REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
ELENA CHAVEZ DE PINATE HIGH SCHOOL
THREE-MONTH PERIOD DIDACTIC PROGRAM

II TRIMESTER

Subject: English Professor: Ernesto Carrera Level: 8O D, E. Implementation Date: From June 12th to September 8th, 2023.
Areas: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. Weeks of Classes: 13 (65 days). Hours of Classes: 56 Unexpected Events: 4 hours
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Investigates and presents recipes with good nutritional balance.

Integrates and develops listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills with nutritional habits.

Creates a pamphlet about a nutritional recipe using likes and dislikes.

Interprets a variety of informational texts about good and bad nutrition.

Is conscious of the influence that good nutritional eating has in students` life.

Learns about the importance of recycling.

Creates ways to recycle by making art.

Identifies the importance of Panama’s geographical location.

Searches and collects information about national sports and athletes.

Discriminates touristic attractions in Panama.

Values the unique features of Panama.

Integrates and develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skill in the topics developed.
 CONTENTS PROGRESS/ACHIEVEMENT SUGGESTED/ASSESMENT
INDICATORS ACTIVITIES

CONCEPTS PROCEDURES ATTITUDES

4. HEA 4.1 Investigating 4.1 Being familiar 4.1 Writes a paragraph about a 4.1 Presents orally how to make a
LTH, the concept of a with the balance diet. balanced diet.
NUTRITION, balanced diet. meaning
FOOD AND
of a
EATING -Writes the advantages and -Makes a scrapbook about advantages
healthy, balanced
HABITS. disadvantages of good and bad of good nutrition and the causes and
-Explaining how diet.
nutrition. effects of bad nutrition.
4.1 Nutritional to make a balanced
Habits diet.
-Concept -Valuing the effort
of peoplein -Creates a pamphlet about a -Presents orally the recipe in the
-A balanced diet
order healthy recipe using Microsoft classroom.
-Reading and
-Advantage of a to Publisher or in written way.
summarizing about
good nutrition. the advantages of prepare food
good nutrition and with -Makes oral or written presentations about
-Causes and
the causes and healthy - Writes sentences about the likes and dislikes.
effects of a bad
effects of bad results of the survey.
nutrition. -Matches the healthy or unhealthy food
nutrition. nutritional
balance. -Identifies healthy or unhealthy with the characteristic after listening the
-Suggested
-Designing a food through a listening. description through technological
recipes.
GRAMMAR pamphlet about a devices or teacher`s voice.
recipe: -Participating
IN CONTEXT: ingredients, actively in the
procedure, and creation of a
-Conditionals illustration. pamphlet.
-Adverb of
- Stating at least
frequency
six personal likes
-Preparing a recipe
or dislikes about
-Likes and dislikes with a good food preferences.
nutritional
-Yes/no questions balance.
How often do you
drink soda?
-Surveying and
If you drink too
writing statements
much soda, you
about likes and
could get sick of
dislikes in complete
your kidneys.
sentences.
PRONUNCIATIO
N:

Practice the -Listening

pronunciation of attentively to
the vocabulary. conversations
about healthy or
VOCABULARY: unhealthy food
and identifying
Food: sandwich, main ideas and
hot dog, meat, supporting details.
pizza, rice with
chicken, beef
steak, salad,
balanced / healthy
diet, unhealthy
diet, condiments,
spicy, fresh,

ingredients,
procedure, to
blend, to break, to
chill, to chop, to
 decorate.

5. ECOLOGY:
PLANTS, AND
ANIMALS.

5.1 Environmental 5.1 Creating a 5.1 Taking care of 5.1 Writes the ways to reduce 5.1 Presents orally the guidebook about
Responsibility guidebook with ways the environment. waste and reuse materials. ways to reduce waste and reuse materials.
to reduce waste and
-Taking care of reuse materials to -Presents orally the item created and
the environment. conserve natural explaining the materials used.
-Demonstrating -Designs reusable items that
resources. natural conservation students find at home.
-Damages to the
humanity and the -Investigating practices (reduce,
-Explains the bulletin board in front of
environment. one reusable item reuse, and
the class.
in order to create recycle). -Creates a bulletin board about
- art. ways to cut down energy use at
Society home.
’s -Designs a collage about environmental
respons problems in Panama.
ibility -Identifying ways
to cut down on -Writes a list with
* Comun energy use at environmental problems in
Panama. -Dramatizes an environmental problem of
ity home.
*Government Panama in front of the class.
institutions

* Environ -Distinguishing -Creates a dramatization about an

mental environmental environmental problem of
Associatio problems Panama.
ns addressed

