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I.S.F.D LENGUAS VIVAS BARILOCHE –
TALLER PRÁCTICA DOCENTE
ENTREGA DE PLANIFICACIÓN DE UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA
ALUMNO PRACTICANTE: Castro, Camila Lorena
Sala: 5 años
Nivel lingüístico del curso: principiantes
Cantidad de alumnos: 25
Tipo de Planificación: 4 clases mensuales
Unidad Temática: LA COMIDA
Semana Nº: 1 a 4
LearningAims
During this didactic unit, learners will be able:
to identify different yummy food,
to express likes and dislikes using the words yummy/yucky,
to reinforce vocabulary through different games such as memorizing the sequence and
playing a memory game,
to improve their listening skills through a storytelling session,
to foster their creativity on a drawing activity.
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Language Focus
LEXIS FUNCTIONS STRUCTURE
R
E
V
Numbers
Colour
Counting
Identifying colour
Loot at number 1…
It’s red and yellow.
N
E
W
Yummy food: banana, cake,
ice-cream, chocolate, hot dog,
pizza, hamburger and chips.
Adjectives: yummy, yucky,
hungry.
Likes and dislakes
To identify food
To express whether Ss like
or dislike food
It’s a banana!
Cake, yummy!
My favourite food is…
Before starting the didactic unit, parents or tutors will receive instructions on what to do on each class with
their children and I’ll also mention the list of material learners will need for each class. I’ll also add links to the
videos and PDF files that would be uploaded on Google Drive.
These are the instructions parents will have to follow every class:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1XLq0ZY0LPvdImS_k716hzzYzXR6T7KwR
In this link parents will also find all the files they need to print.
Materials
Class 1 Computer / mobile phone and Zoom app. Flashcards: yummy food. Memorise the sequence template
and the flashcards on a PDF file. Heads up for parents in a jpg file.
Class 2 Dough, a plate and plastic utensils to play.
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Class 3 Flashcards: food. Cardboard. A duck puppet. Printable emojis on a PDF file.
Class 4 Flashcards and pictures taken from a book.
Scaffolding strategies
The main strategythatI will use tointroduce the topicis show and tell. Inthisway I will be able to pre-teach
vocabularyandphrases throughthe use of flashcardsandmimingactions. I’ll focus every class on the use of
visual aids to support everything I’ll say.
Procedures
CLASS 1
To introduce the new vocabulary of the didactic unit “YUMMY FOOD”, young learners and their
parents/tutorswill have toattendazoommeetingthatwill be previouslyarrangedvia Whatsapp. They must
be all connected at the same time. In case some parents couldn’t participate in the meeting, this would be
recorded, uploaded on YouTube and then the link will be sent on Whatsapp.
Activity 1 – Attend a zoom meeting. Here I will greet my students and I will give learners a few minutes to
greet each other. Then I will introduce the topic using flashcards. I will open a fridge and name each item
that I will take fromthe fridge andlearnerswill have to show me their flashcards too and repeat the names
of eachitem.(The flashcardswill be uploadedon Google drive. The link is on the file called “ Instructions”).
Here it is the link to see the meeting. I had to skip the greeting part because the video was too long and
heavy to upload on YouTube.
Mock zoom meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBRo0XDoZpU
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Flashcardsstudentsneed to have before de meeting in ZOOM. (As an alternative, Ss may draw or cut them
out from magazines)
Activity 2 – I will playa“memorise the sequence”game withSsusingaplatform called MIRO. In this way, all
learnerscould participate in the activity as I will expect them to identify each item every time I’m adding a
newone to the sequence. Theyhave tosaythe numberstheysee oneachsequence andrepeat all the items
that will be hidden behind some blue rectangles.
Activity 3 – In thisactivity,Sswill workathome with a copy of a sequence template in which they will have
to designtheirownsequence and parents will have to record a video or send an audio file to subsequently
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upload them on Padlet. In this case, I will be able to see in the video or listen to in the audio file how
students are saying/memorizing the sequence.
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1 Thistemplate wastakenfromthe book GamesGalore! and I adapteditto fulfil myneedsforthisdidactic
unit.Referencesare atthe endof the procedures.
