Developing Dynamic Units for EFL

Step 1:

- Examine the curriculum standards set by the Ministry of Education.

- Select the theme and connect it with the student´s school life.

Step 3:

- Theme: FEELINGS
- Identify and name feelings.
- Talk about how people feel, based on their expressions.
- Vocabulary: tired, scared, angry, hungry, thirsty, excited, bored, worried, surprised, silly.

Step 3:

- Brainstorming.

Tired
After doing
Physical Thirsty
Ed.? te angry
scared worried

After arguing
While/after silly
with a
doing a test? classmate?
FEELINGS

How does she/He

worried
feel?
angry excited

After arriving
After Reading home from
When arriving at
a story? school?
school?

excited

excited hungry
bored tired bored
bored
surprised
Step 4:

- Choose, organize, and order the activities.

- LESSON 1: FEELINGS / PRESENTING VOCABULARY

- LESSON 2: How is she/he

when arriving at school? Excited / bored / tired / scared / silly

- LESSON 3: How is she/he

while/after reading a bored / surprised / excited
story in class

- LESSON 4: How is she/he

while/after doing a test? Sacred / worried / angry / excited

- LESSON 5 How is she/he

while/after arriving home? Hungry / excited / thirsty / bored

Step 5:
- Incorporate projects that can encourage learner choice and autonomy.

- GOAL 1:

Each group will prepare a poster or video with the feelings they choose or name in the
previous games. (como un cuadro comparativo para ver que Feelings se nombran mas)

- GOAL 2:
Each group will share their posters or videos to the other groups to compare how they felt
in the different situations presented through the lessons by the teacher.
Finally, one member of each group will make a question to other member of a different
group about a picture card given by the teacher.
The question will be “Is she/he + feeling?”
And his classmate will have to answer, “Yes, she/he is – No, she/ he isn´t.”