UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA UNAD

Bachelor Degree in English as a Foreign Language

Course: TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

TUTOR: Milly Andrea Muoz

GROUP: 551023-7

CARLOS ANDRES GONZALEZ ID: 98602612

Bucaramanga Colombia
May -2016

a. How important do you think a lesson plan is to a successful lesson? What features do
you think a lesson plan should include?

Lesson plans are an important support guide for teachers, it helps them to prepare contents and
choose strategies more suitable for the classes, besides are useful to manage the time and assess if
the teaching programs are working properly. Beside a plan can help a substitute to smoothly take
over a class when the teacher cannot teach.
I think that the essential features of a good lesson plan are
1. Learning Goals
2. Resources
3. Standards
4. Activities

b. Do you think it is a good idea to strictly follow a lesson plan?

Why?

Taking into account that all students do not have the same level of learning is not a good idea to
strictly follow a lesson plan, because there are many lesson plans that require adjustments and it
would be interesting that teachers had a chance to design their own plans and choose what contents
they want to cover and what methodology want to use. However is necessary understand that many
times teachers forget what the purpose of the lesson is and at that moment is good to have a lesson
plan so they dont have to improvise.
c. Some people think that lesson plans severely restrict teachers creativity. Do you
agree? Explain your answer.

Many times is usual to find lesson plans which were designed previously by other teachers or
publishing companies, but even so a teacher can adjust the lesson plan according with the
necessities of the class and give it a personal touch, the only that he need is to have initiative

Background
Information

Date
Course
Level
Time
Main Aims

Materials
Stages of the
Lesson

Time
Frame
5: 00

20 :00

15:00

Friday, May 6, 2016

Sevenh
90 mins
To understand and use the past simple
To Recognize the different sounds of the regular verbs in past form
Students will be able to use the past tense to tell about states that happened in the past, and form questions
using the past tense.
Coursebook and practice book (Next Step 7)- vocabulary cards (verbs), -Video Beam.
Video :Past Simple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZ6cNq6bEY
Procedures
Stage Aim
Aids and
Interaction
Matearials
pattern
Shows students that the
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Warm Up/Review
class will be different
Welcome greeting
and funny.
Song (clap your hands) to liven up the class.
Coursebook
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Introduction
Focus on the topic and
(Next Step 7)
In order to begin the class, teacher will
generate interest in the
explain rules of past simple using the
lesson checking the
Video: Past
grammar reference that students can find at structure of the past
Simple:
the back of the coursebook. Next a video
simple and some verbal https://www.yout
will be projected to complement the lesson. sounds.
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v=ZWZ6cNq6bE
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To clarify doubts that
Practice book
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Presentation Activities
students could have
Teacher point out the exercises that must be about the topic and give
developed on pages 11 and 12 in the practice feedback.
book.

20:00

15:00

15:00

Practice
With the support of audio CD, teacher
propose some exercises of listening
comprehension in order students can
identify the regular verbs more common to
talk about daily routines, activities and
habits.
Production
Divide the class in small groups across the
classroom. Ask groups create a conversation
where they can express those things they do
in a common day.
Evaluation
The class will be assessed by means of a test
where students must unscramble some verbs
and write a couple sentences in affirmative,
negative and an interrogative form using the
past simple.

Identify the sounds of

regular verbs and
improve the
pronunciation.

Audio CD -Track
Number 10
(Coursebook (
next step 7)

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Develop
communication skills in
everyday situations.

vocabulary cards
(verbs),

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Verify comprehension
of contents exposed
during the class

Worksheet

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Referencias
Lesson Planning Chapter 3. (6 de 5 de 2016). Obtenido de Methodology in Language Teaching: http://www.reflectiveinquiry.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2014/10/lesson-planning-chapter.pdf