Liceo Cultural Britanico Student: Cynthia Randerath Subject: Methods 2
SECOND PLAN
Age: 17 years old Number of students: 20 Book: Language to go upper intermediate Level: upper intermediate Final task: to play a crossword game. Assumed knowledge: vocabulary of common animals, descriptions. Duration: 90 minutes Aims: Topic Aim: Learners read about interesting animals. Grammar Aims: Learners learn relative clauses. Communication Aims: Learners define different words. Vocabulary Aims: Learners read new words related to the reading, especially some animals. Function Aims: learners define and describe different words. Skill Aims: learners define words orally.
Steps of the Lesson PRE-TASK
1) Introduction of the topic: Students will be told about the final task (playing a crossword game). As they will have to prepare to carry out the task, they will do a reading activity as an enabling task. Students read an article about exotic animals in which relative clauses are used. As a pre-reading activity they will be asked about some pictures and to predict what the article will say about those animals. As a general task they will check if their predictions were right and as a specific task they will answer some questions about it. TASK
2) Task: In groups, students play a crossword game and the teacher monitors to see what vocabulary and structures they are using.
3) Planning: after carrying out the task, each group will prepare to report 4)
to the class about how they played the game. The teacher will help them if necessary. Report: Students report to the class and the teacher will give directions so as to get students do what is expected. Students can give examples and show to the rest of the class how they played the game. The teacher will give feedback if necessary.
LANGUAGE FOCUS
5) Analysis: the students do consciousness about the language that had
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been used in the task. Some examples can be written on the board to help students notice the language. The teacher can elicit the rules of relative clauses and give explanations if it is needed. Practice: At this step the students do some practice from the book in which they have to join 2 sentences by using relative clauses.