TEACHER’S GUIDE/GUÍA DIDÁCTICA Script

MODULE 6 1. Pool, pull

Page 1: 2. Fool, full
Area: Foreign Language/Lengua extranjera 3. Look, luck

Subject:​ English/Inglés Exercise 2.

Grade:​ 5 Teacher tip: ​Read the sentences first so they
Lesson Title: People Who Inspire Us can hear how they are pronounced. Then, go
around the class listening to the students
Grammar and vocabulary content pronunciation. Help them if necessary.
● Inspiring people Exercise 3.
● Comparative adjectives, review Answers:
● Vowel sounds: pull/pool - pat/pot 1. Pulling;
2. Pool;
Interdisciplinary learning 3. Pull;
4. Pool;
● Social Studies​: people who have made 5. Pull(ed);
important contributions 6. Pool.
● Science​: Solving ecological problems
Values Page 4: Reading
● Taking care of the environment Role Models
● Gender equality Exercise 1.
● Community participation Answers:​ Answers can vary.
● Determination
Exercise 2.
Page 2: Communication and Cultural Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Awareness
Teacher tip: ​If the students can’t think of
Exercise 1. qualities, remind them of their favorite
superheroes and what characteristics they have.
Teacher tip: ​Let the students know in advance Help them with vocabulary if necessary.
that they will need to choose a “celebrity” so
they can do some research at home.
Answers: ​Answers can vary. Exercise 3.
Exercise 2. Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Page 5: Writing
Page 3: Oral Communication I want to Be a Positive Role Model
Let’s Improve Our Pronunciation! Exercise 1.
Exercise 1. Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: ​Have the students create a sentence
with each word, so they can hear it in context
and don’t get confused. Exercise 2.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: ​Give the students an example of a Answers:
quality you have and what you do with it, so
they get an idea of what to write for the exercise. 1. More honest
2. More generous
3. More hard working
4. More determined
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6. Happier
Let’s Read a Poem 7. Nicer
Script Exercise 2.
My Mother Teacher tip: ​Same as before, review the rules
You will see her with a smile, with the whole class and make sure to give the
students other examples as well.
Or with a cup of coffee.
My mother is just wonderful Answers:
That's how she is for me. 1. The most honest
2. The most generous
3. The most hard working
She works very hard all day, 4. The most determined
And never misses work. 5. The bravest
6. The happiest
I admire her and love her 7. The nicest
I want to be like her.

She's a very intelligent woman, Page 8: Communication and Cultural

Awareness
She’s always very nice.
She's humble and honest, A Young Activist
And is a very good wife. Exercise 1.
Teacher tip: ​You can have the students take
She puts her family first, notes. Remind them to only write down
keywords that help them remember what the text
And gives us all her heart. is about.
She says she's thankful for us all,
Exercise 3.
She gave us a great start.
Answers: ​Answers can vary
Exercise 1.
Teacher tip: ​Read the poem together with the Page 9: Oral Communication
students. Practice pronunciation and intonation, You can Make a Difference
help them with the rhythm if necessary.
Answers: Teacher tip: ​You can have a mini debate with
the students in order to get the best three ideas
1. Nice, wife for the exercise.
2. Heart, start
Answers: ​Answers can vary.

