Lesson Plan Template for Content-Based Instruction

Teachers Name: Drew Morse

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Grade/Class/Subject: 2

Date:6/11/15

year English

Time Period:

Unit/ Topic: Wh questions

Lesson Title: Using Wh titles to guess movie titles

Content Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will (know and do): know how to formulate
Wh word questions and be able to use them to guess popular movie titles

Language Objectives:
Form

Function
(in ing form, eg. Retelling a story )

1) Asking questions using who, what, when,

where, and which

2)

(grammatical term and/or example, eg. Past Tense: The boy

went to see his grandfather;)
Who is in the movie?
Who is the movie about?
What genre is the movie?
What country is the movie from?
What is the movie about?

When did the movie come out?

When does the movie take place?

3)

Review Vocabulary
(previously taught vocabulary that
students likely need review of)

Who, what, where, when, why

Animation, live action, realistic,
intense, silly, goofy, funny,
comedy, action, drama, sci-fi,
actor, actress

Where does the movie take place?

Where was the movie made?
Which country was the movie made in?
-Forbidden: What movie is it? What is the movie title?
Signal Words
New Vocabulary
(new vocabulary to be explicitly taught
that is critical to an understanding of the
content)

(vocabulary that may need to be taught or

emphasized that link concepts in
meaningful ways, such as conjunctions and
time markers)

Animation- Frozen
Realistic- Real people, no
animation
Comedy-silly, goofy, funny
Drama- intense, serious

By the end of the lesson, students will (do X function using Y form with Z vocabulary):
By the end of the lesson, students will (know and do): know how to better formulate Wh word
questions and be able to use them in conjunction with known vocab to guess popular movie titles

Special Cross-Cultural Considerations: Include here anything relevant to culture that you will either
incorporate as part of your lesson or that you need to be attuned to in terms of your students background
to ensure a lesson that is culturally responsive.

Choose movies that the students have very likely seen or are at least very familiar with in South Korea

Materials: Include here all the materials that you need, including textbook titles and the page
numbers you will refer to.
Youtube clips, paper cards with movie posters on them

Lesson Sequence: This may be adjusted as necessary to accommodate unique lesson plan features.
For each step, explain what the teacher will do, the expectation of what the students will do, and how
long the stage should take.
I.

MOTIVATION: Describe how you will build content background and introduce the specific language
functions/forms that you will target.

TIME: 1-7______________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher

does)
-Greet class, ask them if they like movies, what
their favorite genres are, and write them on the
white board.
-Review movie vocab from previous lesson (write
on board)
-awesome, so good, intense, cool
-Terrible, so bad, awful
-boring, dull
-silly, goofy
-Ask students to repeat various phrases to help
evaluate movie trailers
- I want to see this movie, I would buy this movie, I
dont like this movie, This movie looks like a waste
of time

The students will (specifically what the students

should do in response to what the teacher does)
-reply with the grenres they enjoy

-Repeat some phrases/vocab

Formative Assessment (How will you gauge whether or not students are connecting to the background the teacher
is providing?):
If they are able to correctly repeat vocab examples
II. PRESENTATION: Describe the specific techniques you will use to make your presentation of new content and
linguistic material comprehensible to students, to provide opportunities for interaction through appropriate
questioning, to engage learner strategies, and to assess whether or not students are getting it.
TIME: 7-20______________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher

does)

The students will (specifically what the students

should do in response to what the teacher does)

-Tell students Ill be showing movie trailers and

asking their opinions
-Show trailers
-Ask what they think about the movies using their
vocab descriptors
-Reintroduce wh question words by asking
students
1.-What is the movie about?
-What is the movie about?
-Why was the dad mad?
-Who was the mom thinking about?
2.-Who was this movie about?
-What is his super power?
-Why was he chosen to be ant man?
3. Which actors are in this movie?
-What did he write on her shoe?

-Reply using phrases, and vocab

-Answer Wh questions about trailers

Formative Assessment (How will you gauge whether or not students are comprehending/using the targeted
language forms as presented?): if they are accurately able to describe movie trailers and reply to Wh
questions

III.

PRACTICE/APPLICATION/EXTENSION: Describe the activities you will use to allow for meaningful practice

targeting the lessons objectives, the learner strategies you will engage, and the formative assessment you
will provide to gauge whether or not students practice is moving them along closer to the target)
TIME: 20-45______________

The teacher will(specifically what the teacher

does)
-Split into groups of 3, send to a preset area in the
room
-group is given a stack of movie poster cards, draw
9 cards each
-Draw a triangle on the board to describe the
rules. 3 people sit in a triangle and 2 ask wh
questions to the 3rd to guess the movie title, one
point per title guessed, take turns asking
questions.
-if the viewer doesnt know the movie they can
skip
-if students ask in Korean dont answer them

The students will (specifically what the students

should do in response to what the teacher does)
-split into groups of 3
-hold their cards
-rotate the card holder and ask questions to guess the
movie title
-hold each other accountable due to the competitive
aspect of the game

Formative Assessment (How you will gauge whether or not students practice is moving them closer toward
achieving the objective in a meaningful way?) if they are able to accurately form wh questions then guess
movie titles
Summative Assessment

(Describe the ways in which you plan to determine whether or not students achieved the content and
language objectives for the lesson. Be specific in terms of not only what the students will do to demonstrate their knowledge and
skills, but how you will evaluate what they produce.): I will attempt with the help of co-teachers to closely monitor

that the students are questioning in English, points will be a good way to tell if theyve done well, but the
main objective is question accuracy.

Extra considerations: if the time runs short I will answer questions, address difficulties, have backup
trailers to play at the end.
3-5 minute bookend: Regather class in the front and collect cards, ask if any questions were
particularly difficult, ask which movies that I picked were their favourites and least favourite. I will
then Improv Wh questions about their favourite and least favourite movies.
Noteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MC3XuMvsDI
http://marvel.com/videos/watch/5048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bmuzr8K5ak
-Backup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc2v7izk8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwfUnkBfdZ4
stack 1 order- werewolf boy, kingsman, frozen, thor, the pirates,, interstellar, cyborg, man of steel,
furious 7
stack 2 order- Tangled, Avengers 2, snowpiercer, iron man, admiral, pitch perfect 2, spider-man,
secrety, greatly, Godzilla

stack 3 order- ode to my father, Jurassic world, miss granny, dark knight, the thieves, my sassy
girlfriend, captain America, the house, avatar