This document provides details about a dance and English unit for 7th grade students in Portugal focused on the human body. The unit aims to help students express and write about feelings and emotions regarding the human body, discuss Portuguese culture and the importance of the sea, and use dance to convey feelings through movement. Students engaged in interactive dance rehearsals to develop choreographies and later performed their dance. Assessment focused on the process and how well students performed the choreography, coordinated with music, and expressed emotions through their movements.

1. Unit: Human Body
Class: 7th
F (Évora, Portugal) / Level: Lower Secondary Level
Subjects: English and Dance
Teachers: Dance teacher (Maria Manuela Góis); Project Coordinator (Maria
Isabel Carreira)
Number of lessons: 1
Competences:
- • By the end of the unit students will be able to:
- express and write feelings and emotions about the human body…
- speak about Portuguese culture related with Portuguese Discoveries and to
transmit to others the meaning of the sea for the Portuguese nation;
- use dance in all its extent and potential, using movement and liveliness as a
language, transmitting feelings and emotions.
- speak with their body, to define their feelings and show its potential.
Content
Language/Terminology
(words and phrases)
Main target knowledge
(English lessons)
 Vocabulary related to the topic
“human body”: feelings and
emotions; discoveries and the
sea;
 Adjectives related to abundance,
beauty, freedom and mysticism,
the feeling of departure, farewell,
tears and homesickness;
 Adjectives related to feelings or
psychological traits.
(Dance lessons)
 Body Coordination:
- Agility
- Balance
- Rhythm
- Space/Time
 Students will be able to:
- Know their body;
- Adjust body movements to
rhythm;
- Express feelings and emotions
through dance;
- Relating culture and heritage
with the exercise of dance.

2. Process
Tasks Types of interaction
- Interactive dance rehearsals
in which students were
involved in the task , taking an
active role in the design of
movements;
- The choreography resulted
from suggestions from
stakeholders;
- Presentation of the dance
lesson by students.
- Group work
- Individual work
- Individual and pair work
Resources / Materials
- Computer,
- Dance cloths,
- recording material
Assessment
- The assessment is aimed at the process. Students are asked if they had
fun, what they liked most and what they didn’t like;
- Students were assessed on the following parameters:
a) Performs a simple choreography;
b) Coordinates music and rhythm;
c) Runs the choreography movements smoothly;
d)Expression of feelings and emotions.