The inner solar system Camila Álvarez Marcos Negrete Raúl Cayuleo Nicolas Arrué Veronica Pino
Jun 23, 2015
The inner solar system
Camila ÁlvarezMarcos Negrete
Raúl CayuleoNicolas ArruéVeronica Pino
Pre reading activities
The teacher will present the keywords by using flashcards (core, whip, frozen, bunch, asteroid belt)
According to Penny Ur (1991) “Our understanding of a text comes from understanding the words of which it is composed.”
Pre reading activities
Prior knowledge: The teacher will show different pictures about the solar system. Students will try to get into an agreement about what the topic is and make comments about it.
Afterwards students will make predictionsAbout the text by looking at the pictures
While- reading
Students will confirm the predictions
Finding information (General and specific one in the text)
Post reading
Creation of a poster about their favorite planet. They will include why they choose that planet and what characteristics does it have.
As Penny Ur (1999) suggests, it’s important to “Have quieter activities before lively ones”. For this reason the activity will end up with a creation of a poster, which consists of moving around the classroom so as to work in groups to complete the task