Lesson Plan - Vocab Dallas Sports

Materials Project

Lesson Plan Teacher: Jennifer Davis Observer: Luke Date: 15 June, 2009, 6:00pm Class Level: Elementary Room: Expected Numbers: Context: Vocabulary Focus (theme): Sports/Dallas Sports Teams Teaching Aids: Sports pictures, Dallas Team Logos, Text/Questions, Word Search, Ball Learner Objectives: To understand, identify, and correctly pronounce sports-related words. Personal Aims: To clearly explain each activity. To speak very little. Anticipated problems for students: Difficulty with text. Difficulty understanding activities. Solutions: Offer help reading the text if necessary. Explain slowly and clearly on each activity, go through an example each time. Anticipated problems for teacher: Nerves, fidgeting, speaking too much. Solutions: Begin lesson while seated. Take a deep breath, focus on observing. Procedure

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1. Miming: Hand out pictures of different sports to Engage each student, having them act out their sports oneby-one for the rest of the students to guess.

7

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2. In pairs, discuss your favorite and least favorite sports and why. Feedback.

Engage

5

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3. In pairs, match the Dallas team logos to the sport. Feedback.

Study

3

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4. Read the text, then in pairs, answer the questions about the text. Feedback.

Study

10-12

S-S

5. In pairs, complete sports verbs word search.

Study

5-7

S-S

Materials Project

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6. Toss the ball. Whoever it lands on has to tell us their favorite Dallas sports team, and why. Then least favorite, and why. Then, favorite team in the world, and why.

Activate

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10-12

S-S, S-T