Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Scope and Sequence
Instructional Activities
Sports
* Teacher will introduce the
sports vocabulary and verbs with
phrases.
*In the target language, teacher
will ask the class what each
students’ favorite sport is and
keep a class list.
* Students will reinforce
vocabulary by creating flashcards
of each sport on the list and use
the sport in a sentences.
* Teacher may reinforce
vocabulary by making “back to
back” activity, where the students
have a worksheet with pictures of
Culture
.
Compara and
contrast famous
sports in
American and
favorite sports in
countries of target
language.
Content
Connections
History:
History of the
Olympics
Math:
Score keeping
Language Arts:
Guided writing,
Research
expository
writing, script
writing
Grammatical
Structure
Grammar:
1. Preterite
2. Imperfect
3. Past-tense
4. Future
5. Reflexive pronouns
6. Past participle as an
adjective.ex. swell, break,
hurt, comparing quantities
7. Adjectives as nouns
ex. the swellling
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Assessment
Formative:
Are on-going and
administered with
each new topic to
assure students have
mastered the
vocabulary and
grammar concepts
so they may
continue building
on prior knowledge.
The following
assessments should
be administered
throughtout the unit,
Oral assessments,
participation,
Maintain a
comprehensive
notebook including
Teacher
Resources
“Games and Assessment
Strategies for the Foreign
Language Classroom”
by Amy Buttner
Technology:
http://www.historylearningsi
te.co.uk/1936_berlin_olymp
ics.htm
www.enchantedlearning.c
om/olympics/
http://www.fifa.com/worldc
up/preliminaries/statistics/in
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
each sport and a line for the name
of the sport. As each student
enters class they have the
worksheet stuck on their back and
they walk around asking one
student to identify each sport.
When the sheet is complete they
may go to the teacher to be
checked and if there are
misspellings or wrong answers
they must go back out anc ask
their classmates to correct.
*students will be separated into
groups, each group will be
assigned a continent. Then, each
group will research what the most
important sports are for that
particular continent. Students will
present their findings.
7.1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 B2, 3, 5 C.2,
class notes and
assessments.
Written and
listening quizzes,
skits.
*Vocabulary quiz
on the sports.
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Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
3, 4, 5, 6
Body:
*To review the body the teacher
will ask which body parts are
associated with particular sports.
For example the legs and feet for
soccer, arms for volley ball.
*students will explore and share
ideas of what people do to stay in
shape.
*students will present a fitness
program by creating a daily
schedule of activities.
7.1 A 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 B.1, 4, 5,
C.1
Injuries:
* Teacher will introduce common
injuries that can occur in each
sport and the treatment commonly
given.
Formative:
*Vocabulary quiz
on describing
injuries and medical
advice.
Formative:
*Grammar quiz on
injuries.
*First Aid kit
reference chart.
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
* To reinforce the vocabulary the
students will create a list of
materials necessary in a first aid
kit when traveling with sports
teams and describe how each item
is used.
* Students will create a quick
reference chart for anyone using
the first aid kit with pictures and
captions that instruct what to do in
different situations.
7.1 A2, 3, 4, 5, B2, 3, 4, 5 C2, 3,
4, 5, 6.
Soccer:
* The teacher will introduce the
FIFA regulations for the selection
of countries going to the World
Cup. The areas are: Africa, Asia,
*Sports article using
research about a
country from their
category.
*create fitness
program
*oral presentation
* Letter to the editor
using a past event
that pleased or
displeased the
student with a
suggested solution.
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Europe, North and Central
America & the Caribbean,
Oceania, South America. The
teacher may divide the class into
groups and assign each group a
FIFA division like, Africa, Asia,
South America.
7.1 A6, B4, C4
* Students will research and write
a column for the “Class
Newspaper” discussing a target
country from their division and
the advantages and disadvantages
they have competing with the
other countries in their category as
well as countries from other
selections.
7.1 A1, B5, C5
*Advertisement for
commemorative
item to be included
in the newpaper
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
*The teacher will present an
advertisement from the target
country to demonstrate the
elements necessary for an
effective ad campaign. All the
necessary information, color,
creativity, humor must be outlined
for the class.
