The document proposes a didactic unit using a smart board to teach English to kindergarten and primary students. It focuses on introducing healthy habits like eating fruit and playing sports. Activities include listening to a story called "Frodo Has Changed His Habits" and doing exercises on the smart board to practice vocabulary and structures related to food and sports. The goal is to familiarize students with the smart board while improving their English communication skills and knowledge of healthy behaviors.

1. PROPOSTA DIDÁCTICA.
PALE 2008/2009.VIGO.
Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey. C.E.I.P. A PAZ. VIGO.
Mª Begoña López Prieto. C.E.I.P.da CRUZ BUDIÑO.
1.INTRODUCTION.
Begoña López Prieto and Ana Isabel Ferreirós Rey have been
working on a didactic unit using the smart board, which can be
applied to 5 year old students of kindergarten as well as for the
1st
.Cycle of Primary and even to the 3rd
. year of Primary as a
review, since it focuses on very basic and very simple structures
we work in these levels.
First of all, we propose a story, which we made up and recorded
with the windows movie maker and which is entitled: “Frodo has
changed his habits”. This story is very simple and it has a
repetitive structure to facitilitate the students´comprenhension
as well as to contextualize and to introduce the topics we want
to work in this unit. In this case, we focus our attention both on
healthy food and sports, relating it to the topic “healthy habits”.
After the story, we propose several activities to solve using the
smart board to settle down the main structures and vocabulary.
Besides these structures, there will be oral activities to achieve
communication. However, we had no time to try them with our
students, but we intend to do that very soon, so that they can
use the smart board to improve their English and we hope they
´ll enjoy it as well.
2.OBJECTIVES:

2. • Familiarize the students with the smart board.
• Introduce healthy habits to the students.
• Understand a story they hear, with the help of a visual and
technical support.
• Recognize vocabulary related to sport and healthy and
unhealthy food.
• Improve their communicative strategies.
• Improve the students´oral language.
• Learn how to use English properly.
• Motivate students with attractive activities using the
smart board.
3.The unit in relation with the competences:
• COMPETENCE IN LINGÜISTIC COMMUNICATION.
Students will learn how to use basic English structures
such as “I can play tennis and I like it” or “I can eat fruit”
or “I can´t eat chocolate”, etc. Moreover, we provide them
with English vocabulary to communicate in relation to
healthy habits such as sports and healthy food. This
vocabulary is being introduced within a context as it is the
case of the story: “Frodo has changed his habits”. Besides
doing the smart board activities to settle down the
structures, we propose oral games to develope
communicative strategies.
• TICS. Both the story and the activities have been done
using the tics and will be narrated and solved on the

3. smartboard, so that they will improve their technological
strategies.
• COMPETENCE IN RELATION TO THE PHYSICAL
WORLD. As for this competence, they will learn healthy
habits and reject unhealthy habits.
• MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCE. They will make series
and count sports and types of food. Sequencing and
ordering the story, should improve this competence.
• SOCIAL COMPETENCE. Learning to communicate with
other people is important to socialize. Here they may
express their oral abilities as far as sports , food and
healthy habits is concerned.
• CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC COMPETENCE. Reading
stories of different periods, contributes to developed this
competence. Here they listen to the story we´ve made up
and which is entitled: “ Frodo has changed his habits”.
More advanced students will even be able to read it with
the help of the visual support. The images will also be
useful to develop artistic abilities as well.
• LEARN TO LEARN COMPETENCE. Students will learn
strategies to improve their comprenhension through the
activities, focusing on how to increase attention,
concentration or memory to develop learning.
• AUTONOMY. Students should demonstrate what they are
able to do.
4.THE UNIT IN RELATION WITH OTHER AREAS.

4. It can be related to Physical Education, since several typical
English sports can be identified.
It could also be related to the Musical Area by making up a song
using the tone of another song and changing the lyrics .e.g. “If
you´re happy and you like it, play football…”
And, of course, it´s related to the Natural and Social Science,
since they will learn about healthy habits.
5.ACTIVITIES.
We´ve included the activities in another file, as they have been
made with the smart programme. These activities include the
story “Frodo has changed his habits” and other activities to
settle down structures and vocabulary and which are also related
to the competences and other areas.
6.ASSESSMENT.
There will be a initial evaluation to check the students
knowledge of the topics.
The evaluation will also be formative through the process of
observation and summative at the end of the process.
At the same time, there will be a self evaluation, in which we will
provide students with a card with a happy and a sad face, so that
they can say which activities they liked and which they didn´t
like.
Due to the lack of space, we had to eliminate a part of the story
and some activities. So, besides the story, the video and our
didactic proposal, we have only included an example of each
activity. However, these activities can be modified and amplified.