Unit+Development

=Thematic Unit Development =



**__ Thematic Unit Planning __**
 * Topic: ** Halloween
 * CEF Level: ** B2 Upper Intermediate
 * Year Level: 4th-6th **
 * Suggested Duration: **// Four weeks of two sixty minute classes each week. //

This unit aims to assess what students already know about the practice of celebrating Halloween and to teach them more about it. The activities used are designed to improve and assess their language capabilities in all areas of language from reading and writing to pronunciation, grammar, and culture. 
 * __ General Aim: __**

**__ What Do You Assume The Learners Already Know? __**  Most Learners will have already heard of Halloween and will know a little about it. Some may have even celebrated it in some way or another as it is now catching on in Cyprus as well. I expect that B2 level learners will be able to understand and produce spontaneous speech, be able to understand the main ideas of complex texts. They should also be able to produce clear, detailed texts on a variety of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue. 

**__ Relationship With Other Lessons: __**

__ What came before? __ In previous classes students’ will have learned the grammar structures which will be reinforced and assessed in this unit as well as the general language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) of the B2 learner, so that they will be able to follow the lessons at this level. 

__ What’s coming next? __ Future lesson will aim to further improve and expand on the speakers’ L2 knowledge by exposing them to a wide array of authentic linguistic and cultural material in context specific ways. 

**__ Mode(s) of Classroom Organisation: __** Whole class, Individual <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ Potential Problems: __** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students may have forgotten certain grammar items
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students may be embarrassed to participate orally in class for fear of making mistakes.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ Counter Strategy: __** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The teacher will help students refresh their grammar knowledge.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The teacher will encourage the students to embrace their mistakes as a necessary part of learning.

|| <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60 || Reading || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar structures and pronunciation will be unofficially assessed. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unknown words may be encountered. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cultural stereotyping in Halloween costumes. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60 || Vocabulary || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reinforce and assess students’ grammar (vocabulary) knowledge. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween related words and words which express negative or scary feelings. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  || Speaking Listening comprehension (teacher oral presentation) Reading comprehension (need to understand website information in order to successfully complete task). || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The story students produce will be used to assess their use of grammar. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Literary devices in scary writing  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  || Reading || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reinforce students’ grammar knowledge. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  || Reading comprehension <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Speaking || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween related vocabulary. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity clusters & Assessment ideas** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Skills & Test types**  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Grammar & Pronunciation**  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocabulary**  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Sociocultural knowledge**  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Duration in minutes**  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 1** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Listening and Reading  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween related vocabulary and other unknown words.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Halloween
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 2** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Speaking and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 3** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 4** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reading comprehension || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There will be unknown words in the text.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">English Literature: Oscar Wilde.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 5** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 6** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Speaking and Pronunciation.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Error correction and consolidation of pronunciation.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some students may not know some of the words their classmates used in their story.  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">60  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 7** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grammar and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Activity 8** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Culture

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__ Expected Outcomes: __** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">On completion of this unit the students should have gained increased cultural knowledge about the holiday of Halloween in the L2 culture, and should have improved their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

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