TEACHING GUIDE No.

4
ENGLISH AREA – THIRD GRADE
School

Subject: English Time: 11 weeks

Topics: Advertisements, TV shows and festivals Term: Fourth
Learning indicators:
Colegio
401: Asks and answers simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
402: Writes a short, simple postcard and fills in forms with personal details.
403: Understands familiar names, words and very simple sentences.
404:Recognizes familiar words and very basic phrases concerning to immediate concrete surroundings when people speak
slowly and clearly.

Present to your students the following information at the beginning of the class. Also, post it on the
Teams channels.

Evaluation Elements
Skill Activity Dead line
1. Writing (01) Unit 8 Quiz Writing. A Review - Lesson 7 AB 86 – PB 89 Sept 22nd
1. Reading (03) Unit 8 Quiz Reading. Review - Lesson 6 AB 85 – PB 88 Sept 21st
2. Reading (03) Unit 9 Quiz Reading Lesson 6 AB page 95 – PB page 98 October
12th
1. Listening (04) Unit 8 Listening Quiz Lesson 3 AB page 82 - 87 Sept 16th
2. Writing (02) Project 3 “A London Adventure” Writing Presentations Sept 29th
1. Speaking (01) Project 3 “A London Adventure” PB pg 102–AB pg 100 Sept 30th
2. Listening (04) Unit 9 Listening Quiz Lesson 5 AB pg 97 AB pg 92 October
11th
2. Speaking (01) Unit 9 Speaking Quiz AB 96 October
17th
Bimonthly exam Writing Bimonthly exam Nov 8th-11th

Speaking Bimonthly exam Nov 8th-11th

Listening Bimonthly exam Nov 8th-11th

Reading Bimonthly exam Nov 8th-11th

LESSON PLAN
DATE ACTIVITIES
September 12th – 1. Unit 8 Vocabulary Lesson 1 AB page 80 – PB page 81
September 16th 2. Unit 8 Grammar Lesson 2 AB page 81 – PB page 83
3. Unit 8 Story Lesson 3 AB page 82 – PB page 84, 85
4. Unit 8 Listening Quiz Lesson 3 AB page 82 - 87
5. Unit 8 Vocabulary-Grammar Lesson 4 AB page 83 – PB pg 86
September 19th – 1. Unit 8 Listening-Speaking Lesson 5 AB page 84 PB page 87
September 23th 2. Unit 8 Quiz Reading. A Review - Lesson 6 AB 85 – PB 88
3. Unit 8 Quiz Writing. A Review - Lesson 7 AB 86 – PB 89
4. Unit 8 Culture: USA Lesson 8 AB 87 PB 90
5. Bilingualism Social Studies

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September 26th –
September 30th
October 3rd – October 7th
October 10th – October 14th
October 17th – October 21st
October 24th – October 28th
October 31st– November 4th
November 8th–November
11th
November 15th–November
18th
November 21st–November
24th
1. Unit 8 Culture: USA Lesson 8 AB page 87 -PB page 90
2. Unit 8 Video and 21st Century Skills PB page 91 AB page 89
3. Pictionary
4. Project 3 “A London Adventure” PB page 102–AB pg 100
5. Project 3 “A London Adventure” Writing Presentations
1. Unit 9 vocabulary Lesson 1 AB page 90 – PB page 92
2. Unit 9 Grammar Lesson 2 AB 91 – PB page 93
3. Unit 9 Story Lesson 3 AB page 92– PB page 94-95
4. Pictionary
1. Unit 9 Vocabulary/Grammar Lesson 4 AB pg 93–PB page 96.
2. Unit 9 Listening Quiz Lesson 5 AB pg 97 AB pg 92
3. Unit 9 Quiz Reading Lesson 6 AB page 95 – PB page 98
4. Pictionary
5. Unit 9 Writing Lesson 7 AB 96 PB 99
1. Unit 9 Speaking Quiz AB 96
2. Unit 9 Culture: Canada Lesson 8 AB 97 – PB page 100
3. Unit 9 21st Century Skills PB 101 AB 99
4. Unit 9 21st Century Skills PB 101 AB 99
5. Pictionary
1. Unit 8 Review AB 88
2. Unit 9 Review AB 98
3. Vocabulary and grammar Practice AB 109
4. Vocabulary and grammar Practice AB 110
5. Vocabulary and grammar Practice AB 111
1. Movers Exam Practice AB 112
2. Movers Exam Practice AB 113
3. Movers Exam Practice AB 114
4. Movers Exam Practice AB 115
5. Movers Exam Practice AB 116
1. Listening bimonthly exam
2. Reading bimonthly exam
3. Writing bimonthly exam
4. Speaking bimonthly exam
5. Speaking bimonthly exam
1. Festivals Chinese New Year PB 104
2. World book day PB 105
3. Vocabulary and grammar review 1 PB 106
4. Vocabulary and grammar review 2 PB 107
5. Vocabulary and grammar review 3 PB 108
1. Vocabulary and grammar review 4 PB 109
2. Vocabulary and grammar review 5 PB 110
3. Vocabulary and grammar review 6 PB 111
4. Vocabulary and grammar review 7 PB 112
Learning strategies:
Highlighting – Predicting
Resources: Give me five! Activity Book Pupils´ book, Student´s app, digital
platform, dictionary, portfolio, notebook and school supplies.
SESSION 1–READING
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Present the objective and content at the beginning of your lesson. Then in “My way”
stage, ask your students to set their own goal.

