Lesson Plan (English as a Second language) Level: Beginners High Focus: Speaking-vocabulary Time: 25-30 Minutes 1.Lesson Goal:
Students will increase their knowledge about future plans or events (Travel and Adventure)
2.Objectives Terminal lesson objectives: 1. Students will successfully talk about their plans for their future holidays. Enabling objectives: 1. Students will practice, comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic. Countries-Places Food Free-time activities Type of accommodation 2. Students will make choices about their ideal plans for their holidays 3. Students will produce appropiate statements using “going to” to describe future activities. 4. Students will analyse and share information 5. Students will write a short 6 lines-letter explaining their ideal adventure 3. Materials and equipment: Work-sheet (Quiz): ARE YOU A BEACH BOY OR GIRL? Holidays brochures and pictures of places , beach holidays , camping, sports and activity holidays.
4. Prodedures: Activity / Task
Aim
Timing Notes
1.) Warm-up Opening Conversation To get students into Make students remember what they learned last class and focus the topic of travel and 5 their attention in the practice holidays. they are going to have. Also preteach some vocabulary.
Pre-teach some vocabulary
Ask students questions about their favorite holidays and trips. How they travelled, where they have stayed, where they like to spend their holidays. What they like to do. T: You know we are finnishing classes and that we are about to go on holiday, Right? Ss: Yes, Teacher T: Well, I want you to think about your the different kinds of holidays you have had Ss: Ok. Who wants to talk a little about his/her holidays? How did you travel?... Where did you go?... Where did you stay?... Where do you like to spend your holidays?
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2) Quiz (game): What’s your
Students will practice
ideal holiday?
and comprehend the
Here a list of questions that vocabulary related to students will have to answer for the topic. They will later add up their score and look know how much their at the key.
choice of holiday says about them
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Give students the opportunity to participate.
Feed in new language when necessary.
3) Speaking Activity 1 Put the students who got the same score analysis in the quiz into groups of 4-5. Get them to look at the pictures and choose a suitable destination, plan what Students to share and accommodation they will stay in and what they will do when they compare ideas in get there. groups. Students 10 Once a destination has been explain their ideas to agreed on, groups can feed back to the rest of the class, what type the other groups. They of place, accommodation and should use going to. activities they chose. E.g We are going to the Alpes , because we love snow and skiing . We are going to stay in a hotel and practice snowboarding too.
Explain the whole group they are going to go on holiday together so they must agree on one destination that would suit them all. It is up to each group to persuade the others that their chosen destination is the best.
They will be provided a short example:
4) Speaking Activity 2 Students choose one of the images from the quiz and imagine based on the situation shown that they will be there, or going to that place and they will write a short letter (6 lines) to a friend inviting him/her to go on your adventure.
Dear Mum,
Students will work
I’m going to Bali, because I
individualy. Students will practice plans and 5 future events in
love going to the beach. I’m going to stay in a hut. And I want you to come, we are
writing.
going to lie in the sun and go swimming every day. Love Tom. Don’t correct as students are
5) Extra-Classwork assignment
speaking in front of whole
Students re-tell stories
Ask groups to feedback their ideas to group – repeating for the Letters behind the task is good practice. headlines and tell the whole group.
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class. Make a note of important errors in my notebook to correct next class.
5. Evaluation: Terminal objective (1) and enabling objectives (1) through (6) are evaluated as the activities unfold without a formal testing component. As groups work together , T circulates to monitor students and to observe informally whether they have accomplished the terminal objective. The success of the extraclass assignment-enabling objective (1) will be informally observed on the next day.
Lesson Plan (English as a Second language) Level: Beginners Skills: Reading-Writing Elements: Grammar-Vocabulary Time: 20 Minutes 1. Lesson Goal:
Students will know how to express the present to describe their likes, dislikes, habits and daily routines.
2. Objectives Terminal lesson objectives: 1. Students will successfully read about the present, habits, and routines. 2. Students will successfully write about the present, their habits, routines and states. Enabling objectives: a. Students will practice, comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic. b. Students will identify habits, routines, states with the Present Simple while reading short texts. c. Students will read and analyze a short text through different activities to check comprehension. d. Students will write statements using appropriate verb forms to describe present. (Grammar activity) e. Students will write a short 6 lines-letter to an imaginary pen-pal telling him/her a little about his/her life. (Their routines, habits, like and dislikes etc.) f. As homework students will write a short description of a famous person and his/her habits, likes or dislikes.
