Designing a Digital Learning Unit Plan

Title of Unit : TOURISM

Essential Questions:

1.How does travel change my life?

2.What transportation differences exist between my country and the target country ?

3.What is the best way of transportation when going abroad ?

4.In what ways can I express myself clearly in a phone conversation?

5.What is the best accomodation option when in a new country ?

6.What is the best way to communicate with the hotel staff?

7.What are the activities that I like to do in my town?

8.What are the activities that I would like to do in Turkey?

Learning objectives:

Students will be able to use Turkish in following situations:

*Phone calls

*Talking about travelling experiences

*Talking about wishes

*Talking about the activities

Students will be able to make sentences with using the following:

*Wishes (grammar structure would like to )

Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of:

*The activity names in Turkish when encountered in a Reading text.

*The written forms of activity names in Turkish to write about their previous travelling experiences in Turkish.

*The acvity names in a listening track and understanding the language in phone conversations.

*Making a phone call in Turkish and expressing wishes.

Language Standards:

* Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.

*Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.

Overview: In this unit, students will use their prior knowledge and new knowledge together to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of Turkish under the theme of “tourism”. The major skill that is targeted in this unit is speaking. Therefore, the unit is supported with acvities that aims to focus on “communication” and “pragmatics”. This unit includes phone calls, role-play acvities and listening records. To give the literacy skills to the students, the lessons will also focus on the written forms and pronunciation of the new knowledge.The levels of remember, understand,apply and create of Bloom’s Taxonomy is used in this unit in order to both give students the theoretic and written knowledge and use and apply the knowledge in conversations as the language standard “Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication” requires.

* In “remember” stage students will need to recall the prior knowledge of the target language in order to understand the new knowledge because every new thing they will learn in this unit they will build up on their prior knowledge.To give a specific example, students need to remember greetings, requesting etc.

* In “understand” stage, students will recognize the new knowledge and comprehend and be able to classify with the prior knowledge. To give an example, they will need to know what category the new knowledge fits in the grammatical categories.

*In “apply” stage, students will need to use information in their speaking, writing and listening of the target language. Students will get the information of “ways of transportation” and use it in their phone-calls. Students will learn the pragmatics and general communication that is done for accomodation and use it in the role-play activity.

*In “create” stage, students will develop ideas around the new information they got and construct a writing. They will be asked to gather their prior and new information in their writing.

While aiming to develop discipline specific skills, the unit also includes elements from the target culture such as the activities that are done in the target language speaking country to create a meaningful context and to apply the language standard “Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.”.

Reflection on Planning:

a.Essential questions will create an environment to make students ready to the new knowledge. After the essential questions will be discussed or thought, students will get the new knowledge according to that. The objectives will not be the answer of the essential questions but more like an example or one of the answers to the questions. For example, In what ways can I express myself clearly in a phone conversation? will connect to the objective using Turkish in phone calls or What are the activities that I would like to do in Turkey? Will connect to the learning of the activity names and expressing the wishes in “would like to” form.

b. Since the students will be at the intermediate level of Turkish, they will already know lots of grammar rules, vocabulary items, and basic speaking skills. They should be able to write they hear, understand the speaking person in a certain level. To give an example, they need to know how to use past and present tenses in Turkish in order to learn “would like to” form. They also need to know requesting in Turkish to learn about basic phone calls.

c. The new knowledge is new verbs, nouns, grammar structures in the target language. Transportation vehicle’s names, vocabulary used in air travelling, new verbs related to packing/ travelling, names of accomodation types, idioms/ pragmatic rules to use talking to hotel staff, new verbs & nouns that consists activity names, the grammatical structure “would like to” to express wishes. The new skill is to talk to phone which takes speaking skill to a new level because it lacks eye-contact, body language, gest and mimics.

d. Students will learn about pragmatics which are not usually in the curriculum. They will know how not to be rude talking on the phone or talking the hotel staff. The materials will include answer to their possible answers such as a video from Turkey in which people are in modern clothes because the students will probably consider if there is a dress code they should follow when they go there.

UNIT 1: TOURISM

WEEK 1.

CHAPTER 1-TRAVELLING

TIME:5 HOURS

DAY 1: Ways of Transportation

Goals: To learn vocabulary about transportation such as plane, car, bus etc.

Materials: Pictures of vehicles.

DAY 2: Air Travel

Goals: To learn the basic terms used in planes and airports such as by window, luggage, boarding pass etc.

Materials: Listening record, listening worksheet.

DAY 3: Travel Agency

Goals: To learn simple terms used in phone conversations.

Materials: Listening record, listening worksheet.

DAY 4: Packing

Goals: To learn about making a list in Turkish, learn certain verbs such as getting ready, packing etc.

Materials: Reading Sheet,

DAY 5: Assessment 1- Writing 1

Goals: To evaluate students on what they learnt on this chapter.

WEEK 2

CHAPTER 2- ACCOMODATION

TIME: 5 HOURS

DAY 1: Types of accomodation

Goals: To learn the vocabulary items related to accomodation such as camping, tent, hotel, receptionist, bed and breakfast etc.

