CLIL DIDACTIC UNIT MY BODY 4th GRADE Plevne Primary School

OBJECTIVES - To revise the parts of the body from previous years OBJECTIVES - To revise the parts of the body from previous years. - To identify bones, muscles and joints. - To distinguish the characteristics and functions of bones, muscles and joints.

CONTENT. Our body is made up of our head, torso and limbs CONTENT * Our body is made up of our head, torso and limbs. * We can move our body. * We need our muscles to move our bodiıes. * We also need other things to move: bones and joints. * We have got a locomotor system. * The locomotor system lets us move. * All the bones in our body make up the skeleton. This is our skeletal system * We have muscles around many of these bones.

LANGUAGE Nouns: system, muscle, bone, joint, knee, shoulder, neck, ankle, wrist, elbow, hip, skeleton, head, torso, limbs, body Verbs: move, stand up, sit down, walk, run, jump, swim, exercise Adjectives: locomotor, skeletal Prepositions: up, down, around, with, of

STRUCTURE -What part of my body can I exercise STRUCTURE -What part of my body can I exercise? -Which part of your body are you using? -Can you feel your muscles? -What’s a joint? -Which joints are you using? -Can you tell me the joints in our bodies? -What does the locomotor system include? -What is the name we give to all the bones in our body? -Let’s investigate. -This is…………/ These are……………………

COMMUNICATION Reading, listening, speaking and writing.

COGNITIVE SKILLS Scaffold, understand, repeat, analyze, explain.

TASKS The final task consists on describing how their body moves TASKS The final task consists on describing how their body moves. They are going to label the parts of the body we use to move in a poster. Then, they can act an easy play out in small groups to the rest of the class explaining how their body moves and the name of the parts they are moving.

ACTIVITIES Look at a picture and revise the vocabulary from previous years by writing the missing vowels. Watch a short slide show. (Bones, joints and muscles), without too many words. After that, we watch the video “ Body parts chant (This is ……………../ These are ……………..) and play the game ‘Labeling game’. Complete the sheet by labeling the joints in our body.

We now watch a show about “The locomotor system” and they read and listen to “The parts of the body”. Then, they complete the blank spaces. To finish, they watch the song “Superman Dance” and, following the instructions, they move. Their final task is, in small groups, to write a version of the “Superman Dance”. They have to use the parts of the body they have just learnt that didn’t appear on the video.

RESOURCES & MATERIALS Look at a picture to revise the vocabulary from previous years by writing the missing vowels. http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/worksheets/Body/Body.jpg Watch this slide show ( Bones, joints and muscles) http://www.scienceandenglish.com Play the game ‘Labeling game’. Watch the video “Body parts chant ( This is ……/ These are……………)

BASIC COMPETENCES In linguistic communication BASIC COMPETENCES In linguistic communication. In processing information and use of ICT. In knowledge of and interaction with the physical world. In social skills and citizenship. Learning to learn. Cultural and artistic competence

EVALUATION Online activity to label the parts of the body: http://learningenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/sites/kids/files/attachment/skeleton-activity_0 .pdf The final task will be assessed following the criteria of saying properly the names of the parts of the body and the use of at least one new word for each part of their body and the creativity and originality when writing the song

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Complete the sheet by labeling the joints in our body Complete the sheet by labeling the joints in our body. Watch the slide about “ The locomotor system.” Pupils read and listen to “The parts of the body”. Then, they read and explain it. They watch the song “Superman Dance” and following the instructions. In small groups, they write a version of the “ Superman Dance”. They have to use the parts of the body they have just learnt that didn’t appear on the video.