Theme Four:Developing a Unit Plan

Shen ChenSchool 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?