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

Lesson Plan N°2

25/08/2016

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.

Emilia works very well when she is called as a helper. However, it is difficult to convince her to sit

down to work on the written activities.

Franco frustrates when he is not the center of attention. When he is a helper he works well and

follows more or less the instructions provided, but when the attention is not focused on him and all the

students have to work he starts getting violent and he does not respond to the teachers. Last class he

had to be taken outside.

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.

Using games as a tool for learning as well as enjoying the class.

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

Objectives of the Lesson:

During the lesson students are expected to:

Revise and activate the vocabulary related to clothes: jacket, coat, trousers, shoes, boots,

socks, scarf, hat, jumper, gloves, skirt, T-shirt, shorts.

Listen and follow instructions: “Put on”, “Take off”.

Recognize and label “Winter clothes” and “Summer clothes”.

Language:

Lexis: vocabulary about clothes.

Functions: following instructions “Put on”, “Take off”

Activities:

Routine:

“Yellow, red, green and blue. Hello teacher, how are you?”

Give each student a label with their name so as to know who is present and who is absent.

Write the date and the weather on the blackboard.

Give back and glue the “Picture Dictionary” corrected.

Warm up

Sing the song “Put on your shoes”. Listen, sing and mime the song (TPR) to activate

vocabulary about clothes and the instructions “put on” and “take off”.

Body of the class:

1. Stick on the blackboard two big figures of a boy and a girl wearing a T-shirt and shorts. The

size of the figures is approximately half a cardboard.

Stick next to each figure the flashcards of Summer and Winter. Activate the vocabulary about

weather: In Summer it is hot and sunny, in Winter it is cold and rainy/windy.

Stick all the clothes in the corners of the blackboard while activating the name of each item.

Together we will have to dress the boy and the girl with clothes that match the season of the

year they are in. Call two students to the front and encourage the rest of the students to help

them by giving instructions: “Put on your T-shirt/trousers/etc.”

2. Dictation.

Hand out copies of a boy and a girl that need to be dressed up and some clothes to put them

on.

Students have to listen to the instructions provided by the teacher and glue the clothes on the

correct character.

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

- Holly puts on her SKIRT.

- Bud puts on his TROUSERS.

- Holly puts on her JACKET.

- Holly puts on her SWEATER.

- Bud puts on his JACKET.

Closing Activity

3. Color the clothes with “Winter colors” (Nadina taught them that way): blue, white, black, purple,

pink.

Extra Activity

4. Write the names of the clothes.