OBJECTIVE: To identify general information from a text like reviews,

opinion articles, and emails related to TV shows and festivals, using the reading strategies
highlighting and predicting, in order to answer specific reading comprehension questions.

CONTENT
✓ Key Grammar: Simple past tense.
✓ Key Vocabulary: TV programmes vocabulary, action verbs, Regular and irregular verbs,
Festival’s vocabulary, what time…?
✓ MOVERS Vocabulary: adjectives, animals, nouns, frequency adverbs.
✓ Tips and strategies: Reading, Listening, Writing and speaking tips for standardized
exams.
✓ Focused skill: Reading strategies Predicting - Visualizing

I. GET THE PARTY STARTED

1. LET’S BREAK THE ICE
Organize the students in pairs. They have to talk about what free time activities
students prefer and then describe those activities.

2. FLASH BACK
Ask your students to work on the vocabulary of unit 8 related
to TV shows. They have to draw it on their pictionary or notebook.
Pupils’ book unit 8 Lesson 1 AB 80
Activity book PB 82
Pupils’ book unit 8 Lesson 2 AB 82
Activity book PB 84-85
When they finish, teacher will choose 4 pairs of students to act out the story.

3. MY WAY
Class Goals:
✓ To learn about the layout of an opinion article, then visualize the pictures and make predictions while using simple past tense.
Now, set your own goal!
Establish your learning goal bearing in mind the following parameters: what, what for and how:
By the end of this lesson, I will _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

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4. AROUND THE WORLD

Flipped learning: Ask your students to complete the grammar exercises related to vocabulary and future tense.

A. Ask some students randomly, as well as those who

Pupils´ book unit 8 Lesson 6 AB 85 – PB
want to participate to check and correct the exercises.
Activity book 88
B. Ask your Pupils´ book unit 8 Lesson 8 AB 87 PB 90
students toActivity book app/
read by turns platform
the text from unit 8 (Pupil´s book page 90), using the provided
strategies. They need to use yellow color to highlight main ideas, pink
to highlight the vocabulary, orange to highlight the questions they have
got and blue one to highlight some details.
Pupil’s book unit 8 Lesson 8 AB 87
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II. HERE I GO AGAIN.

A. Students will answer the excercises in an individual way using the skimming and scanning
strategies through a quiz on the book.
Pupils’ book unit 8 Quiz Reading. Literacy Reading -
Activity book Lesson 6 AB 85 – PB 88
Pupils’ book unit 9 Quiz Reading. Email. Lesson 6 AB 98 –
Activity book PB 95
Remind them to follow these steps to have a good performance in the test:

Exam Tips
A. Read and understand the instruction
B. Highlight clue words in the instructions and questions
C. Find related information in the test according to the question
D. According to the evidence you can find, compare, analyze and decide what the correct answer is.

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 B. After explaining them how they have to face reading exams (MOVERS and Prueba Saber) ask your
students to solve individually the exercises provided in the pupils’ book page 112 (MOVERS and Prueba
Saber). Make sure you handle the class time in this way.

Platform use
Remember to your students they have to work on the unit 8 at home

III. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Students will work in pairs. Remind them how visualizing and making predictions strategies
work, and also highlighting main ideas and details to support the answers. Then, they will have
30 minutes in order to work on the reading from unit 8, Activity book page 85, all the exercises.

Activity book unit 8 Page 85 all the exercises

IV. I WILL SURVIVE.

Co-evaluation
Ask your students to work in pairs, in order to compare their answers and the evidence they
have to support them (Unit 8, Pupils’ book page100). The couple is going to evaluate the
other pair’s work while the teacher asks some students which the correct answers are, trying to ask each group
the different exercises worked in class.