GRAMMAR by environmental
activists in
IN CONTEXT: Panama.
 -Wh questions

-Modals -Selecting one

environmental
-Nouns and
problem and writing
adjectives
a dramatization.
-Verbs: regular
and irregular

-Reviewing the
tenses

PRONUNCIATIO
N:

Practice the
pronunciation of
the vocabulary.
VOCABULARY:

-Recycling:

Waste prevention,
waste, conservation,
garbage, hazardous
waste, food waste,
yard debris,
biodegradable
- Health 6.1 Identifying 6.1 Creates a pamphlet about 6.1 Completes a chart with touristic
- Economy touristic attractions touristic attractions and hotels from all the
-Regional and hotels that are attractions and hotels in provinces of Panama.
and most visited in the Panama.
International different
sports provinces. -Presents orally the pamphlet created.
-Popular sports -Writes a role-play or
dramatization about places a
-Popular athletes -Analyzing tourist can visit in Panama. -Suggests some places a tourist can visit
GRAMMAR Panamanian’s in Panama in a role-play or
IN CONTEXT: geographical dramatization.
location and its -Constructs a bulletin board or
-Preposition of booklet about Panama`s
contributions to
place geographical location and its
the national -Explains the bulletin board.
economy. contributions to the national
-Adverb of time
economy.
-Adjectives
-Writes the missing information -Answers questions about Panama´s
-Conjunctions -Discriminating about the most popular sports in geographical location through a written
the most popular Panama. test.
-Punctuation sports in Panama
marks. -Matches the sports with the
characteristic after listening the
-Comparatives and using -Designs a poster about a favorite description through technological
superlatives athlete. devices or teacher`s voice.
comparatives and
PRONUNCIATIO superlatives,
N: adjectives, and the
Practice present tense. -Exposes the poster about the favorite
athlete.
the
-Listening
pronunciation of dialogues about
sports and
the vocabulary. underlining
 Touristic the comparative
Attractions: and superlative
Contadora form.
Island,
El Valle
de Anton, Casco -Investigating
Viejo, National information about
Park, a favorite athlete.
Panama Canal.

Sports:

soccer,

baseball,

surf,

swimming, tennis,
volleyball,
basketball, karate,
boxing, and so on.

7.
INTERNATIONA
L BUSINESS 7.1 Identifying
vocabulary related 7.1 Valuing 7.1 Explains orally the structure of the
IN PANAMA. the economic Pictionary.
with banking
contributions of 7.1 Designs a Pictionary with
-Banking Center center, Colon Free
different business English/ English definition for
Zone, and tourism
-Tourism industry in Panama. each category.
industry. -Presents orally a dialogue about
-Colon Free Zone someone at the bank.

-Writes a dialogue about any

-Real Estate -Writing sentences -Sharing ways of Bank activity.
Industry to build a enhancing
paragraph about successfully The student:
-Importance International touristic services -Creates a scrapbook of a -Practices dictation of words
-Characteristics and national banks in Panama. national or
in Panama and the international business- like -Learns songs in order to sing them
* Contribution contributions to -Feeling motivated
to participate in Colon, Free Zone, Malls and so -Reads some reading to answer questions
GRAMMAR the Panamanian on.
economy, using the different
IN CONTEXT: contest in the
clauses, English week.
-Clauses -Designs a brochure with the
prepositional
most recent touristic services
-Prepositional phrases, and the
offered in the province chosen.
phrases correct verbs
tense.
-Tense’s review
-Elaborates a poster of touristic
-Parts of the speech organizations in Panama.
-Making a
-Relative’s research about
pronouns tourism industry
organization.
PRONUNCIATIO
N: -Categorizing
touristic service
-New words /
offered in a
ending of verbs.
specific province of
VOCABULARY: the Republic.

-Banking -Participating in
Terminology: different contest as
singing, dictation,
bank charges, reading
balance, branch, comprehension and
check book, credit others using the
card, current English language.
account, debit,
deposit account,
fill in, interest
rate, loan,
overdraft, paying,

payee,
withdrawal,

statement,
standing over.

-Economy
Terminolo
gy:
Earnings
income,
unemploym
ent,
poverty,

budget,

taxes, inflection,

investment,

resources, grant.

-Tourism
Terminology
:
Accommodat
ions,
 facilities

Study tour,
adventure
vacation,

backpack travel,

Package vacation,
and cultural tour.

The English Week

Activities.

Bibliography: Stempleski S., Douglas N., and Morgan J., “World Link 8”; English-Spanish Dictionary; Web information; Barker C., Mitchell L.,
and Johnson O. Macmillan “Megatrends 2”; Manuel Dos Santos “Goal 2”

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