Erasmus+ arteducation.eu Human body 1 Lower secondary PT

1. Unit: Human Body
Class: 7º. F (Évora, Portugal) / Level: Lower Secondary
Subjects: English and Art – Teachers Helena Cavalheiro and
Maria João Machado
Number of lessons: 1
Competences:
 By the end of the unit students will be able to:
- name the most important organs and bones of the human
body…
- describe themselves physically and psychologically;
- write some sentences about their favourite activities/hobbies
- draw some bones/organs
- draw pictures that relate to favourite subjects or daily life
activities.
Content
Language/Terminology
(words and phrases)
Main target knowledge
(English lessons)
 Vocabulary related to the
topic “human body”: bones
and organs, senses
 Adjectives related to shape
and size
 Adjectives related to feelings
or psychological traits
 expressing a wish:
if I were ... I would…
 expressing favourite
activities
(Art lessons)
 Drawing parts of the body
 Drawing pictures and
objects that are related to
their preferences, daily life
Students will be able to:
 Describe themselves
physically and
psychologically as well as
be able to describe parts
of the human body and
their functions;
Learn about the human
body as an extraordinary
machine that all humans
share and which is at the
same time absolutely
unique in every human
being;
 Build a human profile
made of many small
items/drawings that

2. and hobbies. The students
represent, through art, a
drawn description about
themselves.
altogether represent the
whole class;
 Build a human profile
made of many small
mosaics - like
items/drawings that
altogether represent the
whole class.
Process
Activities / Tasks Types of interaction
Context:
-The human body - what is it like?
-The human body: Imagine you are
a part of the human body (bone,
organ, senses)
-What makes us unique and
different from anybody else?
Tasks :
- drawing parts of the human body;
- writing about activities and
preferences;
- describing human body, shapes,
sizes and themselves.
- in each of the lessons students
prepare necessary material to
gradually build up a common
profile/drawing:
- A teacher/student interaction is
used to learn the necessary
vocabulary and sentence
construction;
- in the Art class students draw and
paint the necessary Items to build
up /fill in the human profile(s);
- the students present the lesson
and describe themselves to the
other colleagues.
Resources / Materials
- Pictures (human body)
- notebooks
- drawing material
- recording material

3. Assessment
The building of one natural – size profile representing all the students.
It is made of many different parts drawn by each student and all of
these together- like a mosaic - form the profile. While the profile is filled
in with all the drawings, students explain what they are doing, how the
body functions, describe themselves and the drawings. The final
message of this “mosaic profile” is meant to be “unity through
diversity”.