Ana Alonso Patricia de Álvaro Elisabeth Amigo María Antolínez Beatriz Antolino Elena Valbuena EARLY FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING. USING NARRATIVE TEXTS TO DESIGN UNITS

1st Unit in the year Topic selection: Behaving badly without intention. Apologizing and complaining as main language microfunctions.

Mean activity: Kids have to identify colours, taking part in a hoops`s game. Having own initiative, without imitating the rest of the kids. We put the colours hoops in the floor. Children have to jump in or out when the teacher order the action of a colour.

Main activity: With senses, kids will discover the fruits that Skippy have in her bag. Kids will identify colours, forms and flavors. We put the fruit in Skippy`s pouch and children have to recognize the fruit by senses.

Green chameleon, green chameleon. Where are you? Here I am, here I am. I can’t see you! Blue chameleon, blue chameleon. Where are you? Here I am, here I am. I can’t see you! Yellow chameleon, yellow chameleon. Where are you? Here I am, here I am. I can’t see you! Red chameleon, red chameleon. Where are you? Here I am, here I am. I can’t see you! I hide some chameleons of different colors for the class. The kids have to find them while we sing the song 'Green Chameleon’. Main activity: To learn to have empathy.

The kids will paint the chameleons in blue, red, green and yellow. Then the teacher tell kids: - Touch the green chameleon - Touch the red chameleon… Main activity: Don’t import the color, everybody are important.

Stage 5 : The Story” Chamaleon´s colours “. We read the story to the children. For this reason we work the apologize, the colours and the animals. This is a narrative text with a ciclycal story. We use paralanguage,illustrators, emblents and affect displayers. “One day, Skippy, Monkey, Giraffe and Elephant are in the jungle. They are hungry!Chameleon is green. Chameleon is still hungry… Oh, apples. Red apples.Yummy,yummy!Look, Chameleon is red! Here comes Skippy. Ouch ! Hey,Skippy! Please don´t step on me ! Oh sorry. Chameleon is still hungry. Oh bananas.Yellow bananas.Yummy,yummy! Look, Chameleon is yellow ! Here comes Monkey. Ouch ! Hey,Monkey ! Please, don´t step on me! Oh sorry. Poor Chameleon. He is sad. Everybody steps on me. They can´t see me. Skippy,Monkey,Giraffe and Elephant have a great idea. Let´s paint Chameleon. Let´s paint him red, yellow, green and blue! A colour chameleon ! We can see you now! Chameleon is very happy, Hurray !

Lessons Overview Lesso n Learning goalsLearning outcomesMain activityAssessment criteria 1 - To have own initiative - To know and differentiate colours - Participate in the activity - Identify colours Game: “ Jumping in and out ” - Participate in the class - Own initiative 2 - To differentiate fruits those take part of the unit for the taste, the colour … - Identify fruits by tasting - Recognize colours Activity: Tasting some fruits - Participate in the activity - Using senses 3 - To recognize and learn to express feelings - Developing communication skills in different languages ​​ and forms of expression. - Starting in the move, gesture and rhythm. - Expressing ideas, feelings, emotions and desires through oral language and other languages. - Review colours - Expressing different moods - Sing the song - Connect Chameleon ’ s colours with our environment Song: “ Green Chameleon ” - Recognize and relating the colors. - Differentiate and express feelings. - Sing the song 4 - To associate, predict and organize - To learn and identify colours - Participate in the game - Distinguish the difference between sad and happy. - Recognize and identify colours Game: “ The coloured Chameleon ” - Take part in the game - Predict the sequence of the pictures. 5 - Linguistic communication - Social and civic competences - Participate in the story - Identify Chameleon ’ s characters - Use social habits culturally accept (hello, goodbye, apologize, complain … ) Story : “ Chameleon ’ s colours ” - Participate in the story - Learn how to apologize ( sorry ) - Know the representation of animals thought the pictures and the story cards

At the end of this unit all the children must: - To know Chameleon and some of his particularities - To participate in the class - To recognize and identify colours - To know the routines At the end of this unit most of the children should: - To know how to complain and apologize properly - To know the sense of the friendship - To be able to see other people At the end of this unit some of the children could: - To be conscious of people’s feelings and emotions - To practise the ways of apologizing and complaining learned.