CLASS 2
Activity 1- Watchinga video. Tostart the class, I’ll send on Whatsapp a link of a video of myself in which I’ll
be playing with dough of different colours and telling students that I’ll prepare my favourite food. I’ll
introduce the phrase “my favouritefood is…”and I’ll mentionthe coloursthatI’mgoingto use to prepare my
favourite food. Then I’ll ask students what is their favourite food and ask them to show me.
Here it is the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fziZxyp7KM0
Activity 2- Students will be asked to play with dough at home and model their favourite food. Before the
class,doughof differentcoloursmustbe ready. Parentsortutorsshouldrecordlearnerswhen they describe
the colourof theirproductionand when they say “My favourite food is…” In case their favourite food is not
inthe vocabularyof the didacticunit,I’ll translate the word into English and I’ll send a Whatsapp voice note
to the child to teach him/her the word for the favourite food.
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Ss productions will be shared on Padlet.
CLASS 3
In thisclass, I’ll expectstudents to be creative and I developed the following activities to help them on the
development of their creative process.
Activity 1- Watchinga videotointroduce a song.I’ll sendonWhatsappa linkof a videoof myself talking to a
duck puppet. I’ll ask the puppet “Do you like…?” and every time the duck will say “Yes, I do. Yummy” it will
showa heart emoji and,andeverytime it’ll say “No, I don’t. Yucky!” the puppet will show the “sick” emoji.
Here it is the link of the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27Ha1Rv4d0
Activity 2 – Listening to a song. Now students are ready to listen to a song. I chose the following one:
Do You Like Broccoli Ice Cream? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3nvhIHUk
Then children can continue watching at home more videos like these ones shown below:
Do You Like Spaghetti Yogurt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDN30evKPc
Do You Like Lasagna Milkshakes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13mftBvRmvM
Do You Like Pickle Pudding? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfb--R1fhtQ
Activity 3 – Time to be creative! At home, parents will have to have a cardboard in hand and print or draw
the emojis that will be have already uploaded on Google Drive. Then young learners will have to draw the
yummyfoodunderthe heartemoji andthe yuckyunderthe sick emoji.Butforthe yucky food learners need
to be creative and mix the food from the yummy section to create new disgusting food.
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CLASS 4
For this last class I’ll use the storytelling technique to narrate to learners a short story about two ants that
feel hungry and find a picnic with lots of delicious food. It’s a really simple story. I’ll use all the vocabulary
that I introduced during the whole didactic unit.
Activity 1 – Watchinga video:astorytellingsession.Students will watch a video of myself (that will be sent
to the Whatsappgroup) in whichI’ll narrate a storyusingbigpictures of a book called A yummy picnic taken
from the app https://rivet.area120.com/.
Here it is the link of the YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxNzvYrWHY
Activity 2 – Orderthe sequence of eventsin the story. In Google Drive, parents will find a PDF file called “A
yummypicnic”.Theyhave to printitand give itto theirchildren.There are 4 pictures of the story and young
learnerswill have to order the events in a chronological way. Learners can also watch a long version of the
storyon YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knnQk4CEAXk .Once Ss orderthe events,parentswill
have upload photos of the final production (or maybe from the entire production at home) on Padlet.
Activity 3 – Playingamemorygame on the mobile orat the computer.Match the pairsand saythe foodyou
see.Forthisactivity,parentsneedtorecordtheirchildrenplaying.
I design the memory game using a memory game creator. This is the link that parents can find in the
Instructions file onGoogle Drive https://www.freememorygame.com/?dn=YUMMY+FOOD+MEMORY+GAME
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Extra activity – Preparing a yummy snack at home! I’ll send a short video using the app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cateater.stopmotionstudio&hl=en and I’ll record my
voice on https://www.audacityteam.org/ to describe the procedure to prepare Chocolate truffles. I’ll just
mention4 ingredientsandsome easywordsforinstructionswhen cooking,suchas “mix”, “make” and “put”.
This is the link of the YouTube video https://youtu.be/kzjJrRWtRCU
This is the end of the didactic unit
NOTE: everyaudiofile,photoorvideosenttome fromthe familieswill serve asevidence thatyounglearners
are workingandmakinguse of the target language athome.I wantto emphasize the importance of parents
helpingteacherstofosterlearningEnglishathome.
References
Monte andCarbonell (2018).Games Galore!A treasury of useful ideasforteachers. BuenosAires.
Argentina.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson-plans/mixing-primary-colors
