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DIDACTIC UNIT 7: “Return to the past”.

� AUTORA: Mª Dolores Jiménez Rodríguez.

� DNI: 44959635 V.

� INTRODUCCIÓN: La presente unidad didáctica introduce un tiempo verbal en Inglés: el

Pasado Simple. Para ponerlo en práctica se va a partir de diversas actividades –textos orales y escritos de personajes históricos (Galileo Galilei, John Lennon), diálogos, tarea final, etc. En la medida de lo posible, se ha hecho todo lo que está al alcance para incluir ejercicios entretenidos, didácticos, útiles y productivos dirigidos al alumnado de 3º de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria.

OBJETIVOS:

- Aprender verbos, expresiones temporales y conectores en la lengua inglesa para

escribir una biografía y hablar sobre algunos inventos históricos.

- Practicar la terminación –ed de los verbos regulares en Pasado Simple.

- Aprender algunos verbos irregulares.

- Entender textos orales y escritos sobre personajes históricos relevantes.

- Participar en tareas por pareja y grupales.

- Escribir frases y textos breves haciendo uso del Pasado Simple.

COMPETENCIAS BÁSICAS:

1. COMPETENCIA DE COMUNICACIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA.

En esta unidad, los alumnos van a aprender y practicar el Pasado Simple para hablar y

escribir sobre eventos pasados y biografías, mediante conversación en parejas, entre

otro tipo de actividades.

2. COMPETENCIA MATEMÁTICA.

El alumnado hace uso de los números para introducir fechas relacionadas con biografías

e inventos. Del mismo modo, se utilizan en la tarea final.

3. TRATAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y COMPETENCIA DIGITAL.

Se pone en práctica en este caso a través de una página web acerca de “The Greatest

Inventors and Inventions”.

4. COMPETENCIA CULTURAL Y ARTÍSTICA.

Se manifiesta con frecuencia en esta unidad, pues se tratan diversos personajes

relevantes en distintos aspectos culturales, como la literatura, la pintura, la música, etc.

5. COMPETENCIA PARA APRENDER A APRENDER.


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Los alumnos desarrollan estrategias al inferir reglas para formar y pronunciar el Pasado

Simple con verbos regulares o mediante la realización de tareas en casa.

6. AUTONOMÍA E INICIATIVA PERSONAL.

Se lleva a cabo al realizar ejercicios individuales, por parejas o en grupos (tareas orales,

proyecto de trabajo final).

CONTENIDOS:

BLOQUE 1: Escuchar, hablar y conversar.

Escuchar la biografía de John Lennon; hablar con el compañero/a acerca de eventos

pasados usando expresiones temporales; hacer preguntas con partículas interrogativas

(wh-words).

BLOQUE 2: Leer y escribir.

Leer un texto sobre Galileo Galilei y sobre otros personajes históricos; escribir sobre

inventos relevantes; poner en práctica todos los contenidos adquiridos en la unidad en la

tarea final.

BLOQUE 3: Reflexión sobre la lengua y su aprendizaje.

Aprender expresiones temporales, conectores y fechas para escribir sobre inventos y

biografías con el Pasado Simple; practicar la pronunciación –ed de los verbos regulares

en el Pasado Simple; aprender algunos verbos irregulares y usarlos de una manera

adecuada.

BLOQUE 4: Conocimiento social y cultural.

Escuchar y leer información de Galileo Galilei y John Lennon y sobre los inventos de la

televisión, el bolígrafo,...

CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN:

REFERIDOS A ESCUCHAR, HABLAR Y CONVERSAR.

Comprender textos orales y hacer un correcto uso de la gramática y vocabulario de la

unidad.

REFERIDOS A LEER Y ESCRIBIR.

Comprender textos escritos y desarrollar la habilidad lingüística de escribir al producir

breves párrafos sobre inventos relevantes.

REFERIDOS A LA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LA LENGUA Y SU APRENDIZAJE.


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Pronunciar correctamente la terminación –ed de los verbos regulares; distinguir los

verbos regulares de los irregulares y aprender algunos de ellos.

REFERIDOS AL CONOCIMIENTO CULTURAL Y SOCIAL.

Adquirir datos de personajes célebres de la historia, inventos,... de distintas culturas y

países del mundo.

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VOCABULARY

Read the following definitions and match them with pictures they refer to and people who invented them. Put them in the correct order depending on the time they were invented and write their name below each picture.

