Lesson plan: 06/10/2014

Alomar Eliana and Sansot Laura.

Course: 5th C

N° of Practice: 9

Objectives: During this lesson students are expected to:

1-      Identify members of the family in context in a listening activity.

2-      Practise the following “parts of the house”: bathroom, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, living room, etc.

3-      Practise the following pieces of “furniture”: table, chair, sofa, lamp, cupboard, wardrobe, etc. and apply them in matching and completion activities.

4-      Make meaningful connections between the concepts learnt about the unit “The house” and prepositions.

5-      Make meaningful connections between the concepts learnt about the unit “The house” and “The family”

6-      Practice the spelling and the pronunciation of pieces of “furniture” and “parts of the house”

7-      Practice the verb “There is/are” to write and read sentences. In this house there are two bedrooms.

8-      Practice the use of the verb “have got”

9-       Listen to the teacher to practice the pronunciation of the parts of a house and pieces of furniture.

10-  Practise the prepositions: in, on, under, behind and next to.

11-  Practise the use of prepositions to locate objects in rooms with the help of images in completion activities. There is a lamp ....... the table.

12-   Reflect on the fact that not all the houses are equal.

Class description:

The students in this elementary class are between 9 and 10 years old. There are 24 students, the same number of boys and girls. The class starts at 13:15 in the afternoon, but before all the students meet with headmistress in the playground in order to be welcomed. The students are asleep during the whole hour of the lesson. They can start being noisy, especially when the same activity is taking place for a long time and some of them finish it before the rest.

Nevertheless, they work hard if they keep on working continuously in an activity that interests them, for example, when they have to talk about themselves or have to use their creativity. One aspect is important about this class, as they are very young and with a low level of English, they speak in Spanish all the time.

Timetable fit:

The lesson takes place from 14:15 to 15:15 pm on Mondays. During the current unit students have been introduced to the topic “The family”. They have written descriptions about their own family and then, they read them aloud. They have read about members of other families and have been asked to look for information about the age, birthday and physical features of the members of their own family.

Last class students worked with an activity in which they had to complete sentences using the verb There is/ There are in a worksheet that had been given the previous class. They were introduced to the use of prepositions through flashcards and they activated the vocabulary about prepositions in an activity where they had to say whether the activities were yes or no. As homework they had to match sentences with different pictures about parts of the house and about the family as a way of re-introduction of last unit.

Next class, students will continue working on the same lexical and grammatical items. They will make some activities about “The House” in relation with prepositions “in-under-on-behind”.

Personal Aims:

• I am going to speak as loud as possible.
• I am going to organize the space on the blackboard clearly.
• I am going to praise students when they participate in class and I am going to smile as much as possible.
• I will speak in English as much as possible.

Anticipated problems:

• Students may not remember some vocabulary about the family.
• Students may not understand the new vocabulary.

Possible solutions:

• The teacher will activate children’s prior knowledge about the family by writing words on the blackboard.
• The teacher will help students and repeat the items as many times as necessary. The teacher will provide a list with new vocabulary about the house.

Activities:

	Activities	Interaction	Procedure	Time
1	Warm-up	T → SS	Teacher will provide students with the badges used during the previous lesson.	2’
2	Speaking Listening	T → SS	Teacher will check the assigned homework, in which students had to match descriptions of houses and rooms to images.	10’
3		S,S,S	Students will be given a sheet of paper in which they have a picture of a living-room. They will also have some sentences that indicate students where they have to draw balls in the image. Ex: There is a ball on the sofa.	10’
4	Listening	T → SS	Teachers will make each other questions about a picture on page 21. Ex: Where is your father? He ́s in the bathroom. He is washing his face! Students have to listen and complete a picture with different numbers according to the order in what they have heard the different turns.	10´
5	Reading Writing	S,S,S	Students will be given a sheet of paper in which they have to complete a text with pieces of furniture and with parts of the house. They will have options, and they will have to choose among them according to a picture. Ex: The living room is ……………..(behind/under) the bedroom. It has a …………………………………….(table/sofa) and a ……………………………………….. (fan/computer) .	15´
8	Follow up	S,S,S	Students have to read sentences and draw what they say in a picture where there are a table and a cupboard on page 20. Ex: The lamp is on the table.	10´

Additional possibilities:

• Students have to answer T or F in an activity on page 19 of the booklet according to a short description of a house. Then they have to justify the false options.