Unit+Overview

**Unit Title:**  Talking about the Weather  **Grade Level:** Grade 9-11  **Approximate Time Needed:** 5-6 weeks

**Unit Author**: Anna Zhijing Fan **School District:** Tunstin Unified School District **School City, State:** Irvine, California
 * School Name: **Arnold Beckman High School

**Unit Summary:** In this unit, we are going to talk about the weather. Students will be able to complete several tasks to verify they will have obtained the relevant skills and abilities to communicate and solve the problems in target language in the real life. They need to identify variety of weather conditions, present a weather report based on the authentic materials, compare and contrast the similarities and differences among the cities in four seasons. Within this unit, students are required to do two projects. One is to make a thoughtful travel plan for a tour to the country where the target language is speaking, covering related physical and environmental factors. Another one is to demonstrate as a group (3 or 4 in each group) the current global environmental problems with details in class.


 * Subject Area: **World Language Other Than English.

**//The teaching//** will adopt National Standards for Foreign Language-Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Community

//S**tudents**// **will be able to reach the following objectives:**  **//Students will be able to//** identify a variety of weather conditions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3pt;"> //**Students will be able to**// present a weather report in target language on the real life base. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3pt;"> **//Students will be able to//** compare and contrast the similarities and differences among <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">cities in different countries. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3pt;"> //**Students will be able to**//, as a tour guide, create a thoughtful travel plan for a tour to the <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">country where the target language is speaking, including the <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3pt;"> route, schedule, location, weather conditions, major viewpoints, <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and some appropriate suggestions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 3pt;"> //**Students will be able to**// demonstrate current global environmental problems and <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">challenges and explain how these problems influence our life and <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> our future life, and how to solve the problems to protect us from these negative influences.