Didactic Unit_Laura Galan

Didactic Unit Template
Teacher: Laura Milena Galan Trujillo
Title of the Unit: Let´s go to the town
Contextualization: This didactic unit has been created for children
of 6 th grade for a public school in a rural location; student’s English
level is A2.
Justification: I picked the topic because it is a closed topic for them,
where they can see the part of the town and its elements in their
daily life.
Organization of the Didactic Unit: This didactic unit is the number
6 of the Didactic programming and it will be carried out in the two
final weeks of July. The didactic unit is going to be developed in five
sessions of 40 and 50 minutes each one.
General Objective
To acquire the basic communicate competence
that allows students to express and understand
simple messages to develop in daily situations.
Specific Objectives
Subject Content
*To develop habits for individual and
collaborative work, personal initiative,
critical sense, creativity and curiosity in the
learning.
*To be able to ask and give information and
instructions about how to get to a place.
*To be able to describe a specific place.
*To answer and made questions.
*To use formal expressions for gratitude and
attention.
Communicative dimension: Students have to
show their communicative abilities focus on:
asking and giving directions, describing places,
requesting information, asking for attention,
giving thanks and locating places.

Language
Content
/
Communi
cation
Activities
Vocabulary
Structures
Language
skills /
Discourse
type
Linguistic dimension: To develop the
communicative ability, students will use some
structures and vocabulary which they are going
to use as tools to develop their skills. Taking
into account the following aspects.
Places of the town: School, park, shop, barber
shop, etc.
Parts of the town: Suburbs, neighborhood.
Kinds of buildings: Flats, farms or houses.
*Basic structures: To use questions like:
Where is the…(place)?
How can I get to…(place)
Giving instructions (go straight, turn right,
go outside, cross the street and so on)
Asking for attention (excuse me,… could
you help me,…)
The communicative language skills that will be
practiced is speaking and listening, in work
activities giving and asking for directions.
Students are going to promote the interest
towards other cultures and places to live.
Warm up: To introduce the contents of the
session. Looking a video about living in a town.
*Read a text and answer questions.
*Match some definitions about elements of the
town.
Practice activity: Students are going to listen
to a recorder about a comic of the book.
Then, they have to answer a true or false
questionnaire about the comic.
Using the comic pictures students have to
complete sentences with there is / there are.
Production activity: Students have to create a
dialogue according to the comic and the text
they have read, using there is and there are and
all the vocabulary they have learnt about the
town.

Organization and class
distribution / timing
Methodology
The main purpose of this activity is to use the
foreign language in communicative situations,
so, they have to work individually creating
questions and asking for instructions and also
students have to work in pairs for creating
dialogues.
Resources / Materials
Evaluation (criteria
and instruments)
This activity will be developed in two
classes.
Student book
Work book
www.colombiaaprende.edu.co
The board
Flashcards
Text and comics
Student’s reading skills: I am going to evaluate
it when students read aloud in class.
Student’s listening skills: After the listening I
will do some comprehension questions I order
to know what they have understood.
Student’s speaking skills: I am going to
evaluate student’s fluency and the use of
vocabulary and structure.

References:
Pérez Torres, I. 2009. "Apuntes sobre los principios y características de la
metodología CLIL" en V. Pavón, J. Ávila (eds.), Aplicaciones didácticas
para la enseñanza integrada de lengua y contenidos. Sevilla: Consejería de
Educación de la Junta de Andalucía- Universidad de Córdoba.171-180.
Saenz, S. (2012). Didactic Unit. Zaguan.unizar.es.
https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/8066/files/TAZ-TFM-2012-175_ANE.pdf.