Self-evaluation
Ask some students to remind clue information when using vocabulary about other countries culture. Then read
and solve the activities about Australia

Pupils´ book app/ platform unit 9 Pages 90 and 91 all the exercises
Make sure, all
your students have completed the proposed exercises and let them know which the correct answers are, giving
them the opportunity to self - evaluate their use of grammar.

SESSION 2 – LISTENING
Share the objective and content at the beginning of your lesson. Then in “My way”
stage, ask your students to set their own goal.

OBJECTIVE: To recognize specific information from conversations about TV

programmes and festivals by taking notes and highlighting.
I. GET THE PARTY STARTED

CONTENT
• Key Grammar: Simple past tense.
• Key Vocabulary: TV programmes vocabulary, action verbs, Regular and irregular verbs, Festival’s
vocabulary, what time…?
• MOVERS Vocabulary: adjectives, animals, nouns, frequency adverbs.
• Tips and strategies: Reading, Listening, Writing and speaking tips for standardized exams.
• Focused skill: Discriminative listening – Active listening

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LET’S BREAK THE ICE
Students listen and read the songs. Teacher play the audio again; the children sing the songs and
dance.
Pupils’ book page 82
Pupils’ book page 92
.
2. FLASH BACK
While children listen to the stories and follow them in their books, they have to identify the
main idea.
Teacher ask
Pupils’ book unit 8 Pages 84 and 85
questions to
Pupils’ book unit 9 Pages 94 and 95
check
comprehension
UNIT 8 What´s the TV program called?
How many teams are there?
Which team wins the first game?
What do the children do in the second game?
What do the children do in the last game?
Do the red team do it well?
Why do they win?
UNIT 9 What are Josh and Dad doing?
Why is Josh worried?
What does Ravi do?
What does Josh paint?
Why are they in a hurry?
Where does Josh fall?
Is Lily happy?
3. MY WAY

Remind the class goal to your students and ask them to set their own goal. Ask some of them to
share it with the class.
Class Goals:
✓ To identify the main idea in short conversations, songs and stories while visualizing the pictures and listen for information that specifically
need to hear in order to complete notes, paragraphs or sentences.
Now, set your own goal!
Establish your learning goal bearing in mind the following parameters: what, what for and how:
By the end of this lesson, I will _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

4. AROUND THE WORLD

Ask your students to identify and underline the errors. AB page

82 and 92

Activity book unit 8 Page 82

Activity book unit 9 Page 92
app/ platform

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II. HERE I GO AGAIN.

A. Students will answer the listening excercises in an individual way applying listening
strategies through a quiz on the book.
Pupils’ book unit 8 Listening Quiz Lesson 3 AB
Activity book page 82 - 87
Pupils’ book unit 9 Listening Quiz Lesson 5 AB pg
Activity book 97 AB pg 92

Platform use
Remember to your students they have to work on the unit 9 at home

III. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

• Students will gather in groups. Explain to the children that they are going to listen to a
boy and a girl talking about tips for making a great video.
Ask kids for their ideas. Read out the information. They will have 30 minutes in order to
work on the listening of unit 8.

• Students will work in pairs. Remind them how to identify the specific information in a conversation
applying the strategies learnt in class to support the answers. Then, explain kids that they are going to
listen to some tips for making group decisions. Ask kids their own ideas. Read out the information and
allow children to write the missing information. They will have 30 minutes in order to work on the listening
of unit 9.

Activity book Unit 8 Page 89 all the exercises

Activity book Unit 9 Page 99 all the exercises

IV. I WILL SURVIVE.

Co-evaluation
A. The students listen to the TV Review. Then, students have to act out the TV news.
Pupils’ book Page 88.

Pupils’ book unit 8 Page 88

SESSION 3 – WRITING
Share the objective and content at the beginning of your lesson. Then in
“My way” stage, ask your students to set their own goal.

OBJECTIVE: To write short texts like TV programmes reviews, and emails

related to TV programmes and festivals.

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 CONTENT
• Key Grammar: Simple past tense.
• Key Vocabulary: TV programmes vocabulary, action verbs, Regular and irregular verbs, Festival’s vocabulary,
what time…?
• MOVERS Vocabulary: adjectives, animals, nouns, frequency adverbs.
• Tips and strategies: Reading, Listening, Writing and speaking tips for standardized exams.
• Focused skill: Prewriting, Brainstorming

I. GET THE PARTY STARTED

LET’S BREAK THE ICE
A. Students work in pairs to write the new vocabulary in alphabetical order in their
pictionary or notebook.
Pupils’ book page 82

B. The students name the kind of TV shows. Teacher and students play hangman. Kids have to stick
flashcards while getting the correct words.
Activity book 80.

