Activitat+Unitat+Didàctica

 THE CIRCUS

** __Pre-task __ **: To introduce the new task the students are going to be working on the teacher asks the children: “Have you ever been to the circus?” to motivate and activate the previous knowledge they might have of the subject. With that question they can start a debate in which they share their own experiences and anecdotes or maybe just do a comment about what they are thinking, related to the circus. With the excuse of the arrival of an ambulant circus to the city, the teacher can take a poster so her pupils can see it and talk about it. After, she can explain the shows they do, the people that work in it and the different jobs there are related to the circus, the animals that can appear in it… and that way she introduces new vocabulary. ** __Task preparation: __ **The class is divided in small groups, three or four pupils per group. Each group has to do a small research of a topic related, in some way, with the circus: jobs (example: tamer), people (example: clown) or animals. Their topic is given at random. ** __Task realization: __ ** Each group does a short performance in front of the class to show their classmates what their “topic” does at the circus and the others have to try to guess what is being represented. ** __Post-task: __ ** What’s important with this activity is to learn the vocabulary related to the circus and realize the work that goes on behind the show. To evaluate the activity we select in a random draw a group in charge of evaluating another group. That way children are more critics about their classmates and accept the errors faster. At the end of the performances each pupil of the group in charge to evaluate them has to do a little script of what they understood and what they liked and disliked of the performance. That is given to the teacher at the end of the session so she can evaluate her pupils (oral comprehension, level of vocabulary, written habilities…).

Estefania Escobar  Anna Pujol Isabel Ramos Anna Roura grup 71-B