General aim

• Students will become good citizens through words and actions by solving problems, advising, apologizing, being honest, and talking about every-day topics like rights, duties, and culture.

Communicative purpose

• To express facts and opinions
• To solve problems with others
• To give advice, apologize, or confess mistakes
• To talk about duties, rights, and culture

Grammar purpose

• Present simple tense
• Past simple tense
• Modal verbs
• Expression for apologizing and giving suggestions

1. Watch the following animation short film (Video). Reflect and answer the questions.

• Is the man on the video a good citizen? Why?
• What are the actions that he does to be a bad citizen?
• Do you consider yourself a good or a bad citizen? Why?
• List 5 things you could do to be a good citizen.

Step 1

• Answer the diagnostic test. http://materialprofesor.blogspot.com/2014/02/prueba-de-diagnostico-8-basico-ingles.html

Step 2

• Watch the following video about personal presentations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMBaUykA7Q
• Record a video where you introduce yourself. The video should not be more than 2 minutes, and don’t forget to include your name, age, date of birth, hobbies, a favourite subject, and any extra information you want to mention

Step 3

1. Review the topics and pay close attention

• Present simple tense - Video present simple

• Past simple tense - Video past tense

• Modal verbs - Video modals

• Expressions for apologizing - Expressions

1.Take 3 pictures of good actions in your community and describe them.

Example: My neighbors and I collect garbage every month. We should do it more often, but I think it is a good action because we help the earth and the environment.

2. Create a decalogue with 10 features that every person should have to be a good citizen.

3. Answer the exercises on the book "Way to go 8"

• Personal qualities – Page 92, exercises 7 and 10
• Personal qualities – Page 115, exercise 6
• Personal qualities – Page 120, exercise 2
• Modal verbs - Page 90, exercises 1 and 2
• Modal verbs – Page 95, exercises 7, 8 and 9
• Modal verbs – Page 120, exercise 3
• Being a good citizen – Page 106, exercise 1
• Being a good citizen – Page 108, exercise 8
• Being a good citizen – Page 109, exercise 2
• Rights and peace – Page 11, exercises 2 and 3
• Rights and peace – Page 118, exercise 7
• Apologizing – Page 113, exercises 1 and 2

Prepare a campaign on how to be a good Colombian citizen. Don’t forget to use modal verbs, present, and past tenses, and the expression reviewed in the lesson. Include the following items:

• A poster with a slogan for your campaign.
• Interview people at your school to find positive things they have done for Colombia. Summarize the results.
• Identify four values Colombians should practice to be good citizens.
• Propose four resolutions that Colombians should be to be good citizens.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WHC1E99542U204WIA5xxm5VQ3iSN6St/view

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