3. Materials and equipment: Reading Work-sheet: Grammar exercises (practicing Simple Present) Postcard template (for free writing activity)
4. Procedures
1. WARM UP OPENING CONVERSATION Greetings. Introduce students to the topic “Present Tense”.Talk with the students about routines, habits, states, etc) We use the present to talk about routines, habits or states. 2. ACTIVITY 1 (Presentation): Reading about people habits and routines At the presentation stage learners will read a short text an will focus on the present verb forms and on the way to express routines and habits with the present tense. Set up the task students will Practice the Simple present (next activity – answer the questions). Pre-teach some vocabulary. Feed in new language when necessary.
VOCABULARY Common present time expressions include: Usually, always, often, sometimes, on Saturdays, at weekends (on weekends US English), rarely, on occasion, never, seldom. Words: Borrow: to ask for sth you will take for later return it. Dislike: to not like, hate, sth is not pretty or good for you Enjoy. To do sth you like very much.
Read the texts carefully and underline the verb forms that refer to the present
STEVE He likes sports a lot, his favorite is football. He loves sports. His favorite team is Mancherster United. He usually goes with his dad to watch the games. In the summer he goes swimming with his friends or to the beach with his parents and his sister. On weekends he also plays videogames that’s lots of fun. He’s not very keen on reading, He sometimes reads comics but he doesn’t read books much. MAX I’m a student at a school in Washington, D.C., and I’m 16 years old. I usually get up early in the morning. I don’t live in Washington, but in a suburb just across the river. I go to school by bus. I like listening to music and playing soccer. On weekends I go out with my friends. Sometimes we go to the movies and sometimes we just go for a walk with my dog. I speak English and Spanish, but I don’t speak Korean. My favorite subjects at school are computer science and math, but I don’t like history. SARA Her favority freetime activity is reading. She borrows books from the local library. She likes romantic novels and adventure stories. She also reads teenage magazines; she listens to music programs on the radio and plays her
walkman. She doesn’t have a lot of CDs because they are expensive She borrows them from her friends. She goes to the cinema very often. She also likes to go to the disco. She loves dancing too. JOHN I don’t have a lot of free time because I study a lot at the school, I like playing chess and play with my dad but he usually bits me because he’s very good. I sometimes play tournaments at school. I enjoy working with my computer, during breaktime I go to the computer and look for interesting websites. I’m not very keen on sports or music, the cinema is ok. I like science fiction films. 3. CHECKING READING COMPREHENSION Students will have to organize the questions and answer them taking turns with their classmates for reading comprehension 1. Use these words and phrases to form questions about the people you read about 1. They/play/all/Do/sports
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2. do/What/Steve/and/Max/on weekends/do
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4. Do/reading/Sara and Steve/like
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5. Does/What/movies/kind of/ like /john
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6. Do/ What/together/Max and his friends/do _______________________________ 7.
john/does/free time/have/ a lot of
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Another exercise is to give students the sentence or answer and make them form the questions. 8. GRAMMAR PRACTICE In this activity students will practice “Simple present” (verb forms). They will work individualy. At the end of the exercise the teacher will discuss with the students the answers and will clarify some doubts that could possibly arrive in the process . Complete the text bellow by dragging one of the words into each gap. Complete this paragraph with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Use contractions where possible. Tell, to be, tell, play, want, grow up, practice My sister Anita __________tennis. She__________tennis every day after school. Her tennis coach________her she_____ an excellent tennis player, and her friends ____her she ____tennis better than anyone else in school. Anita________to be a professional tennis player whe she_________. That____why she practices every day.
5. WRITING ACTIVITY Students will write a short post card (6 lines) to a pen-pal telling him/her a little about him/herself. Students will work individualy. Now write a short (6 lines) post-card to an imaginary pen-pal telling him/her a little about you. What do you do during the day or whole week? What are your habits, hobbies? What do you like or dislike?...
5. Extra-Classwork assignment Students write as extra-classwork assignment a short description about a famous person they choose in present tense. Repeating task is good practice.
5. Evaluation: Terminal objective (1) and (2) and enabling objectives (1) through (5) are evaluated as the activities unfold without a formal testing component. Terminal objective (2) and enabling objective (6) are evaluated with the post-card and extra-class assignment. (The present, vocabulary, functions, etc)