2. FLASH BACK

A. Teacher draws a chart on the board. (see below)

B. Ask the class to work out how much TV they watched yesterday. Invite the students
to say how much tv they watched and tick the corresponding part of the chart.
Activity book unit 8 Page 84

0-1 hour 1-2 hours 2-3 hours 3-4 hours 4-5 hours

3. MY WAY
Remind the class goal to your students and ask them to set their own goal. Ask some of them to
share it with the class.

Class Goals:
✓ To write short sentences, paragraphs, and texts like reviews and emails related to TV shows and festivals.
Now, set your own goal!
Establish your learning goal bearing in mind the following parameters: what, what for and how:
By the end of this lesson I will _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

4. AROUND THE WORLD

Flipped learning:

Explain that we are going to read Festival’s email. The students should raise
their hands to give their opinions about it

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 Activity book unit 9 Page 96
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Ask the students to practice writing their emails. Then invite different kids to the front of the class to read
it for their classmates.

II. HERE I GO AGAIN.

A. Students have to read out and complete the first sentence. Then, the kids write the the next
sentences. The volunteers write their answers on the board and get feedback from the
classmates.
Activity book unit 8 Page 80 Activity 2

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Students have to work by groups of 3. Students have to write down their decisions. Groups
participate telling the decisions to the class. At the end of the activity, teacher asks How well did
you work as a group and accept ideas and suggestions from others

Activity book unit 9 Page 99 Activity 3

III. I WILL SURVIVE.

Hetero – evaluation
A. Ask to students to read the information. Check understanding. Prepare and
present their projects.
Pupils’ book unit 9 Page 102-103
Activity book unit 9 Page 100-101

SESSION 4 – SPEAKING
Share the objective and content at the beginning of your lesson. Then in
“My way” stage, ask your students to set their own goal.

OBJECTIVE: To ask and answer questions in order to get information

about TV shows and its characteristics while creating a short opinion
dialogue.

CONTENT
• Key Grammar: Simple past tense.
• Key Vocabulary: TV programmes vocabulary, action verbs, Regular and irregular verbs, Festival’s vocabulary,
what time…?
• MOVERS Vocabulary: adjectives, animals, nouns, frequency adverbs.
• Tips and strategies: Reading, Listening, Writing and speaking tips for standardized exams.
• Tips and strategies: Reading, Listening, Writing and speaking tips for standardized exams.

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I. GET THE PARTY STARTED
LET’S BREAK THE ICE

A. Invite two students to read out the speech bubbles. Organise them into Talk
Partners. The students take it in turns to spell the words in Activity 2.
Activity book unit 8 Page 84 Act. 3
Pupils’ book unit 8 Page 87 Act. 3

2. FLASH BACK

Teacher choose flashcards without showing the pictures Describe a TV program, e.g. I like
watching this program. It is interesting. I learnt a lot about animals and different
places. (documentary)
When the students identify the programmes, teacher gives them the names in english and then stick the
flashcards on the board.

3. MY WAY
Remind the class goal to your students and ask them to set their own goal. Ask some of them to
share it with the class.

Now, set your own goal!

Establish your learning goal bearing in mind the following parameters: what, what for and how:
By the end of this lesson, I will _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

4. AROUND THE WORLD

Flipped learning:
Organize the students into pairs. One student in each pair reads their text aloud to their
partner. The other student listens. The students work together to decide if the text fulfils all
the criteria and tick or cross the corresponding boxes. Then students swap roles.

Activity book unit 8 Page 86 Activity 3

II. HERE I GO AGAIN.

A. Students present the speaking project and quiz

• Identify the communicative task

• List clue words or vocabulary to answer the questions
• Pronunciation
Pupils’book unit 8 Project “A London Adventure” PB page 102–AB pg 100
Activity book
Pupils’book unit 9 Unit 9 Speaking Quiz AB 96
Activity book
III. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.
A. What did you do yesterday? Teacher prompt kids individually to say what they did
yesterday. The students work on their own to write the sentences. The students read
out their sentences to a Talk partner. Ask the students to report to the class if they
were in the same place as their Talk Partner yesterday.

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IV. I WILL SURVIVE.

Hetero-evaluation
The students read out the questions and tell about the local, regional or national festivals.
Then, students talk about what they know about Canada.

Pupils’ book unit 9 Page 100

Activity book Unit 9 Page 97

Teacher administrator: Diana Mendoza

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