DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 164
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
Produce a short piece of coherent writing
and/or speech that conveys personal
experiences
Students write a summary in their Detective’s Notebook.
Students make a speech in front of their classmates.
Design a means for collecting information
such as a questionnaire and list the results
Use given criteria, such as a checklist, to
prepare and improve presentations
Students collect information, categorize it and list the
results.
Students use the checklist to prepare and present.
APPRECIATION OF LANGUAGE
Know how word order and writing systems in
English are organized and how these elements
compare with their mother tongue
Students practice new words.
Students complete a word tree to learn word families
Students learn about Possessive Pronouns and how to use
them.
Students learn about sentence order which may be different in
their mother tongue.
Students learn how to use comparative and superlative
adjectives.
Are aware that not all words can be translated
on a one-to-one correspondence
SOCIAL INTERACTION
habitat
Give and receive short messages in writing,
such as notes, invitations
Ask and answer simple questions about
familiar topics and everyday situations such as
family, school, personal interests
Express feelings, likes, and dislikes
Students receive short messages in a secret code, notes and
SMS.
Students talk with friends.
Students describe a picture.
Interact for purposes, such as giving directions,
making requests
Engage in short conversations
APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Are familiar with age-appropriate literary texts
Describe main characters, setting, and events
in literary texts
Communicate a personal response, verbally
and/or visually, to a literary text
Students express feelings and likes and dislikes at a big
meeting.
Students make a speech requesting their classmates help.
Students play a board game to review this unit.
Students read an age- appropriate literary text by Carl Hiassen
and discuss it.
Students talk and write about the characters in the story.
Students respond to stories and texts and express their
opinion.
TEXT TYPES
Picture story
Comics
Raps
Notes
Song
Instructions
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Joke
Stories
Signs
