How to prepare the curricular unit

I think I haven’t explained how my pupils are yet. I have thirteen students, and they usually participate a lot in class. Maybe it is due to the use of Information and Comunication Tecnologies and also because all the activities are done by the whole class at the same time. I think that’s the better way to work with them, otherwise they will probably get bored and it would be more difficult for them to learn. As I have said, the vast majority of them are absolutely beginners in English.

They are coming from the Taking in or acceptance classrooms (I don’t know the real name in English but in Catalan it is named “aules d’acollida”) of first of ESO. They attend the acceptance classrooms because most of them are immigrants, others have family problems, others are repeating a year… and it is thought that it will be easier for them to pass and to integrate into classes if they are in these sort of special classes. Depending on their performances, they can have their class changed for the 2nd of ESO year, or they can continue in the same class.

From now on, I will be participating in class with activities related to family. Last day I was helping them in the computer rooms while they were doing a PowerPoint presentation with their family trees –they perfectly know how to use the PowerPoint! J-. I realized how different their families could be. Most of them said: “I don’t know who my grandma is”, “I don’t know the name of my uncle”, which surprised me a lot.
So in this context that more or less I’ve drown, I have to think about my curricular unit, what topic I have to choose that could interest them, how I will cope with the racial issues in class, how I can make them think that they are equal in class, how I can teach them the best… let’s see how it goes with all this issues I have to deal with this week.