Didactic Unit Template
Teacher in training: Paula Daniela Fonseca Guerrero
Title of the Unit: Healthy habits
Contextualization: This didactic unit is designed for students of the English course in the SINEP scenario, which is a virtual education space offered by UNAD that allows access to inclusive and quality education for young people and adults in Colombia. The course aims for students to achieve an intermediate-basic level of the English language through the practice and strengthening of the different communicative skills of the foreign language.
Justification: During the process of choosing the topic to develop this didactic unit, two main reasons were taken into account. The first reason relates to the main training objective of the SINEP English course, which seeks to provide its students with the opportunity to strengthen their linguistic and communicative skills in the English language in order to reach an intermediate-basic level. The above comes from activities that allow them not only to acquire knowledge, but also to put them into practice in their daily life or a real context.
On the other hand, the reason why the topic of healthy habits was chosen is because it is one of the topics that students are working in the collaborative forum of the course to not only implement the content established, but also to raise students' awareness of the importance of avoiding bad habits to improve the different aspects of their personal and academic lives, in addition to having a space aimed at developing collaborative learning and skills that allow students to share their different views and experiences with their peers in the foreign language. Therefore, this unit was seen as an opportunity to deepen the learning process that students are carrying out at this moment in the course.
Organization of the Didactic Unit: This Didactic Unit is organized in three sessions of one hour each. The sessions aim at a specific development of communication skills in the foreign language in relation to the topic of healthy habits and the three different
grammatical contents that will be worked.
Session 1: This session will focus on English language listening skills. Here, students identify new vocabulary related to the topic of healthy habits, likewise, they will work adverbs of frequency to talk about healthy habits that are made regularly in daily life.
Session 2: This session will focus on English language reading and writing skills. Here, students will recognize how to use adjectives to compare the negative or positive impact of using healthy and unhealthy habits in daily life.
Session 3: This session will focus on English language speaking skills. Here, students will recognize how to give advice in a real-life context, to improve living conditions with healthy habits.
General Objective
Students will be able to identify the importance and positive impact of healthy habits in their daily lives.
Specific Objectives
Session 1: Students will be able to describe, with adverbs of frequency, the regularity with which they make some healthy habits in their daily lives.
Session 2: Students will be able to compare the impact on daily life of healthy and unhealthy habits.
Session 3: Students will be able to give advice to improve different situations regarding the use of healthy and unhealthy habits.
Subject Content
Session 1: Adverbs of frequency (How often?).
Session 2: Comparative adjectives.
Session 3: Giving Advice.
Language
Content/ Communi
Vocabulary Life Style, habits, healthy, unhealthy, nutritional, sedentary, longevity, exercise, physical, balanced diet, hygiene, fitness, routines, prevent, issues, mental health, benefits, self-esteem, illness, fit.
cation Structures Session 1: Adverbs of frequency (How often?).
Adverbs of frequency in the English language allow us to explain how regularly a situation occurs.
Subject + adverb of frequency + Main verb + Complement
Session 2: Comparative adjectives
The English comparative allows us to make comparisons between two things. It has two forms/structures for comparing long adjectives and short adjectives:
1. more + adjective + than
2. adj + -er + than
Session 3: Giving Advice
In the English language, there are different ways to give advice:
• Should/Should’t
• Imperatives
• If I were you…
• Why don’t you…? /How about…?
Language skills / Discourse type
Session 1: Students will practice their listening skills and through activities, mainly descriptive, they will share the regularity with which they make healthy habits in their daily lives.
Session 2: Students will practice their reading and writing skills, and through activities, mainly descriptive, they will compare the negative or positive impact of good and bad habits.
Session 3: Students will practice their
speaking skills, and through activities focused on dialogue, they will give advice to improve situations that relate to the use of healthy and unhealthy habits.
Activities Session 1
Warm-Up stage (Pre):
• Healthy Habits Song: The teacher projects a short and fun song about the topic of healthy habits in order to familiarize students with the new vocabulary they will see during the sessions related to the established topic. Students listen to the song and then along with all participants sing the song to better strengthen the vocabulary. (5mn)
Presentation stage (Pre):
• Healthy Lifestyle Video: The teacher projects a video that allows to introduce the topic of healthy habits to students, which highlights the importance of good habits in life. Students should listen very attentively to the video, and at the end they can ask the teacher any questions that have arisen. (4 mn)
• Good habits and bad habits: The teacher shows a fun video that dynamically explains some examples of the good habits we can develop in everyday life. Students listen attentively to the video and write the vocabulary or examples that seem relevant to them in a notebook or sheet in order to use them in future activities. (4 mn)
• Explanation of the grammar of the adverbs of frequency by the teacher through slides to make the presentation more dynamic and flashier. (5 mn)
• [How Often Do You Do the Laundry?]
