ab Initio Unit: Problemas ambientales

This unit focuses on Environmental problems. As it can seem a bit technical at the beginning it turns not that complicated if you connect it to their other subjects: Environmental Science, Biology, Geography, etc

Usually, most of the content of this unit is well known by our students, we just have to activate it in the target language and for that, it is fundamental we use their prior knowledge.

Vocabulary





Presentation + Activities






Oral activity

Believe in yourself,

everyone else is already taken

Oscar Wilde

Lunaprofe 12/11/2017  No comment

ab Initio Unit: El tiempo atmósferico

The weather fits into many categories, but being in ab Initio it ties to oral skills as it is a common question that may come up during the oral exam. It also connects naturally to environment, climate change, global warming, etc.

This is a express-unit, it must be something quick in your class, nothing you spend too much time on. You can always go back during another lesson and re-practice, re-teach a particular aspect if you identify that need in your class.

The unit is based in interaction, first students are exposed to some important vocabulary, after that comes a presentation with key questions that may arise in a conversation and provides students with opportunities to practice those communicative situations. The unit ends with a video on weather in Spanish. The assessment I do in this unit is an interactive conversation about weather related to environmental problems, geography (what's the weather like in ... ?), time (seasons), cities, etc.






Please, note that the Audio Recorder just works in Mozilla Firefox ;)
You can download it here.

More Resources:

• Actividades varias [web]
• ¿Qué tiempo va a hacer mañana? [pdf]

Lunaprofe 10/16/2017  2 comments

Eco-educación MYP Unit

This unit and topic are all over the place, so please combine it with materials you might have and/or find in another site, from a colleague, etc

I also have this "same" unit for my ab Initio and B classes, as a part of the "Global issues" but this very one is more focused on Middle Years Program. There is more Inquiry process, actually, the unit starts over with a prediction activity. They have to make questions on images related to their unit and after that each team produces a prediction for the unit. Perfect activity to mix inquiry and language [we all know that sometimes this is hard].

As always, if you have something else you think might fit with these materials, please send it along. Resources:

• Criterion B Assessment: Beneficios del Reciclaje [pdf]
• Eco-Education Unit [pdf]
• Eco-Education Unit [epub]
• Images for the Unit [GDrive folder]
• Activity, plural nouns in Spanish [pdf]
• Image's source: www.cidhu.info 

Every time you don't use a paper you are saving a tree

Lunaprofe 11/14/2016  No comment