Suggested Activities:

- Endangered Animals: Story Books, descriptions.

-Create a chart: which things you should or shouldnt do
to help the environment?- DOs vs DONTs
-Song: Save the world.
-Recycling: Sorting the garbage by creating a School
Recycling Center.
-Make recycling crafts with the students.


















LANGUAGE CONTENTS (K5. 1st. 2nd)
ORALIDAD: La dramatizacin de canciones.
La descripcin de lugares, personas,
animales y objetos.
LECTURA: Las consignas para la realizacin
de tareas.
ESCRITURA: El mapa semntico.
Functions
-Giving and following commands
-Naming objects and characters in context.
-Giving suggestions.
Exponents
-There is/are It is
-We should/ shouldnt
-It is good/bad
Vocabulary
-Nature, sky, sun, cloud, ocean, earth, rocks,
sand, animals.
-Water, plants, trees, garbage, clean.

LANGUAGE CONTENTS (5th. 6th)
ORALIDAD: La exposicin con apoyo de esquemas y
grficos. Las opiniones.
LECTURA: Las noticias con soporte material y/o
virtual.
ESCRITURA: La explicacin de temticas estudiadas.
Functions
-Giving warning and advice.
-Talking about future intentions and predictions.
Exponents
-I/we will/wont
-For example/For instance
-We should/shouldnt /have to/ must
Vocabulary
-Greenhouse effect, acid rain, food chain.
LANGUAGE CONTENTS (3rd. 4
th
)
ORALIDAD: La comunicacin oral de diferentes temticas
empleando vocabulario especfico. La memorizacin de canciones.
LECTURA: Las inferencias organizacionales en textos de
divulgacin cientfica. La localizacin de informacin en el prrafo.
ESCRITURA: Las fichas temticas con apoyo icnico.
Functions
-Communicating ideas using connectors.
-Expressing obligation
-Making future plans
Exponents
-It is/they are because/but/and
-We must respect
-We dont have to/We have to
-We should/ shouldnt
-We are going to
Vocabulary
-Environment, nature, recycling, mountains, forest, beach, ocean,
pollution.
-Endangered animals/species. Rainforest.

Contenidos Curriculares:
El ambiente y la salud: La relacin de los
animales y el ambiente.
El nivel de organizacin ecosistmico: El
equilibrio del ecosistema como resultado
de una compleja evolucin.
Thematic Unit:
Save the
Earth
OBJECTIVES:
K5. 1st. 2nd
-To enhance descriptions of living and
non-living things in an ecosystem.
-To make students familiar with poems
and rhymes.
-To make students perform short
dialogues.

OBJECTIVES:
3ro y 4to-
-To motivate students to write letters.
-To enhance the production of posters.
5to y 6to-
-To encourage students to read scientific texts
using different reading strategies.
-To make students exchange facts and their
opinions about the current environmental
problems by writing persuasive texts.
-To promote awareness about the school
environment.
-To make students create graphic organizers to
represent information contained on a text (news,
articles).
-Songs: What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong; Where do the children play by Cat Stevens.
-Labeling the School: to create signs, posters and drawings about how to take care of the Environment and
display them around the school.
-Brainstorming ideas about environmental problems caused by human beings: greenhouse effect, soil,
water and air pollution.

-Material elaborado por el Centro de Recursos y
Prof.coordinadores de Lengua del Dpto de SL y LE-