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This paper provides some guidelines that we hope can be useful to foreign

language teachers. The main purpose of this work is to develop the four skills:

listening, speaking, reading and writing. At the end of this unit, there is a test

that consists of questions to value the students in different skills.

UNIT STRUCTURE

READING:

Start making questions about the subject that will be taught

because it is an introductory activity that focus on the language of

the text;

Read the text and after that ask same student to read it again to

motivate the participation;

Make questions about the text to check their comprehension, for

example, WH questions, multiple choice's exercises, true or false

exercises, Crossword.

WRITING:

Elaborate exercises with WH questions, for example, to guide the

student to create his own text (Guided Composition);

Give some tips about the subject to help them develop their ideas.

Ask some students to go to the blackboard to give their answers.

SPEAKING:

Introduce the topic of the lesson giving a reason for

communicating;

Ask the students to form groups or pairs and show them an

example of how do the exercises. (Say that they will make

questions and answer to each other about the theme);

Let them give their opinions and interact with their partners.

LISTENING:

Use a podcast to let the students listen it for about three times and

then ask them to do the exercises that involve making sense of

the meaningful sounds of language in a context.

Make questions about the listening exercise to check their level of

comprehension (if they understood the main idea of the text or

not, if they comprehended some details or not, if they perceived

some specific information or not).

GRAMAR IN FOCUS:

Use grammar together with fixation exercises.

We hope that this teaching unit can contribute with second language

teachers to prepare their own classes. It is clear that it is subject to

complementations and the teachers can promote changes and to work it of

different form.