Materials: Pictures of different types of accomodation

DAY 2: Check-in and Check-out

Goals: To learn about the simple terms used in a hotel during check-in and check-out

Materials: Listening record, listening worksheet.

DAY 3: Lecturing on the Grammar ( I want to/ I do not want to)

Goals: To learn to express their desires, wishes.

Materials: Grammar Worksheet

DAY 4: Role-Play

Goals: To improve students speaking by acting as customer and receptionist.

Materials: Random cards to prepare them for the activity

DAY 5: ASSESSMENT 2- TEST 1

Goals: To evaluate student knowledge

WEEK 3

CHAPTER 3- ACTIVITIES

TIME:5 HOURS

DAY 1: Activitiy Names

Goals : To learn the verbs of activities that are used in vacation swimming, dancing, visiting a museum, tasting new foods etc.

Materials: Video, Pictures of Activities, Worksheet

DAY 2: Lecturing on expressing wishes

Goals: To learn how to express wishes by using “I would like to” in written form

Materials: Grammar Worksheet

DAY 3: Speaking about wishes

Goals: To learn how to use “I would like to” in speech

Materials: Random cards with activity names written on them to prepare students fort he activity

DAY 4: ASSESMENT 3- WRITING 2

Goals: To learn how to write a paragraph to express their wishes in a written form.

DAY 5: ASSESMENT 4 – PRESENTATION 1

Goals : To evaluate student knowledge

ASSESSMENT DETAILS: WRITING 1

Instructions: 1. Write an essay to compare/ contrast two transportation vehicles train and plane.

2. Include the new vocabulary for air travelling.

3. Connect sentences with transitional words that you learned in last chapter such as : furthermore, moreover, in addition etc.

Scoring: The rubric will be used twice for Draft I and II.

WRITING 2

Instructions: 1. Write an essay that tells what would you like to do in Turkey.

2. Include activity names that you learnt.

3. Make sure you construct your sentences with the structure *would like to*

Scoring : The rubric will be used twice for Draft I and II.

TEST 1

PART A. MULTIPLE CHOICES ( 20 PTS.)

1. Which of the objects you see in the pictures is a “uçak” ?

a.

b.

c.

2. If you want a seat that is by a window in a plane how would you express that in Turkish?

a. Cam kenarı

b. Koridor

c. Orta

3. What does it mean to “çay içmek”?

a. To drink tea

b. To smoke

c. To work

PART B. MATCHING (20 PTS)

A. Match the vocabulary items

1) FAYTONA BİNMEK

2) KEBAP YEMEK

3) TÜRK KAHVESİ İÇMEK

4) ÇAY İÇMEK

5) AYASOFYA’YI ZİYARET ETMEK

6) KAPALI ÇARŞI’YA GİTMEK

7) BALIK EKMEK YEMEK

8) MARAŞ DONDURMASI YEMEK

9) NARGİLE İÇMEK

a.TO EAT KEBAB

B.TO VISIT HAGIA SOPHIA

c.TO EAT MARAS ICE-CREAM

D.TO SMOKE SHISHA

E.TO DRINK TEA

F.TO GET ON A PHAETON

G.TO DRINK TURKISH COFFEE

H.TO EAT FISH SANDWICH

I.TO GO TO GRAND BAZAAR

PART C. COMPLETION (20 PTS)

1. Türkiye’de kebap yemek__________.

2. Türkiye’de ____________ isterim. (to drink tea)

PART D. SHORT ANSWERS (20 PTS)

Translate these sentences to Turkish.

1. I would like to smoke shisha in Turkey.

2. I would like a seat by the window.

PART E. TRUE/ FALSE (20 PTS)

1. Faytona binmek means To Get on a Phaeton T / F

2. Ayasofya’yı Ziyaret Etmek means To Visit Hagia Sophia T/F

Scoring:

PART A.

QUESTION 1. 10 PTS

QUESTION 2. 5 PTS

QUESTION 3. 5 PTS

PART B.

Items 1-8 each 2 pts, Item 9- 4 pts

PART C.

1. 10 PTS

2. 10 PTS

PART D.

1.10 PTS

2.10 PTS

PART E.

1.10 PTS

2. 10 PTS

ANSWER KEY:

PART A

1.A 2.A 3.A

PART B

1) FAYTONA BİNMEK (F)

2) KEBAP YEMEK (A)

3) TÜRK KAHVESİ İÇMEK (G)

4) ÇAY İÇMEK (B)

5) AYASOFYA’YI ZİYARET ETMEK (C)

6) KAPALI ÇARŞI’YA GİTMEK (E)

7) BALIK EKMEK YEMEK (D)

8) MARAŞ DONDURMASI YEMEK (I)

9) NARGİLE İÇMEK (H)

PART C

1. İsterim.

2. Çay içmek.

PART D

1. Türkiye’de nargile içmek isterim.

2. Cam kenarında oturmak istiyorum.

PART E

1.True

2.True

ASSESSMENT 4 -PRESENTATION 1

Directions:

1.Prepare a presentation to give information about a Turkish City that you would like to visit.

2.What activities you would like to do there? Provide images, videos etc.

3.What would you like to eat there? Which one is your favorite?

Scoring:

OVERALL ASSESSMENT