Unit Plan Template

Authors
Name(s):

M. Fatih KENGER
lker TEK
Hasan DEM
M. amil YILMAZ

Unit Content
Course
Elementary English Language Teaching
Unit Title
My Body Parts
Grade Level [ASSURE (Analyze Learners)]
4th Grade, Elementary, 20 students
Time
6 lesson hours
Prerequisites [ASSURE (Analyze Learners)]
The students know: Basic Tenses (except for Present perfect tenses), Some Basic
prepositions (in, at, on under etc.), Imperatives: Classroom commands, Plural nouns,
some Countable and uncountable regular/irregular nouns, adj. + noun combinations,
Possessive pronouns.
Sequence of the Content
Teaching Vocabulary
* Concept Map
*Presentation
*Flashcards
* Game
Teaching Listening
*Listening Song
*Filling Activity
*Acting out
*Voice Recording
Teaching speaking
* Listening dialogue
*Flashcards
*Role cards
*Acting out

Unit
MY BODY PARTS

2 Hour

1. Week Week

Unit Plan
Activities

Learning Outcome

Measurement &
Evaluation

Explanations
(If any)
** The unit is
parted in three:
vocabulary
teaching, listening
teaching and
speaking teaching.

**Have a basic vocabulary

repertoire of isolated words
and phrases related to
particular concrete
situations.

* very short, simple reading texts

* Students will take one quiz

* Visuals (pictures, drawings, plans,

that include questions about

maps, cartoons, caricatures,

the word they have just

photos, etc.)

learned.

** Show only limited control

of a few simple
grammatical structures and
sentence patterns in a
learnt repertoire.

* short phrases and sentences

* The teacher will distribute

* Short descriptive paragraphs

a body diagram that has

* Games (TPR games, Spelling

blanks at the corresponding

games, Categorization games, ball

boxes of body parts to

** Copy familiar words and

short phrases e.g. simple
signs or instructions, names
of body parts
and set phrases used
regularly.

games, etc.)

measure their learning.

* stories (story telling / story

* The puzzle homework

reading)

* Gap filling activity

* Word puzzles, word hunts,

jumbled words, word bingo
* Information gap activities

** The teacher will

teach the topic by
using different
skills of the
students.
** The dialogues
between teacher
and students is
informative and
educative.

2. Week

** Pronounce a very limited

repertoire of learned words
and phrases intelligibly
though not
without some effort.
** Have a very basic range
of simple expressions about
personal details and needs
of a concrete
type.
** Improve listening skills
by engaging in speaking
activities.

* teacher-talk
* student conversations
* stories (story telling / story
reading)
* songs, chants and rhymes
* Recorded sounds

*The teacher will make a

quiz that includes gap filling
activity while student
listening.
* The teacher will observe
the performance of students
while they are acting out.
*The teacher will observe
students and correct the
pronunciation mistakes
while they are speaking.

** The teacher may

begin with an
imagination
activity, which is a
technique of
Natural Approach,
to reduce students
stress and anxiety
towards the
instruction.

** Manage very short,

isolated, mainly prepackaged utterances, with
much pausing to search for
expressions, to articulate
less familiar words, and to
repair communication.

* informal inter-personal dialogues

and conversations between people
* very short recorded dialogs and
passages
* student conversations

3. Week

** Spell his/her body parts

and other personal details.
** Establish basic social
contact by using the
simplest everyday polite
forms of greetings and
farewells; introductions;
saying please, thank you,
sorry, etc.
** Evaluate their own
learning and the
implementation of the
lesson

* pair-work
*group work
* acting out
* discussions
* reflection survey

** The teacher will observe

students interaction to
each other during the
instruction.
** Pair work activity will
determine their needs to
speak in a conversation.
** During the Acting Out
activity teacher will observe
students both in group work
and demonstrations.
** The students
performance of speaking
fluently and using the
lexical items during their
demonstration will be
evaluated by the teacher by
giving points out of 20.
*** The %45 of the total
point will be evaluated
during these TeachingVocab (%10), Listening
(%15) and Speaking
(%20) lessons which all
cover the BODY PARTS
UNIT.

** The speaking
skills of students
will be improved.
** Student-student
interaction rather
than teacher
centered
instruction.
** With the
acquisition of new
lexical items,
students can easily
take part in socially
conversation.
** Self-reflection is
important for
students to be
aware of their
learning process
and skills.
Moreover It makes
students to gain
critical and
metacognitive
thinking skills.