The Integration of Biology Content Lessons in the English Curriculum through

Specifics: 
Listening:
Infiero información específica a partir de un texto oral.
Speaking:
Interactúo con mis compañeros y profesor para tomar decisiones sobre 
temas específicos que conozco.
Reading:
Identifico relaciones de significado expresadas en textos sobre temas que me 
son familiares.
Writing:
Contesto, en forma escrita, preguntas relacionadas con textos que he leído.
Indicadores de logros:
∑
To recognize the general aspects that conform life.
∑
To get familiar with the concepts related general genetics and how it works. 
Learning aim:
At the end of the lesson students will be able to understand and identify 
the general elements that make life possible in earth and other elements in universe. 
They will be challenged to use reading comprehension strategies to look for specific 
information in a given text in order to answer and complete some questions. 
Assumed knowledge:
∑
Comparatives and superlatives 
∑
Simple present tense 
∑
Basic reading comprehension in L1 and L2
Materials:
video projector, pc, board, flashcards, worksheet (fill in the blank activity), 
markers. 
Procedure: ESA (Engage Study and Activate). 
4 Cs
Content:
DNA and Scientific knowledge
Communication:
Reading comprehension to understand the information given, where 

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students are supposed to apply their previous knowledge and strategies learnt in their 
native language as well in the English course.
Cognition:
Finding specific information to answer the questions given and relate it to 
their context.
Culture:
Students identify and realize the main elements that compound the universe 
and life in earth 
Activities:
Procedure
Activity
Anticipated 
problem 
and 
solution. 
Warm-up 
activity 
Video
2:30-2:45
3:00 – 3:15
T will project a video about the most 
general aspects of the universe and 
then the most inner aspects of a single 
human.
The video will be showed twice and 
students should write down on their 
notebooks two statements of the 
general view and two aspects of the 
inner aspects.
If the video does not work, the 
teacher 
will 
explain 
the 
vocabulary using the board. 
Pre-reading
2:45-2:55
3:15 – 3:25
Ss will handle a set of worksheets 
where the first activity is a reading 
comprehension task.
First, T will guide Ss to do a pre-
reading exercise where they have to 
find the paragraph which talks about 
the human body. Ss will have to 
highlight it.
If students do not comprehend 
the reading, the teacher model 
it reading aloud. 
Reading
2:55 –3:15 
pm
3:25 – 3:45
Students will have to read the text 
again 
to 
answer 
three 
different 
questions that goes from general to 
specific.
If students do not understand 
what the activity is about, the 
teacher will provide a prompt 
to them related to the reading. 
Post 
reading
activity 3:15 
– 3:25 pm
Ss will have to complete some 
information 
based 
on 
some 
percentages previously stated in the 
text. Ss have to mention what those 
percentages refer to.