Around The World
Around The World
Around the World in 80 Days
Author:
María Isabel Blanco Pumar
E‐mail:
[email protected]
Contextual element:
Around the World in 80 days is a project based on the book with the same title by Jules Verne.
It takes place within the integrated library project that will be carried out during the whole
year.
It is aimed at students in Year 4 and it involves English and Art and other school programmes
as the Science Club or Robotics.
The project will be divided into several stages according to the specific content they will be
working on (book reading and understanding, Phileas Fogg routine, character description,
places and countries)
Year:
Year 4.
Number of lessons:
Unknown.
The project takes a whole year.
ICT resources:
Hardware: laptops, digital whiteboard, Escornabot.
Software: LIM.
Key competences
Competence in linguistic communication. Students read an adapted version of the book
Around the World in 80 Days. They develop their oral and writing skills in the foreign
language and learn to describe characters, talk about their daily routines and talk about
places and famous landmarks.
Competence is mathematics, science and technology. Students talk about time using the
analogical clock. They build a Connect game using an electronic kit, clips and wires.
Digital competence. Students use their laptops to do some LIM activities about the book.
They also code the Escornabot to talk about places and the means of transport.
Competence in learning to learn. Students show curiosity and interest by reading a classic
and well‐known book. They create a timeline of the book to show their understanding and
to organize the main ideas.
Competence in autonomous learning and personal initiative. Students show independence
to find information about landmarks and they show initiative to make their models in 3D.
Competence in artistic and cultural awareness. Students show their creativeness and their
artistic skills doing different crafts.
Goals:
∙ Linguistic:
Read and understand an adapted version of a classic.
Talk and write about daily routines using the time.
Identify facial features in a person.
Describe the main characters in a story.
Talk about means of transport.
Write a summary of the book.
Use the foreign language as a way of communication.
Value the use of a language as an information resource.
∙ Non‐linguistic:
Locate cities in a world map.
Draw portraits.
Research and find out about famous landmarks and their location.
Design 3D models of some landmarks.
Identify the traditional clothes, flags and food of the countries that appear in the
book.
Design and build a matching game with the flags and the country names (Connect
game).
Contents:
∙ Linguistic:
Vocabulary
Daily routines: get up, have lunch, have dinner…
Time: o’clock, half past…
Descriptive features: moustache, beard, fair hair, dark hair, glasses…
Adjectives: clever, brave, imaginative…
Man‐made features: bridge, tower, castle …
Means of transport: by train, by steamer
Structures:
Present simple
He / She has got…
There is / there are
How do/does … travel to…? … go to … by …
∙ Non‐linguistic:
Drawing a portrait.
Creation of a 3D model.
Design of a Connect game using clips, wires and an electric kit
A timeline of events within a map.
Flags and countries in the book.
Main traditions in each country.
World paper dolls.
Cross‐curricular contents
Education for Peace and Tolerance:
Recognition of the value of teamwork and sharing
Talk about the importance of respecting traditions from other cultures.
Moral and civic education
Awareness of the value of helping people.
Show interest and respect in the classmates’ opinions, mother tongue, accent,
origin, etc.
Subjects:
English, Art and Social Science.
Sequence:
The project is divided into 5 stages depending on the contents:
Book reading
Phileas Fogg’s daily routine.
Character description.
Places and means of transport.
Landmarks, flags and countries.
Stage 1
Students read the adapted version of the book Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
Through different activities on the LIM attached, students work on their understanding of the
story.
They do some true or false exercises and matching activities.
Stage 2
The aim of this stage is to talk and write about daily routines using the present simple and
time.
Using the main character of the book, Phileas Fogg, we review the present simple in the third
person and we introduce the time.
Students practice with be based on different drilling exercises.
They also have some activities on LIM to work on. They are question and answer exercises
with a clock.
Students will be able to produce sentences such as Phileas Fogg has lunch at quarter past one.
At the end of the stage, students will write a page of Fogg’s diary.
Stage 3
This stage deals with the book main characters and their description.
Students use the structure “He/she has got” to talk about the main features of each of the
characters (hair, eyes, moustache…) They also use the verb to be with some adjectives to talk
about their appearance and qualities (He is brave, she is clever).
At the Art lessons, they will draw some character portraits that will appear on a display poster
together with the descriptions.
Stage 4
The content established on this stage is about places and means of transport.
Students create a map with Phileas Fogg route paying attention to the places where he stays
and the means of transport he travels by.
Attached to the document there is a learning mat for Escornabot with a dice that students
will use to produce sentences such as Fogg travels to San Francisco by boat.
Stage 5
Stages 5 is a follow‐up of the work done on the previous stage but the emphasis will be in the
most important landmarks in each of the cities and countries that appear in the book and also
in the flags.
The grammar point is the structure there is/are to talk and write about specific landmarks.
Students will build 3D sculptures and reproduce landmarks such as Big Ben, San Francisco
bridge… in the Art class.
The language assistant prepares a presentation with the flags, their main features and their
meanings.
Students will colour the flags and they will design a Connect game to match flags with the
countries they belong to.
The products created through the different stages will be displayed on the Annual School
Fair at the end of the year.
Catering for diversity:
∙ Language assistant support.
∙ Use of bilingual online dictionaries and other support material that helps understanding.
∙ Translation of instructions into their mother tongue when needed.
∙ Adapted tasks for students with specific learning needs.
∙ Reinforcement and follow‐up tasks in the different stages of the project.
Evaluation criteria and resources:
The evaluation material is designed to check achievements in teaching and learning, identify
pupils’ needs and provide the opportunity for self‐assessment.
Evaluation criteria:
Linguistic:
Understands the essential information in an adapted book and can locate
specific information.
Constructs simple texts using structures and/or scaffolding previously worked
on in class and serving as a model.
Writes, based on a model, brief informative texts about topics previously
covered orally in class with the preparation of vocabulary and basic expressions.
Gives a short and simple presentation that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed using simple structures.
Appreciates the foreign language as an means of communication with other
people and show interest and curiosity towards foreign languages speakers.
Non‐linguistic:
Identify the correct proportion of a face by analysing its parts.
Represent feeling in a portrait.
Recognise forms in 3D landmarks: height, width and depth.
Choose different materials and forms to make a 3D model.
Use technical drawing tools properly.
Represent a setting for the Connect game, following the basic guidelines of the
creative process.
Obtain specific and relevant information using different sources.
Understand, value and respect the cultural variety found in the world today.
The teacher will assess the level of consecution of the intended objectives applying the
methodology, bearing in mind the acquisition of the basic competences, the evaluation
criteria and using the different resources of evaluation.
Informal evaluation
Teacher’s evaluation of the project
Formal evaluation
Rubric
Test that covers the reading and writing skills
Self‐evaluation
Rubric
Survey