Lesson Plan

Ian and Isaac Aims

Main aim By the end of the lesson students will also be able to

Elementary Ages 20-30 60 minutes

18/08/2010

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe other people and share information by using vocabulary (adjectives) that is related to nationalities and countries. Also, students will be able to describe activities and to share information by using prepositions of time and place. give personal details such as address, country of origin and nationality, e.g. My address is, I come from, I am Mexican acquire new vocabulary related to geography (countries and nationalities) use prepositions of time (at, in) to ask and talk about activities use prepositions of place to describe activities and daily routines, e.g. I go to school at nine in the morning, I study at university, use prepositions of place to share information, e.g. I live in Mexico City, I live on Reforma street, I come from London Going abroad on vacation

Context and situation

Prior knowledge and possible misconception(s)

During previous sessions, students have been taught the following topics: Numbers from one to one hundred Students should be able to count from one to one hundred and distinguish between oh and zero. In addition Students should be able to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks and to give their telephone number. Basic verbs related to daily routines and likes: stand up, sit down, close, open, write, read, eat, drink, take a shower, walk, go, sleep, study, etc. Students should be able to describe basic activities by using the Simple Present Tense. Students should also be able to describe their own daily routines, as well as other peoples. E.g. I/He wake(s) up at 7 a.m. in the morning. Basic vocabulary related to school, family and peoples occupations, e.g. desk, board, door, chair, teacher, student, man, woman, baby, grandfather, grandmother, daughter, son, brother, sister, parents, siblings, name, age, marital status, telephone number, etc. Students should be able to introduce themselves, as well as other acquaintances by giving personal details such as name, age, telephone number, and occupation. Basic knowledge of prepositions of place, such as in, on, below, under, in front of, next to. However, students may still have trouble with understanding these prepositions.

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Stage Warm-up

Time Objective

Teachers activity

Learners activity

Resources

Anticipated Problems

Possible solutions

To catch students T asks ss if they have Students will come up attention. travelled to any with examples of country by using a countries they have globe and have them visited. giving examples To help students become familiar with other countries T will give a hand out and ask ss to try to match pictures with flags.

Globe

Students might not have travelled abroad and therefore may not know the name of other countries in English

Teacher will use the globe to elicit some countries they might know and if they dont know the names in English, T will say it for them.

Where are they from?

Students will do a matching exercise.

Hand out 1

Te teacher will give Students might not some clues about know who the them but let them people in the finish, then check exercise are. the answers. Students might not By the end of the remember all of the drills, teacher will structures and may write sentences have difficulties to (structures) on the recall the drills board in order to help students. Students might not remember the Teacher will remind structures to students the ask/answer structures with questions board.

Introducing nationalities 5 and countries

Teacher will use Students will flashcards in order to recognise countries explain countries and Students will listen to and nationalities in nationalities by means drills and will do choral Flashcards order to apply them of choral repetitions Board repetitions in the future. and drills. Students will choose from a bag a piece of paper that includes a ? to ask somebody else and an a to answer to his/her pair.

Questionanswer Activity

By the end of this Teacher will give activity, students students a little pieces will be capable to of paper with a ? or 10 relate countries and an a wrote it down nationalities in to mean ask and coherent sentences answer. by asking and answering questions To help students reinforce what they have learnt Appendix 1

Pieces of paper

Casino game

Students will have to bet and to try to focus on structures that are written on the board

Board

Students might not understand the game. Teacher will provide an example.

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Linking Activity

Students will be T will tell the story of a Students may mix T will provide Ss will listen and able to predict the person who is up the usage of examples that use of travelling abroad by watch the presentation PowerPoint prepositions of time explain the prepositions of using prepositions of presentation and prepositions of difference between carefully time and place time and place place prepositions Ss will be able to infer and describe T will show students activities by using different pictures of prepositions people carrying out daily activities Ss will be able to T will read aloud a look for specific story which students information and will have to read answer questions carefully again

PreReading

Ss will have to give Students may not T will correct ss and examples of activities by using pictures as a PowerPoint be able to produce give examples of presentation sentences the correct use of reference accurately prepositions Students may not Teacher will explain understand some of vocabulary if the vocabulary necessary

WhileReading

Ss will read the story and answer the questions

Handouts

PostReading

Ss will be able to T will ask ss to write a Ss will write a introduce brief description of description of the themselves (in what they do on activities they do writing) and write weekends by using a brief description prepositions during the weekends of what they do on a daily basis by using prepositions

Sheets of paper

Students may not be able to use many verbs

T will activate ss schemata by reminding them of verbs that have been previously taught

Game

10

Ss will be able to T will ask ss to produce oral ask/answer questions speech by asking by using prepositions. Students will stand up Whiteboard and answering E.g. where do you and give a sentence questions live? Where are you from? Etc,

Ss may not be willing to speak

T will set the example and will encourage ss to take part in the activity

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Appendix 1 Teacher will make two or three groups, and then he will explain each group is going to start with 1000 points and they have to bet. They get points when they answer correctly. E.g. 1.- He is from Canada, he is Canadian. 2.- She comes from United Kingdom, she is British 3.- He does not come from South Africa, he is Spanish.