Lesson Plan

Planning lessons to teach English to children needs an important care because of the different task and activities in order students acquire the target language. As well, creating an environmental where children feel part of it.

In the workshop “Planning lessons”, I learned to take into account important details which a lesson plan has to include in it.

 

 

Lesson Plan (Speaking) PDP

 

Don Bosco University

Teaching Practicum I “Teaching English to Young Learners”

Teacher: Brenda Xiomara Ayala Arias                                    Date:

Topic: “What’s your name?”

Objective:  By the end of this lesson SWBAT spell their names and use greeting vocabulary in a short introducing conversation.

Target skill: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing          Planning Framework: PDP, PPP

 

 

Time	Stage	Activities/Procedure	Details
5 min	Wam up	Ss will be asked to stand up and make a circle, one by one will be asked to say their name and say a name of their favorite animal, fruit, food or sport as their “last name”.	Aim of the activity: Material: Type of learner: V,A,K,A. Interaction: T-S, S-S
5  min	Pre-listening	T will posted  on the board the phrases such as “Hello”, “Hi” “What is your name?” and “My name is…” - Ss will be asked to repeat the phrases.	Aim of the activity: Material: Type of learner: V,A,K,A. Interaction: T-S, S-S
10min	During listening	Ss will be asked to make a circle and to sit on the floor.T will play a short song “Hello, hello… what’s your name?, what’s your name?” After singing the song, each of the Ss will be asked to say their names using the phrase My name is…	Aim of the activity: Material: Type of learner: V,A,K,A. Interaction: T-S, S-S
15min	During listening	T will posted the phrase “How do you spell your name?” T will asked Ss say a name. Ss will be asked to help to spell that name . e.g . Maria M-a-r-i-a Ss still sitting on the floor, T will provide each Ss a page with the lyric of the song “Bingo” (including colors, images) T will teach the song, Ss will be asked to repeated. T will play the song and Ss will sing. T will asked Ss get in goups of 3 and to help each other to spell their names.	Aim of the activity: Material: Type of learner: V,A,K,A. Interaction: T-S, S-S
10min	Post-listening	T will played once the previous song “What’s your name?” and “Bingo” Ss will be asked to ask for  the name of three classmates. Using phrases “Hello”, What’s your name? How do you spell your name? “Good bye”	Aim of the activity: Material: Type of learner: V,A,K,A. Interaction: T-S, S-S

 

Type of learners: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Verbal

Interaction: T-S, S-S

 

Lesson Plan (Writing) PPP

Don Bosco University Teaching Practicum I “Teaching English to Young Learners” Teacher: Brenda Xiomara Ayala Arias            Date: August 31st  , 2015 N° of students: 15 Lesson time: 1 hour (60 min) Topic: “What’s your name?” Objective: By the end of this lesson SWBAT write and spell three different proper names by asking the question How do you spell it? Target skill: grammar/writing      Planning Framework : PPP
Time	Stage	Activities	Details
5min	Warm up	Students will stand up and play “Hot potato”. Who get the (ball) will be asked what were the questions and vocabulary  studied last class (hello, hi, what’s your name? bye, good bye)	Aim of the activity: To review the topic from last class Material: Type of learner: K, V Interaction: T-S , S-S
10min	Presentation	Teacher will post the question “How do you spell it?” as well all the letters from the alphabet on the board and Ss will asked if they remember how the letters are pronounced. Teacher will asked for help about how to spell his/her own name. Brenda B-r-e-n-d-a	Aim of the activity:To present the topic.   Material: colorful flashcards Type of learner: V,A Interaction: T-S
15min	Practice	Students will be asked to practice spelling and writing their first name and their last name. Teacher will spell 8 different proper names and students have to write each letter they listen in order to complete the name . Ss will be asked to get in pairs in order to check the names they got from the spelling. Then teacher will post a piece of paper with the name she has spelled in order children check their answers.	Aim of the activity: To practice spelling through listening and writing . Material: pieces of paper with proper names Type of learner: A, V Interaction: T-S, S-S
20min	Production	Teacher will give each students a piece of paper with a proper name, Ss will look for the person who was the same name in the piece of paper in order to get in pairs. Teacher will provide a list of proper names to each student in the pairs. Ss will take turns once spell first while the other student write.	Aim of the activity: To demonstrate Ss can write proper names when listening the spelling.   Material:list of 10 proper names Type of learner: A, V, K Interaction: T-S,  S-S
10min	Wrap up	Teacher will asked for proper names that begings with a speific letter. Who take more than 5 seconds to say a name will pass to the board and T will spell a name from the list and S has to write each letter down.	Aim of the activity: To review writing proper names by spelling   Material: list with 10 proper names Type of learner: A, V, K, V Interaction: T-S, S- S

Before planning my lessons, I already knew that there is a format which has to be followed when creating lesson plans. As well, it is important that we, language teachers know how to differentiate between the planning frameworks PPP and PDP. I think I had no problems with frameworks. However, during planning lessons, I think it was difficult for me to write the objective due to it is the guide we use for all the lesson plan structure. I consider this was an issue for me because I was not clear about what I expected or wanted my students achieved at the end of the lessons. Besides, thinking on the different activities for each of the stages was a little bit hard. I consider tasks and activities need to be meaningful, useful and to have an objective in each stage. After planning my lessons, I learned important things such as, take into account the smallest but no less important details which a lesson plan has to count with. For example: to assign a date as well to specify the materials I will use for each activity. To write the objective for each activity is so important as well. Moreover, I learned that it is also important to specify the type of learner: visual, verbal, auditory or kinesthetic. In addition, I learned that we can include more details into the lesson plan format such as the number of students we have in the course and the time which the lesson will be performed. Finally, even though I learned important things about lesson plan, I aware that I need to improve in order to create potential and meaningful lesson plans. The main objective is not only to encourage students to learn the target language, but to make them feel part of a leaning environment. One important aspect is the teacher need to know how to manage with different behaviors in the classroom and awe also are able to make arrangements in the lesson in order to adapt them according to the students’ needs.