Project 1: Arts FestivalsStudents: Oliveira, Noelia Torres, MarinaCourse: 4th FormLevel: ElementaryMaterials: Book Cornerstone, dictionaries and PCs with the Hot Potatoes software.Number of periods: Students will take 2 periods. Recycled language: Present simple tense/ Question words: “How”,”What”; “who”; etc. Vocabulary on: Countries and nationalities.

Sistematization: Past simple tense. Vocabulary: Vocabulary on costumes; art and musical instruments used in arts festivals.Specific Function:

Academic skills: Expressing past events.Theme: Talking about arts festivals. Final task: By the end of this project students will be able to express their opinions about the different art festivals to which they have been and to retell what they have learned about the arts festivals covered in this project.

Subtasks:

Task 1: The teacher will ask students to open their course books at page 256. She will ask them to look at the pictures and to tell where they think this picture has been taken from and what they think was taking place at the moment in which it was taken. After eliciting student´s answers she will ask them the big question on page 256: “What can be shown or take place at an arts festival?” This will be done to activate any prior knowledge students may have in connection to the topic. Tr will write students answers on the board. Ideas will be organized in a mind map.

Task 2:

The teacher will give students a text on musical instruments often used in festivals. First, she will ask students to focus on paralinguistic features of the text, e.g.: Text source, format, and genre. Then, she will ask them to predict which musical instruments they think they will find in the text and to write a list of them on a page. Finally, she will ask students to read the text to check if their predictions were correct. This activity will be checked orally.

Task 3:

The teacher will ask students to do a hot potatoes matching activity (JMATCH) in which they will have to match different musical instruments with their corresponding definition. The aim of this activity is to revise and expand on vocabulary learned in the text mentioned above.

Systematization

Task 4:

Teacher will ask students to skim through the text on musical instruments used in Arts festivals called “The Music Goes On”. The teacher will elicit examples of those sentences present in the text that express ideas in the past. She will write them on the board in order to systematize the past simple form with irregular verbs. Teacher and students will go over more verbs in the past participle and discuss their meaning in order to expand their vocabulary.

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Last week, people who love music went to River City Park.

The River City Music Festival had special sounds and sights.

Larry Dodd played a trumpet solo.

I was nervous but happy.

River City´s Shakira Gopal performed a dance from India.

Task 4:

The teacher will tell students that they will practice how to express affirmative ideas in the past with regular and irregular verbs. She will ask students to solve the Hot potatoes JCLOZE in pairs.

Lesson 2

Task 1:

The teacher will ask students to tell her a few sentences about what they learned in class the previous lesson. Then she will tell them to do the JCROSS exercise to revise the simple past form of verbs and learn new ones to express more ideas in the past.

Task 2:

Students will read the text on “Carnivals in Argentina” (Exercise 1). After going over the main ideas presented by the author in the text and new vocabulary, they will be asked to do the exercise of JMIX to write sentences about the text in the correct order. This will help them to revise the order in which affirmative sentences in the past are written.

Task 3:

Students will have to re-tell what they have read about carnivals in the text at task 2. They will have to re-tell the events in the past in no more than ten lines. This will help them summarize the main ideas and they will learn how to write summaries in the past.

Task 4:

Students will be asked to answer the JQUIZ exercise on the text “Carnivals” to check reading comprehension.