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LESSON 1

Teacher: .......................................................................................................................................... Class: 5 Starting date: ......................................................... Ending date: ........................................................

Subject Area: Geography Cross-curricular subjects: Science and Art

Unit Topic: Volcanoes

N° of Lessons: 3 + 1 Assessment Timing*: about 11 hours

WALT (We Are Learning To)
Through this Unit children will learn: • How a volcano works. • To be aware of the benefits and the damages volcanoes bring.
• What a volcano is. • How to simulate a volcanic eruption. • The causes and the effects of an eruption.
• To investigate the anatomy of a volcano. • Some aspects of volcanism. • To use the specific subject language to present an experiment.

(timing about 2,30 hours)

Teaching procedure/ Language identification Teaching aids and
Learning objectives Timing Interaction
Activities (Lexis and structures) learning materials used

Behavioural objectives 25 min
• To play in group nicely. Whole class Teacher “Today we are going on an
• To work in group and adventurous journey. Would you like
adopt a “Think/Pair/Share” to leave?”
approach. Children “Yes! Good idea!”
• To develop sense of T “Can you imagine where we are
belonging to the class going? For example, are we going to
group in order to reach the jungle?”
common objectives. C “Yes, to the jungle!”
• To listen to the teacher T “No, we aren’t! Perhaps, to the
and the classmates in a moon!”
respectful way. C “To the moon!”
• To complete the given T “Not at all!”
tasks. C “To the sea! To the...”
T “Certainly not! I’ll tell you. We’re
going to the centre of the Earth.”
Language objectives C “To the centre of the Earth?
• To try telling what a Fantastic!”
volcano is giving short T “Yes! But, before leaving, let’s listen
definitions. to a song and watch a slideshow
presentation.”

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