1. Piece of equipment shaped like a tube, containing lenses that you look through to make far away objects appear larger and nearer. 2. Glass object that gives light when it is switched on. 3. System for talking to somebody else over long distances, using wires or not. 4. Piece of equipment for taking photographs. 5. Piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which you can watch programmes with moving pictures and sounds. 6. Piece of equipment used for listening to programmes that are broadcast to the public. 7. Machines that sends and receives documents in an electric form along telephone wires and then prints it. 8. Method of sending messages over long distances, using wires that carry electrical signals. 9. Electromagnetical device for playing back recorded sound from a disc or record.


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A) ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, 1876 B) GALILEO GALILEI, 1609

C) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1879 D) JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE, 1814

E) THOMAS ALVA EDISON, 1877 F) GUGLIELMO MARCONI, 1895

G) ALEXANDER BAIN, 1843 H) JOHN LOGIE BAIRD, 1825


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WRITING Write the name of other inventions you consider relevant in the course of history and why they are important. If possible, say the time they were invented.


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Look at the pictures of people and choose one of the two options to make true sentences about why they became famous when they were alive. 1) MOTHER TERESA

was famous because she helped everyone through charitable work in India/travelled to more than fifteen countries around the world to teach religion.

2) JAMES WATT

invented the steam power/created the first car in the world.

3) CLEOPATRA

was a Classical queen in the Roman Empire/was a legendary queen of ancient Egypt. 4) HENRY VIII


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married six times/studied Theology. 5) VINCENT VAN GOGH

loved writing books/painted “The Sunflowers”.

Try to explain in writing why most verbs in sentences above end in –(e)d. Then, read the sheet your teacher will give you about the form and use of the Past Simple.


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READING READING READING READING :“GALILEO GALILEI”. Pre-Reading task. What do you know about Galileo? Mention some of his inventions in the past and write them on your notebook. While-Reading task. Read the following biography of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and do the following exercises.

1) Complete with information from the text. NAME: ___________________________________________________________ DATES: Birth ............................................................................................................. Death ............................................................................................................

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa (Italy), from a family who was very musical. That’s the reason why he could play the organ and the flute. But most people knew him because he was the scientist who founded modern physics and telescopic astronomy. Actually, in 1609, he made a telescope and discovered a lot of important things about the solar system, for example the four moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and the fact thar planets went around the sun.

He also studied medicine at the University of Pisa from 1581 to 1585 (but he left it because he had no money), but, in general, he preferred Maths and Physics. In fact, he wrote about that in his works Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) and Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1631). He died in January in 1642.


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Others ........................................................................................................... NATIONALITY: ____________________________________________________ JOB(S): ____________________________________________________________ ACHIEVEMENT(S)/DISCOVERIES: ____________________________________ 2) Underline verbs in the text that appear in the Past Simple. Post-Reading task. Write a short biography about anyone you choose (relative, popular person,...) following the model of the biography you have read.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE Complete these sentences about celebrities in the past using regular and irregular verbs in brackets in the affirmative form of the Past Simple.

1) Lady Diana Spencer _____________ (LIVE) in France.

2) The Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí _____________ (BUILD) the

Parthenon in Athens.

3) John Montague, Earl of Sandwich, ______________ (BE) an English

nobleman. He _______________ (INVENT) the burger.

4) Valentina Tereschkova was the first woman who _______________

(GO) to a Japanese speaking country.

5) “The Beatles” ________________ (SING) “Imagine”.


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6) William Shakespeare ________________ (WRITE) Gulliver’s Travels.

7) Elvis Presley ________________ (BE) a popular writer in his lifetime.

8) Louis Braille __________________ (USE) colours in his invention for

blind people.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Correct sentences in previous exercise to make them true by turning sentences into questions and then answering them. First of all, match each picture with historical figures. Look at these pictures that may help you. For example: “- Did Antonio Gaudí build the Parthenon? – No, he didn’t. He built the Sacred Family”. A) � THE SACRED FAMILY B) � SANDWICH

C) � SPACE D) � “YESTERDAY”

E) � UNITED KINGDOM F) � RAISED SPOTS ON PAPER

G) � DANCER, MUSICIAN, SINGER H) � ROMEO AND JULIET


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Write the Past Simple of these verbs.

