1. Have the beam projector ready to show the news from Channel 4 in Detroit. suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and download the file to make copies for students for the first activity.

2. Have a set of speakers ready so students can hear the news from their seats.

3. Ask students if they remember the news. Maybe their parents commented on something or read about it and shared with the family, what is it? What happened?

4. This is a 2 minute video. Decide if you want to play the first 27 seconds where the news hostess is talking about what happened, or just   play the part where the reporter is narrating how the fire started. There are subtitles to this video.

5. Play the video without sound so students get the ‘picture’ and ask the question, ‘what happened?’ Help with vocabulary as needed.

6. Play the video again and ask students to work in pairs and talk about the fire. It is not expected that students give details so encourage them to produce and connect a few sentences.

7. Invite volunteers to share the narration of the events and discuss with the class what they think of the firefighter off duty.

8. Distribute the worksheet and tell students they are going to practice vocabulary related to fires and rescues (like in the news they listened to and watched in the previous session).

9. Read the words and help with vocabulary as needed.

10. Set a time limit for students to complete the activity.

11. When time is up, ask students to use as many words as they can to talk about the breaking news: fire in Detroit (previous activity) in pairs. Suggest students tick the words they use.

12.  Invite pairs of volunteers to share narrating the news, What happened?

13. Ask students to write the narration of the events for homework using the words in the word search.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video  suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and download and print the file for the second activity as well.

2. Tell students they are going to practice English using a news report.

3. Ask students if they understand the news in Spanish and then, compare it to English. Is it vocabulary? Is it the accent? Etc.

4. Write on the board, “Yesterday, Mr. Gonzalez, the Principal of the school…,…,…” and invite students to complete the ‘story’ with original information.

5. Discuss with students the answers and drive them to notice they are using the past tense.

6. Tell students they are going to watch a video to practice how to use the news to learn English.

7. Play the video and listen to the story carefully, you may play it twice and then work with the WH_questions before the teacher in the video writes the news on the board.

8. Confirm answers and invite students to work in pairs and retell the story to each other. Who sounded more ‘natural’?

9. If possible, record some students with your cell phone and play it. Discuss how important fluency is and accuracy in using the right tenses.

10. Ask students to work in pairs and talk about how WH_questions in past are formed.

11. Distribute the worksheet and review with students the grammar box.

12. Invite students to answer the exercise in pairs and discuss their answers. Make sure that students are participating and not only copying questions.

13. Check answers with the class and ask pairs to write three questions thinking about a news.

14. Write on the board, “The ceremony took place at 530 pm and the President presented a formal report on the economic situation.” And ask students to write different questions to be answered with the pieces of information in the sentence.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and download the file and make copies for students as well.

2.  Tell students they are going to listen to an invitation to an event so they need to listen carefully and report to the class.

3. Review what an information question is and ask for some examples and what a yes/ no question is. Compare and contrast.

4.   Invite students to write 3 to 5 (WH_) questions that can be answered when they listen to the news. Monitor the activity.

5. Ask students to work in pairs and compare their questions, are they the same or different? Then, ask students to keep only 5 questions for the listening practice.

6. Play the video but do not let students see it, only hear the audio. (Students may notice the accent in the video that is from India. Use this as a cultural feature and opportunity to learn about other countries) and tell the students to look for the answers to their questions.

7. Play the video a second time and check answers with the students. Did they get their answers?

8. Show the video to help students with the picture and confirm their answers by asking them to narrate the invitation.

9. Ask students what auxiliaries do in a sentence and how DID helps in the past.

10. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to work individually. Monitor and offer help as needed.

11. When students finish, invite them to work in pairs and check answers.

12. Ask students to talk about how to make negative sentences in the past and how to form questions in the past.

13. Discuss with the class the importance of using the past tense accurately when asking questions about a news report.