Unit 2: Contemporary Animals

Unit 2: Contemporary Animals

1. CONTENT

   • Life cycles
   • Contemporary Art
     • Pablo Fernandez - Pujol
       • Biography
       • Paintings
   • Insects
     • Parts of the body
     • What can they do
     • Insects and people
       • Helpful / Harmful

2. COGNITION

   • Hypothesize about images and videos
   • Identify specific vocabulary about insects
   • Describe insects
   • Recognize the different processes in a life cycle
   • Compare how insects might be helpful or harmful to people´s life
   • Produce a painting of an insect
   • Organise information in a chart

3. CULTURE

   • Respect the insect´s life cycles
   • Presentation with linking clases such as: biology and art
   • Connect Spanish authors into the English culture
   • Humans and insects interaction

4. COMMUNICATION

   • Language THROUGH learning
     • Teacher´s feedback
     • Dictionary Skills
     • Possible language emerging through learning
   • Language FOR learning
     • Language to describe an insect
     • Language to discuss about life cycles
     • Language to write a description
     • Language to discuss and debate
     • Language to analyze images
   • Language OF learning
     • Language of describing
       • Effective use of Present Simple
     • Key vocabulary and Structures
       • Insects
         • Names: grasshoppers,ladybugs,moths,mosquitoes,houseflies,beetles,dragonflies,butterflies,ants, bees, canterpillar, spider
           • IT´S A ...
         • Parts of the body: head, eskeleton, thorax, abdomen, legs, wings, tail, sting
           • IT HAS A/ AN ...
         • Ability: fly, jump, walk
           • IT CAN ...
       • Life cycles
         • Keywords: egg, larva, pupa, adult
         • Connectors of succession: First, Secondly, Thirdly, Finally.
           • FIRST, IT´S A ....

5. FINAL OUTCOME: Create a painting of an insect and describe it.