Lesson plan: 10/10/2014

Alomar Eliana and Sansot Laura.

Course: 5th C

N° of Practice: 13

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 a project.

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 describe orally the part of the house assigned to them. There is a washing machine in this bedroom.

6-     Practice the use of prepositions and of pieces of furniture freer, produce without so many restrictions. The sofa is in the living room

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, between, beside and next to.

9-     Practise the use of prepositions to locate objects in rooms made by themselves with the help of the teacher. There is a washbasin in the laundry.

10-  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 work in groups. They started the manual part of the project, but they did not finish.

Next class, students will be introduced to a new unit, “animals”. They will work with lexical and grammatical items referred to this topic.

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 house.
• Students may not understand the new vocabulary (prepositions).

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	Project Work	GG,GG	Pre-task: The teacher will activate prior knowledge revising prepositions and parts of the house. Ex: do you remember what this is? Yes, it is a garage. Teacher will remind students of the project. Teacher will provide students with the materials they used last class so that they can continue working. Task: The teacher will group students as they were last class, and she will remind them of the parts of the house assigned (kitchen, living-room, dining-room, bathroom, study room and bedroom). After that, the teacher will remind them that each group will have to fill the boxes given by the teacher with the pieces of furniture learnt. This will be made with materials students will bring to classes and with the help of the teacher.  Finally, they will describe each part of the house, using prepositions and pieces of furniture learnt. The teacher will help students by describing the garage again. Ex: this is the bedroom. There is a bed in the bedroom. The clock is on the bedside table. This part will have written and oral production. Students have to describe in a sheet of paper their rooms, then, each student will take turns to describe orally part of what they have done. The lamp is on the bedside table. The cooker is next to the refrigerator. The teacher will also assign individual grades for their performance and production. They will depend on the work they have done and on their collaboration mainly.	50’
3	Reading Listening Speaking		Pre-task: Teacher will remind students of the game they played last class and will continue with it. Task: Teacher will show students the power point presentation of the game, assigning points to each group according to the questions they choose to answer. She will help students if they have trouble with the activity.