INFINITIVE FORM PAST SIMPLE work use arrive go make travel build be start listen get married die help rule create come decide stop write become


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LISTENING : “JOHN LENNON”. Pre-Listening task. Circle the name of British singers (some of them dead) you find in this group. EMINEM --- JAMES BLUNT --- JOHN LENNON --- PAVAROTTI --- PIGNOISE --- MICHAEL JACKSON --- RONNIE BIRD --- BOB DYLAN --- PETE DOHERTY ---

THE CRANBERRIES --- BEYONCÉ KNOWLES

While-Listening task. Listen to your teacher. He/She is reading you a short biography about the English singer John Lennon.Take notes about the most important events and dates in his lifetime. Then, do the following exercises. 1) Answer these questions: a) When was John Lennon born? b) Where did he live with during his childhood and adolescence? Why? c) Which was his favourite musical instrument? d) When did Lennon form the rock group “The Beatles”? Who were the other components of the group? e) What did he do in his lifetime? 2) Take the script of the text and underline expressions of time you find in it. Then, translate them into Spanish. 3) Write sentences related to the text using ago. For example: “John Lennon was born sixty-eight years ago”. Post-Listening task. Write at least one sentence using all the time expressions for the past: ago, later, when, before, then, in,...


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PRONUNCIATION Read these sentences and pay careful attention to numbers and the –(e)d ending of regular verbs in the Past Simple. 1) Miguel de Crevantes (1547-1616), at the age of thirty, married Catalina de Salazar. He became a popular writer

in Spanish literature.

2) Charles I succeeded his father, James I, in the English crown in the first half of the 17th century.

3) The Italian Baroque composer and violinist Vivaldi (1678-1741) composed a lot of orchestral works, but he only

published some of them. For example a group of four concertos called “The Four Seasons”, in 1725.

4) The Vikings, from the 9th to the 11th century, emerged from their northern homelands to invade certain areas

of England.

5) The Australian physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) founded the Psychoanalysis and modified his theories

several times over a period of almost 50 years (1889-1939).

6) Marilyn Monroe was one of the most popular stars in the 1950s and early 1960s. Some time before, in 1946, she appeared for the first time on dozens of magazine covers.

7) Luciano Pavarotti died two years ago.


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8) Leonardo da Vinci lived in Italy, in the 15th and 16th centuries.

9) Mozart composed operas, piano concertos, etc.

10) People called José Bonaparte “Pepe Botella”.

11) Picasso painted “Guernica”.

PRONUNCIATION Classify the following regular verbs and those appearing in sentences of previous exercise according to their pronunciation. Put them in the correct column.

PAINTED --- VISITED --- STUDIED --- MOVED --- PLAYED --- INVITED --- TRAVELLED --- HELPED --- CREATED --- DISCOVERED

/d/ /t/ /Id/

studied moved painted


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Add four verbs in each column and make sentences with them. Write the base form of irregular verbs that appear in the second exercise of this session.

/d/ /t/ /Id/


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GRAMMAR PRACTICE

Look at the pictures. Complete these questions with the correct verb from the box and ago and write answers for those questions according to what you think. DRIVE --- EAT --- LISTEN TO --- MAKE --- WRITE --- RIDE --- TAKE ---

TRAVEL (x2) --- USE --- WATCH --- WEAR

_____________ cars? _______ bikes? _________ TV? ___ photographs?

__________ by train? _____ by plane? __ telephone calls? ____ typewriters?

__________ records? _______ jeans? _ with ball-point pens? ___ hamburgers?


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GRAMMAR PRACTICE Check some of your answers by reading short extracts about the inventions of the hamburger, television and ball-point pen. Underline in red colour regular verbs, and irregular verbs in blue in the Past Simple. Write their base form and past participle.

THE HAMBURGER TELEVISION THE BALL POINT-PEN An American chef from

Connecticut, Louis

Lassen, made and sold

the first hamburgers in

1985. He called them

hamburgers because

sailors from Hamburg

in Germany gave him

the recipe. Teachers

from Yale University

and businessmen loved

them and bought them.

Keneth’s Lassen, Louis’s

son, stills sells

A Scotsman, John

Logie Baird,

transmitted the first

television picture on

October 25, 1825. The

first thing on television

was a cat from the

office next to Baird’s

workroom in London. In

1927 Baird sent

pictures from London

to Glasgow. In 1928 he

sent pictures to Paris

and also produced the

A Hungarian, Laszlo Biro,

made the first ball-point

pen in 1838. In 1944 the

American Army bought

thirty thousand because

soldiers could write with

them outside in the rain. At

the end of the war ‘Biros’

quickly became very popular

all over the world. In 1948

a shop in New York sold ten

on one day.