7.1 A6, B4, 5 C5
*Students will create an
advertisement selling sports
equipment, drinks, healthy snacks,
food sold at sporting events in the
target country to include a in the
newspaper geared for the World
Cup. Students may be
encouraged to create a product to
be sold at the World cup to
* French educator
and sportsman
Pierre de Frédy,
Baron de
Coubertein (18631937) designed
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
commemorate the event, the
product may be something that
takes into consideration the
culture and makes attendence
more comfortable, for example if
the place is hot they can make a
product that keeps you hydrated
and shaded while watching the
events.
7.1 A6, B4, 5 C5
*Teacher may discuss the
contreversial 1936 Olympics
In Berlin, where Hitler refused to
put the gold medal on Jesse
Owens. The teacher may
introduce how a letter to an editor
is written and give students
sentence starters and common
expressions used to show
the flag of the
Olympics.
Formative:
*Vocabulary quiz
on the Olympic
events.
*Grammar quiz on
the past and future
tenses.
Summative:
The student will
have a choice ofcreating a
presentation where
they state their
prediction for the
winner of their
favorite event in the
Olympics. The
student will use
research to support
their opinion. They
must find
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
dissapproval or approval.
Students will research past events
and write about them in the target
language.
7.1 A2, 3 C3, 6
Symbols of the Olympics:
*In the targe language, teacher
will introduce the Olympics by
discussing different symbols
associated with the games world
wide.
*The Olympic flag symbolizes
the joining of 5 parts of the world
for the even. The colors , blue,
yellow, black, green and red in
interlocking circles express unity.
* Olympic Flame symbolizes the
death and rebirth of Greek heroes.
It burns from the start to the end
of the games and there is a torch
information about
past Olympic
performances and
scores then using
the information
gathered predict the
winner of the future
Olympic event of
their choice and
present it to the
class as they were a
Sports commentator
or the student can
role play the part of
an athlete of a
specific event and
participate in an
interview where
they talk about their
humble beginnings
to their current
status and what they
see in their futre.
*Students may film
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
relay around the country where
the games are held prior to the
start of the Olympics. Depending
on the culture the form of
transportation varies, some use
horses, run, or swim.
* The Olympic motto is, “ Citius,
Altius, Fortius,” which means,
“Swifter, Higher, Stronger.”
* Students will fill out a K-W-L
sheet with the information they
Know, Want to know and
Learned about the Olympics.
7.1 B5
* The teacher will introduce the
summer Olympic events by using
pictures or role play which may
include the following:
their presentations
or present live to the
class.
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Baseball, basketball, boxing,
canoeing, cycling, diving, fencing,
soccer, gymnastics, handball,
hockey,judo, kayaking, marathon,
swimming, tennis, track and field,
volleyball, and wrestling.
Introduce the Winter Olympic
events such as: ice hockey, figure
skating, snowboarding, luge,
bobsleigh, cross country skiing,
freestyle skiing, slalom, ski
jumping.
7.1 B5
*Students may use choral
response or flashcards and
blackline masters to identify the
different events in the target
language.
7.1 A3
* The Berlin
games in 1936
were the first
Olympics to hold
a torch relay pior
to the start of the
games.
Formative:
* Students create a
six frame cartoon
with captions in the
target language
about the TPRS
story the teacher
created. The
students may create
an alternate ending.
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6
* TPRS- story about what it
would be like if the Olympics
were held in the target country.
The story should include cultural
information and the city most
likely to be selected for the
Olympics. The elements of the
story are the character, the
problem/event and the solution.
The grammar focus of the story
should be the past tense and the
future tense.
7.1 C2
*Students may draw the main
events of the story complete with
captions in the target language
about the story and may include
an alternate ending.
Jefferson Township Schools
Grade: Level 2
Thematic Unit: World Wide Sports…
Time frame: April through June
Enduring Understanding: Students will understand that sports bring unity to the world by allowing people from different
cultures to compete and partcipate in world wide competitions.
Essential questions: Why sports are popular throughout the world? How does participation in World competitions bring
cultures together? How does income affect eligibility?
Objectives: Students will be able to understand and analyze the effects sports and competion have in the world and in their
own culture. By examining the popular sports in the target countries and comparing it to their own, students will have a better
understanding of the perspectives and practices of the target culture resulting in a more tolerant, open minded student.
NJ Standards/Progress Indicator IL: 7 .1 A2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
B2, 3, 5
C2, 3, 4, 5, 6