Lesson plan: 27/10/2014

Alomar Eliana and Sansot Laura.

Course: 5th C

N° of Practice: 11

This class had to be improvised because of the rain, many students were absent.

Objectives: During this lesson students are expected to:

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

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

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

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

5-     Practice the verb “There is/are” to write and read sentences. There is a wardrobe in the bedroom.

6-     Practice the use of the verb “have got.” I have got a chair here.

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

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

9-     Practise the use of prepositions to locate objects in rooms with the help of images in speaking activities. Where is the chair? Yes, the chair is next to the desk.

10- Make meaningful connection among all the lexical and grammatical items learnt in along the unit through funny games.

11-  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 made a pair work activity in which they had to draw and ask one another questions about their drawings. Then, they worked with a listening comprehension in which they had to draw what they heard on a sheet of paper with the image of a bedroom. Finally, students worked with a game. In groups, they had to answer questions about different images presented in a power point presentation.

Next class, students will continue working on the same lexical and grammatical items. They will start a project work in which they will have to produce the pieces of furniture of assigned parts of the house.

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	Listening reading	S,S,S	Pre-task: Teacher reminds students of prepositions and parts of the house. What is this? Yes, it is a bathroom. Task: Students have to read a short description Andrea’s house. They have to read sentences according to the text and answer: true or false.	10’
3	Reading	S,S,S	Students have to do activity 3 from the booklet. Students have to read a short description that contains options. They have to choose from these options so as to make a coherent text that corresponds to a picture. Ex: There are two/three bedrooms.	5’
4	Writing	S,S,S	Pre-task: Teacher reminds students of the use of prepositions. Ex: The bag is under the desk. Task: students have to look at three pictures and they have to complete very short sentences with under and in according to them. (activity 6, page 20)	3’
5	Listening and speaking	T → GG,GG	Pre-task: teacher reminds students of the parts of the house and pieces of furniture. Ex: Where do we eat? Yes, we eat in the kitchen. The teacher divides the class into three groups of two. Task: teacher draws in the blackboard the structure of the game “hangman”. She writes the name of a room of the house on the blackboard and asks questions to students about it. Ex: What is this? Yes, it is a bedroom. Here we sleep. What is in there? Yes, there are beds and lamps in a bedroom. The teacher chooses a piece of furniture: a wardrobe, for example. The game starts. Students in the groups have one chance to say a letter in English until the turn of the next group begins.	15’
8	Listening and speaking.	T → SS	Pre-task: Teacher reminds students of the vocabulary referred to school objects. Ex: what is this? Yes, it is a pencil. Task: Teacher takes different objects and she locates them in different positions around the classroom. “A pencil case on the desk” Then, she asks each student to tell her where the object is. In this way, students practice prepositions, too.	15’