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What’s Important to Me
Exercise 1.
Exercise 1. Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: ​Read the Grammar part together
with the students and then review their answers
to the exercise. Give them more examples so
they understand how comparatives work.
Page 11: Oral Communication Exercise 3.
Greta, the Girl Who Cares About Answers:
Climate Change 1. Watching a documentary about climate
change.
Exercise 1. 2. She decided not to go to the school
anymore.
Teacher tip: ​Explain the vocabulary words with 3. Some people supported her.
examples if the students need to understand 4. At the beginning few people, but the
them better. Do not translate them. number grew.
Exercise 2. 5. She spoke at the United Nations.
Answers: ​Answers can change.
Exercise 3. Page 13: Oral Communication
Script Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Greta Thunberg was 8 years old when she
learned about climate change. She became Teacher tip: ​With the whole class read more on
depressed, didn’t eat, and didn’t want to go to Greta’s speech. If you have internet access, you
can watch this video to listen to her speech:
school or speak. However, no one took her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxDyu9Ut2
seriously. So she decided to speak up about the mE
problem. She decided she was not going to fly, Exercise 2.
eat meat or buy things that weren’t necessary.
Teacher tip: ​Have the students write a draft in
On August 20th​ ,​ 2018 she sat in front of the their notebooks first. Then, they can pass their
Swedish parliament with a sign she had made at paragraph to their book.
home. The sign said: ‘School strike for climate.’ Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Her parents tried to stop her, but they couldn’t.
Exercise 3.
Exercise 4. Teacher tip: ​You can have the entire class hour
dedicated to their presentations. Tell the students
Answers: to choose an outfit they would wear for their
speech.
1. False; Greta was 8 years old the first time she
learned about climate change.
2. True. Page 14: Assessment
3. False; No one took her seriously. Listening
4. False; Greta was on strike to protest climate Script
change.
I was climbing a mountain. It was a sunny day,
5. True. and I was very happy. I was with a team.
Exercise 5. Suddenly, I fell. Immediately, I knew that I had
Answers: ​Answers can vary. a serious problem. I couldn’t move my legs, and
they hurt very much. I called my team, and they
helped me to get to the hospital.
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Answers:
Exercise 1.
1. On a mountain.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
2. He fell.
Exercise 2.
3. Yes.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
4. No.
5. His team took him there. Script
Hi, everyone, and welcome to our radio
Grammar program “Inspiring Women around the World”.
Today we are going to talk about Matilde
Answers: Hidalgo de Procel. She was a very intelligent
1. The most determined; Ecuadorian woman who was born in 1889, in
2. The most famous; Loja, Ecuador. At that time, women couldn’t go
3. Higher; to high school but after she finished sixth grade,
4. More hardworking;
5. More responsible; Matilde told her older brother that she wanted
to continue studying. Antonio asked the
Writing principal of​ C
​ olegio Bernardo Valdivieso if his
Answers: ​Answers can vary. sister could study. After thinking about it for a
month, the director of the school​, accepted, but
the other parents didn’t agree. Mothers told
Page 15: Assessment their daughters that they couldn’t be friends with
Matilde. Matilde's mother defended her, and
Reading
finally, on October 8, 1913 she was the first
Answers: woman to graduate from high school
1. (T) She would walk with her kids to ​ cuador.​ So what do you think? Amazing
in E
Quito to participate in marches to story, isn’t it? If you want to know more about
demand justice for her people. this amazing woman listen to us in our net
2. (F) Her husband was cruel. broadcast!
3. (T) She was a leader of the indigenous
movement. Answers:
Speaking 1. False
Answers: ​Answers can vary. 2. False
3. True
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Awareness
5. True
One of the Most Famous Women in Ecuador
Exercise 2.
Exercise 2.
Teacher tip: ​Set the proper context for the
Teacher tip: ​Motivate them to think like students; make them think of a world where they
Matilde in order to figure out her qualities. wouldn’t have access to education. Have the
student present the conversation in front of the
Answers: ​Answers can vary. class.
Exercise 3.
Answers: Page 18: Reading
1. All of the boys looked at her, some Tin Delgado, An Inspiration for Young
looked angry. Soccer Players
2. No one came up to talk to me.
3. Some of the teachers, who were all men, Exercise 1.
ignored me.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Exercise 2.
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Teacher tip: ​Assign a paragraph to a student,
Remembering Matilde have him/her read it out loud. Help them with
pronunciation if necessary.
Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Exercise 3. Page 22: Assessment
Answers: Listening
1. (F) Tin was born into a poor family. Script
2. (T)
3. (F) He went to the World Cup in 2002. Reporter: Hello everyone, I am reporting from a
4. (T) school in Tulcan. I am asking students to tell me
5. (T)
who their favourite soccer player is.
Reporter: Hi, What is your name?
Page 19: Writing Student: Hi, I am Antonia.
Reporter: Who is your favorite soccer player?
Exercise 1. Student: I like Antonio Valencia. His name is
Answers: ​Answers can vary. similar to my name.
Reporter: What can you tell us about him?
Exercise 2. Student: Well, he’s from Nueva Loja, and he
Teacher tip: ​Assign the pairs of students started playing professional football when he
yourself, this will encourage them to ask and was only 16.
find out what their partner wrote. Reporter: What about his personal life?
Exercise 3. Student: He is married and has one daughter.
He played for Manchester, a team in England,
Answers: ​Answers can vary. so he speaks English.
Reporter: Interesting, thank you Antonia.
Page 20: Language Through the Arts Answers:
Let’s play a game! 1. Nueva Loja.
Teacher tip: ​Have a demonstration with a few 2. Yes.
students of how to play the game. Answer all
their questions before the game and finally, 3. He has one daughter.
remind them to have fun!
4. Yes.

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Speaking
Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: ​After pronouncing every word,
have the students repeat it. Repeat the word if
their pronunciation is not correct.
Reading
Exercise 2.
Answers:
Teacher tip: R ​ ead those sentences out loud
once, so the students can hear the correct 1. Yes.
pronunciation. 2. She was born in an hacienda in 1881 in
northern Ecuador.
Exercise 3. 3. She started the Ecuadorian Federation of
Indians (FEI).
Answers: 4. She helped start the first
Quechua-Spanish bilingual schools in
1. got, rock, sock (/a/) Ecuador’s indegenous communities.
2. can, nap (/​æ/)
3. ask, hat ​(/​æ/)
4. lock, box (/a/)
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Exercise 1.
Writing/Grammar
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
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Page 24: Project
What is your talent?
Teacher tip: ​Encourage the students to think
outside the box, and be as creative as they can.
Invite the parents to the talent show and have a
great time!