See Resource 1 for planning templates to help you and your colleagues organise your ideas.
It is good practice to prepare your students and share the plan with them, especially if they have not done a thematic unit before. Think about how you will introduce the unit and the activities to the class.
When you implement your thematic unit, maintain a diary. Make notes on:
As you do the activities with your students, monitor the new English vocabulary and sentence structures that they are learning. Reinforce the language aspects that students are already familiar with. Give individual attention so that you can track students’ progress in learning English – you can do this with different students over time.
At the end of the thematic unit you can showcase your students’ work to other students in the school and to their parents. The showcase could be a display of their work or a performance.
See Resource 2, ‘Assessing progress and performance’ to learn about methods to evaluate and record student learning in thematic projects.
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