Educational Song: The teacher projects a fun song to the students, so that they can recognize some examples of how they can use the adverbs of frequency to talk about the regularity with which they have good habits in their daily life.
(2 mn)
Practice (While):
• Adverbs of frequency: The Grammar
Gameshow: The teacher shows the students a video about a game of questions about the correct use of adverbs of frequency. Students participate collaboratively to respond orally to the questions in the video, where they have to choose the correct use of the adverb depending on the case. (5 mn)
• Frequency adverbs in healthy habits video: The teacher shows a video of different situations in real life where the adverbs of frequency are used to talk about healthy habits. Students should then respond to questions asked in the same video, taking into account the examples or situations they heard. (5mn)
Production (post):
• Healthy eating - Listening - Activity 1: The teacher shows a video to the students, where different conversations are presented, in which the use of adverbs of frequency is used to talk about healthy habits. Students should listen carefully and then answer the online quiz the teacher will give them to answer questions regarding what they heard and understood in the video. Likewise, in the same quiz they will create a short and similar conversation from the video, in which through the adverbs of frequency they will talk about the healthy habits that they do regularly in their daily lives. (15
mn)
Assessment (post):
• Learn Good Habits & Avoid Junk Food |Tia & Tofu|: The teacher shows a video to the students, about a short and animated story in which a child talks using adverbs of frequency about some of the healthy and unhealthy habits he does in his daily life. Students listen and watch the video and based on this, they will create their own short story where they put into practice what was seen in the video and throughout the session. Giving examples of their real life. After students feel ready, they orally share the story they created with all participants. Finally, the teacher gives them feedback on their performance, both in the evaluation and throughout the session. (15 mn)
Session 2
Warm-Up stage (Pre):
• Students will play a short and collaborative game, where they should identify and compare healthy habits and unhealthy habits, taking into account the images presented. (5 mn)
Presentation stage (Pre):
• Explanation of the grammar of comparative adjectives by the teacher through slides to make the presentation more dynamic and flashier. (5 mn)
• The teacher projects interactive slides showing some comparisons of good and bad habits in everyday life in order for students to identify the differences and the impact that each of these have on a person’s daily life. (5
mn)
Practice (While):
• Students develop an ESL Worksheet with different reading and writing exercises related to the topic of healthy habits, where they must identify and compare with adjectives healthy habits and unhealthy habits. Students then socialize their answers and receive feedback from the teacher. (15 mn)
Production (post):
• According to the reading of the proposed article "Healthy vs. Unhealthy Lifestyle", students make a written comparison regarding the discussion of the article, where they must compare the negative or positive impact of a healthy and unhealthy lifestyle. Then the teacher will give feedback to each of the students. (15 mn)
Assessment (post):
• The teacher proposes a space of socialization, where students, taking into account the vocabulary seen in the session, share the healthy and unhealthy habits that they do in their daily life. After everyone has shared their opinions, students should write different comparisons between their peers' habits and their own habits, after finishing each will read what they wrote in front of all participants. (15 mn)
Session
Warm-Up stage (Pre):
3
• Students will play a short game and collaboratively answer questions orally, where they should choose the right choice and image when reading the context and questions related to giving advice on healthy habits depending on the situation. (5mn)
Presentation stage (Pre):
• Explanation of the grammar of Giving Advice by the teacher through slides and examples to make the presentation more dynamic and flashier. (10 mn)
• How to give advice in English: The teacher shows a video of different examples of how to give advice to others in a real-life context so that students can recognize how to implement the grammatical structures seen in the previous presentation. (5 mn)
Practice (While):
• The teacher shows an animated video, where different situations are observed in relation to good and bad habits. In this exercise, students should randomly participate and give possible advice to improve the habits of people who appear in such examples. (10 mn)
Production (post):
• Students choose a classmate for oral conversation or dialogue, in which they propose different situations that have happened to them in real life, in relation to the good and bad habits that they have carried out and have had some consequence in their lives, so that each of the two students can give each other advice to improve that aspect of their lives. At the end, the teacher will give them feedback regarding the
Organization and class distribution / timing
use of language and pronunciation. (15 mn)
Assessment (post):
