UNIT 2: SPEAKING

UNIT 2

SPEAKING

UNIT GOALS:          

                                                                              

1. Report and talk about your favorite music band.

2. Ask the opinion of other people about your favorite music band.

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES:

1. You will be able to talk about your favorite music bands.

2. You will be able to ask about a person’s opinions.

INDICATORS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 

TERMS OF SKILLS

1. Speaking

Goal: interacting on familiar topics complex texts.
Indicators:
- Use correctly more complex grammatical 

structures.

- Use vocabulary appropriately in accordance 
with item.
- Use the communicative functions depending on 
context.

- Relates ideas coherently to give oral discourse 
unit.

- Use proper intonation patterns of declarative and interrogative sentences.

- Speaks English phonemes correctly to achieve 

communication.

METAL BANDS WAR

Activity:

1.    Watch the following videos.

2.  Listen carfully to the information the videos contein.

3.  Choose one of your favorites rock bands.

4.  Now you have to record a video (2 min duration) explaining and talking about why the band you chose is the best for you.

5.  Finally, post the video on the blog. 

6. If you have any difficulty making your video, you can also click on the following link: http://voicethread.com/share/1989870/

    and enter to the VOICETHREAD webpage. There you will find a voicethread which contains many pictures of your favorites metal bans. You can watch them clicking on the play option and then when you have already watched them and selected your favorite band, you can click on the option comment. There will appear 5 commenting options and you will click on the second one (use your web cam to make a comment) this option permit you to record your video online and free.

     VIDEOS:

     Video # 1

Video # 2

    

UNIT 1: PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

UNIT 1

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

UNIT GOALS:          

                                                                              

1. Report and ask about the duration of events (present perfect tense, using time expressions -already and yet / for and since-).

2. Use the Present Perfect Tense to talk about experiences.

3. Use the Present Perfect Tense to talk about an action which started in the past and continuous up to now.

4. Use the Present Perfect Tense to talk about a past action that has the result in the present.

COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES:

1. You will be able to talk about experiences.

2. You will be able to ask about a person’s experiences.

3. You will be able to ask What have you been up to? or How have you been? to start a conversation.

4. You will be able to talk about an action which started in the past and continuous up to now.

5. You will be able to talk about a past action that has the result in the present.

INDICATORS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TERMS OF    SKILLS

1. Reading

Goal: read and understand more complex texts.
Indicators:
-Identifies the general idea.
-Identify specific details.
-Infer the meaning of a text.
-Infer the meaning of words in context.
-Understands the organization of written text.
-Comment on the texts.

2. Listening

Goal: listen and understand more complex texts.
Indicators:
-Identifies the general idea
-Identifies the / those idea (s) principal (s)
-Identify specific details
-Make inferences and deductions based on what they hear, including attitudes of the speaker.

                                                    

THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

As we know Present Perfect Tense is a rather important tense in English. In Present Perfect Tense there is always a connection with the past and with the present. There are basically three uses for the present perfect tense:

1. To talk about experiences. It is important if we have done it in our lives or not. It is not important when we did it.

2. To talk about an action which started in the past and continuous up to now.

3. To talk about a past action that has the result in the present.

In this unit you will find the most important uses of Present Perfect Tense, but first of all you will have to check the structure of the present perfect tense for positive sentences, negative sentences, yes/no questions and information questions. In addition, you will learn how to use Present Perfect Tense with already/yet and for/since.

READING ACTIVITIES

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

View more presentations from Christi Beltrán .

1) Read the power point presentation, then understand and analyze:

a) When to use Present Perfect Tense (the three uses)

b) How to form Present Perfect Tense (structure)

c) How to write positive sentences in Present Perfect Tense         

d) How to write negative sentences in Present Perfect Tense       

e) How to write yes/no questions in Present Perfect Tense          

f) How to write information questions in Present Perfect Tense 

2) Check to the following links and make the corresponding exercises:

a) Present Perfect Tense: When to use - Practice

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1A.html

b) Present Perfect Tense: How to form – Practice

c) Present Perfect Tense: Positive sentences – Practice

d) Present Perfect Tense: Negative sentences - Practice

e) Present Perfect Tense: Yes/No Questions – Practice

f) Present Perfect Tense: Information questions – Practice

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1B.html

g) Present Perfect Tense: Already and Yet – Practice

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1C.html

h) Present Perfect Tense: For and Since - Practice

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1D.html

3) Check out the following pages of your book (Top Notch 2): 4, 6, 16 and then solve the exercises on pages 4, 5, 7, 16 and 17.

LISTENING ACTIVITIES

1) Listen to the song once and tick the words you hear and find the meaning. Also listen to the chorus part of the song and organize the sentences that make up it.

1	Chorus	2
WHEN STORM LONG SAY WATER AGO SUNNY THERE´S (there is) TIME SHININ´ (shining) BEFORE IT´LL (it will) IT´S (it is) OVER COMIN´ (coming)	HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN? I WANT TO KNOW, I WANT TO KNOW, COMIN´ DOWN ON A SUNNY DAY? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN…	CAN´T (can not) YESTERDAY THROUGH WAY RAIN WONDER GOES BEFORE SUN BEEN COLD ALL FAST HARD SLOW ´TIL (until)

1

SOMEONE TOLD ME ______ ______
______ A CALM ______ THE ______,
I KNOW; ______ BEEN ______ FOR SOME ______.
______ IT´S ______, SO THEY ______,
______ RAIN A ______ DAY,
I KNOW; ______ DOWN LIKE ______.

Chorus
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________ …
___________________________

2

______, AND DAYS ______,
______ IS ______ AND ______ IS ______,
I KNOW; ______ THAT ______ FOR ______ MY TIME.
______ FOREVER, ON IT ______
______ THE CIRCLE, ______ AND ______,
I KNOW; IT ______ STOP, I ______.

Chorus
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________ …
___________________________

YEAH!

Chorus
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________ …
___________________________

2) Listen to the chorus part of the song and choose the right verb for each blank.

WANT - KNOW ­– HAVE – SEEN – COMIN´

Chorus

I ______ TO ______,

______ YOU EVER ______ THE RAIN?

I ______ TO ______,

______ YOU EVER ______ THE RAIN…

______ DOWN ON A SUNNY DAY?

3) Use the chorus of the song and replace the question "have you ever seen the rain?" with other experience you like.

4) Translate into Spanish the song.

5) Write in English the message of the song.

6) Now listen to the complete song and sing.