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hamburgers in

Connecticut.

first colour TV

pictures.

SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING Tell your partner what you did...

� Last night. � An hour ago. � Before/After you did your homework yesterday. � In your last birthday.


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Classify these verbs as regular (R) or irregular (I) and write their Past Simple.

BASE FORM PAST SIMPLE REGULAR/IRREGULAR win play achieve be make


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explore have find build become begin decide educate leave go buy UNIT 7/session 5UNIT 7/session 5UNIT 7/session 5UNIT 7/session 5....

GRAMMAR PRACTICE Complete this text with the suitable form of the verbs in brackets and connectors of time from the box.

BEFORE --- TODAY --- YEARS --- IN 1928 --- WHEN --- LATER --- AFTER

AMY JOHNSON: ‘Queen of the Air’

Amy Johnson ___________ (BE BORN) on July 1903 in the North of England. As a school girl, she was good at hockey and cricket. Three months


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WRITING Write a short story in the past, in two or three paragraphs, using some time expressions in the text you have just read or any others you have learnt in sessions before. Then, hand it to your teacher.


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Computer Room. In pairs, go to the Web Page http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/games.htm and click on QUIZ. The first thing you will see is a sentence using THE GREATEST INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS, and just below it Inventor’s Quiz. What you have to do is to click on the 22 questions and, for each question, choose only one of the answers, which is the correct one by clicking on it. You will receive


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a feedback of your answers and even a second opportunity in case of choosing the wrong answer. Then, if you want to go on playing, you can click on GAMES, where you will find a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a maze, all of them about inventors and inventions.

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GRAMMAR PRACTICE WH-WORDS. Complete these questions with wh-question words from the box and match them with the correct answer. Look at the pictures, which may help you.

WHAT --- WHEN --- WHO --- WHY --- WHERE --- HOW --- WHOSE


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1) ___________ did Christopher Columbus discover America? A) It was ”Pepe Botella” (“Bottle Joe”).

2) ___________ was Leonardo da Vinci’s invention of flying B) Six wives, three of them were Catherine

machines a failure? of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour.

3) ___________ was the real name of the Greek painter “El Greco”? C) She was only twelve years old. Her first novel was Lady Susan (1793-1795).

4) __________ formulated the Theory of Natural Selection in his D) In 1492.

work The Origin of Species (1859)?

5) ___________ did Pope John Paul II die? E) He was Geoffrey Chaucer.

6) ___________was the artist Matisse born? F) He was baptised as Doménicos

Theotokópoulos.

7) ___________ was the first man who walked on the moon? G) That person was Charles Darwin.

8) ___________ was the nickname Joseph Bonaparte was famous for? H) Because they were impractical.

9) ___________ many wives had Henry VIII got? I) He was born in France.

10) __________ old was Jane Austen when she started writing novels? J) He died four years ago, in 2005.

11) Who is the English poet ___________ masterpiece isThe Canterbury K) He was Neil Amstrong. Tales (late 14th century)?

SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING SPEAKING Ask general questions to your partner about important facts in history (discoveries, biographies, etc.) following the model of sentences in previous exercise. Make use of wh-question words and the Past Simple. For example: “Why was Napoleon famous for?” “Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?”


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UNIT 7UNIT 7UNIT 7UNIT 7/sessions 8/sessions 8/sessions 8/sessions 8----9999....

PROJECT WORKPROJECT WORKPROJECT WORKPROJECT WORK

INVENTION POSTER


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Different groups of five students will be asigned one of the following inventions. They must surf the net to continue their evolution through the course of time. Extract specific information about these aspects:

� Who invented/used it for the first time. � When and where it was used and what for. � Success/Failure.

Then, write that information on the centre of a colour card and look for pictures that show the development of that invention (include dates) and place around what you write. On the top of the card, write the name of the invention in capital letters. You must follow this model of presentation.

Inventions proposed to you are: PLANE, CAR, ROCKING CHAIR, CLOCK, BICYCLE.

TELEVISION

Germany, 1956 Poland, 1957

(INFORMATION OVER HERE)

Germany, 1959 21st century


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� BIBLIOGRAFÍA: La mayoría del trabajo realizado ha sido de elaboración propia. Es decir, se ha hecho un gran esfuerzo por conseguir actividades originales. No obstante, también se ha hecho uso de diversas fuentes para hacer posible esta unidad didáctica.

o Grolier Universal Enciclopedia, New York. 1996. o http://enwikipedia.org o http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/games.htm

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