Aladdin Unit 2 - Teacher Guide

Name of Tale Aladdin
Language Level 2
Unit Name Sending a Greeting Card
Targeted Benchmark Pupils identify different text types and use this knowledge as needed.
Content Theme Colours and Clothing
Number of Lessons 4 lessons
Desired Outcome By the end of this unit, pupils will be able to send email greeting cards for different occasions.

Stages for achieving the desired outcome:

Task Stages

Task Number Task Name Desired Task Outcome Time Needed Task Description
1 Clothes for Occasions Pupils will be able to match an occasion to the traditional clothing for that occasion. They will learn the vocabulary words connected to clothing and occasions that are part of their own culture and other cultures as well. 1 lesson Pupils will match the occasions to the special clothing for that occasion. The occasions will include universal, religious and cultural occasions.
Then the pupils will do a quiz on the vocabulary of different items of clothing. Advanced pupils may access additional sites on the Internet in order to learn more about clothing in other cultures.
2 Cards for Occasions Pupils will recognize the differences between cards for various occasions. They will understand how to read an email card. 1 lesson Pupils will be presented with a list of different occasions and cards that congratulate the characters of the story on these occasions.
One of the email cards will be analysed. Pupils will have to answer questions that will help them understand the structure of the greeting card.
3 Send Your Greeting Card Pupils will understand the structure and conventions of email greeting cards.
Pupils will be able to access email greeting card sites and they will be able to choose an appropriate card, fill it in and send it to someone.
2 lessons Pupils will pretend to be one of the characters of the story, "Old Lamps for New". They will choose an occasion and another character of the story. Then they will answer "wh" questions about what they chose. They will visit a greeting cards page on the Making Waves site, choose a card from this page and send it to another character. The cards they send will appear in the "greeting card gallery" for other pupils to see. Finally, pupils will send an email greeting card to a friend from suggested sites.

Assessment

The pupils will fill in an assessment checklist at the end of task 2.
The pupils will fill in an assessment rubric at the end of the unit.
In addition, the pupils will write what they thought of the unit.


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