The document provides guidance for teachers on using "fichas", which are suggested lesson plans and activities. It includes examples of fichas on various topics like inventions, influential figures, and environmental responsibility. The document emphasizes that the fichas can be modified as needed and will be linked to curriculum modules in the future. It also provides general tips for simplifying texts and activities for students.

1. Having fun with the
fichas!!
Adjusting them to your own students’ particular needs

2. A little bit about the fichas…
• These are based on the common threads that are transdisciplinary.
• They are suggestions and can be replaced or modified.
• In three weeks, they will be based on the modules.

3. 5 Ideas que
cambiaron
el mundo
Los estudiantes comprenderán
que la visión del mundo cambia
constantemente en función de
los aportes de
historiadores, investigadores,
científicos y otros personajes
que han comunicado sus
descubrimientos y teorías a la
sociedad en general con el uso
de lenguaje apropiado.
Responsabilidad,
solución de
problemas
y conflictos,
pensamiento
critico
Si fuera un súper
héroe o súper
heroína…. ¿Qué poder
tendría para mejorar
el mundo?
Realiza un dibujo de ti
mismo/a como súper
héroe o heroína con
tu poder especial.

4. ELEMENTAL

5. SIMPLIFIED ELEMENTAL
• LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Students learn the importance of inventions
and inventors. They change the world.
• Look at the pictures and read.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone (in 1876).
Konrad Zuse invented the computer (in 1941).
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon (in 1969).

6. SIMPLIFIED ELEMENTAL
Match the pictures with the people.
Neil Armstrong (moon)
Konrad Zuse (computer)
Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)

7. MEDIA

8. SIMPLIFIED MEDIA
• Read about these special young women.
Malala Youzsafzai is incredible. In Pakistan, she could not go to school because
she is a woman. But she is strong and now she finished university. She is a model for
all girls.
Anne Frank was also very special. She was brave because she hid with her family for
years during World War II. Her life was short, but she wrote a book about her
experience as a Jewish girl. She was very smart.
Describe Malala. Describe Anne. Are they similar? Are you like them?

9. SUPERIOR

10. SIMPLIFIED SUPERIOR
• Nostradamus lived in France in the 1500s. He studied many languages and
medicine and he was very smart. He entered the university when he was 14 years
old. And he had a special talent: the ability to predict the future. He became very
famous because of this. Even today some people still believe that what he said 500
years ago can happen in the future.
• Do you believe that some people can predict the future? Why or why not?

11. BACHILLERATO

12. SIMPLIFIED BACHILLERATO
Humans have lived on this planet for about 2 million years. During this time,
humans have created many things; some with a positive impact, some with a
negative impact. Vaccines have saved lives. Technology has helped us to
communicate. But new war inventions like weapons can hurt us. And some
inventions made in factories produce toxic waste that makes us sick. We are
responsible for our home, planet Earth. We must take care of it.

13. GENERAL TIPS TO SIMPLIFY
• Reduce the length of the text.
• Use more simple syntax.
• Use words the students know. And for the words they don’t know, give them a simple
definition in English.
• Always have students DO something with the text.
• Give oral and written input.
• Keep activities communicative and contextualized! And be autonomous!