DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 163
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
UNIT 4 - THE ECO-DETECTIVES (page 119)
OBJECTIVES
In this unit the students will:
Read about animals in danger and complete a jigsaw activity.
Learn how to compare and contrast using information from a jigsaw activity.
Learn about cause and result in order to solve the mystery.
Learn how to use Possessive Pronouns
Learn how to prepare and give a speech
Learn how to use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
Understand content from a literary text.
Domains, Benchmarks and Activities
DOMAINS AND BENCHMARKS
ACTIVITIES
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Understand the general meaning, main ideas,
and sequence of events in a text and use this
knowledge as needed
Identify different text types and use this
knowledge as needed
Students read a rap to find out the main idea of the story.
Students read posters, signs, SMS messages and stories to
understand the main idea and sequence of events.
Students read brochures about endangered animals and their
habitat.
Students read comics, raps, signs, notes, song, instruction,
joke, informative text, flyer, pamphlet, and literary text.
Identify explicit opinions and feelings
Students identify opinions.
Find out and follow short and simple directions Students follow instructions in order to complete Let’s Do It
and instructions in familiar contexts
(performance tasks)
Extract information from visual data, such as
timetables
Students extract information from pictures.
Students extract information from a jigsaw table.
Locate relevant information for a specific
purpose
Use simple information tools such as a
glossary, a simplified learner’s dictionary, and
a table of contents
PRESENTATION
Students read texts and listen to a report and a conversation to
locate relevant information.
Students read the glossed words and use a simplified learner’s
dictionary to understand all details in the text.
Describe people, places, things, and events
Students describe places and things.
Present information on limited content,
supported by visual aids
Students complete a Project Card and present it to their
classmates.
Students make an I.D. card.
Students make and present a poster.
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