Material elaborado por Centro de Recursos y

Docentes Coordinadores de Lengua del Dpto. de SL y LE.

Suggested Activities
- Role-play games. Puppet shows.
-Songs: Old Mc Donald had a Farm
Cotton fields by the Creedence
Clearwater Revival
-World Wide Production of certain products.
-Food for other countries. World Map.


















Contenidos Curriculares

rea del conocimiento de la Naturaleza
Biologa-Los seres vivos: animales y plantas.
rea del conocimiento social
Geografa-Las actividades productivas en el departamento.
Agricultura: monocultivo y policultivo (plantaciones y huertas).

Agriculture: from
farm to fork
LANGUAGE CONTENTS (K5. 1st. 2nd)
ORALIDAD: La dramatizacin de canciones.
La caracterizacin de seres vivos y
trabajadores de la comunidad.
La descripcin de personas, animales y
objetos.
LECTURA: Los cuentos con ilustraciones.
ESCRITURA: Los textos descriptivos
incluyendo elementos paralingsticos.
Functions
-Capitalizing nouns and qualifying things
-Locating information by using illustrations
and captions.
-Locating objects and places.
Exponents
- Whats this? What color is it?
- Is red/green/sweet/small
-Its a ... (size/shape/color)
-This is a ...
- Is it a mammal/bird?
- Do birds have feathers/scales?
Vocabulary
-Fruits, vegetables, animals.
-Crops, field, to feed, to water
-Adjectives: colors, shapes, sizes.
- Mammals/birds/ feathers/ scales/fur.

LANGUAGE CONTENTS (3rd.4th)
ORALIDAD: La comunicacin oral de diferentes temticas
empleando vocabulario especfico.
LECTURA: Las inferencias organizacionales en textos de
divulgacin cientfica.
Las letras de las canciones.
ESCRITURA: Las fichas temticas con apoyo icnico y/o
explicaciones.
Functions
- Communicating ideas using connectors.
- Making comparisons.
-Expressing preferences.
Exponents
- It is and because it is.... but ...
- I like but I dont like
- During the last years...
-Cows give us .
-The cow is .. than..
Vocabulary
Animals related to the production in our country.
Dairy products: milk, butter, yogurt.
Plants.
Food.

OBJECTIVES:
K5. 1st. 2nd
-To encourage students to identify
and describe fruits, vegetables and
animals.
-To motivate students to locate
information using illustrations.




LANGUAGE CONTENTS (5th. 6th)
ORALIDAD: Los temas cientficos con apoyo
audiovisual.
ESCRITURA: La explicacin de temticas
estudiadas.
LECTURA: Las noticias en soporte material
y/o virtual.
Functions
-Comparing quality.
-Obtaining information using different reading
strategies.
Exponents
Rice plants grow in.
is better/worse than
. is as.. as.
The Colombian coffee is the best one of the
world.
The Uruguayan is better than
The main idea is.
I can find . in this part of the text.
In the 1
st
paragraph you can see.
Vocabulary:
Agricultural ecosystem, crops, atmosphere,
water, soil, pastures, livestock, sunlight,
temperature.
Negative/positive effects.
Agricultural products from each country.
Food.

OBJECTIVES:
3
rd
. 4
th
.
-To promote the exchange of information and opinions
about the topic.
-To teach Ss how to write file cards using visual and
written support.
5
th
. 6th
-To make Ss compare and contrast information based
on facts.
- To promote the development of reading strategies in
different kind of texts.