Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level Carolina Weigum

Lesson Plan N°1

18/08/2016

School N°246 “Quelulén”

Course: 2nd Grade

Teacher: Nadina Rodriguez

Timetable fit: Thursdays from 16:00 to 16:50

Class description:

Students are between 7 and 8 years old. They are 19 students (12 girls and 7 boys). The class starts

after the break.

There is a boy, Franco, that is integrated and he is usually accompanied by his special needs

teacher. When his teacher is not with him, he can sometimes get a little nervous or demand more

attention than usual. Sometimes he screams or hits his desk when he wants something and the

teacher does not respond immediately. The teacher in charge of the English class, Nadina, told us

that we should not praise Franco directly because he does not like it and he may get violent.

There is a girl, Emilia, who pretends to be an animal and hides under the desk. Until now, she never

got to work in the English class. The teacher tried in many different ways and tones of voice to

convince her to work as the rest of her classmates but she does not pay attention. We (trainees) also

tried to sit next to her and help her participate, but she does not answer, she does not look at us in

the eyes and she pretends that we are not there. Finally, the teacher decided to ignore her for a

while. The teacher told us that she was going to try to speak with Emilia’s mother about her behavior

in class.

The rest of the group is very participative and they work very well.

Most of the time they speak in Spanish, but when they have to answer questions in English or

participate in an oral activity all together they do it well. When they have to work in pairs orally, they

need the constant help/guidance of the teacher to do it.

The students have been working with numbers, colors, school objects, weather and seasons.

Lesson aims:

As teachers we’ll try to…

Focus on oral aspects (listening and speaking) considering learners’ ages to acquire language.

Use multisensory approach to favor learners’ motivation and acquisition of language.

Objectives of the Lesson:

During the lesson students are expected to:

Revise the vocabulary related to weather and the seasons.

Recognize different clothes items linking them to cold weather and winter: hat, gloves, scarf,

jacket, socks, shoes, trousers.

Recognize the clothes items in a song.

Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level Carolina Weigum

Listen and follow instructions with the structure “Put on your... (shoes)” that is present in the

song.

Language:

Lexis: vocabulary about clothes.

Functions: following instructions

Activities:

Warm up

1. Show the students flashcards of the four seasons (they already know them because they have

been working with the teacher Nadina with the same flashcards). Revise the name of the

seasons and the weather:

E.g.: “What’s the weather like in summer?” “Hot and sunny.”

Call the attention of the students to the children that appear in each flashcard and the clothes

they are wearing. Focus on the flashcard about winter and when they name the clothes in

Spanish, show them flashcards of the clothes items with the name in English and make them

repeat.

Body of the lesson:

2. Listen to the song once and watch the video.

Put on your…

Shoes

Jacket

Scarf

Hat

Practice II: Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level Carolina Weigum

3. TPR: Listen to the song again and mimic each action singing and trying to make them repeat.

Closing the Lesson

4. Settling activity after the song.

Make a circle around the clothes we wear in WINTER…

Extra activity:

Divide the class in two teams.

Give each team a bag with different winter clothes: gloves, a hat, a jacket, a scarf.

Give instructions to each team: “Put on your scarf”, etc…