Teachers Guide

Bilingual… By Nature

Teacher’s Guide Third Grade
Authors: Emilena Rodríguez Viviana Cartín

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M.A. María Gabriela Vargas Murillo M.Ed. Amy Diane Smith M. A. Jimmy Ramírez Acosta M.Sc. Milena Montoya Corrales Lic. Ronald Ramírez Arce

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DearTeachers
Dinatex Group is pleased to present to you this English as a Foreign Language textbook. Thanks to our team of knowledgeable authors with considerable teaching experience, we bring to you a book of the highest quality with a solid methodological and linguistic structure that guarantees learning. Bilingual. . . By Nature is a series of textbooks that carefully follows the curriculum andmethodology that the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) has established for the first and second cycles of Basic General Education. The series encompasses such relevant issues as diversity and disabilities, environmental education, values and the arts, as well as gender equality and interdisciplinary themes. The book’s structure is based on a methodological foundation which coincides with MEP’srecommended lesson plans, and complies with the guidelines that emphasize oral skills (listening and speaking) for first cycle students: --An introductory activity called “I explore” that acts as a warm up. --An observation and speaking section that includes listening and identifying exercises and provides practice in the area of linguistic intelligence. --A game (for bodily-kinesthetic andinterpersonal intelligence) and an oral production activity (for interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence) per unit. --An integrated practice activity which consolidates the content of each unit and provides a self-evaluation scale at the end of the section. This allows the student and parents to recognize the topics that may need additional practice before the summative evaluation. Each book comeswith an envelope of worksheets (to enhance motor skills and coordination, which promotes special intelligence) and an audio CD for each child (to cultivate listening skills). The teacher, parents and student will know which language skill is being practiced by reading the explicit objectives at the beginning of each unit. This will help all students learn to the best of their ability according totheir own strengths. We hope that this work will accomplish two objectives: to make learning English so fun that it becomes a natural process, and also to allow students to value the rich biodiversity of our beautiful country as if it were a treasure to share with the whole world.

Unit 1 I Make New Friends
Unit 1 I Meet New Friends Topics: Personal Data Ways of Meeting New People Daily RoutinesImportance of Speaking English in my Community Objectives: (Listening) To identify basic language in clear, defined situations To get the gist of short statements To respond to audio, visual and physical stimuli (Speaking) To participate in dialogues, conversations and other activities To substitute words for equivalent meaningful items To contrast information To pronounce familiar languagecorrectly Lesson 1 Ways of Meeting New People (Dibujante: necesitamos 2 modelos de títeres de la mascota de segundo y tercer grado para que el profesor pueda recortarlos) Objectives: To introduce yourself To greet and say farewell Vocabulary: To produce: Hello, Mr. González, I'm a new student., Hi, Richard., good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night, goodbye, bye, see you later, so long,...