• The teacher shows an interactive online roulette game in which different situations appear in relation to healthy and unhealthy habits. Then, randomly, each student must spin the roulette, and give an oral advice to improve the situation that was presented, making use of the grammatical structures that were seen in the session. At the end, the teacher will give feedback on the performance of each student. (15 mn)
Methodology
Session 1
1. Warm-Up stage (Pre): Recognition of the topic and its vocabulary. (5mn)
2. Presentation stage (Pre): Introduction to the topic of healthy habits and adverbs of frequency. (15 mn)
3. Practice (While): Exercises to practice the topic of adverbs of frequency in relation to healthy habits. (10 mn)
4. Production (post): Production exercises to practice the knowledge acquired on the topic of adverbs of frequency in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
5. Assessment (post): Evaluation of the knowledge acquired on the topic of adverbs of frequency in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
Total time: 1 Hour
Session 2
1. Warm-Up stage (Pre): Introduction game
to compare healthy and unhealthy habits. (5mn)
2. Presentation stage (Pre): Introduction to the topic of comparative adjectives. (10 mn)
3. Practice (While): Exercises to practice the topic of comparative adjectives in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
4. Production (post): Production exercises to practice the knowledge acquired on the topic of comparative adjectives in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
5. Assessment (post): Evaluation of the knowledge acquired on the topic of comparative adjectives in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
Total time: 1 Hour
Session 3
1. Warm-Up stage (Pre): Introduction game to give advice in relation to healthy and unhealthy habits. (5mn)
2. Presentation stage (Pre): Introduction to the topic of giving advice. (15 mn)
3. Practice (While): Exercises to practice the topic of giving advice in relation to healthy habits. (10 mn)
4. Production (post): Production exercises to practice the knowledge acquired on the topic of giving advice in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
5. Assessment (post): Evaluation of the knowledge acquired on the topic of giving advice in relation to healthy habits. (15 mn)
Total time: 1 Hour
Resources / Materials
Session 1:
• Healthy Habits Song
https://youtu.be/wGi6tPUCbdg
• Healthy Lifestyle Video
https://youtu.be/Cg_GW7yhq20
• Good habits and bad habits video
https://youtu.be/bN36nh-2tuI
• Slides of the explanation of the adverbs of frequency.
• [How Often Do You Do the Laundry?]
Educational Song
https://youtu.be/WPTu1j6-B30
• Adverbs of frequency: The Grammar Gameshow
https://youtu.be/A5ld4J3_kTk
• Frequency adverbs in healthy habits video
https://youtu.be/A_Vo_9UeH8E
• Healthy eating - Listening - Activity 1
https://youtu.be/fyOR90oUHVs
• Learn Good Habits & Avoid Junk Food |Tia & Tofu|
https://youtu.be/lZp6Ntomljc
Session 2:
• Healthy and unhealthy habits game
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/55314213
• Slides of the explanation of comparative adjectives.
• Interactive slides showing some comparisons of good and bad habits
https://prezi.com/bicnmaaa7_gk/healthy-andunhealthy-habits-and-their-meaning/
• ESL Worksheet
https://en.islcollective.com/english-eslworksheets/grammar-topic/wh-questions-andopen-ended-questions/healthy-habits/139174
• Article "Healthy vs. Unhealthy Lifestyle"
https://dattmedi.com/blog/healthy-vsunhealthy-lifestyle/
Session 3:
• Healthy habits game
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/16087155
• Slides of the explanation of giving advice.
• How to give advice in English video
https://youtu.be/5U_6wdUxFQk
• Animated video
https://youtu.be/xdLUrJgDhj8
• Interactive online roulette game
Evaluation (criteria and instruments)
This didactic unit will use a general evaluation rubric for the three sessions, which will have a total score of 120 points and will be divided as follows:
• Session 1: Total score of 40 points
• Session 2: Total score of 40 points
• Session 3: Total score of 40 points
The general evaluation criteria are as follows for each section:
• The student appropriates and makes good use of the topic of healthy habits' vocabulary. (10 points)
• The student appropriates and makes good use of the grammatical structures worked in the sessions. (10 points)
• The student properly puts into practice their different English language communication skills during the development of the activities in the different moments of the sessions. (10 points)
• The student actively participates in the development of the activities in the different moments of the sessions. (10 points)
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Bello, L. (2021). Frequency adverbs in healthy habits. YouTube. https://youtu.be/A_Vo_9UeH8E
BigBox. (2018). [How Often Do You Do the Laundry?] Educational Song. YouTube. https://youtu.be/WPTu1j6-B30
BritishCouncil. (2022). How to give advice in English. YouTube.
https://youtu.be/5U_6wdUxFQk
Duminsaurralde1. (n.d.). Healthy habits. Wordwall.
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/16087155
EducationalVideos. (2021). Good habits and bad habits. YouTube.
https://youtu.be/bN36nh-2tuI
EveryMindMatters. (2019). Healthy Lifestyle. YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Cg_GW7yhq20
Gabrielasaez. (n.d). Healthy or unhealthy habits? Wordwall.
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/55314213
Hernandez, J. (2014). Healthy and Unhealthy Habits and their meaning. Prezi. https://prezi.com/bicnmaaa7_gk/healthy-andunhealthy-habits-and-their-meaning/
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