or isn´t:
5. Write about this woman:
6. Ask and answer questions about Micky Nelson:
1. What is her name?
2. Where is she from?
3. What is she?
4. How old is she?
7. Make your own profile using the information from exercise 13.
8. Go to the video from English channel online on www.You tube.com to watch a
lesson about how to tell the time.

9. 9. Write the times:
What´s the time?
For example: It´s five to two. 2. It´s six minutes past ten.
1. It´s five to two.
2. It´s six minutes past ten.
3. _____________________.
4. _____________________.
5. _____________________.
6. _____________________.
7. _____________________.
8. _____________________.
10. Draw a clock for each of these times:
1. quarter to eight.
2. half past eleven.
3. One o´clock.
4. Twenty past five.
5. Five to ten.
6. Quarter past twelve.
11. Write an e-mail to a friend talking about you and your family using the
information from your own profile.
FROM: Sam Peterson
TO: Paul Roberts
Hello. How are you? My name is Sam. I am from Seville in Spain. I am a student at the
University and I am seventeen years old ...
PUNCTUATION
Students will be punctuated from one to ten for every activity done in class. They are
also going to do an exam at the end of the term. Pupils who get a 50% of the total
punctuation pass their exams.
EVALUATION CRITERIA:
Students will have to produce oral and written messages using personal information;
students have to use strategies to be able to carry out classroom interaction; the students
have to develop strategies to tell the time; students have to write an e-mail in a controlled
way; students have to identify different strategies in searching information over the
Internet; students can use to new content with relative ease; students have to show
interest and initiative for understanding information in English.