Theme Four: Developing a Unit Plan Shen Chen School of Education The University of Newcastle

Questions: What theme does the unit focus on? How many lessons will be included in the unit plan? What form should a unit take?

Exploring Metaphors:  A map  An itinerary  A journey  A diary  A drama

Aspects of A Unit  Division  Connection  Sequencing  Patterning  Construction

Five Questions in Planning a Unit  What is the theme of a unit?  What topics are related to the theme?  What knowledge and skill should be included?  What learning tasks should be provided?  What assessment tasks should be used to evaluate outcome? Theme => Topics =>Linguistic and cultural knowledge => Four skills => Assessment

Four “P” Steps  Presenting  Practicing  Providing  Producing Revised from Littlewood, 1981

Presenting  From prior knowledge to new knowledge  Vocabulary  Sentence structure  Discourse  Text and context

Practicing  Consolidating the new knowledge  Applying Knowledge in four skills  Providing learning tasks and activities

Providing  Creating context for communication  Setting up communicative tasks

Producing  Pre-communication activities  Real communication

Tutorial questions:  How to write a language unit plan?  Can you do it?  Home work Task One: How to write a unit plan? Task Two: Do you know any language teaching methods? What are they?