martes, 22 de septiembre de 2015

Lesson Plan 6

Lesson Plan N°6

School: School Number 6
Timetable: Friday 13:15-14:00 / 14:00-14:45
Docente co-formador: Ana Gómez
Class: 4C/4D
Level: Elementary
Time: 45 Minutes per Course
Language Exponents: Vocabulary-Family-SHE/HE is
 Language Skills: Reading-Writing-Speaking-listening
Aims:
·         Be able to recognize and name family members vocabulary.
·         Describe and talk about new families.
·         Recognize and make use not only of the personal pronouns SHE & HE, but also the verb to be required for their conjugation.
·         Recognize different families from different areas of the world.
·         Consider cultural differences positive and enriching.
Personal Aims: Observing how children respond to our tasks concerning basic reading and listening comprehension for imitation.
·         To assess students’ engagement and motivation through their participation in tasks introducing activities that combine vocabulary, as well as different macro-skills.
Contents
Family members. Personal pronouns (he, she, I) and the verb to be in conjunction with the grammatical constructions concerning possession. Descriptive vocabulary.
Lexis
·         Reinforce learners basic vocabulary regarding FAMILY MEMBERS – such as mother, father, child, baby, sister, brother, grandmother and grandfather-, so that they can get acquainted with this new topic.
·         Reinforce learners’ descriptive vocabulary.
Structures:
·         SHE is/HE is.
·         Pronouns: HE and SHE.
·         Grammatical construction concerning possession (both positive and negative polarity)
·         Materials: Photocopies provided to the students- Blackboard- students’ notebooks as long with the school’s projector and mobile loudspeakers.
Activity 1- Video session – Intercultural world
This activity requires children take part in the appreciation of different families around the globe. In this particular case, this video created by BBC CBeebies for children introduces little Massa, an Ethiopian young girl whose life is far from our own reality. 
The video aimes at foster the following items:
·          Intercultural awareness by providing REAL families from remote areas of the world experiencing different situations and enriching realities.
·         Grammatical constructions such as HAS GOT for possession and the verb to be for FAMILY- HE- SHE
·         Specific vocabulary as regards family members.
·         Descriptive vocabulary

Activity 2 – Reading comprehension
This activities requires children to develop their reading comprehension skills contextualizing it with the topic matter.





Reading Activity

Activity 3 – Children’s Production
This activity requires children to create simple grammatical sentences on their own not only to foster vocabulary, but also to encourage individial work. Students will be required to choose TWO family members of any of the pictures provided by their teachers and write TWO positive sentences and TWO negative sentences concerning both the HAS GOT/HAS NOT GOT grammatical constructions and specific descriptive vocabulary.


 

Alternative Activity

Should it be the case that students finish doing the activities presented above, the following one will be consider the last one.                                                                                         Taken from Tick-Tack-Toe magazine.

miércoles, 16 de septiembre de 2015

Lesson Plan 5

Lesson plan N5
School: School Number 6
Timetable: Friday 13:15-14:00 / 14:00-14:45
Docente co-formador: Ana Gómez
Class: 4C/4D
Level: Elementary
Time: 40 Minutes per Course
Language Exponents: Vocabulary-Family-SHE/HE is
 Language Skills: Reading-Writing-Speaking-listening
Aims:
·         Be able to recognize and name family members vocabulary.
·         Describe and talk about new families.
·         Recognize and make use not only of the personal pronouns SHE & HE, but also the verb to be required for their conjugation.

Personal Aims: Observing how children respond to our tasks concerning basic reading and listening comprehension for imitation.
·         To assess students’ engagement and motivation through their participation in tasks introducing activities that combine vocabulary, as well as different macro-skills.

Contents
Family members. Personal pronouns (he, she, I) and the verb to be. Descriptive vocabulary.

Lexis
Reinforce learners basic vocabulary regarding FAMILY MEMBERS – such as mother, father, child, baby, sister, brother, grandmother and grandfather-, so that they can get acquainted with this new topic.
Structures:
·         SHE is/HE is.
·         Pronouns: HE and SHE.
·         Grammatical construction concerning possession.
·         Materials: Photocopies provided to the students- Blackboard- students’ notebooks.
Procedures: Teaching strategies

Activity One-Video Session Comprehension

1-      The family lives in…

a)      Paris    b) Transylvania  c) Buenos Aires
2) Dracula is…
a) Tom’s Fathers   2) Tom’s Grandfather    3) Tom’s Brother

3) Mavis is…
a) Tom’s mother   b) Tom’s grandfather   c) Tom’s sister

4) Denis and Mavis are…

a)      Brother and Mother   b) Mother and Son   c) Uncle and Grandmother

5) The monster family lives in

a)      A castle  b) a house   c) a  supermarket


Activity Two-Family and Monsters description
This activity require students to choose TWO family members of the family depicted in the short movie to describe them by making use of not only descriptive vocabulary, but also body’s part and the correspondent grammatical constructions HAS GOT/HAS NOT GOT plus verb to be IS for positive and negative description.
Before the development of the activity, teachers will spend around 4 minutes to revise specific vocabulary orally for children to get acquainted with it.

Sample Activity


Big flashcards about the monster’s family will be glue on the board in case children find it necessary to appreciate members’ physical characteristics better.

Activity Three
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