Lesson Plan With Flickr

Lesson Plan: Ekaterina Tolstova Title: We can do everything Level: elementary Content Area: verbs Time Frame: 2 lessons + 1 lesson Learning Outcomes: learners study new verbs and use them in sentences. Procedures (tasks): The first two lessons Steps of the lessons

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Activity

Link http://www.flickr.co m/ For example: http://www.flickr.co m/search/?q=run http://www.pimpam pum.net/phrasr/?id= 15518 (this is made by me)

Learning new words Run, jump, sing, dance, play, swim, read, write In groups

10 min

Learners look for pictures. They type the words in the “search window” and try to guess the meaning of these verbs.

The students learn new words with the teacher All class

10 min

The teacher shows slides, pronounces the words adds some new verbs. The learners repeat and try to remember them.

Playing vocabulary games Individually

10 min

Learning the structure “I can…” All class

10 min

Doing slide shows Individually / In groups

20 min

http://www.pimpamp um.net/phrasr/?id=15 400 (I have found this) http://www.manythi ngs.org/lulu/j3.html #

In order to revise and learn the verbs the students do some activities on the internet. The set of verbs: cook, clean, drink, eat, cry, write, sing, dance, read. Children can play 2-3 variants of games with these verbs. The teacher shows slides. Learners guess http://www.pimpam the meaning of the structure “I can”, pum.net/bubblr/?id= “We can”. 14694

The learners do their own slide shows to the verbs. They are to type the verbs they want, choose the picture they like. The teacher helps while the children working.

http://www.dvolver.c om/live/movies238832 http://www.pimpam pum.net/phrasr/

Using the verbs Commenting slide shows Assessment/Reflection Home task Individually / In groups

15 min

The groups show their slides and tell the class what they can do.

5 min

The class chooses the most funny / interesting slide show. The students make photos of their own which illustrate what the children can do. Then they upload photos on Flickr. tagging the photos “wecando” or by their names. The children think of the captions to the photos.

One week later 1. The students make slide shows with speech bubbles on http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr// they can write sentences in the bubbles about themselves. Working on this site is very simple, so the children will cope with the task.

2. Or the learners can make simple cartoons to the topic at http://www.dvolver.com/live/moviemaker.html