Lesson Plan - Student Profile

Student Profile

Lesson Plan Teacher: Jennifer Davis Date: 16 June, 2009 Context: Vocabulary/Prepositions/Verb Tenses Focus (theme): Geography/Current Events/News Teaching Aids: Newspaper, handouts, sentence cards Learner Objectives: To understand, identify, and correctly pronounce prepositions and to use appropriate verb tenses. Personal Aims: To identify areas where my student needs sharpening, and to increase his skill in those areas. Anticipated problems for students: Tasks too difficult/easy. Hesitation to speak. Solutions: Offer a variety of tasks that can be adjusted to be more difficult or easier if necessary, also give him help. Encourage him to speak more, do not correct too harshly. Anticipated problems for teacher: Nerves, inability to quickly adapt to his skill level, difficulty correcting him. Solutions: Begin lesson while seated. Take a deep breath, focus on observing him, donʼt be afraid to take a moment or two to adjust the lesson if necessary. Donʼt be afraid to correct, gently. Procedure

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1. Have introductory talking session, asking about his day and his weekend, noting any pronunciation issues to address at the end of the lesson.

Engage

5

S-T

2. Ask him to describe his 3 favorite trips, especially the things he did there. Then talk about future trips, listening for tense usage and correcting if necessary.

Engage

5

S-T

3. Newspaper discussion. Student finds 3 stories in the newspaper and predict what you think happened from the headline, using past simple and past continuous. Then we skim the story together so I can help with any difficulties, finding out if we were correct.

Study

5

S-T

Student Profile

Procedure

Phase

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Interaction

4. Using the newspaper again, student and I look at the horoscopes. Student writes sentences about 6 of his friends based on their birthdays, making predictions, using future simple. Then read them aloud, make corrections as necessary.

Study

8

Student, ST

5. Again using the newspaper, guess what happens in the movies that are advertized, using present continuous.

Activate

5

S-T

7. On his own, complete US State Map questions. Then go over the answers together, having him answer the questions in complete sentences aloud, correcting where necessary.

Study

10-12

S-T

8. Sentence cards, aloud. Let him use the handout.

Study

5-8

S-T

9. Complete the Directions handout and discuss the answers, correcting when necessary.

Activate

8

Student, ST

10. Address pronunciation issues noted during the lesson, practice drilling each one.

Activate

5

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6. Hand-out: common prepositions for him to study outside of class.