Lesson plan # 1
Date: May 14th, 2009
Level: 1st grade of high school
Skill: Reading “Music in our lives” Expected Outcomes: Students will identify specific vocabulary related to music and get information from texts. Resources: Whiteboard, markers, book, dictionary, pen, copybook.
Time
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The teacher will start the class asking about vocabulary the students already know and introduce the class providing them with more vocabulary.
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Students will be asked to look up in the dictionary as much vocabulary related to music as they can, and make a list with the words.
25 min
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Students will work with a text provided by the teacher answering questions related to specific information, using the vocabulary found in the dictionaries. For example: Do you like music? – What kinds of music do you like?
Post-stage
10 min
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The teacher reviews the activity asking the students to work in pairs and share the answers with their peers and the teacher.
Closing
5 min
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The teacher will ask the students about their own life, preferences and options using the vocabulary learnt.
Introduction
5 min
Core of the class Pre-stage
While-stage
Lesson plan # 2
Date: May 15th, 2009
Level: 1st grade of high school
Skills Reading and writing and oral. Expected Outcomes: Students will apply the vocabulary learnt related to games and write a short text related to the music they like. Also, they will ask and answer questions in present simple with a complete form. Resources: Whiteboard, markers, dictionary, pen, copybook.
Time
Comments
Introduction
10 min
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The teacher will ask students to give information about the last class: Vocabulary learnt, structures, etc. The teacher also introduces the new content through questions and answers.
Core of the class Pre-stage
15 min
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The teacher will start the class asking about what students like in terms of games introducing new vocabulary and the structure of answering questions in present simple with complete information.
While-stage
40 min
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Students will be asked to make a list of the top ten games of their lives and make meaningful sentences and share them with their classmates to review if the vocabulary and the structures are correct (peer mentoring).
Post-stage
25 min
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The students form groups of 5 to create a presentation about games using present simple.
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The teacher reviews the activity asking the students to ask questions to the teacher to put into practice the “making question skill” and also asking the teacher’s questions.
10 min Closing 5 min
The teacher reviews what has been taught asking the students about the structures and vocabulary learnt.
Lesson plan # 3
Date: May 22th, 2009
Level: 1st grade of high school
Skill: Writing and oral. Expected Outcomes: Students will provide information about others using simple present forms and also ask for information about others. Resources: Whiteboard, markers, book, dictionary, pen, copybook, pictures.
Time
Comments
Introduction
15 min
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The teacher will start the class introducing a random classmate to show how the verbs change when 3rd person. For example: “Hi everyone, he is Bastián. He likes sports and music. Etc.”
Core of the class Pre-stage
30 min
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The teacher will provide pictures of famous people, cartoon characters and videogame characters with a little information of each one. Students will be asked to form groups of 5, and then the teacher will give each group a picture so they will have to create a paragraph using the information given and also add more.
While-stage
45 min
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After the creation of the paragraphs the students will have to present the character to the whole class without saying the name, so the class will have to guess who character is, asking questions and compiling the information. For example: does she like dancing? – Does he play tennis?
Post-stage
20 min
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The teacher checks spelling and pronunciation of each group. Giving examples and answering questions.
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The teacher reviews the activity asking the students to work in pairs and share the answers with their peers and the teacher.
Closing 5 min