SCHOOL GOD IS LOVE

DIDACTIC LEARNING UNIT N° 1

Area: Humanities and Spanish
Name: Teacher: Rosa Maria Bejarano
Subject: English

2009
Level: # Hours:
2009

Final application date: Fourth 15

Initial application date

TOPIC
• PAST EVENTS
-Simple past affirmative and negative
-Biographies
-Memories

1. OBJECTIVE

To interact in English asking for and giving information about biographies,

past events and memories.

2. ACHIEVEMENT INDICATORS

Linguistic competence

• The student asks for and gives information about past events and
biographies.

Pragmatic competence

• To show understanding about biographies and important people from

texts given.

Socio- Linguistic competence

• To show positive participation, respect, interest, responsibility in class

interacting with the teacher and classmates achieving the goals
proposed for this unit.

1. PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

3.1 I know the past tense of 5 regular verbs

YES NO
3.2 I know the past tense of 5 irregular verbs YES NO

3.3 I know some expressions in past tense

YES NO

2. GRAMMAR STRUCTURE

Use the simple past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a
specific time in the past.

REGULAR VERBS
Se forman los verbos regulares en la siguiente manera:

• Hay que añadir ed a los verbos. Ej. Work---worked

• Si el verbo termina en “e“solo hay que añadir d. Ej. Love—loved
• Si el verbo termina en consonante “y“se quita el “y“y se añade “ied
“Ej. Study – studied

Verb
Subject Complement
(past form)
I
you
he
she
went to the beach yesterday.
it
we
you
they
IRREGULAR VERBS

Take from: http://www.inglestotal.com/simple-past-negative-and-question-form/

Present Negative
Past sentence Question
sentence form
 I wasn´t in Was I in fourth
I was in third grade fourth grade grade
I am in fourth
last year last year
grade Last year?
This year
I went to school
Yesterday
I go to school I didn´t go to
every day school Did I go to school?

She rides her bike She rode her bike

Did she ride her
Every day She didn´t ride bike?
yesterday
her bike

1.INDIVIDUAL WORK

1.1Find the simple past for the following verbs and write them in your own
language. Make use of your English – Spanish dictionary.

PRESENT PAST SPANISH

MAKE

READ

SLEEP

WRITE

BE

BRING

BUY

FEEL

FIND

GIVE

LEAVE

RIDE

SPEAK
 SWIM

CLEAN

PLAY

WATCH

STUDY

TAKE

UNDERSTAND

WIN

GO

EAT

5.2 Work on pages 4 and 5 in your text book.

5.3 Look and complete the sentences.

* Win

Jimmy _________ the race.

* Go

Paul and Karol ___________ to the beach last year.

* Give

George ___________ some flowers to his mother

* Build

Mr. Lee and Jimmy _____________ a house

* Play

They ___________ soccer yesterday

* Buy

We __________an ice cream cone after school.

5.4Work on pages 6 to 9 on your book

5.5 LISTENING
a. Practice with the listening on page 5 ex. 1 on the student book
b. Practice with the listening on page 10 “Summer camp fun “.

1. GROUP WORK

6.1 Share with your partner the exercise you made in the Individual work (5.1)
6.2SPEAKING
6.3Talk with a partner about your vacation last December. Keep in mind the
instructions given by your teacher
6.4Act out your dialogue

7. Reading comprehension activity

A. Read the biography given by your teacher
B. Build up your own biography
C. Share your ideas with your partners
D. To find new vocabulary about of people
E. To make a letter soup with the new vocabulary

8. SELF ASSESSMENT

Choose and color the face that better evaluate your knowledge in this unit.

So –
Good Bad
So
 1. I can talk about the activities I did

2. I use the past tense of some verbs

3. I felt motivated with this topic

4. I found some difficulties with this

topic

5. I worked hard and well in this unit

6 RESOURCES

• Dictionary
• Pictures
• Sprint 4 student book
• Up and away in English N° 4
• Tape recorder – CD
• Web site

WEEK Book Work UNIT WORK QUIZ

st
1 Week 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,
nd
2 Week 4, 5.1, 5.2, QUIZ
rd
3 Week 5.3, 5.4, 5.5,
th
4 Week 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 6.4, QUIZ
th
5 Week 7. 8
SEGUIMIENTO

– Elaboración Guia.
– Corrección –guía 1borrador.
– Corrección Guía 2 borrador
– Entrega de trabajo final : Guía N° 1.
– Logros generales y específicos
– Fe cha de entrega: Sábado 3 de octubre de 2009