Primary Theme: South America
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Unit 6: Saving South America
Creating campaign adverts to raise awareness of environmental problems in South America and how to solve them.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Read and interpret locational language in a description of South America’s geography.
- Write sentences about animal habitats in South America, comparing them now and in the past.
- Identify causes of environmental problems in South America and possible solutions.
- Give instructions using imperative verbs on how to protect South America’s environment.
- Script and present an advert campaigning for action to address South America’s environmental problems.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 5: A trip across Spain
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Discovering América del Sur
Lesson 2: Habitats past and present
Lesson 3: Protecting América del Sur
Lesson 4: Recipe for a healthy world
Lesson 5: Scripting a campaign advert
Lesson 6: Campaigning for action
Key skills
- Using a range of language detective strategies to decode new vocabulary, including context and text type.
- Identifying key information in simple writing.
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Key knowledge
- How to use más or menos que to make comparisons, e.g.Hay menos glaciares que antes – There are fewer glaciers than before.
- Key geographical features of the South American continent.
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Key vocabulary
América del Sur
hoy en día
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Bilingual Spanish-English dictionaries ×15
The equipment below is optional
- Atlas ×15
- Video recording devices ×8
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Unit resources
Spanish
Knowledge organiser: Saving South America
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'Unit 6: Saving South America.'.
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Translations: Saving South America
Translations of key texts and transcripts from resources in this unit.
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Vocabulary display: Saving South America
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Saving South America unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Geography: Locational knowledge, Human and physical geography
Maths: Statistics.
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